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Rarely do you go to a jail thats so big that you have to drive a cart around. >> covering the activities of hundreds of inmates and officers in jails so big, its sometimes necessary to traverse them in golf carts. every member of a "lockup" field team plays multiple roles. director of photography, brian kelly, for example, is both cameraman and icebreaker. >> this is what you deal with every day. its tough on the outside but this is what we have to deal with every single day. >> one of the ways ...

That killed abraham, the guy that i left abraham with that night. >> you drew it, right, from -- >> no, this is a real picture. >> how did you get that? you havent told me that. >> i never told anybody about it because i could die, you know? it wasnt worth dying for, but now it is. >> truth is better than fiction. you cant make up dee dee. i never know what shes going to come up with. >> im ready to sell my story now. i dont want to have to wait until trial. if you get my story sold, you tell th...

>> nothing changes here. every day is just like yesterday and tomorrows going to be the same as today, you know? about the only thing that changes here is the faces. after a while, even the faces begin to be the same, you know? ♪ >> you know, thats one of the things about doing time. nothing changes. coming up -- >> have you ever tasted it? >> no. smells like [ bleep ]. >> the special jail meal designed to be eaten through a straw is sampled by our production assistant. >> god. it literally ...

>> oh, its a letter from my brother robert. hey, bro, how are you doing in here? i hope youre doing good in here. i know it sucks being in here and you never really got a chance to bond with me. >> now wolford had become pen pals with his estranged sister andrea, who was also in the jail. >> so "lockup" came and interviewed me a couple of times. they showed me your picture and i broke down. i honestly didnt know i would do that but for some reason it hit me hard when i seen your picture. >> reki...

Pam hamm told us she learned some of her most useful ideas from watching "lockup." >> you lift weights with them so i learned how from "lockup." and i learned how to fish, i learned how to do it from "lockup" with the fishing line and the little soap. thats how i learned to make the fishing line and everything is from "lockup." >> glad to see our show is educational for you guys. >> the staffs at most jails consider these homemade devices to be contraband. sometimes they will confiscate them and...

And don jr. by the state. now back to lockup. >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ in order for us to have all of the nutrition that we need, weve actually had a calcium-enriched, fortified beverage that has all of the vitamins and nutrients that a person would normally get in a pill. if you cant take a multivitamin every day, this is a great substitution for it. we serve it in three meals a day, so they will have plenty of calcium as well as all the vitamins. whe...

>> woo! >> you seen his face change? his whole face changed, yall. >> oh, thats -- thats really good. if i bought this at a burrito stand, id be happy. >> right? >> this is probably the best thing -- ive tried spreads all over the place. >> this is the best one? >> this is the best. >> i told them it was the best burrito i ever tried in the jail and it was the truth. it was actually the best thing that ive had that was created in a jail. >> best cell-made meal ive ever tried. >> we get that. >> ...

Down you go! down you go! down, down! down, down! >> im somewhat protective of michael. hes a young man. hes our production assistant. he happens to be the boss son. i could see he was in pain so i was getting a little worried about it. but it was kind of a guy thing. where the -- you know, guys arent going to admit defeat, and then all the other guys around were laughing about it. i kind of came on a little bit like a mother hen because i was worried about him. >> you wanted to play with him. >...

Im dara brown with the hours top stories we were following reports of an oil rig explosion. more information as we get it. p pentagon reports that iraqi forces are moving in, u.s. officials urging all sides to avo avoid escalating the situation. firefighters say they are getting containment on wildfires across the state. now back to "lockup".

Some of the most difficult stories for us to cover on "lockup" are those involving those inmates who have committed murder. we are very careful about how we tell these stories, especially being sensitive to the friends and families of the victims. >> when we shot "lockup extended stay" at the louisville metro department of corrections in kentucky, we were surprised to encounter one particular surviving family member of a murder victim. >> be two years on september 7th that i got a call from the ...