tulsa county inmates call it cadillacing. >> you got a newspaper over there?, bro. >> inmates tie objects to string and send them back and forth under cell doors. >> he made some burritos last night and sent a couple of them. they was bomb. >> through the door? >> under the door, yeah. burrito comes in a plastic bag like this, okay? he made me two of them. squashed them down, slid them underneath the door. hooked them on his string. i was looking. tied on, brought them over here. you can bring them back to life once you get them out from under the door. they was delicious. >> yeah, i had to smash the hell out of them. you know what -- >> i put them all back in shape. >> huh? >> i put them all back in shape. >> did you really? i was thinking i was ruining the damn thing. >> you've got to give me the recipe, okay? >> huh? >> give me the recipe. >> maxwell tries to keep his spirits up, but brandon's 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 and escapee

but the tulsa county jail is a city within the city.long 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 inmates

go to ziprecruiter.com/offer6 ♪ [ bleep ] >> tulsa county jail! [ bleep ] tulsa county jail!n 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? >> cadillac

but erik who arrived at tulsa county less than 24 hours earlier but proved to be a magnet for violence this surveillance he is talking to the pod officer when he is brutally attacked. inmate rafael gonzalez begins the assault. officer love immediately calls for backup and orders him to stop. gonzalez is then joined by another inmate and both men continue beating olson. jail policy prevents him from breaking up the fight on his own. but after a minute into the assault just before backup arrives, love's orders are finally heeded. nava and gonzalez are placed in separation cells where they will be locked up 23 hours a day and lose all privileges. olson's injuries are too severe to be treated on site and he will be transported to a local hospital. olson was not a random victim. he had been out of jail on bond, but less than 24 hours earlier, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for rape by instrumentation. his victim was a minor and other inmates almost always target sex offenders for violence. >> not the cool thing to be doing, man. >> the guards, they try to get him out

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

. >> reporter: in police body camera video obtained by "the frontier news," you can see former tulsa county reserve deputy robert bates, as he talks to the handcuffed suspect, he is shushed by a fellow deputy. >> what are you moaning about? what's hurting? >> huh? >> what's hurting? >> stop. stop. >> reporter: at this point, bates appears to have drawn both his taser and his handgun. significant, because just three weeks later -- >> stop, stop, stop. stop right there. >> reporter: -- bates would shoot and kill 44-year-old eric harris during an undercover sting. [ gunshot ] >> oh, i shot him. i'm sorry. >> oh, god. oh, he shot me. >> reporter: bates says he confused his gun and his taser. >> first and foremost, let me apologize to the family of eric harris. >> reporter: attorneys for the harris family say bates, a wealthy local businessman, was too cozy with the former sheriff, stanley glanz, lacked required training, and that this latest video proves he should never have been serving alongside sworn cops. >> it's completely unnecessary for mr. bates to be wielding a taser, let alone a handg

. >> falling power lines and trees adding to the chaos, one of which fell on this truck in tulsa countyup everything, broke out windows. it was pretty intense. >> stormy weather also hitting parts of texas, bringing hail and heavy winds to the fort worth area. >> she seen the pole. >> extreme conditions causing problems in arkansas as well, heavy rains bringing flooding and power outage tajes. flooding also reported in memphis, tennessee where this driver was forced to flee a trapped car. the storm system is expected to weaken on friday but bad weather is in the forecast for parts of the atlanta, georgia area, panhandle of florida and charlotte, north carolina area. andre iguodala and lift are getting a jump on april fool's day a.lift driver helped pull it on aturning on a fake broadcast about him being dropped boo from the team. festus izilli will be released from his contract. that's it. no more festus. >> i don't know how to react to that other than go through it one by one. >> check your phone, check your phone, check your phone. >> the guys are texting him now. james, mack da doo,

. >>> 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

>> months after we left the cleveland jail, we were filming in tulsa county jail and suddenly this huge story 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. >> 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, oka

but at the tulsa county jail, pam hamm told us she learned some of her most useful ideas from watchingh the fishing line and the little soap. that's how i learned to make the fishing line and everything is from "lockup." >> glad to see our show is educational for you guys. >> 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 so what i'm going to do is i'm going to confiscate 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. that one ain't got nobody drunk. it just

. >> 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. >> may yes bless the less and unfortunate. in jesus' name we pray, amen. >> y'all ain't brothers. >> home video we were able to acquir

. >> reporter: in police body camera video obtained by "the frontier news," you can see former tulsa countyare you moaning about? what's hurting? >> reporter: bates appears to have drawn both his taser and handgun. significant because three weeks later, bates would shoot and kill 44-year-old eric harris during an undercover sting. >> oh, i shot him. i'm sorry. >> oh, god! he shot me! >> reporter: bates says he confused his gun and his taser. >> first and foremost let me apologize to the family of eric harris. >> reporter: attorneys for the harris family say bates, a wealthy local businessman, was too cozy with the former sheriff, stanley glance, lacked required training, and this latest video proves he should never have been serving alongside sworn officers. >> it's completely unnecessary for mr. bates to be willing to taser let alone a handgun. >> reporter: the former sheriff glance could not be reached for comment. and next month bates goes on trial for manslaughter. he's plead not guilty. clayton sandell, abc news, denver. >>> an alarming discovery on a school bus in virginia, explosive

. >> reporter: dramatic video of tulsa county sheriff deputies chasing eric harris as he attempted toris dead, shot in the back by 73-year-old volunteer reserve sheriff's deputy robert bates who is now on trial for second degree manslaughter. >> roll on your stomach now. >> oh, i shot him. i'm sorry. >> reporter: the voice saying i'm sorry is bates which proves it was a mistake. on the jury's very first day they were shown the gun bates used and several videos, all during opening statements. >> i got you. >> reporter: they also saw what deputies say is harris illegally selling a gun to an undercover officer. >> that's it. >> sweet, that's a nice gun. >> reporter: the undercover officer you hear is the first witness to testify in front f the all white jury. harris's brother andre says he hopes race won't play a role in the jury's decision. >> looking at the makeup of the jury, do you feel like you're going to get a fair trial? >> i do. it's just prayer that people will see that this man killed my brother in cold blood when he was already subdued and on the ground and he's 73 and he sho

in tulsa, oklahoma, overnight, sirens blaring across the city, pictures of damed down in the suburbs of broken a arrow, another one in evansville, indiana. grayson county hit hard and a doctor's office damaged badly. in kansas, massive hail the size of grapefruits. a spring soaker in wichita, kansas, large chunks of ice smacking a flooded road. people in line at this concert hall forced to wait it out and in nearby clearwater, backyards left looking like this, several feet of water surrounding this home. >> i'm covering my car. >> these people taking no chances covering their cars hoping to avoid damage from falling ice. areas of texas, oklahoma, indiana and kansas all getting tornado warnings overnight. the weather threat remaining high throughout today according to accuweather's paul williams. >> looking for widespread severe storms to continu flooding continues to be a problem along with lightning strikes, damaging winds and hail and possibility of tornadoes throughout the rest of the day. >> and in wyoming, a late april snow shower enough to shut down this interstate. we should mention snow forcing the cancellation of several classes at the univers

tulsa, oklahoma, overnight, sirens blaring across the city, pictures of damaged buildings after possible twisters touching down in the suburbs of checktowa and broken arrow. another tornado caught on camera, this one in evansville, indiana. grayson county, texas, north of dallas hit hard and a doctor's office damaged badly. a roof ripped off another building. in kansas, massive hail the size of grapefruits. a spring soaker in wichita, kansas, large chunks of ice smacking a flooded road. people in line at this concert hall forced to wait it out, and in nearby clearwater, backyards left looking like this, several feet of water surrounding this home. >> i'm covering my car. >> reporter: these people in texas taking no chances covering their cars hoping to avoid damage from falling ice. areas of texas, oklahoma, indiana and kansas all getting tornado warnings overnight. the weather threat remaining high throughout today according to accuweather's paul williams. >> we're looking for widespread severe storms to continue yet again with torrential downpours. flash flooding will continue to be a problem along with lightning strikes, damaging winds and hail and the possibility of tornadoes throughout the rest of the day. >> reporter: and in wyom