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Really quickly and, you know, its a scary -- its a scary time of my life. >> phone calls are actually $4 a call. its pretty crazy. >> ive had a very comfortable sealy posturepedic at home waiting for me. and this is by far not even close to it. i think my dog has a better bed than this. >> sobel shares s cell with jerry guillone, who agreed to appear on camera but declined to speak. but sobel said guillone had plenty to say to him off-camera. >> his little cell is his domain and, you know, if so...

20 miles away at sacramento countys downtown jail inmates make their way to and from the adjoining courthouse. a few days earlier, sobel was here for a bail hearing with his co-defendant and girlfriend, ariel potter. he attempted to get an envelope to her by pretending she dropped it and handing it to a deputy to give to her. >> im going to try to give it to one of the deputies down there, saying she forgot it in the courtroom and hopefully it gets into her hands. >> but not only did the deputy ...

Then throughout the day we have yards that are open. so thats hundreds of inmates out and about. and im the only one that can see where theyre at. i have to be looking around. and then theyll call me on the radio. the courts come in, buses going. so theres a lot of stuff going on. >> rio casunmas also houses overflow inmates from the main jail downtown and a bus carrying a group of transfers has just entered the gates. >> turn right. go in between the car and the bus. go in between the car and t...

>> thats like three weeks for me. >> i know youre a slow reader. >> 40 pages? seriously? >> i mean, from the way he walked to the way he talked to everybody coming in here, you know, people asking him what are you here for, hes telling them -- normally you dont just disclose that to anybody, you dont talk to anybody about what youre here for. you dont talk about your case. he tends to speak without thinking a lot. we go through that every day. im like no, dont say that. you know what i mean? >> ...

Oftentimes send large busloads of inmates that are still pretrial down here. >> sobel along with his girlfriend and co-defendant ariel potter had recently appeared in court for a bail hearing on their charges, which include attempted murder and carry the possibility of a life sentence if found guilty. bail was denied to both of them. but sobel was able to execute his plan to send an envelope containing a homemade card and candy to potter. >> prior to me going into the room i acted like she dropp...

We should have been the bigger people and just ignored it and just didnt go. >> potter and sobel were arrested several hours following a violent confrontation with her ex-boyfriend and some others, two of the people they fought with suffered stab wounds, allegedly inflicted by sobel. now the couple only sees each other from a distance during court hearings. >> have you tried to pass any messages to him? >> im not trying to get in trouble. i mean its pretty simple. self-explanatory. you do this a...

Thats luck. >> is there a future possibility for to you play basketball? >> no, no future possibility of me. i got a serious billing on my record. you cant be a basketball star with a record. thats not going to work out. >> okay. coming up, ryan sobel runs into more trouble. >> last night some black guy from upstairs threatened me and took my dinner tray right in front of me.

At the rio cosumnes branch of the sacramento county jail system it has been less than 48 hours since ryan sobel was transferred to one of the maximum security housing units here. he will soon be on the move again. >> 7:30 in the morning. i walked in there, they started asking questions and i had to show them paperwork, which is your charges and one of the guys came in and threatened me. and last night some black guy from upstairs turned around and threatened me, then took my dinner tray right in...

Specific authorization, they arent allowed to write other inmates in this facility. when looking into inmate mail, deputies are looking for anything that may cause safety concerns. other issues may be that theyre talking to a co-defendant about their case and trying to come up with an alibi or something that may affect their case. >> the violation also cost sobel his place in the housing unit, where he was assigned for his safety. and he is now back in maximum security. >> im back here where i o...

Favor. >> the d.a. thanked me for my service, and they wanted to use that against me, saying that im a menace to society, a threat to society, and a possible flight risk, you know, because of the higher-up training that i have. i just wanted to tell him that it has nothing to do with anything thats going on. i swore an oath to defend this country, to keep him from wearing his nice pretty blue suits five days a week and eating filet mignon and watching david lettermanman at night. he should be th...