the nashua street jail. >> this ain't wall street. this ain't bourbon street. it sure ain't rodeo drive. this is nashua street. >> the new arrivals have not been convicted of the crimes for which they were arrested and considered innocent until proven guilty. >> step in. >> those who are not quickly released or bailed out will be housed at nashua until their cases are closed. and every year, thousands of men and women undergo a demanding application process to secure and manage inmates while they're in jail. less than 1% will make it to the final stage, cadet training. >> there was 40 people, 40 candidates that were brought into this academy class. there were upwards of 10,000 applications for the job. >> the cadets must pass a series of difficult tests to become suffolk county jail deputies. >> we teach them everything from combatives which is defensive tactics to firearms, to first aid, fire safety, approximately 40 different components of what they do. this morning, we're going to do some defensive tactics training. they have some ground defense where we've b

click or call. >>> at the suffolk county jail in boston, the new class of 40 cadets are about to get eir first experience of direct inmate interaction as part of their training to become jail deputies. among them are kareem mallard abrianna spagnolli. >> we're going to go down to the 2-2 unit for a shakedown. a total of 34 cells. make sure you have your protective gloves on and verbalize what you want from these people. inmates will only allow you to do what they're allowed to do. if there's any issues, contact one of us. if there's any questions, contact one of us. is that clear? questions? >> sir, yes, sir. >> all right. >> a shakedown is a little bit different from a room search whereas you actually handcuff the inmate, bring them out of the room, search the room with a three-person team. >> forward, march. >> and then at the end of it, they get stripped search and placed back inside their room so you can be virtually assured the room is clean. >> sir, stand up, please. >> hands behind your back, palms up. >> separate your feet, sir. >> behind your back. >> looking for nuisance con

majority of the jail inmates stand accused of criminal acts and are either on or awaiting trial. >> handcuffs are going to come off next, but leave your hands behind your back. >> but the threat of violence is just as real in jail as it is in prison. >> around here at theo lacy, we'll get a couple of these maybe in a -- in a month. >> day-to-day management of the orange county jail in southern california is up to sheriff's deputies. some work permanently at the jail while most others rotate through, then return to street patrol. >> all right. let's line up. let's do a gear check. let's line up on the wall right here. >> a select group of deputies make up the emergency response team, a s.w.a.t.-like unit called to action when inmates refuse orders or cause an imminent threat. >> hang left. >> watch out, watch out, watch out. >> wielding a broken mop stick and other cleaning supplies, joseph etima, who has pled not guilty to a murder charge and is awaiting trial, has refused to return to his cell. >> he's upset because the hispanic

and four miles away, the orient road jail has room for 1,700. 's also the site of intake, where men and women are processed into the jail. >> line up along the wall here. >> unlike prison, where all the inmates are convicted, the majority of jail inmates have only been charged with the crime and are awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. but these days, many of them first arrive in a similar state. >> we are seeing more and more men and women arrive in our doors in a state of opiate withdrawal. it's not a black or whitish shoe, it's not an old or younger shoe, it's not a rich or poor issue. it crosses all lines. people feel it's okay to eat the stuff like candy because a doctor gave it to them. these irresponsible physicians have legalized it in many people's eyes. >> while some overprescribing doctors might be at the root of tampa's drug problem, once the pills reach the street, people like jessica come into play. >> when you have an addiction, you're going to get it. it doesn't matter if you get it from a drug dealer or a doctor, if

jail. >> but still, i love it. i guess that's the addiction. that's why they call it a disease i guess. >> now they face another consequence. a potentially fatal one. >> i wake up at night gasping for breath thinking about it. >> and in a jail where drugs have led to the arrest of many of the inmates, officials add a new member to their corrections staff. >>> located in the heart of tampa, florida, is its historic cigar manufacturing center, ybor city. but for too many in tampa, guilty pleasures go far beyond hand-rolled cigars. as in other big cities, drug abuse has taken its toll here. it leads addicts to commit far more serious crimes. often resulting in extended stays at tampa's hillsborough county jail. >> one behind the other. single file line. hug the wall. >> colonel jim previtera is in charge of all operations and the nearly 3,000 inmates housed in the county's two jail facilities. >> i feel pretty safe in telling you if you went into any given pod here and you got every inmate to honestly answer the question of how substance abuse impa

i mean, it's anywhere in the jail. and that happens every day on every shift in the facility, multiple times most days. >> narrator: at louisville metro, male inmates outnumber females by about nine to one. most live in dormitories designed to hold either 16 or 24 men, but they, too, are almost always beyond capacity. >> this jail is horrible. this is by far the worst jail i've ever been to in my entire life. it's like trying to fit five families in a house. you know, it just don't work. and you have, you know, animosity and people getting up in each other's faces and trying to kill each other. whenever you have that many personalities clashing, it's going to happen. >> narrator: and less than 24 hours earlier, ben thompson, serving time for burglary, was at the center of one such clash. >> yesterday, i guess it was my eighth day here. >> chow! make sure you got your arm bands on. >> they holler "chow." i get up and get my tray, and i hear somebody say something to me when we're in line, but i didn't really pay attentio

has been the subject of more media attention than probably any other jail in america. in recent years it's been due to the county's policies toward illegal immigrants. before that, much of the coverage centered on its practices. such as constructing an outdoor housing facility with tents. the striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposely want your jails to be tough, correct? >> well, i sure don't want it to be a hilton hotel like some other prisons around the nation. it's all this rehabilitation, education. we have all that in our jails, nobody talks about, but we punish our children, take away certain things from them, privileges. why can't we punish people that have committed crimes and take away their privileges? >> there's probably not another law enforcement figure

largest gang, the united blood nation. jailicials have identified rendell maldanado as a high-ranking member of the gang. they recently transferred him to another housing unit at the request of prosecutors to separate him from his co-defendants as their trial for aggravated assault and kidnapping approaches. >> they don't want us to communicate. it's not going to happen. we're too close to each other. >> one of the co-defendants maldanado was separated from is jesus henrique-marte. the housing units they now occupy are divided by a glassed in recreation area. though they're not supposed to communicate, they sometimes get away with it, when either one is in the rec area. >> we know sign language and they don't know what we're talking about. they trying to messed up with our head. it don't really matter. >> henrique-marte has been known to violate other jail rules, as well. such as jamming the lock on his food court door so he can open it at will. >> that's how we get to see the tv. more comfortable than standing up. there's a lo

one of two facilities that comprise the jail system. they're housed on separate floors but that doesn't stop them from finding ways to communicate. >> it's 192, we get to talk to the guys downstairs. >> how do you talk to them? >> through the toilets. we clear them out and yell through the pipes. the vents, the pipes. you could do it this way which people laugh at all the time. >> what are you doing? >> i'm plunging the toilet with my ass. >> because you can't talk to them unless it's clear so you got to get all the water out. >> yo! >> yeah, say hi. >> hello! this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> life for most inmates at the suffolk county jail is anything but fun and games. inside the jail's nashua street facility is a housing unit for those inmates whose charges have given them a reputation among other inmates. a reputation that could result in grave consequences. >> special housing unit, what we call the shu, is typically what most people refer to as pc, protective custody u

he's trying to make the most of his time in the bergen county jail. w the house man, or lead inmate worker, of his housing unit. >> everything's going pretty good. got, you know, back in s-4. i'm happy. everything's -- thing's on track. >> the only compensation for a house man is more time out of his cell and extra food trays. >> trays up. >> battaglia's new cell mate works as a food server. they've created a business of sort, trading their extra meals for commissary and then they trade those items for favors or even more commissary. >> normally on the tray, i just take the main course and the snack. and i'll give away the other, you know, like they're hungry. they don't have -- they get one tray. i get three. you know, i'm feeding you and you're providing a service for me. you help me out. you clean my room, heat up my water in the morning, wash my dishes after i eat. i don't -- i won't do nothing for free. >> we have our hand in everything, food, laundry, toilet paper, anything that comes in the tier, we have -- >> anything extra. i feel -- i feel so

they all begin the incarceration in the jail's intake department. t the crimes they're associated with range from horrific to petty and everything in between. >> i'm very photogenic. >> reporter: deandre barnes was arrested on charges of cocaine and marijuana possession with intent to sell. he plans to plead not guilty. >> melissa, who was that? >> my baby mama. >> your baby mama. you got that drama? >> if he seems at ease here that might be because this is his third stay at hillsborough county. >> slide all the way back. >> barnes is already familiar with the full-body scan chairs and facial scanners used to detect weapons or other contra banned that might be hid inside body cavities. >> barnes. >> i know you're barnes. >> go ahead, sir. welcome back. >> i said i wasn't gonna come back and i'm back. i let myself down. >> yeah, it still looks the same. i guess i'll make my bed up. >> though barnes has been arrested a half dozen times, the charges haven't always struck. he only has one prior conviction for obstructing a law enforcement officer. >> com

at one of the most notorious jail in america, the men's central jail in los angeles. he got a phone call from his younger brother juan, arrested and being held at the jail. juan, a veteran of desert storm. you adjusting to life after leaving the army. he had had a few minor scrapes with the law but they didn't amount to much. what figueroa heard left him stunned. >> your brother calls you from jail tells you his teeth are busted? and what else? >> that his ribs are broken. >> did he give you any indication in that phone call how he sustained those injuries? >> los angeles sheriffs. >> that the los angeles sheriffs had in fact hurt him? >> yes. >> and did you believe that? >> yes. >> figueroa went to the jail hoping to see his brother. after getting away he calls the run around, he approached a deputy in the waiting area, so began his ordeal at the hands of the los angeles police department. >> i heard stop resisting, stop resisting, i yelled out, i'm in handcuffs. >> this is an x ray of figueroa's arm. >> how is your arm now? >> this is my left arm, the strength in it

the conditions here are subhuman. >> it's a jail made famous by its outspoken sheriff. >> here it is,21 in the tents. >> now, it's at the center of a new story. >> arpaio. >> last report, there's approximately 5,000 protesters. we have heightened security on the yard right now in case something does happen. >> they demonstrate. they call me hitler, assassinate me and, you know, what is this? just trying to do my job. >>> about 140,000 inmates per year are booked into the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. >> step up to the podium, please. okay. turn to the left for me. >> those charged with less serious crimes will likely have a court hearing and be released within a day or two to await resolution of their charges. >> come on out. >> but chronic offenders are those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months or even years.oare those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months or even yearre those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months or even year those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months or even y

costa in the jail. they become co-dependent on each other. need to communicate is just overwhelming for each of them. so they kind of try and want to bend the rules, break the rules. sometimes in an effort to still stay in touch with each other. >> recently, costa did just that. >> i saw her in the hallway and i was going downstairs and i saw a group of girls, and i was hoping that she would be one of them, and she was. so i blew her a kiss. got in trouble for that. don't do it again or else. you know, like from the officers and stuff. they just probably thought she was a random female and i was harassing one of them. little do they know. it was worth the risk. >> but now costa and schlossberg have developed a new method of communicating. although it's against the rules, they've yet to be caught. each housing unit has a kiosk where inmates can order snacks or toiletries from the jail commissary. >> one day i'm on the jail ki k kiosk. i went on her account. figured out her password. it's our anniversary. i put a couple items i knew she'd key i

he won't let me talk to them on the phone in jail. >> despite the pain, minacapelli has found room forr in jail, particularly with her cellmate cindy archer. >> the first day we came in, we laughed. the whole entire night. >> yeah, we did. >> so hard she was on the floor rolling. >> yeah. i was against the wall slapping the wall, everything. i haven't laughed so hard in my life like that. >> like minacapelli, archer also struggled with addictions to heroin and cocaine. she's currently serving one year for prostitution. >> i was street walking. i would go there and you know, jump in the car, get the money. but usually i would rob the guys. i would take the money out of their wallet, put the wallet back in, because they didn't even know. i know how to do it. you know whey mean? grateful i'm not dead by that, but that's how i got my money. when you're high, all you want to do is get another hit. or if you're dope sick, you need to get more money to get more dope because your body's aching for it. and that's disgusting. had i think about it now, yeah, i'd love to get high. think of the con

or has abuse in the past happened at the jail? >> we had problems back then as rampant as some of the media pour trays it? no. they work with some of the toughest l.a. street criminals. >> i'm sure you've got great, dedicated people but you know, it sounds a little bit like spin when you say that it might have been overblown by the media. we're talking about 18 separate individuals here. >> no, there's no doubt here. >> current and past. that's a lot of folk. >> is a lot of folks. there is serious allegations and we take each one of those extremely series. we've done a lot of things since then. i've almost doubled my supervision, we've changed protocols when it cox t comes to force. we've gone back to drawing board on that up one. >> as for lee figueroa, the jury awarded him $300,000. he has been working towards a master's degree. in the end, though, figueroa says what's most important is that the truth of what happened to him is finally coming out so that a stay or even just a visit to the l.a. county jail is no longer a light-thr

at one of the most notorious jail in america, the men's central jail in los angeles. he got a phone call from his younger brother juan, arrested and being held at the jail. juan, a veteran of desert storm. you adjusting to life after leaving the army. he had had a few minor scrapes with the law but they didn't amount to much. what figueroa heard left him stunned. >> your brother calls you from jail tells you his teeth are busted? and what else? >> that his ribs are broken. >> did he give you any indication in that phone call how he sustained those injuries? >> los angeles sheriffs. >> that the los angeles sheriffs had in fact hurt him? >> yes. >> and did you believe that? >> yes. >> figueroa went to the jail hoping to see his brother. after getting away he calls the run around, he approached a deputy in the waiting area, so began his ordeal at the hands of the los angeles police department. >> i heard stop resisting, stop resisting, i yelled out, i'm in handcuffs. >> this is an x ray of figueroa's arm. >> how is your arm now? >> this is my left arm, the strength in it

the bergen county jail. >> he got the 30 south here. north carolina. i'm from trend son, new jersey. ready to go home. >> 65% are out of county residents. a lot are for drugs. they are going into the city or coming out, they get pulled over. they use bergen county because its use of artery highways. >> most of the roughly 900 inmates housed here have been accused of crimes and are awaiting trial under the resolution of their cases. like many, deanna collins is not only from somewhere else, philadelphia, she's also facing drug charges but she's unique in another way. >> what happened to your hair? >> really? it was a process. and it fell out. chemicals, it just fell out. >> at the beauty parlor? >> yeah. i had a chemical treatment. i was supposed to be doing body wave and changing my hair color and they ended up singeing off my hair. now that i look like this, i look like such a scum bag and not the kind of person you want to pull for. >> looks like it hurts. >> it does. it hurts my pride. it hurts everything. >> collins says things got worse soon after

>> a repeat offender smuggles contraband into the jail. >> my case is considered high profile because the guy killed was a local celebrity. >> after murdering a louisville rap star becomes a marked man. >>> a prescription pill epidemic takes his toll in the jail. >> and drug abuse can. >> please don't keep me from going home on friday. >> if i. >> and officials are concerned over one inmate's growing influence. >> i got a reputation of leading these young guys to do all this type of crazy stuff. this is a reputation that you've got to live down. >> a source of pride for louisville, kentucky has been the revitalization of downtown. marked by new high rises, residential and retail centers. but it also has been a busy time for another downtown landmark. the louis metro department of corrections jail books about 45 thousand men and women each year, and many of them have been through the process several times before. >> so is the life of a criminal. since the time i was 18 i've been in prison for all my life. it's all i know. >> terry says his history at louisville metro is base odd a near

just outside downtown hackensack is the bergen county jail. most of the nearly 900 inmates are accused of crimes and are awaiting trial. the majority of them are from somewhere else. many say bergen county is better than other jails. >> this is a country club. you can play chess all day. no problems. three tvs. it's a country club. >> the country club reference goes back as long as i've been here. i look at it as a compliment. country club is a professional, well organized, strict with rules and regulations, cleaner. i look at that as bergen county jail. some of the hardened criminals like the dirty, grungy type of jail. they're not going to find that here. >> right here in bergen county jail, you have good, good people who are straight up real. >> with seven prior stays, enrique cruz qualifies as the jail's unofficial tour guide. >> this spanish harlem over this [ bleep ] except for the white boy in the back, he's down with them [ bleep ]. this is spanish harlem. you have uptown over here [ bleep ], uptown. sit your ass down, man. [ bleep ]. s

but i guess i'll find out. >> is this the first time she's been in our jail. she's got quite a few charges. i see a lot of out of county and out of state charges as well pretty much for the same thing. quite a few actually. 15 with one town alone. three with another town and she also has some out of county. dee is wanted out of pennsylvania. oh, look at her hair. >> officers have seen this look before, usually on suspects charged with scamming pharmacies just as collins has been. >> probably shaved it. maybe when she went to the pharmacy to obtain the drugs, she put her hair up looking like she was sick, maybe chemother y chemotherapy. interesting. i'll have to ask her about that. >> classification is an on going process at the jail as new inmates arrive every day. today they include jerry nunez on the left and shawn stark on the right. arrested within hours of each other. they have been connected to a shootout with police two days earlier. >> officer say the man was walk with a gun and opened fire on a cop car barely missing the officer inside. the shots cause

costa in the jail. become co-dependent on each other, so their need to communicate is just overwhelming for each of them so they try to bend the rules, break the rules sometimes in an effort they can still stay in touch with each other. >> recently costa did just that. >> i saw her in the hallway and i was going downstairs and i saw a group of girls, and i was hoping that she would be one of them, and i blew her a kiss, and i got in trouble, and don't do it again or else, and from the officers and stuff, because they thought that she was a random female and a harassing one of them, and little do they know, but it was worth the risk. >> but now they have developed a new method of communicating and although it's against the rules, they've yet to be caught. each housing unit has a key yofk where inmates can order snacks or toiletries from the jail come sorry. >> one day i'm on the commission sear computer, order canteens and stuff like that. i went on the account and figured out the password because it's o

the jail's medical staff has helped stabilize his condition with medication. >> i was always the goodbrother go in and out of jail and prison and i was like, i'll never let that happen to me. i'm going to go to high school and go to the military. i never thought it would have happened, i'd never be here in lockdown. i wish that would never happen. i can't beat myself up on it. i got to keep going because that's all i got is myself. as long as i keep myself up, then i can be there for my mom. >> burden's mother struggles to understand how her son's life has unraveled. >> this used to be like "why you got in trouble?" she doesn't understand about schizophrenoform. >> burden and his mother correspond through letters. >> how important are these letters to you? >> real important. the relationship between me and my mom is getting better. "i got your letter january the 5th. i pray every day court takes it easy on you. that's why i call god. you better call him, too, thriller." she calls me thriller when i was a little kid, the neighborhood called me thriller because of michael jackson. i was

his name used to hold a lot of weight in the jail. as of right now i don't know if it still does. >> since cruz's younger days the bloods have formed dozens of subsets, even causing confusion among themselves about who's who. in cruz's case, some of the younger members either don't know him or don't respect him. >> i don't like him. >> my man right here, sam fran. >> he's one that thinks he's better than blood. he's one that wants things his way or no way. >> this is my man right here. real [ bleep ]. >> is he a minister? >> is he a minister? >> of defense? >> that's not even a position. minister of defense. he thinks he's a [ bleep ] black panther or something. not going to take him seriously. >> now we're going into little italy right here. >> he was running around this gym claiming a position that doesn't even exist so instead of being abusive and having him touched we'll just let him be. you know, just be by yourself because he's definitely not a part of my team. >> while many of the 800 male inmates stay tight lipped it's another

the way the bucket's made, we can't have that. >> first time in jail? second time. >> second time. you have to fix it. you see how mine is made? >> make it -- >> you got to make the bed. do that every morning. ten times you go in that bed, ten times you get up, ten times you fix it. you use the bathroom -- you got to flush it. >> yeah. >> you got to flush it. it didn't go all the way down. you have to make sure it goes all the way down. we got all types of stuff here. we tell you a third time, we put your stuff out of the gate and you got to go. follow the simple rules, our rules, you don't step on nobody's tauoes, you good. >> thanks. appreciate it. >> though nunez was only arrested on drug charges, he admits selling an unregistered handgun to sean stark, who also just completed his first night here. stark was arrested because the gun he purchased was allegedly used by his friend, robert leonardes, to shoot at police officers. >> yesterday i was just emotionally distraught and the fear of just not what is going to happen to me and who was going to be t

he won't let me talk to them on the phone from jail. >> despite the pain, minacapelli has found room er in jail. particularly with her cellmate cindy archer. >> the first night i came in we laugh it had entire night. so hard she was on the floor rolling. it was mad funny. >> i was against the wall slapping the wall and everything. i haven't laugh so hard in my life like that with me and her. >> like minacapelli, archer has struggled with addictions to heroin and cocaine. she's serving one year for prostitution. >> i was street walking, i would go out there and, you know, jump in a car, get the money, but usually i would rob the guys and take the money out of their wallet, put their wallet back in, they didn't know because i know how to do it. you know what i mean? and i'm grateful i'm not dead by that but that's how i got my mone money. >> when you're high all you want to do is get another hit or if you're dope sick you've got to go get money to get more dope because you're body's aching for it. that's disgusting. when i think about it now, yeah, i'd love to get high but look at the c

located just outside downtown is a key landmark in that battle, the suffolk county jail. >> the jaila maximum security facility. it holds anyone who is arrested and held on a bail they can't make. that could be someone charged with shoplifting and it is very frequently someone charged with homicide. >> unlike prison, where all inmates have been convicted an sentenced, most jail inmates have only been charged with crimes and are innocent until proven guilty. suffolk county has an average daily population of 700 such detainees, along with nearly 2,000 other inmates who have been convicted and are serving short sentences. >> we're the largest sheriff's department in the northeast and so we're moving a lot of people in and out of here and trying to do a lot with them in the relatively short period of time we have them. and the people who get that job done every single day do a remarkable job. >> in some units, a lone officer supervises inmates, like a beat cop on the streets. it allows them to build rapport and actually has been proven to reduts fighting. >> all right, talk to you later.

this is the first time she's been in our jail. she's got a few charges, out of county, most for the same thing, by obtaining cds by froud. 15 with one town alone, three with another town. she also has some out of quth here. she's wanted out of pennsylvania. oh, look at her hair. >> officers have seen this look before. usually on suspects charged with scamming pharmacies. just as collins has been. >> probably shaved it so maybe when she went to the pharmacy to obtain the drugs put her hair up, made it look like she was sick, losing her hair. maybe chemotherapy. interesting. we'll have to ask her about that when we go see her. >> classifications is a constant process at the jail. today they clue jerry nunez and jeremy stark. arrested within hours of each other, they have been arrested with a hackensack shootout with police officer. >> investigators are trying to figure out what prompted a man to start shooting at sn officer with hackensack. he open fire on a cop car. the shots caused another patrol car to rear-end the second car. bot

just outside of town is the county jail. st of the nearly 900 inmates are accused of trials and awaiting trial for resolution of their cases. the majority of them are from somewhere else. many say this is better than other jails. >> no problems. three tvs. country club. >> the country club reference goes back as long as i've been here. i look at it as a compliment. country club is a professional, well organized, strict rules and regulations cleaner, i look at that as the county jail. some hardened jails like the dirty grungy jail. they won't find that here. >> in bergen county jail, good people that are real. >> enrique qualifies as the jail's unofficial tour guide. >> this spanish harlem there. except for the white boy in the back, he down with them. spanish harlem. uptown here, uptown. sit your ass down, man. >> over a period of 26 years, cruz spent time not only in bergen county but several other prisons for dozens of convictions, they include assault, distribution of drugs, illegal possession of firearms, criminal sexual

. >> miking bates is a highest ranking blood member in the jail. >> one of my pups had a complaint against this gentleman here. yeah, said that he was not living right. >> the questions arise over whether the challenger is who he said he was. >> if he's not who he said he is -- >> and in the women's league. >> you come agross very aggressive when you talk because you're loud. >> one woman's attitude divides her unit. and before long verbal altercations turn violent. >> i'm done. >>> just outside downtown is if bergen county jail. most of the nearly 900 minute mates here are accused of crimes and awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. the majority of them are from somewhere else and many say this is better than other places. >> three tvs. >> the country club reference goes back as long as aye been here. i look at it as a compliment. country club is a professional well organized strict with rules and regulations. some of the hardened criminals like the dirty grudge gi jail. >> right here there are good people straight up real. >> with seven prior stays, he kwal fies as the jail's t