and because of my drinking i lost everything. an inmate with a drinking problem develops a reputation ar for another kind of addiction. she a cougar.ki i thought i was a cougar.he she a cougar. in the suburbs of washington, d.c., fairfax county, virginia is home to the central intelligence agency. and inside the nearby fairfax county adult detention center, intelligence plays a key role in reducing gang activity among thl 1,200 men and women incarcerated here. face forward. most have only been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. backs against the wall.s. till the last deputy s left the room. s only a small percentage of the inmates are identified as gang members. staff say they still pose a serious threat.th we have right now 77 in our facility. they still practice criminal activity, even while in here. i know that s shocking. but they do. private first class doolittle heads up the sheriff s intelligence unit whose
i was going to put mormon, but they were going to make me call my rabbi and i don t have one. so i didn t go for the mormon. i just went with the rastafarian. knight would also like to take advantage of some of the programs offered to general population inmates. but his affiliation with the crips gang could get in his way. i ve got to see the gang man, try to get off this gang list so i can get some programs before i go home. hopefully take me off. knight will appeal to private first class doolittle, head of the sheriff s intelligence unit, to become eligible for programs. they range from attending church services to various classes. they get to a point where they re tired of being in the gang lifestyle. i want to better myself. but the problem is, there s so many little things. gang members like to go to church. now they can discuss family business. whether it s planning to assault a deputy, whether it s planning
Every time i change it, i go pfft! do that. and then i step on it. shake it off and then i just put it on. that s it. that s all i do. and i just keep these on. kuhlman and another admitted member of the crips, jermaine knight, are both in administrative segregation. ad seg inmates are segregated from general population for security reasons. they are allowed out of their cells only one hour per day for either recreation or a shower. knight hopes his recent good behavior in the rec yard and ability to get along with others will prove to staff that he is no longer one of their biggest disciplinary problems. i like it. i play all the sports. i play anything. anything is just better than just sitting here dying. knight has been in segregation and has asked for a transfer to general population. he also says he s put his gang banging behind him.
knight is also experimenting with new food choices. he filed a request with the jail chaplain to be on a special meal plan for members of the rastafarian faith. it s a veggie tray, man. i just got on it to get on it. i ain t got no religion, man. they put me down as a rastafarian. ya, mon. they can t tell me what my religion is if i say i m rastafarian. you can t say i m not. so what kind of food does a rastafarian get? i don t [ bleep ] know. the chaplain says he knows some inmates game the system to get special meals for various religious faiths, but there s not much he can do about it. the one thing i really try to comply with the federal law. basically, it s not my place to judge whether they re practicing or not, because under the federal law if someone wants to practice a particular religious discipline, he doesn t have to already be committed to that faith system.
It s about keeping another inmate safe. jermaine knight, a member of the crip street gang, is currently serving nine months on a conviction of unlawful wounding. at the time of his arrest, he was on probation for robbery and received an additional two years for violating his probation. knight says his dedication to gang life is not at all what itt used to be. i haven t been in jail since i was 16. i ve been a crip since i was 8. once you get in, you can t really get out. so i am what i am. but all these tattoos i got, they ve got to go. all prison tattoos. glorify being incarcerated. being in gangs. while knight admits to a near lifetime of criminal behavior,