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Segregation inmates at the tulsa county jail are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. their one hour out can be spent either in the shower or rec yard. >> how are you doing? >> im doing pretty good. >> sergeant colette, who runs the unit, says he frequently checks in with the inmates and tries to help them adapt to the isolation. >> the brains very powerful. and you can fail to flourish and literally will yourself to death. i do not want that in here. i tell these guys in seg when i first meet ...

>> were going to see if alvin watts wants to go out to rec. he currently hasnt gone out for rec the past couple of weeks. hes always been offered daily, he just decides not to go. >> mr. watts, would you like to go out to the rec? you should come on, mr. watts, you havent been out in a couple of weeks. come on. >> this time, watts agrees and is escorted to the rec yard. >> get out there, move around, lose some weight. >> today is significant for another reason. its good friday. the one-year anni...

Person and find out what was going on. as we pulled into the rec area, i could see the guy outside his truck. the trunk was open. he was doing something at the trunk. the guy had gotten in his car and started driving out. so we passed each other. as hes leaving, he just plain runs the stop sign. he gets on the highway, speeds up to 80, 85. when i ran the plate, dispatch told me he was on federal and state probation. at that point he slowed quickly and made a hard right turn on the jeep trail tha...

Inmates who forged a friendship based on laughter. a sound that was hard to come by in santa rosa. >> listen. dont mind my partner. hes 20 cent short from a dollar. hes very short. >> please. please. its called adhd, attention def of sit disorder. >> 24-year-old tavarus was serving 20 years for robbery. joseph arnold was 25 and serving an eight-year sentence for robbery and aggravated assault. >> first time we encountered tavaris and joe was out in the rec pens. i was out there filming some "b" ...

And thats not me. >> periodically, mcquay files requests to be moved back to general population, where he would have considerably more privileges. >> i still believe that leonard mcquay has an ulterior motive. >> the first person he needs to win over is the administrative segregation case manager. >> we all get along with leonard, he is very, very likeable. very caring, so friendly, but hes so overly friendly. its so vague. its not for real. >> since coming to wabash, mcquay has been involved in...

>> while rec is a time to enjoy some fresh air and exercise, it is also one of the times inmates are most likely to exchange contraband, including shanks. >> tell us whats going on out here. >> well, right now theyre patting down the convicts that are going back in from recreation, to check and make sure they dont have any weapons. i guess theres been a tip that there was going to be some trouble. the officers just line them up, pat them down one at a time, make sure they dont have any weapons o...

Getting it closed is the problem. one set of everything every day until i burn out. i dont do a certain amount. i do them till i cant do them no more. and i record how many i do of each thing each day. then the next day my goal is to do one more better than what i did the day before. you cant get it out there at rec. theres too many people out there in that little closed area and the weights out there aint real weights. i like something lifting where you concentrate on the weight, work your body...

Little bit easier. but after bloodworth attacked another inmate, theyre going to be on their own for a while. bloodworth was found to have instigated the fight and was issued a disciplinary report. >> they call it d-reports, you know what i mean? at approximately 1:45 p.m., detainees bloodworth, delshaun, me and my inmate number and [ bleep ] and [ bleep ], whoever he is, were exchanging blows by the phone bank in the 61 unit. which wasnt exchanging blows more like me hammering his face. >> bloo...

We got tuna today for lunch. got no choice but to eat it. back to our cells after this. every day in here is a living hell. every day. aint no sunshine in this jail. >> there is some sunshine in boston suffolk county jail at least on the open air recreation decks. depending on their security level, inmates are allowed out for an hour or more of rec each day. during bad weather, recreation is taken in housing unit day rooms where inmates work out any way they can. >> got to do pull-ups every day....

>> they trying to take the rest of my 20s from me. i got a 3-year-old out there, so its like my father was never in my life, now i might not be there for my son. so, its really a eye-opener, makes you wake up after awhile. especially in the hole, you got a lot of time to think about [ bleep ]. >> definitely, definitely. you know you got to think about what you done in the past [ bleep ] you know this thing, its meant to stress you out, you know what i mean? you just sitting here all day, all nig...