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Just because theyre from across town and all that. i havent done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones im going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> dooker loc, on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of the food chain. >> everybodys like that when theyre young. the...

Suspects will usually find themselves booked into the orange county jail. >> what are you in for? >> disturbing the peace. >> you been in jail before? >> no, sir. >> look here at the camera for me. >> the orange county jail is comprised of five separate jail facilities. the largest of these is the theo lacy jail, with an average daily population of 2800 male inmates. theo lacy, alone, dwarfs many state prisons. >> i have assistant sheriff at theo lacy, and he always likes to say that we dont hav...

>> how do you know that this is different? >> i just feel totally different. ive never done a program. and out of 16 years of being in jail, i feel so much better after that 14 months that im doing right here. its an awakening for me, rsonally. >> weve all made a choice to participate in trying to change our life. >> just a few years ago, therapy-based programing here didnt exist. inmates were here for too short a time. the average stay was just 54 days. but then in an effort to reduce overcrowd...

>> an old-timer counts his losses. >> lost my brother, sister, mother, pretty much my whole familys passed away since ive been in here. >> me being home sex wail, im like an outcast. im likw scum of the earth here. >> and a younger inmate looks forward to hitting the streets. there are more than 102,000 men and women doing time in the florida state prison system. of the 56 state prisons for men, one is considered the end of the line. the place male inmates go when other prisons cant handle the...

>> two. >> left. >> two. >> all right, yall, hold it down. hey, if you stop talking and get up here, well go to chow. we structure everything like the military. and we like to have everybody do the same thing all together and they stay in compliance when they do that. if youve got your hands in your pockets, youre wrong. if youve got your hands in your jacket, youre wrong. >> we make them walk on the line so we do have consistency. and if everybodys walking in a straight line, it makes our job a...

And remove items of contraband, making santa rosa a safer place for the inmates and the staff. >> todays search will cover two housing units and involve officers from santa rosa, three other state prisons, and the states inspector generals canine unit. the dogs are trained detect the scents of both drugs and cell phones. >> weve got six different search teams. some things i want to caution yall. i want everybody to remain professional during the search today. i want to leave the bunks and the ar...

Institutions, okaloosa, walton, century, the i.g.s canine. what were doing this morning, mass search. our goal is to identify, locate and remove items of contraband, making santa rosa a safer place for the inmates and the staff. >> todays search will cover two housing units and involve officers from santa rosa, three other state prisons, and the states inspector generals canine unit. the dogs are trained detect the scents of both drugs and cell phones. >> weve got six different search teams. som...

>> two. >> left. >> two. >> all right, yall, hold it down. hey, if you stop talking and get up here, well go to chow. we structure everything like the military. and we like to have everybody do the same thing all together and they stay in compliance when they do that. if youve got your hands in your pockets, youre wrong. if youve got your hands in your jacket, youre wrong. >> we make them walk on the line so we do have consistency. and if everybodys walking in a straight line, it makes our job a...

Two! three! >> every two months, the rapid response teams from santa rosa and three other state prisons come together for training. >> one, two, three, four! one, two, three, four! >> your left! >> its a team comprised of officers to respond to any event that may happen at our correctional facilities for riot control, disturbances or incidents of that nature. >> forward, halt! >> if we had a large-scale incident, we would want to make sure that we had a complement of officers that could address ...

Inmates who march in formation. every two months the rapid response teams from santa rosa and three other state prisons come together for stratraining. >> they are trained with less lethal and looeltal munitions to respond to any event that may happen in our correctional facilities for riots and incidents of that nature. if we had a large-scale incident, wed want to make sure that we had a complement of officers that could address. that and weve adapted military-style training and we feel that a...