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Go out to rec? 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. >> just get out there and move around. >> today is significant for another reason. its good friday. the one year anniversary of the shooting spree that brought england and watts to jail. >> wish it never would have happened. i wish things would have went a lot more differently. spend easter sunday with your families and do what you usually do instead of...

>> segregation inmates at the tulsa county jail are locked in their cells. their one hour out can be spent in the shower or rec yard. >> how are you doing? >> sergeant colette says he frequently checked in with the inmates and helps them adapt to the isolation. >> the brain is powerful and you can fail to flourish and will yourself to death. i dont want that in here. thats like i tell these guys. i want you reading and doing a little exercise in your cell. if i wanted mushrooms back here, id be ...

And i think at the time of the assassination, when everybody was still so upset, if i said anything, people go, oh, thats a mother taking up for her son. so now im going to say to the public, no, no, in 1960, three years prior to that, i had already been to washington and i said then, if my son is an agent in the united states i want to know, and i think he belongs home. and sick wex weeks later, i rec notice from the state department giving me his address, but up until that point in time, i did...

Tulsa county jail, 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? >> 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. i tell these guys when i first meet them. i want you guys reading. i want you doing a little exe...

Diagnosed as bipolar and moved to the residential treatment unit, or rtu. through counseling and medication, the rtus ultimate goal is to integrate these inmates into general population. dennis profitt is one of the psychologists who works in the unit. >> the rtu program is set up on a three-phase system. the initial phase is set up to receive offenders who generally have been isolated from other offenders because of having been living in segregation. so generally in phase one, a person stays to...

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 it never would have happened. i wish things could have went a lot more differently. supposed to spend easter sunday with your families and do what you usually do. instead of just alone, away from a family. >> i...

An officer. and hills swipe at deputy is the kind of action that officers are trained to subdue immediately. deputy witson entered the rec yard and fires a taser but fails to discharge properly. >> i didnt do anything, man! dude, what the [ bleep ] you all doing this for, man? why did you do that? >> get up. >> why did you do this? >> here we go. >> ply glasses, can i get my glasses. >> i didnt do nothing, man. >> stop playing with my, hill. >> hill continues to struggle as deputy witson returns...

Unit one. >> inmates here are basically lockdown 23 out of 24 hours. they come out one hour daily for rec. and they come out 15 minutes every other day for a shower. >> under such tight supervision, the relationship between officer and inmate can be violent. >> ive been in two riots and maybe four or five are breakups of fights from other inmates. >> you have officers that provoke inmates and they create a situation to where an inmate becomes violent. >> the inmates in the maximum security unit ...

You they have no fear is not being genuine. >> the corporal has been at riverbend for six years. he works in maximum security unit one. >> inmates here are basically lockdown 23 out of 24 hours. they come out one hour daily for rec. and they come out 15 minutes every other day for a shower. >> under such tight supervision, the relationship between officer and inmate can be violent. >> ive been in two riots and maybe four or five are breakups of fights from other inmates. >> you have officers tha...

Aggression of any kind against an officer and his swipe is the kind of action that officers are trained to subdue immediately. the deputy enters the rec yard and fires his tatser but it fails to discharge properly. >> my glasses, my glasses. i didnt do nothing to him. >> hill continues to struggle as the deputy attempts to return him to his cell. >> [ bleep ]. you know i got heart problems? you just shocked me with that [ bleep ] dayser? >> you are refusing -- >> i refuse nothing! >> -- to do wh...