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Arguing about now? she looked at me. she touched me. >> you guys all need to understand something. every one of you is pushing this beyond where it needs to go. im not going to deal with it. im not. recently weve had a number of different personalities inside the female wing. its just been a lot of type a personalities clashing in the mix and its caused a lot of problems inside the unit. >> one of the most prominent among those personalities is shontera jennings. >> im outspoken and i speak my m...

Cell, leave when i want to go. >> mr. cruz likes to think he can dictate where he goes and how he moves in this building, but we move him around a lot so he kind of gets the idea that he can pick and choose where he goes, which is not the case. >> cruz says that he came to the unit on assignment to investigate bates and has no problem saying so right in front of bates. >> one of my pups had a complaint against this gentleman here. yeah. said that he was not living right. so i came here to speak ...

44-year-old, 61", 220-pound cruz. >> as soon as i walked in the cell i turned around and he decided to punch me in the face. cruz has this idea he is still 25 in his head and he can hurt people and stuff, but his punches were bouncing right off my head. >> boom, boom. just one hit. he was all over the place. he couldnt stand up. >> he hit me first, and yes, after three or four times of him punching me in the face, i realized i wasnt able to calm him down. i hit him with an uppercut. saw his dent...

>> a few of the newer girls keep saying a f of us wrote a statent on another female to get her removed. its false. they questioned us about her. we answered the questions. she was the source of all the problems, so they removed her. chelsea came out of her room from upstairs and started talking so i told her to come down and say it to me. she came to the top of the stairs, so i decided to meet her up there and she just kept getting in my face and she shoved me. >> the whole unit got in everybody...

Women in the jail. >> do you want your blanket and your sheets? >> i dont want nothing. >> you got it. you got it. >> theyre just dramatic altogether. being locked up, confined to a small unit, dealing with all the different personalities, females i guess by nature are confrontational sometimes. >> im not mad at you. im just telling you thats the way it is. >> everybody is dealing with different situations, emotions are flying. theyre petty and this is how they, i guess, release your anger. >> y...

>> that wasnt me. >> i dont want to hear it. i saw how it started. i dont want to hear it. >> kiss my [ bleep ] fanny. >> staff quickly learn shontera jennings is at the center of the disturbance. >> [ bleep ] i aint doing -- >> shut up. both hands on the wall. face the wall. >> i personally never had to deal with shontera until her most recent time in. her name would always come up as being a problem in the unit, causing problems or whatever. >> officers separate the inmates in order to intervi...

Verify that over the years he was indeed a fighter. >> enrique cruz and i go back about 20 years when this place was a little bit of a rough place -- a rougher place than it is now. didnt lose any fights that i know of. most of the fights he did wind up fighting were with people as big or bigger than him. >> during one of his earlier stays here, cruz got in a fight that both he and the lieutenant still recall. >> everybody feared this man. he was a giant. i think he stood like 65", 66". >> mr. c...

Staff at the bergen county jail have grown used to the bickering among female inmates. its less common for shouting to turn violent. according to some, the cause of this recent fight had to do with differing opinions of another inmate, shontera jennings, who is currently in segregation for disruptive conduct on the unit. >> which cell is she? >> the jails disciplinary committee has met to determine the length of jennings stay in segregation. lieutenant acakios will now deliver the news. >> i thi...

Argument with another inmate. chelsea carpontier. >> say what you got to say now. say what you got to say bitch. >> [ bleep ]. >> i didnt even [ bleep ] do anything. [bleep] . >> i didnt even [bleep] do anything. >> obviously you did. >> i didnt! >> everybody step in your cell right now! step in! >> the officers order all inmates back into their cells. carpontier and rooney are removed from the unit and taken to segregation. >> i just broke a nail. >> thats it? >> yeah. >> what are you guys talk...

And will receive between two and six years in prison. >> now that shes gone we do have a certain measure of peace down at the n-3 unit. she can definitely stir the pot. now the pots kind of peaceful now that shes not here. so its not such a bad thing. >> enrique cruz has also had a change of scenery. he was deemed the instigator but not necessarily the victor in a recent fight with inmate food server jonathan bevelac. cruz says it was all a ploy to get back to his former housing unit in order to...