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Jail facility are the highest security male housing units. >> these are the worst in maricopa county. get them out of gp and stuff downstairs. those are the shock collars out there. get them out there, stuff calms down for a while. >> these inmates have either committed violent attacks in the jail or have been identified as gang members. some are awaiting trial while others have been convicted and are appealing their verdicts or sentences. they are isolated in very stark cells, 23 hours a day an...

Get down! >> hey, i need that dude up there strip searched. >> the special response teams at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, have a broad range of responsibilities. they respond to crisis situations. >> go, go, go! >> conduct cell inspections for weapons and drugs. >> once theyre strip searched theyre going into the rec yard. >> and escort high-profile inmates to court, to name a few. but sometimes they find themselves taking on very different duties. >> gentlemen, get up. >> one m...

So its one of those things, kevin blanco wants this and he wants it now. hes not going to get it now. >> ill give him the third and final directive. if he still refuses to come out and be cuffed, well extract him using whatever force is necessary. >> have you guys ever had to drag someone from the rec yard? >> i was kind of filming the guys coming up, and i remember panning over to see kevin, and he was gone. and i figured out he had moved to the top of the basketball hoop. he was like a cat. i ...

The apartheid government, thanking the lord from the man who saved them. he remembers the day he led grace for his lunch. >> i think his rec on sconsylin people helped people. >> his presence meant so much for the african people allow them get rid of their guilt feelings. i think everybody loves him. but true reconciliation, im not sure if it is really, i dont see it every day. >> but today his death has reminded people of what he stood for. kathy and stewart allen down the usually come to churc...

Them which is there is almost no sports in the best schools in the world. >> right. kids play sports but not in school. it is separate from school. pickup games or community rec centers. not a part of the core mission of school. this is controversial. i get in a lot of trouble when i talk about this. americans love their sports and american kids love their sports. when i surveyed hundreds of exchange students, they all agreed that sports were more important to their american peers than their pee...

♪ >> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail! >> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail! >> 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 collette, who runs the unit, says he frequently checks in with the inmates and tries to help them adapt to the isolation. >> the brain is very powerful and you can fail to flourish and literally will yourself to death...

Sergeant collette has grown concerned about watts. >> alvin wattss demeanor has changed, and that concerns me. im always looking in alvins cell, seeing whats changed. he has become more reclusive. alvin used to have a lot of stuff written on the walls. its all gone. if you learn to read whats -- what the inmates have written on the walls, its a picture into their mind, to whats going on with them. and i dont like blank slates. that worries me. >> watts has even begun to decline the one hour per ...

>> all these guys out here, they cant live like this. >> ive never smelled women so stinky in my life. >> we got one bathroom to share in here thats nasty. >> it stinks literally. its part of the job and what we do. >> adam curry says good hygiene is important to him, too. >> adam curry. >> curry? why you got a toothbrush in your mouth? >> i was brushing my teeth at the same time. >> yeah? >> yeah. >> you know youre not supposed to have a toothbrush in the rec yard? youll need to brush your teet...

Rec. he currently hasnt been going out for rec for the past couple weeks. hes always been offered daily. he just decides not to go. >> mr. watts, would you like to go out to rec? come on, mr. watts. you havent been out in a couple weeks. come on. >> this time watts agrees and is escorted to the rec yard. >> just get out there and move around. lose some weight. >> today is significant for another reason. its good friday. the one-year anniversary of the shooting spree that brought england and watt...

Come on, mr. watts. you havent been out in a couple weeks. come on. >> this time watts agrees and is escorted to the rec yard. >> just get out there and move around. lose some weight. >> today is significant for another reason. its good friday. the one-year anniversary of the shooting spree that brought england and watts to jail. >> i wish that it never would have happened. i wish things could have went a lot more differently. like spend easter sunday with your families and do what you usually d...