he currently holds the record for book-ins in kent county jail. >> hudson has been coming to the jailrrested, like, 162 times in michigan. >> hudson's been booked into the kent county jail alone more than 130 times. >> i'm very popular at kent county jail. >> hey, randy. how's things going? >> all right. >> going all right? >> yep. >> when i hear randy hudson's nam i think back 20-some years when i started. he's been coming in a long time. so everybody knows randy hudson. >> i've been here 24 years and he's been coming here at least 5 years longer than i have been here. i can't think of a year he was no in jail. >> i was 1 years old when he came here. >> my reputation, the most arrested person in kent county. >> i'm not proud of it. you know? this is what can happen to your life if you don't make positive choices. >> hudson, most of his arrests and convictions have stemmed from drugs, alcohol and vapor inhalation, or sniffing substances. like glue or paint. >> first time i was in jail was for intoxication of vapors. i was 18. then ever since then it just continued. i've been arrested

the kent county jail houses about 1,000 men and women. f them have been convicted but most are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial with the resolution of their cases. >> any problem? >> no problem, sir. >> captain randy demery has been confronting problems for 25 years he worked at the jail. >> good friend of mine said the thing that makes corrections so easy is that all you have to do is get voluntary compliance out of a bunch of people who have already proven that they will not voluntarily comply with the rules of society. so, it's a piece of cake. and we're in a position where we can get to a very large degree voluntary compliance out of that group of people, so actually the challenge of that is rewarding and fun. >> some challenges like those presented by joe leija can take longer to resolve than others. >> joe leija doesn't come across as a dangerous guy. he's respectful to the officers but it's not one of those guys i would trust. he's definitely a dangerous individual, especially on the street, and within his gang world.

four men were arrested and are now in the kent county jail. three pled guilty. ot guilty. when we asked him about details of the female victim's description of one of her attackers, he shut us down. >> somebody dipping into my case? i think we're done here. put me in my room. somebody dipping in my case. i'm done. >> two weeks later, melton agreed to speak with us again. >> the last time we talked to you, you kind of got a little angry. >> yeah. >> what was that about? >> it was about, like, i felt that they went to other co-defendants to get questions to ask me, like as if i had did the rape, basically accusing me. you know? i got accused. so, yes. i got upset. >> several weeks earlier, melton was placed in disciplinary segregation for fighting in his maximum security general population unit. he's now eligible to return to general population but has requested to remain in segregation. >> classification comes in 30 days. they ask you if you want to move. i say no because i'm going to trial. i'd rather have the concentration down here. so i don't move. >> besides

a few miles from downtown is the kent county jail. >> people ask me all the time when i'm out there inhe world, who do you got in jail? i always tell them, we have your family members, we have your neighbors, your co-workers. >> on any given day, about 1,000 men and women are incarcerated here. >> i want you on your bunks. time for head count. i need your i.d.s. >> some are convicted, most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial and the resolution of their cases. >> we've got the people that are standing behind you in the line at the grocery store, people that are handing the food out to you at the window of the drive-up. that's the people we have in jail. >> my whole life in this sack. >> a few years earlier, it would have been a surprise to the local residents to see brandy nyp in the jail. they might have remembered her. she was a popular secretary at a nearby elementary school. >> many people that knew me from school, if they see me now, they would know something is seriously wrong. two years ago, i started smoking crack, and i resigned from my job and lost both of my daughte

this is the kent county jail. ile some are convicted, most of the 1,000 men and women here are only charged with crimes and awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> do the crime you've got to pay the time. you know? >> it's not the ideal setting in which to make friends. some do. jeremy feels like an outcast. >> jeremy is the model inmate. he's very quiet. never gets into trouble. he's generally in his cell and if he does come out of his cell he comes and he sits quietly. >> i don't consider anybody in here friends. i'd rather be in here than out there with some of those people sometimes because there's a lot of negative energy out there. there's not very many people to talk to me in here because i'm gay. >> merithew says he encounters too many attitudes. like that of ruben flores. >> if you want to be homosexual, that's good. that's your problem. it's your business. i'm going to tell you that god don't like homosexuals, that that's something against nature. if you want to do it, that's on you. but it's

. >> they reside behind the razor wire fences and brick walls of kent county jail. the inmates here are accused of crimes and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. upon being booked into the jail, they change street clothes for jail uniforms and leave personal possessions, including cash and jewelry in sealed bags that will be stored until they're released. >> but a minor exception was made for brian. >> the guy when he was doing the patdowns, we had a long discussion about it. he told me my tongue ring, that's got to come out. i'm like it doesn't come out. if they go to cut it, they'll end up cutting my tongue. because it's too short of a barbell. he said never mind, we're going to leave it be. >> he was allowed to keep one other piece considered too embedded to safely remove. >> it doesn't harm anybody and it stays up my nose. the guard said just keep it up your nose. i leave it be. >> he's serving a six-month sentence at kent county for aggravated domestic violence. it's the second time he's been convicted and served time for assaulting his girlfrie