as both the employees and temporary residents at the tulsa county jail know all too well. there are about 1800 men and women incarcerated here. while some have been convicted, most are only accused of crimes and are waiting for trial or the resolution of their cases. chief deputy michelle robinette works there. >> when i first started 18 years ago, public drunks were coming in every weekend. every now and then you would get a murder. today, a lot more frequent. the public drunks and the simple charges are not coming through anymore. now we're looking at charges are meth, shooting with the intent to kill, it's hard to see, that is what we're dealing with. >> joseph jerome goes well beyond the crime spree. he is accused of being high, stealing a car, attempting to kidnap two people at a convenience store, firing a gun in an apartment complex, crashing into another car, leading the police on a high speed chase and bursting into the casino, in all, jarreau was charged with 14 different crimes, he pled not guilty, but admits his night got off to a bad start. >> i basically did

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 our shoot, he was awaiting transfer to prison. >> kenneth 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. >> well, it's 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 got to wait and he just 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. >> but when it came to speaking with us, witty took on a different demeanor. >> what's your last name? >> witty. >> witty. >> yeah, witty. i think it fits me. >> when i first started dealing with kenne

. >>> 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

but at the tulsa county jail, pam hamm told us she learned some of her most useful ideas from watchingo 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 pleasant. >> how d

. >> i was filming at the tulsa county jail, and it was the middle of the day, and i get this e-mail jake. and he was 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. >> may yes bless the less and unfortuna unfortunate. in jesus' name we pray, amen. >> y'all ain't brothers. >> home vide

>> months after we left the cleveland jail, we were filming in tulsa county jail and suddenly this hugery broke. and 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. >> dozens of friends and even strangers who have followed the disappearances for some ten years gathered there late last night, cheering and crying in amazement at the news. >> here's the thing about working on "lockup." the

>>reporter:the prisoner was being extradited on a warrant for threatening a tulsa county district judge: they're currently battling a three alarm blaze of commercial street and very hectic road the fire broke out just a short time ago about 7:00 this morning no urgency on injuries kron 4 mike pelton >>reporter:an elderly san francisco woman lost thousands of dollars. in what police are calling a pigeon drop scam. kron 4's maureen kelly has the details. >>:oh my god i don't know how they could do that to older people >>reporter:it was here in this costco parking lot where police say the victim was approached at just before 11 am tuesday morning. >>reporter:the suspects.like the victim. also older women.between the ages of 50 and 70 >>reporter:they pretended not to know each other when they offered the victim a very tempting proposal. >>: they enter a down payment from the victim in exchange for half of the money that was contained in the box. >>reporter: she was $2,000 a for life-saving is when she handed over the suspects walk away. >>reporter:shopper ida mendoza says she wouldn't fall