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What more can be done? >> well, again, like casey was just explaining, you know, the 5150 statute in california, like most states, allows for somebody to be held for a period of up to 72 hours. you know, theres been $1.8 billion has been shed from state budgets for mental health between 2009 and 2011. and as a result, you know, theyre looking at strictly crisis stabilization. somebody comes in, they just want to stabilize them, put them on some prescriptions and then refer them to a community-ba...

A lot of these dudes are doing life here. theyve got jobs, things going on. theyve got visiting. youre not going to have any of that in the hole. >> we dont have bed space to not let you have a cellie. so youre going to run your whole program like this? >> its getting ruined. >> whats that? >> its getting ruined. >> why? >> because i have a life sentence. >> so how does that ruin it? >> chances of me getting out are slim to none. >> two days later hamilton was involved in a fight with officers a...

Life here. theyve got jobs, things going on. theyve got visiting. youre not going to have any of that in the hole. >> we dont have bed space to not let you have a cellie. so youre going to run your whole program like this? >> its getting ruined. >> whats that? >> its getting ruined. >> why? >> because i have a life sentence. >> so how does that ruin it? >> chances of me getting out are slim to none. >> two days later hamilton was involved in a fight with officers and written up for staff assault...

Opened in 1989 it is bed space for more than 4,100 inmates. while some have been convicted most are currently charged with crimes, and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. men and women are housed in separate areas. but all wear jail-issued scrubs, eat the same food and sleep on the same thin mattresses. yet, as danielle benfield proves, individuality is hardly lacking here. [ screams ] >> she doesnt have a decibel limit. >> i knew you was going to say -- >> she tends to be what ...

>> later we were with hamilton as officers escorted him to his new general population cell. >> its all right. just relax. dont get tense. i can feel you tense now. >> yeah? >> yeah. its all right. >> finally, hamilton reaches his new cell, and his new cell mate. the relationship is short-lived. >> you refuse? go ahead, close it. >> close it. >> are you sure? you didnt even want to look at who you -- >> doesnt matter. >> okay. weve got to turn back. >> before hamilton is returned to his cell, his...

Back. >> later we were with hamilton as officers escorted him to his new general population cell. >> its all right. just relax. dont get tense. i can feel you tense now. >> yeah? >> yeah. its all right. >> finally, hamilton reaches his new cell, and his new cell mate. the relationship is short-lived. >> you refuse? go ahead, close it. >> close it. >> are you sure? you didnt even want to look at who you -- >> doesnt matter. >> okay. weve got to turn back. >> before hamilton is returned to his cel...

That youre compatible with because eventually were going to run out of bed space. >> im not asking you to do it for everybody. >> well, then youre just asking special favoritism for yourself. >> no. >> you have to have a medical reason. >> no. is there a rule in ccr, order title 15 that says an inmate has to be housed with another inmate? yes or no? >> i dont know. you can talk to the sergeant about that. >> and then something happened that ive never seen happen in prison before, an officer brou...

I can feel you tense now. >> yeah? >> yeah. its all right. >> finally, hamilton reaches his new cell, and his new cell mate. the relationship is short-lived. >> you refuse? go ahead, close it. >> close it. >> are you sure? you didnt even want to look at who you -- >> doesnt matter. >> okay. weve got to turn back. >> before hamilton is returned to his cell, his escort officers make one more attempt to reason with him. >> you have to find somebody that youre compatible with because eventually were...

A lot of these dudes are doing life here. theyve got jobs, things going on. theyve got visiting. youre not going to have any of that in the hole. >> we dont have bed space to not let you have a cellie. so youre going to run your whole program like this? >> its getting ruined. >> whats that? >> its getting ruined. >> why? >> because i have a life sentence. >> so how does that ruin it? >> chances of me getting out are slim to none. >> two days later hamilton was involved in a fight with officers a...

Opened in 1989 it is bed space for more than 4,100 inmates. while some have been convicted most are currently charged with crimes, and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. men and women are housed in separate areas. but all wear jail-issued scrubs, eat the same food and sleep on the same thin mattresses. yet, as danielle benfield proves, individuality is hardly lacking here. [ screams ] >> she doesnt have a decibel limit. >> i knew you was going to say -- >> she tends to be what ...