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A day. seven days a week, two days out of a week you get yard for three hours and the rest of the time youre stuck in a cell, in a small cell with a celly. i havent had a cellie in 20 years, so its hard learning cell etiquette. im a fish out of water. >> he still hasnt learned yet. hes kind of off. they should have gave him medical attention before they brought him in the cell. mental attention. >> mental attention. >> yeah. dude has issues still. >> yeah, got issues. you spend 20 years on death...

Now he works in a dorm setting. >> i have 200 inmates and its only me. its like going totally other side of the spectrum. everything down here is observation, just watching, listening, getting the feel for the dorm and if youre always watching, you can tell when somethings starting to go bad, hopefully stop it before it gets bad, but things happen down here all the time. you have a lot of drugs down here. partner found two hypodermic needles in this dorm about three days ago. so you got the drug...

Pretty good. >> its an open environment. theres -- right now i have six staff members. >> [ bleep ]. >> youre doing a good job of it, too. >> breaking all my rights. >> another day on the job. >> almost all the individuals down here are parole violators. theyve been out on parole, couldnt hack it. got picked up for something, they sent them back in here. they generally do six months, under a year, something of that nature. either they go main line to another institution and do the rest of their ...

I havent had a cellie in 20 years, so its hard learning cell etiquette. im a fish out of water. >> he still hasnt learned yet. hes kind of off. they should have gave him medical attention before they brought him in the cell. mental attention. >> mental attention. >> yeah. dude has issues still. >> yeah, got issues. you spend 20 years on death row, youre going to have some issues. >> yeah, he has big issues. >> i was lucky, i was very lucky and they put me in a cell with a older black gentleman w...

Six staff members. >> [ bleep ]. >> yeah, youre doing a good job of it too, huh? >> breaking all my rights. >> another day on the job. >> almost all the individuals down here are parole violators, theyve been out on parole, couldnt hack it. got picked up for something, they sent them back in here. they generally do six months, under a year, something of that nature. they go mainline to another institution and do the rest of their time or theyre released back out on parole. prison systems severel...

The shower closest to the left is all whites. the middle shower will be only your blacks. the far right shower is your hispanics and others. the tables along the day room right here are broken up into races. >> this is the others. the table for others. >> others, others. >> were not gang members. >> other than black, other than white. >> this guys an american indian right here, a native american. >> were all from different counties and different cities. but this brings us all together as one. >>...

Dont mess with marco, right? thats what they tell you. thats what they told me because they knew i was willing to fight for nothing. on site, lets go. you think you can whip me, then lets whip. this is why i tell you this. that fighting, eventually it got tiring. because i was literally fighting every day, every single day of my life i was fighting. the homies already knew, romeo, he throw down. i thought let me start carrying this knife. let me start carrying this pistol. and it took one day an...

Freedom proves to be more complicated than he anticipated. >> whats going on, boss? >> come on in, lets do it. all right. in the chair. how you doing? >> how you doing? >> all right. we thought you were going home too, but you know how before you go home the analyst takes a look at your case, sees if anybodys interested in you and the sonoma county sheriffs office is interested in you. lacks like you had a little health and safety code violation and contempt of court. >> you know why? because th...

Then i got a violation here. so i was never out to make it over there. i figured they would take care of it. you know but i guess apparently they didnt. >> it looks like its going to be a ride home. its $20,000 bail. theyre misdemeanors. youre not going to get any more prison time for them. but we are making some pickup arrangements for you. so sonoma countys going to drive down and pick you up the next couple of days. we never tell you exactly when its going to happen. do you have any questions...

Section. >> when we first met c.o. cavagnolo, he dealt with high level inmates in level one desegregation. now he works in a dorm setting. >> i have 200 inmates and its only me. its like going totally other side of the spectrum. everything down here is observation, just watching, listening, getting the feel for the dorm and if youre always watching, you can tell when somethings starting to go bad, hopefully stop it before it gets bad, but things happen down here all the time. you have a lot of d...