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Items, food to people in need. we also talked to some of the kitchen workers and volunteer chefs, keeping these people going out in the field. one woman telling me she prepared 1,200 lunches for these hard-working volunteers. theyre about to get a break from the weather the next few days. expected to be clear, just scattered thunderstorms across texas. giving them a chance to play catchup with the recovery efforts. back to you. >> thank you for that. we are following breaking news out of new y...

Cooking is my hobby. on the streets, i love to cook. i like to make people happy. ill make something at work and ill go to the jobsite and give to him, hey, bro, try this. thats what i like to do. >> by purchasing food from the canteen and occasionally hustling vegetables or meat from kitchen workers, ray slagle gets to practice his hobby right in his cell. but the only time he shed a tear from something other than onions is when he and his twin brother, roy, were briefly in the same prison and ...

Thats just the kind of thing that they would do. they treated everyone like they were their grant parents basically. >> they live like a family in there in a lot of ways, i guess. >> president nixon bowling with members of the kitchen staff. >> thats a funny story too. shows the human side of all these presidents, i think. one night after dinner he went into the kitchen and went to one of the kitchen workers named frankie blare, a belove member of the staff and asked him to bowl with him and the...

Complaining the kitchen workers who served staff got to eat better than those like him who serve inmates. >> so we got to eat with the slop. and they get to eat the gourmet. so i was raising hell about that. thats why -- it was more than just me giving away the rice. it was political in that sense because i was raising concerns about why -- why were not having the same right as these other inmates. whats the difference in us and them? were all inmates. and so it got kind of political, and it was...

Suicide, muhammad abdullah deals with a considerably less dire situation. but nonetheless, it has made him unhappy. >> i was fired for giving an inmate rice. the inmate lied and said that a staff member said that he, have the rice. and so i gave him the rice, but he wasnt authorized. he was supposed to get potatoes. >> he was fixing a diet tray, and he decided to put what he wanted to put on it because he said the inmate asked for it. but you know what youre supposed to make. he decided to put w...

And busier restaurant than just about any other in the city. it also contains a gigantic laundry facility. >> we usually do anywhere from 10 to 12 loads. each load, each washer, the big washers are 125 pounds. the small washers are 75 pounds. if that can kind of give you an idea. >> the various colored uniforms coincide with each inmates classification. >> all county clothing is generally orange. they have blue for juvenile. red for federal. black and white for state. and white for the kitchen w...

>> abdullah says he was complaining the kitchen workers who served staff got to eat better than those like him who serve inmates. >> so we got to eat with the slop. and they get to eat the gourmet. so i was raising hell about that. thats why -- it was more than just me giving away the rice. it was political in that sense because i was raising concerns about why -- why were not having the same right as these other inmates. whats the difference in us and them? were all inmates. and it was like, we...

Abdullah gave other inmates unauthorized food. >> the first time, i gave him a warning. second time, i counseled him. third time he gave me, i think, two hours of lockdown. fourth time, he was let go. >> i was fired because i feel like political reasons. you know, i was raising concerns about several issues in the kitchen. >> abdullah says he was complaining the kitchen workers who served staff got to eat better than those like him who serve inmates. >> so we got to eat with the slop. and they g...

Kitchen. >> abdullah says he was complaining the kitchen workers who served staff got to eat better than those like him who serve inmates. >> so we got to eat with the slop. and they get to eat the gourmet. so i was raising hell about that. thats why -- it was more than just me giving away the rice. it was political in that sense because i was raising concerns about why -- why were not having the same right as these other inmates. whats the difference in us and them? were all inmates. and so it ...

Suicide, muhammad abdullah deals with a considerably less dire situation. but nonetheless, it has made him unhappy. >> i was fired for giving an inmate rice. the inmate lied and said that a staff member said that he, have the rice. and so i gave him the rice, but he wasnt authorized. he was supposed to get potatoes. >> he was fixing a diet tray, and he decided to put what he wanted to put on it because he said the inmate asked for it. but you know what youre supposed to make. he decided to put w...