there are about 1800 men and women incarcerated at the tulsa county jail.t are only accused of crimes. and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. >> i'll see y'all later. be good. >> because the inmates are innocent until proven guilty, officers try to afford them as many privileges as possible. the one man who has just been booked into the jail will require special handling. >> this guy here in holding cell nine, he is here on four counts of murder. we keep him in a cell by himself because of the high publicity of the case. we don't want him to be with general population in case someone here is a relative of someone that he is accused of murdering. yeah, it's just for his safety, and ours. just keep him locked up by himself. >> the new inmate is james poore. he is charged with first degree murder for the execution style slayings of four women one month earlier. the victims were discovered together inside a tulsa apartment. all four women had their hands bound behind their backs. and each had been shot in the head. poore lives in the same comp

but the tulsa county jail is a city within the city. along with numerous security concerns that come with temporarily housing some 1800 men and women, facing a huge array of criminal charges, it contains its own versions of the local post office, a hospital, and busier restaurant than just about any other in the city. it also contains a gigantic laundry facility. >> we usually do anywhere from 10 to 12 loads. each load, each washer, the big washers are 125 pounds. the small washers are 75 pounds. if that can kind of give you an idea. >> the various colored uniforms coincide with each inmate's classification. >> all county clothing is generally orange. they have blue for juvenile. red for federal. black and white for state. and white for the kitchen workers. >> along with regularly washing all uniforms and linens, the laundry staff has another task. whenever new shipments of underwear arrive they must be dyed orange. >> socks, boxers, bras, panties, all underwear is dyed. the reason that it's dyed so is we can get it back. >> when inmate

but tulsa county inmates call it cadillacing. >> you got a newspaper over there?a puzzle to send you, bro. >> inmates tie objects to string and send them back and forth under cell doors. >> he made some good burritos last night and sent them to me. >> you can't cadillac a burrito. >> yes you can. >> under the door? >> under the door. burrito comes in a plastic bag like this. okay, maybe he'll pay me two of them. slid underneath the door. hooked them on a string. i tied them, brought them over here. you can bring it back to life once you get it out under the door. tastes delicious. >> i had to smash the hell out of them, but you put them all back to shape. >> huh? >> i put them all back in shape? >> did you really? that's good because i was thinking i really -- >> give me the recipe, okay? >> huh? >> you got to give me the recipe. >> maxwell tries to keep his spirits up, but says thoughts of brandon's upcoming trial for second degree murder weigh heavily on him. he recently asked jail officials to allow him a brief visit with brandon. but as a segregation inmate an

they were very fresh. >> lopez is back in tulsa county just three months after serving 30 days here on don't like tulsa, oklahoma, very much. come on vacation, leave on probation, come back on a citation. it's just an easy place to get in trouble. >> this time she's charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest, but she also faces a more serious charge, strong-arm robbery in neighboring creek county. she has pled not guilty to all three charges. >> i allowed myself to be accustomed to the darker side of life very young. i learned how to do drugs at a very young age. the moment i hit 18, i started stripping. it will eat you up, it will consume you, that lifestyle. i'm just a lost child trying to get back to my adulthood, really, because i can't get back to my childhood because i have two children that i'm supposed to be being a mother to. >> you've really got to quit jumping your cuffs. you understand me? >> if lopez is struggling with the responsibilities of both adulthood and parenthood, the same might be true for the father of her two children, matthew west. he's

walls of a half million square foot structure in downtown, the criminal justice center for the tulsa countyail. >> another day in para dice. >> another day in paradise. >> most of the 1800 men and women have been charged with crimes and awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. but newly arrived james maxwell is an exception. he's not only a convict, but is as familiar to staff and inmates here as the turbulent storms that proceed any twister. >> james steven maxwell, he could be considered somewhat of a legend. some of the inmates look up to him. they give him a lot of respect. he really upholds what they're going to call the outlaw dance with law enforcement. >> jimmy maxwell. jimmy's a legend in the department of corrections in oklahoma. he's a tough guy. he's not one to be messed with, for sure. good guy. good heart. but if you cross him, he's going to be strong. >> that man is 74-2 in the boxing ring in the penitentiary behind the fence. >> he spent most of his life behind bars, not learning just from fighting. >> he's escaped from several facilities in the state of oklahoma. he

>> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail!gregation inmates at the tulsa county jail are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. their one hour out can be spent either in the shower or rec yard. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. >> sergeant collette, who runs the unit, says he frequently checks in with the inmates and tries to help them adapt to the isolation. >> the brain is very powerful and you can fail to flourish and literally will yourself to death. i do not want that in here. it's like i tell these guys in the seg when i first meet them. i want you guys reading. i want you doing a little exercise in your cell. if i wanted mushrooms back here, i'd be a gardener. what i say to them is free your mind. your ass will follow. >> jacob england has been in segregation for nearly a year. he's followed sergeant collette's advice but has also participated in extracurricular activity with some of his neighbors. they call it cadillacing, and it involves using string to pass items between cells. >> what are you doing? >>

but behind the walls of the tulsa county jail, things play out daily. >> let him go. >> the jailhouse as 1,800 men and women. most have been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial. >> unless they violate the rules or need to be segregated for security reasons, they spend the majority of the days outside their housing units. a single officer, completely exposed to the inmates, exposed in the pod. >> there is one officer in the pod at all times. just one. >> it's not about physical anymore, it's about maintaining control. they don't have weapons when they go to the pod. they are in the pod with 94 inmates, every day, all day. they are conversing with them, looking in the cells. >> we are going to treat you as a human until you prove you can't be. >> studies show it cuts down on inmate violence and it growing in popularity throughout jails nationwide. but this man would prove to be a magnet for violence. olson is talking to the pod you have a when he is brutally attacked. inmate rafael gonzalez begins the assault. gonzalez is joined by another inmate, nava. jail policy prevents the o

since then, witty had become a well-known inmate at tulsa county, but his days here were numbered. he had recently been convicted of his charges of driving under the influence and illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to ten years. during his shoot, he was awaiting transfer to prison. >> kenny witty, a problem child from the word go. >> sergeant collette supervisors the jail segregation unit where witty spent the majority of his time due to a lengthy disciplinary record. >> it is colorful. let me put it that way. >> mostly the problems i have had with him is his disrespect. >> put a shirt on. >> no. >> he tends to be vulgar, always agitated. doesn't really listen. he wants things when he wants them and you tell him he has to wait and he starts to scream. >> he goes from zero to 150 in 2.1 seconds. he has no medium ground when it comes to the elevation of his anger. >> when it came to speaking with us, witty took on a different demeanor. >> your last name. >> witty. >> witty. >> yeah, witty. i think it fits me. >> when i first started to deal with kenneth, i found him to be

today, they got their marriage license in tulsa county, oklahoma. in oklahoma, utah, virginia, indiana wisconsin, it happened today. in north carolina, south carolina, west virginia, colorado, kansas, wyoming, it is about to happen em mentally. >> 2016 it's going to turn back this tide. somewhere tonight, the justice is listening to opera really loud and saying it's all argle-bargle. the decision today does not legalize rights in all 50 states. >>> am i fairly describing what happened here? >> no, i believe it's perfect. >> let me ask you how you feel? obviously, your case was last summer. and that decision, seeing it effectively become almost the law of the land today, how did you feel about today's ruling? >> incredibly joyous. just incredibly joyous. i feel like this gor yous accident of history. we get stopped on the street all of the time by young people saying, thank you or starting to cry. >> okay. >> when you look at that decision today, does that undercut? would you be happier if you have a 50 state ruling? >> you know, look. i'm a practica

but at the tulsa county jail, pam hamm told us she learned some of her most useful ideas from watchingned how to do it from "lockup" with the fishing line and the little soap. that's how i learned to make the fishing line from "lockup." >> glad our show can be educational. >> the staffs at most jails consider these homemade devices to be contraband. sometimes they will confiscate them and other times they might just look the other way. but when inmates attempt to improvise one other comfort from home, it will be confiscated and destroyed immediately. >> homemade wine or hooch is one of the most common things we encounter when we're in jails. >> they're always trying to make it, and, of course, staff is always trying to find them making it. >> i was just walking around the unit and i happened to run across him making some hooch, so i'm going to take it from him and let him go about his day. >> how did you make it? >> an orange, fruit punch kool-aid and water. it usually takes about four days for it to be real strong. it just takes the edge off. it makes your day a little bit more pleasa

. >>> during our extended stay shoot at the tulsa county jail, we met tara goddard.he was about to serve four years in prison for a crime that often results in little more than a few nights in jail. >> there ain't much to do up here. >> nothing at all. >> but read, comb out some hair, eat. >> argue. >> argue. >> though the technical term for her crime was illegal use of a computer, goddard's conviction resulted from her career as an online prostitute. prior convictions for prostitution and drugs contributed to the length of her sentence. >> i have probably been in this jail about ten times but this is the second time i've been in orange. you know. i always just get bailed out. >> goddard's last customer was an undercover cop. she had never served time in prison and was awaiting transfer there when we met her. >> girls in the here will joke around, you know, be like, you'll be somebody's bitch or something. which i'm a little nervous. because i can fight, i can defend myself. but you know. i'm a little nervous. >> goddard says watching "lockup" has helped prepare her

today they got their marriage license in tulsa county, oklahoma. in oklahoma, in utah, in virginia in indiana and wisconsin it happened today. in north carolina and south carolina and west virginia and colorado and kansas and wyoming it is about to happen imminently. yes, i said wyoming. and the anti-gay marriage groups are denouncing this as despicable. and senator ted cruz and senator mike lee are saying in the united states senate they'll amend the united states constitution to stop this tyranny. and who knows. maybe john roberts is hedging some complicated legal bet an the prospects of a bobby jindal presidency in 2016 that's going to turn back this tide. somewhere tonight antonin scalia is listening to opera really loud and looking in a mirror going argle-bargle. the decision today does not legalize equal rights in all 50 states. they decided this matter in effect by not deciding. but thanks to thea and edie and edie's decision to fight for their marriage, this is beginning to feel like a thing that just cannot be undone. no matter what. joini

>> months after we left the cleveland jail, we were filming in tulsa county jail and suddenly this hugeand this teenage girl, who had been the focus of robert wolford's story at the beginning, suddenly became international news. >> good evening. it came down to frantic 911 call. that was the start of it. soon after the world would learn three women missing and feared dead had been inside a cleveland, ohio, home for as long as a decade and were now free. >> this teenage girl that robert had talked about so much, amanda, was amanda berry. the girl who, with two other girls, had been held captive by ariel castro for ten years. and we were all just shocked. we were completely shocked. >> amanda berry alive with her family. a picture some never thought they would see. finally safe but only after a harrowing escape and call to 911. >> help me. i'm amanda berry. >> do you need police, fire or ambulance? >> i need police. >> okay. and what's going on there? >> i've been kidnapped and i've been missing for ten years. and i'm here, i'm free now. >> all right, we're sending them, okay? >> dozens o

. >> i was filming at the tulsa county jail, and it was the middle of the day, and i get this e-mailwas telling all of us that ezekiel had been shot and killed. and i was shocked. i actually think i started to cry a little bit, but because i was in the midst of this other shoot, you know, i had to stay professional. but it just haunted me. >> a few days later, an article had been written that actually named a suspect, and i read this article and right after that, i received a text from the jail saying that the suspect had, in fact, been an inmate at the jail while we were filming. once i heard that, i decided to look at our release log for all the inmates that we had signed, and lo and behold, his name was on there. >> two months later, police arrested the prime suspect in ezekiel's death, michael souter. he was charged with murder and pled not guilty. >> we had known this man. i watched this man holding hands with the brothers during a prayer circle. >> in jesus' name we pray, amen. >> y'all ain't brothers. >> home video we were able to acquire showed ezekiel and souter together on