on now at sleep train. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> like many other urban jails, tulsa countyts in training staff to handle a variety of personalities, problems and emergencies. >> let's go. lockdown! let's go. lockdown! >> the jail opened in 1999. before that, officials recognized the importance of design, management of the facility. >> stand right outside your doors, gentlemen. >> everything in this facility was meant to affect the mental state. there are no -- there's no barbed wire. there's no gun tower. there's no viewpoint from outside that you can tell this is a jail. on the general population housing units, there's wooden doors. a lot of people, why wooden doors? if you've never been inside of a cell and heard the metal-on-metal shut of the door, you don't understand it. it's a mental thing. we have carpet on the floor in the day room. we have tables that are movable. we have chairs that they can pick and up move and sweep under and take them to their room and put on their desk. they have porcelain toilets. porcelain sinks. we do that for a reason. if you affect the mi

go to experian.com. >>> like many other urban jails, tulsa county invests in training staff to handleities, problems and emergencies. >> let's go. let's go. >> the jail opened in 1999. before that officials recognized the importance of design management of the facility. >> stand right outside your doors, gentlemen. >> everything in this facility was meant to affect the metal. there's no barbed wire. there's no gun tower. there's no viewpoint from outside that you can tell this is a jail. the general population housing units, there's wooden doors. why wooden doors? if you have never been inside and heard the metal on metal, you don't understand. we have carpet on the floor. we have tables that are movable. we have chairs they can pick up and move and sweep under and take them to their room. we have porcelain toilets and sinks. if you affect the mind set, you change the facility. this was built for the officers who have to work here. it's their day that's affected not the inmates. >> thank you. >> tulsa county took strides to make general housing population more livable. itis one person

hurt anybody in my life. >> another maxwell ponders life in prison. >>> like many other urban jails, tulsa county invests in the training the staff to deal with personalities, problems, and emergencies. >> let's go, let's go. >> let's go. >> let's go. >> the jail opened in 1999. but before that, officials had recognized the importance of design and the management of the facility. >> stand right outside your doors, gentlemen. >> everything in this facility was meant to affect the mental state. there's no barbed wire, no tower, no way to tell it's a jail. in the general pop laying housing, there's wooden doors. why? if you've never been inside of a cel and heard the metal on metal shut of a door, you don't understand. it's a mental thing. we have carpet on the floor. we have tables that are movable. we have chairs that they can pick up and move and sweep under and take them to the room and put them at their desks. and porcelain toilets and sinks. if you affect the mind set, you change the behavior. this was built for the officers who have to work here. it's their day that's affected by the mood of

about it. >> soon to be on a van headed to the nearby creek county jail to face an additional charge of strong arm robbery, lopez has left her tulsand and changed into the clothes she was arrested in. the transfer policy requires her to leave much of her other possessions behind. >> that's it. >> she's only allowed to take whatever fit into a small yellow pouch. >> can i see the bags? that way i'll know if this will fit. i'm a tight squeezer, so i know i can squeeze some of this stuff in where you would just throw it in and it wouldn't fit. >> no, you don't know me, so you don't know how i pack stuff. >> you're a man. men usually don't pack very well. >> well, i've done plenty of road trips, so i know how to pack. >> as lopez struggles with packing her pouch -- >> will this fit? last thing. >> -- her fiance and co-defendant, matthew west, has just dedicated a work of in-cell graffiti to her. >> always and forever. it's something between adriana. that's a sacred heart, it's a symbol of passion. jesus is always holding a sacred heart. i have a tattoo in the middle of my chest. i mean, it was bound to happen. it's a part of life. it'

tell ariel that we love her and that everything's going to be okay. >> officials at the tulsa county jailecognize that as the number of men and women in jail or prison continue to increase, so too does the number of parents who have left children behind. >> all right, i love you. >> it's estimated that there are more than 1.7 million american children with at least one parent behind bars. nearly twice as much as ten years earlier. the jail offers several educational and religious programs along with one designed to help parents reconnect with their kids. >> she's feeling poorly and i'm taking her a surprise. >> it's called story time. >> mama said not to speak to any strangers. >> we bring the inmates down to the library and they're able to pick out a children's book and they read it, it's recorded, and then the tape and the book is sent out to the child. despite their circumstances, despite the bad choices that they've made to come here, they still want to stay connected to their kids and, you know, want to show their kids that they're doing something positive. >> let's go! meeks and sto

good. >>> inside the tulsa county jail, inmate rafael gonzalez recently assaulted erik olson becaused just been convicted of a sex crime against a minor. inmate deany nava joined the attack, as well. olsen ended up in the hospital. gonzalez is awaiting trial on multiple charges, including aggravated assault and battery, but now his attack on olsen may result in new criminal charges. >> what do you think is going to happen to you, rafael? >> honestly i don't know. he abused a little girl. and he's right next to me. what am i going to do about it? you should let him be? probably you, you would let him be, but i can't let him be. >> nava, whose nickname is loco, might also face new charges on top of the eight-year sentence he just received for assault with a deadly weapon. he is currently awaiting transfer to state prison. >> i'm proud of that. i'm proud of that for one because [ bleep ] he went to the hospital. >> if he dies? >> if he dies it will be because i killed a child mo. probably walk the yard with that. >> see our fine friend mr. nava didn't make it very far. >> no, he didn't.