major avenue of contraband trfficking. i m not stupid. if it s up to me, you ll be gone by friday. don t do that to me. i promise you, it ain t nothing like that. i ain t got no enemies. maybe you don t even realize it. i m not that dumb. i ain t done it. that s what i m saying. i ain t done it. you re starting to stutter a lot now. i stutter anyway. not like that. sometimes we re forced to do things that we really don t want to do. i feel like i had no other way out. would i do it again? yeah, i d do it again. concerns over contraband, especially cell phones, have prompted a surprise prison-wide shakedown.
he s in there flushing something. he s refusing to shake down. hopefully he wasn t flushing a cell phone. obviously, he s got something in there. he doesn t want to come out. so we have to go in there and physically get him out. when i walked in, i saw a cell phone in a case. he was flushing the toilet, i reached in and tried to grab the cell phone and the case. i grabbed the case but the cell phone slipped out and flushed down the toilet. the crackdown on contraband suddenly takes an unexpected turn. and jerry bonds is taken in for questioning. we got a phone call from somebody on the outside saying that offender bonds threatened somebody on a cell phone. so me and the lieutenant are going to talk to him. got an outside call saying you were on a cell phone. do you know anybody by the name of vivian? man, hell, no. they need to call them people back and ask them who they are and how they know me. i don t know no vivian. this is bull right here, man.
a major crackdown on contraband, specifically cell phones, has left some indiana state prison inmates in a precarious position. for others, the future looks considerably brighter. after 26 years in prison, today is paul komyatti s last day at indiana state. authorities have approved his transfer to a minimum security facility with a work release program in nearby south bend. he s going to be going through a nine-month process of getting a job, of getting his driver s license and getting a car, trying to orient him back into society, slowly. it s behind me now. a lot of friends there. but nothing else about prison other than that, i m ready to go. never see me in khaki again.
javier perez has been working in the laundry a couple of weeks now. like many of the inmates at the jail, perez is here after getting caught up in tampa s prescription drug epidemic. he s pled not guilty and is now awaiting trial. the opportunity came across to make extra money and i tried to take it like an idiot. i made like $130. shows you i m not that good, huh? i m ready to change. it s definitely a wakeup call. but not everyone who comes to jail sees it as an opportunity for change. the drug trade exists even on the inside. drugs are most commonly smuggled in through visitors or the mail. and once they re in, inmates create their own sales and distribution systems. the laundry room, as well as the kitchen, are the central hubs for contraband throughout the facility. they ll put the contra band, whether it s drugs or weapons, they ll put it in a cart and tag the cart in such a manner that the other inmates at the
they ll put the contra band, whether it s drugs or weapons, they ll put it in a cart and tag the cart in such a manner that the other inmates at the receiving end know this is the cart. it might be something as simple as flipping a shirt over or taping a piece of paper to the side of the cart. but the techniques inmates use to smuggle drugs into jail are constantly evolving. the jail recently acquired a new team member. she s a narcotics dog. she s trained to find all the different forms of cocaine, meth, heroin, cannabis and we recently trained her on oxycodone. she s going to be off her leash and i m going to let her do her thing.