he put the heartless felons on notice. >> this my jail. ain't nobody in here going to run nothing in here but me. what you need to do is lay it down. >> three of the inmates in the unit, however, were pulled aside. they were confirmed by the jail to be heartless felons. but they had not been associated with any of the recent thefts. warden ivy decided they should be placed in general population, freeing themselves for more problematic heartless felons from other housing units. >> stand in the hallway. >> one point we were filming and i could hear sam yelling, and i thought he was yelling angrily at somebody. quickly grabbed brian, our cameraman, there was sam. mr. bill, mr. jackson, mr. washington -- >> delivering this sermon. >> when you hear people say the men in black, they don't give a care, they don't have no love, i tell you yes, they do. understand, mr. bill, mr. jackson, mr. washington, this is your opportunity at this time to make a choice. >> it was almost like a warning, and then as i was listening to him and it just got loud som

i was like, yeah. >> we meet inmates as we travel throughout the jail. when he told me another inmate had written the letter, it seemed like a plausible situation. >> authorities say he had a motivation for changing his story and claiming he had nothing to do with the letter. they're unsuccessful search resulted in a new criminal charge for him. >> they say i obstructed the fbi's and cleveland police investigations. >> wolford was charged with obstruction of justice. he pled not guilty but would remain in the jail until the case was solved. if found guilty he could have several more years added to the 26 he's already serving. >> i got saying, if the glove don't fit, you must acquit. >> wow. >> going to trial. that's o.j. >> i think we all know it's o.j. >> that's o.j. let's go to trial. >> while he denied any knowledge of what happened to the missing girl named amanda, he did say they were friends prior to her disappearance nine years earlier. >> we knew each other since we were little kids. i used to go to her work and talk to her all the time. her best

he pled not guilty but would remain in the jail until the case was solved. if found guilty he could have several more years added to the 26 he's already serving in prison. >> i got saying, if the glove don't fit, you must acquit. >> wow. >> going to trial. that's o.j. >> i think we all know it's o.j. >> that's o.j. let's go to trial. >> while he denied any knowledge of what happened to the missing girl named amanda, he did say they were friends prior to her disappearance nine years earlier. >> we knew each other since we were little kids. i used to go to her work and talk to her all the time. her best friend was two houses down. i used to hang out at her house all the time. >> do you think she's alive? >> yes. >> you really think she's alive? >> if she was dead they would have found her body. >> if there was something you could say to amanda's family, what would you say? >> we all know she's still alive. we all hoping she still alive. we all just got to have hope and faith that she'll come home one day. that's it. >> that night when i actually researched the

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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

our problem is that we have all the wrong people in jail, and having all the wrong people in jail is something we should all care about. the cold reality is that it is the powerless people who are kept in jail for want of a few hundred dollars. they are the people who suffer just because they're too poor to purchase their liberty before their trial. this is al jazeera america, with a look at today's top stories. a proposal just announced to fix the v.a.'s broken healthcare system. president obama and the g. seven draw another line in the sand. is the white house explains why it kept congress in the dark about sergeant burg doll's release. >> congress took a

and with 3,000 inmates, it's one of the biggest jails in the west. that translates into a lot of stories for our five-person production team to cover. finding them involves meeting as many inmates as possible. >> everybody is cool with being on? you guys -- just kind of, just sitting here, just like this. just like this, at the window. >> at the window? >> yeah. >> wherever you went, you'd meet one person that was completely different than the next. oftentimes, the deputies will tell us about certain inmates, and one inmate that was brought up was gabriel taylor. >> this is what we got right here, y'all. we got 14 cells of depression, exactly. >> gabriel taylor had been charged with burglary and vehicle theft, to which he had pled not guilty. he was housed in the protective custody unit, or pc, because he had dropped out of his gang. and in jail or out, that made him vulnerable to attack. >> let's protest, y'all. >> protest? >> yeah. >> see where that gets you. >> yeah, pepper spray and a taser. >> when i first met gabriel, i was taken by his charism

of a young man's first day in jail. >> i'm in the orange county jail. with no windows, no nothing. nobody -- i don't know what's going on. i don't know. >> when we met 20-year-old richard ruiz, he had already completed the booking process and his first court arraignment and was now engaged in another jailhouse ritual, the first call home. >> so i'm just sitting in a room. i don't know if it's light or daylight. i lose track of time. i get woken up by all of the slamming doors and stuff. like i don't know what's going on in here. i skip all meals because i don't want to eat. >> ruiz had been arrested 48 hours earlier for the first time in his life, charged with intent to sell narcotics. he hoped his father would be able and willing to bail him out. >> it's $2,500. 10% of $25,000 bail. thank you, dad. all right. yep. i love you. bye. he doesn't deserve a phone call from here. but it's all my fault that i'm here. it's no one's fault but myself. >> there's a term that people use called a fish and basically if you're a new booking and you've never been in ja

our problem is that we have all the wrong people in jail, and having all the wrong people in jail is something we should all care about. the cold reality is that it is the powerless people who are kept in jail for want of a few hundred dollars. they are the people who suffer just because they're too poor to purchase their liberty before their trial. >> misbehaving children locked up doing time while they should be in school. >> they have to prepare for jail >> throwing away our future >> we're using the same failed policies in districts throughout the country >> are we failing our kids? fault lines al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> they're locking the doors... >> ground breaking... >> we have to get out of here... >> truth seeking... award winning investigative documentary series fault lines the school to prison pipeline only on al jazeera america >> squoo >>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at the top stories. >>> army sergeant bowe bergdahl set free after five years. some have criticised the move. a look at the taliban prisoners

the jail population has decreased considerable and it doesn't look like the number of cadets working or those working as sheriff's has declined, so can you explain that. i don't know if i missed that part of the question, but i wanted to understand that. >> as to the cadet population? >> the sheriff's deputy, the population that are there to oversee prisoners in the various jails that you manage. >> so the deputy population is down as i mentioned earlier. we have an obligation as a 24/7 operation and due to our staffing requirements, there has to be certain standards and levels of staffing in those jail systems where we're supervising. we can use a lot more deputies. as i said, 69 is the deficit and we don't for see catching up with that even with cadet officers doing sworn in work. >> thank you. got it. >> when you're talk -- when you're talking about the deficit, that's from your staff? >> it's those on long term disability. long term disability remains unsolved, maybe 25 of that number 69. this is something that paralyze our position and that can take many years. >> okay. >> so th

the hall of justice. that was significant, not because of their jail population is declining but because the conditions in that jail were so bad and some of you have seen that. so to redistribute that population in other parts of the jail was a part of us managing a more sophisticated jail population. we had progress in improving anti- recidivism and repeat offender measures and our programs of rsvp and road and sisters. we see a tremendous progress with our electronic monitoring in our swap sentencing which it has improved to nearly 50 percent. us as the first county joining in the state of california and as i hear in the united states, to be designated as an enrollee in the obama care. it's getting off the ground and there has been over 400 inmates that has been assisted. we assisted city college where they started last month with two classes in the jail system. it's a significant initiative because over a year and a half ago, the city college, we reached out in trying to woo them into coming into the jail system because we're doing a good job with their charter high school, there's no next level and we

our problem is that we have all the wrong people in jail, and having all the wrong people in jail is something we should all care about. the cold reality is that it is the powerless people who are kept in jail for want of a few hundred dollars. they are the people who suffer just because they're too poor to purchase their liberty before their trial. consider this. the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. . >> maybe you've seen it in the movies. small windless cells. prisoners allowed out only an hour a day. isolation from other inmates. solitary is still a widely used pinment but now prisoners are fighting back against its use. in courts, even through hunger strike. it's the "inside story." it's the "inside story." >> hello, i'm ray suarez. prisoners havele

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same cell. >> for the most part, they've got to get along. they're in a jailystem, they're waiting to go to court and be deemed either innocent or guilty. until then, they're going to function in our system the way the sheriff wants it run. >> big bro. i want you to take bam bam. >> sergeant erby leads one of maricopa's special response teams. a s.w.a.t.-like unit of highly trained sheriff's deputies. >> you all want them cuffed and brought out of there? for right now we're going to put them in the holding tank until after we search. >> are we searching first? >> yeah. all right? you've got a green light. all right? let's go. >> now with suspected gang activity on the rise, the team has been called in to clean house. >> how are you doing, man? >> we have identified several individuals that we deem to be heads of certain races. we've got chicano race, we've got the pisa race. and we've got the white race. so when there's issues, we end up with racial, basically wars. >> check your equipment. >> go, go, go, go, go. >> get down! >> get on the ground! >> get on th

just trying to do my job. >> . >> about 140,000 inmates per year are booked into the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. >> 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. by chronic offenders, or those charged with violent crimes, could be held for weeks, months, or even years, until their cases are tried and settled. during the intake process, these inmates are immediately separated from the others. >> so we put them in the isolation cells. whenever we get here, we do the walk around. >> yeah, combative. this gentleman is isolated because he's combative with staff. we wouldn't be surprised when he's ready to go upstairs, we get involved to move him. >> jail inmates often arrive fresh from a crime scene. the most dangerous are those who are still high or intoxicated. >> currently seven out of every ten people booked in are under the influence of some form of drug. depending on where the person is and what drug they took is going to depend on the attitude. so

the pod. so what we did was we went to jail intel, we found out who they were. d now we've basically shifted them to the winds. >> dispersing the shot callers will help reduce gang activity for the time being. but it won't stop the racial divide between inmates. cecil kunkel has spent time in the hole for refusing to house with african-americans. >> tell me why. >> because it's wrong. i'm walking around with white power on me. why am i going to house up with them? it's nothing personal. it's just the way it is. >> these days kunkel is less concerned with race relations than he is with putting maricopa behind him. most of the inmates like him who are still facing charges will plea bargain for shorter prison sentences than they might get if found guilty at trial. but kunkel is so convinced of his case he's banking on 12 jurors to look past his appearance and set him free. >> my case is cold cut. it's either guilty or not guilty. but i feel if i bring my case in front of 12 people, somebody in there is going to agree that i was entrapped. >> kunkel says an undercove

and the more i stay in jail or prison, the more i communicate with like girls my age and stuff.helped me be mature, like feel older and stuff. i don't think i am ready to go home yet. i mean, i can't -- i can't face the world yet. >> and even though dailey says her heart currently lies with emilee keen, she is keeping her options open. she has recently begun corresponding with carrie kimbrough, who is currently serving time in the hole for testing positive for meth. >> carrie has started writing me. she was saying that she was interested in me, and we just started writing back and forth all the time. she was saying that she saw emilee at court one day, and carrie said, well, if you don't watch out i am going to steal brayden from you. >> but maricopa's jailhouse philosopher, aristeo salaiz, knows in here friendships are not always what they seem. >> you have to be careful, which people you form these relationships with, they may get you in trouble and lead you wrong or steer you wrong. >> coming up. >> believe it or not, brayden ended up cheating on me with another girl. and i'm

would like to offer, is that we have to improve and increase the access to contact visits within the jail as the sheriff testified to. and we have to reach the judges and i don't think that the courts are here often they do not participate in these kinds of hearing because they feel that ethical rules prohibit them and that is a problem because unless we get the courts on board, and certainly some of that change has to come in sacramento that we need the laws that allow the judges to consider the impact on families, and children. and currently that does not happen. and it is pretty much irrelevant and they do not think about the impact on a family at all, or impact on the children at all. often, judges will keep a person in custody, for minor offenses and we had someone the other day who the judge kept in custody on the $50,000 for simple possession, without any regards of their circumstances. and again, i think that we need to make better decisions in terms of who we feel need to be incarcerated and only incars rate people who really need to be in jail. for example if you are in administ

little things are important to these people. >> reporter: one of the hot beds for trouble at any jail is the booking department where inmates first arrive upon their arrests. most go through the often lengthy process without incident. during our shoot, kenny witty was arrested for driving under the influence and illegal possession of a firearm. he was already on probation for various drug and firearm-related charges as well. >> witty falls in to the category of somebody that has poor coping skills. >> while waiting to be processed witty is moved to a chair near the pay phone so we can be talking. it is a mild valation usually resolved by a detention officer. >> sir, don't sit in the chair whooen while you are on the phone. you want to go to a holding cell? >> this is kenneth witty. he threw a chair across the booking floor. we are taking him to a holding cell and he's going to start resisting against us. he was agitated and one of those ones that doesn't want to do what he is told to do. >> as officers lead witty to a holding cell he continues to resist. >> he stepped toward me. i tur

. >>> follow "lockup" producers and crews as they go behind the walls of america's prisons and jails, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >>> in the heart of downtown cleveland is the cuyahoga county correction center. >> this is how it go in the county joint. >> ain't no talking. >> like virtually all jails, most of the inmates here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. women make up about 12% of the total inmate population of 1800. and though they are a minority, they still make their presence known. >> one of the surprising things we find out visiting various jails across the country is that the staff tell us that the male inmates are easier to manage than the female inmates. women like to socialize more. >> we're not nasty. >> we are not nasty bitches. >> it's a chance for them to bond, make life easier to do their time and so on. >> everybody like when these ho's say something. >> but soon there's a turn that takes place. that socializing leads to bickering. >> you looking at me? >> that leads to a lot of drama for the staff.

@ñ ♪ >>> at the tulsa county jail, kenneth witty was regarded by the staff as one of the jail's better-knownoublemakers and we got a small taste of that ourselves. >> kenneth was always messing with me and in one way or another, whether it be that i was doing a walking shot and he would start off on a nice pace and i would be backing up and then he'd slowly start to increase his speed and i would try to stay with him. >> you're going to have to learn to back up faster, brian, for real. come over here. start running. >> he would laugh. it didn't really bother me because it's part of his schtick and i went with it. >> right here and we're playing hand ball. if your camera gets broke i want y'all to sign waivers so we can't be held liable because i know that's expensive. >> he would go out of his way to prevent us from doing what we needed to do so he could be very exhausting for me. >> susan is going to be mad about that. >> and i did find myself on a number of occasions, chastising him and trying to keep him in line. you know, he was like a little wild puppy and i literally had to come on lik

oh, they was clapping and singing and going out the jail. and there we was up there locked up until the next morning. >> can i ask how the experience of actually finally -- being arrested, spending that first night in the jail, compared to -- you were young. compared to how you had maybe imagined it might be? that's a pretty big thing to have happen. >> at first it was fun to us. we was up there singing. we had all seven of us. and we were just a-clapping and a-singing because we just knew we was fitting to leave. we just knew that we was fitting to get out. but that didn't happen. we went to court the next morning. and that's when everything -- >> started to turn. >> spiraled out of control. >> how'd it feel for you? >> well, just like she said, we was all excited about being locked up. we had no sense of fear because we was all together as a group. it was four girls and three boys. it was seven of us. so when the judge got us to court, he had a petition stating that our parents would sign we wouldn't demonstrate anymore until we got to the

and we rely heavily on the jail psychiatric services or jps which is top light work in the jail system but they're under resource and under staff. it has been my impression although i was not a former part of what is the care task force and others that there's going to be a more concerted effort in trying to help our population that stieples in and out of our jail system that suffers from mental illness. i'm at the cross roads of this question and answer because philosophically, i don't think our jails should be used as a mental health place. so i'm hoping that outlook would be supported by some resource match to our group like jps. and i'm counting on the efforts of the -- of all of us to push that. so that's where we're at. i'm expected dph and the rest to continue to fund them. that's who funds them. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. >> sorry for the long winded answer. >> colleagues, any other questions at this time? >> i promise, it will be short answers. it will be all yes or no. [laughing]. >> gosh, no audience. all right. we'll see you back next week. thanks sheriff. >> thank you. >