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Back in level 6, happy is headed to the parole board. >> i just came back from rec and im fixing to go to the parole board. im nervous now. you never know whats going to happen. you dont know if they are going to deny you or let me go. but i know that somebody up above is looking out for me because if it wasnt meant to be, i wouldnt be here now. so -- worst case scenario, my parole could be denied. best case scenario, ill be out by 5:00. coming up, will he still be happy after his parole heari...

>> and only two days since the incident in the rec yard. >> give him another one. >> today hes acting out yet again. leaving prison staff no choice but to keep him in a 72-hour medical observation cell. >> we had to take him out of his cell. took him down. go ahead strip down. this morning when we approached his cell, we were going to take inmate kevin blanco to the shower, about 10:00. we opened the food port. he stuck his arm out of the food port and held it hostage until he said, ortiz go get...

>> no, im not coming out. yall want a reason to [ bleep ]. >> branch on the 19 yard. 1510, blancos refusing to come out. gave him his first directive. time now is 4:50. >> blanco is taking -- basically hes taking his rec pen hostage and hes refusing to come out. you know, this happens. theyll take things hostage. theyll take their food for houston. theyll take a shower hostage. if it will get the attention they want they will take it hostage. we should be finished getting the rest of the inmates...

Well get our pictures, give your clothes back and you sign the medical refusal and youre on your way back home. >> still got the camera. >> put him in the cage. >> with the extraction a success, deputy warden jaramillo debriefs with his teams. >> we need to document it very clearly about the limited time frame between taking it from one extreme to the next. >> yeah. once the team was put together and we entered the rec pen, we approached the rec pen he was in. i gave him verbal directives to com...

>> me and two other white dudes were on the rec pad. >> they had socks with batteries in them in one hand and they had the homemade shanks made up inside the other. >> and we came off the rec pad and tried to stab a lot of police. tried to stab four or five police on the range. >> they came behind the stairwell just swinging and swinging. we backed off. the other two officers that got out of range door, i didnt make it. they had me pinned at that time inside this corner. they were just beating m...

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 do. instead of just alone, away from my family. >> its the a...

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 ...

>> while england seems prepared for whatever fate awaits him sergeant collette has grown concerned about watts. >> alvin wattss demeanor has changed, and that concerns me. im always looking in alvins cell, eing 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 worri...

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. i do not want that in here. its like i tell these guys in the seg when i first meet them, i want...

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 teeth later. >> all right. >> take it to your cell. >> just a couple hours later curry would become both the perpetrator and the victim of...