rio cosumnes is the first top rate from a county jail. joe miezener who most here describe as a genuine cowboy runs the program. >> good. i've been training horses for 35 plus years. i've been working with inmates for about six months now. i never worked with inmates before. how do you want to do it? >> stay towards the front of the horse. >> why do i want to do it like that? >> so you don't get kicked. >> i think this is a huge opportunity to help guys that probably don't have the mind-set that they're worth anything or have anything to offer. and if they can help these horses become domesticated and usable, they're going to get to know what it feels like to accomplish something. >> there you go. now put your pad up. >> see why you'd want to carry that pad like that? these inmates, some of them have ever been around a horse, never rode a horse. we teach them horse manship from the ground up. >> you've got that down, man. >> this program is a win/win, not only for the wild horses, but also for these gentlemen to learn a skill set that not

the rio cosumnes correctional center. >> you water those mares there?10 inmate has been in the horse program since it was implemented five months earlier. its goal is to make wild horses suitable for adoption. >> we leave in the morning and we get back at night. by the end of the day, it's a long day, but it makes the day really fast. >> and that's important. carey is only one year into his sentence for manufacturing and selling firearms and high-capacity magazines without a license. carey said he learned how to make guns from his father who did so legally on their pennsylvania farm. >> it was just part of our every day life. we'd go to the range and spend the whole day at the rifle range and stuff. that's what i did as a kid behind him. even when i didn't know how to shoot, i would be out on the range picking up buckets of brass so i could reload it and stuff. i think the smell of gun powder got me on or something. >> carey said he had been manufacturing his own hunting guns for years. >> they're called home grown guns and you can legally make one for

the rio cosumnes correctional center is considered sacramento county's second or branch jail.jails where the majority of inmates are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial, the majority of the 1900 men and women here are already convicted and serving sentences. >> this is not a place to beat you. not a place, right here. >> this is due in part to a california law passed in 2011 designed to give relief to the state's once dangerously overcrowded prison system. now thousands of inmates who would normally have gone to prison are diverted to county jails like rio cosumnes. >> how many points you got? >> at the center of this 140-acre facility is a 50-foot tall security and control tower. >> tower supervises the entire facility. you have a 360 degree view of the entire fenced land surrounding our facility. we have one deputy up there at a time. it's staffed 24/7. >> our job is to sit up here with the binoculars and check the fences, make sure nobody is trying to escape. if somebody is near the fence -- because we have a lot of programs that they're out there cutting the gr

only from tums >>> the rio cosumnes correctional center near sacramento, robert overer ton serving oneby felony works hard to stay fit. he does push ups with his own jail house crafted blocks. >> just for to get depth in push ups. i don't think any of these are the bible. that would be -- what's the word, blasphemous. got to keep the chuck ladell look, you know what i mean? >> overton spends most of the days in the welding shop which he hopes will provide him the skills to stay out of the jail for good. >> it's like a sanctuary. i don't have to put up with the b.s. if i'm over here doing stuff, nobody bugs me. >> during breaks it's another quick workout. a previous inmate welder forged his own creation, a 70-pound dumbbell. >> this is my gym while i'm over here. it's not so obvious. when i'm done i move this back over here and i go back to doing work and nobody is the wiser. i'm 52. i figure i got another 50 in me, i hope. i try to take care of myself. if i do, i'm trying to make this next 50 better than the last, changing everything up a little bit, being there for my kids, my grandch