. >> the story behind the orange underwear at the tulsa county jail. >> get out of here. the david l. moss criminal justice center looks like any other office building in couple examine the tulsa county jail, on any given day, about 1800 men and women are incarcerated here. most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial at the resolution of the cases. since that could range from days to year, jail officials say they strive to make the stay as comfortable as reasonably possible. >> we know you're in jail, you know you're in jail, why can't you have a chair that's comfortable to sit in while you're watching tv? why can't you have access to hot and cold water, access to food so you can snack and all of the necessities, but on top of that, because of the way we design our facility, inmates can leave their housing unit unescorted, people ask why all the time. why did you do that? my response is, why not? if we are going to let human beings maintain dignity, why not? you give to them until they prove they don't deserve it, then you take it away. and that's what we do. >> whe

know better sleep with sleep number. >>> like many other urban jails, tulsa county invests in the trainingts staff to handle a variety of 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 in the 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 a door, you don't understand. 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 up and move and sweep under and take them to the room and put them at their desks. they have porcelain toilets, porcelain sinks. and we do that for a reason. if you

breathe right. >>> the tulsa county jail has found itself in the same troubling position as thousandsr jails throughout the nation. besides housing people accused or convicted of crimes, it's also become the county's primary mental health facility. we do not film inmates deemed to be severely mentally ill because they cannot concept. hundreds of others suffer from a range of disorders that often contribute to inappropriate behavior and require medication prescribed by the jail's consulting psychiatrist, dr. harnish. >> at any one time, i have 500 detainees on medication. this is a jail with 1,800 detainees. there are a number of limitations. we don't have enough psychiatrists here. we're doing the best we can with what i guess is typical for correctional facilities, which is limited resources, being out of the public eye. we really need to raise the consciousness that there are more people receiving mental health care in correctional facilities than any other facility combined if we took all the mental health centers in the country, if we took all the private hospitals, lumped them to

there are about 1800 men and women incarcerated at the tulsa county jail.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 comple

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 tulsa scrubs behind 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 what will 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 me and adriana. that's a sacred heart, it's a symbol of passion. jesus is always holding a sacred heart. i have it tattooed in the middle of my chest. i mean, it was bound to happen. i

liberty mutual insurance. >>> during most of the four months we spent at the tulsa county jail, kennethas housed in disciplinary segregation unit due to his many conduct reports. >> hostage situation. taking of the cell. >> one morning, we arrived at the jail to discover witty had been more trouble than usual. he used a food tray to smash his cell window after officer hunt told him he had to wait to take a shower. >> inmate witty says when can i go in to my shower? i talk to him like, well, i'm not quite sure if you've had your shower yet and i can't go by your word. let me talk to my partner and i'll get back to you. he just went on break. he'll be back in 30 minutes. >> he told me it will be another 30 minutes. i have to verify that you haven't had a shower. i was standing here with dry hair, with a dry towel, telling you i need a shower. >> i can't go by your word. i'm not going to have you take two showers when everybody else in the facility has had one shower. >> i blew up. i didn't even see it coming. i walked back to the end of my rack, grabbed my tray off the floor, picked it up

tell ariel that we love her and that everything's going to be okay. >> officials at the tulsa county jailber 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 stokes, come here! >> leste

>> months after we left the cleveland jail, we were filming in tulsa county jail and suddenly this hugethis 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 of fr

but at the tulsa county jail, pam hamm told us she learned some of her most useful ideas from watchinghow to fish, i learned how to do it from "lockup" with 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

. ♪ >>> during our extended stay shoot at the tulsa county jail, we met tara goddard.rve 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 for what's ahead.