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He recently had a cup of urine confiscated from his cell. he says he was going to throw it at a particular officer, but an even more sinister concoction. >> i was planning on making a special remedy we used to do back in the old days called funky cold medina. it's kind of like skunk juice. it's made out of some really nasty parts, urine, feces, peanut butter and sour milk. and we mix it together until it's liquid. if you hit anybody with this, they ain't coming, they're not going to want to go home, trust me. >> bricks, i didn't finish coloring it in. >> a few weeks later, gomes had managed to...

>> ricardo gomes is also dealing with a reputation issue. he recently had a cup of urine confiscated from his cell. he says he was going to throw it at a particular officer, but an even more sinister concoction. >> i was planning on making a special remedy we used to do back in the old days called funky cold medina. it's kind of like skunk juice. it's made out of some really nasty parts, urine, feces, peanut butter and sour milk. and we mix it together until it's liquid. if you hit anybody with this, they ain't coming, they're not going to want to go home, trust me. >> bricks, i didn't finish ...

Very quickly and everything is a problem for him. it's tough to get him to come down. and everything is a problem for him. nothing -- he doesn't do anything wrong, we do everything wrong. and there's some major injustice. >> i'm going to advise you to remain silent. >> no such thing as freedom of speech in jail? what happened to my miranda rights, my amendment rights? >> when inmates continually act out the jail can secure them in a restraint chair for up to four hours. as deputies place gomes in the chair they fasten a mask around his face to prevent him from spitting. >> [ bleep ] >> he is t...

It is not biblically right. >> reporter: inside, a man who calls himself brother gary, the executive director. >> this boy here claims to be homosexual. >> reporter: he told our undercover team that for a $21,000 yearly fee, he uses a bible, and sometimes a belt, to deal with teenagers who consider themselves gay and act up. >> i wouldn't do it just because, for one, just because he says he's queer. i'm not going to do that. >> reporter: this is just one of a number of such places discovered by abc news in a yearlong investigation. including the facility behind this barbed wire, run by a so-ca...

Activists descended on the food and drug administration, determined to shut it down. >> so many people in act up, came from arts, marketing, they sold aids activism like you sell the newest madonna album and knew how to do it because they sold the newest madonna album, knew how to make the drama necessary to promulgate it in the minds of america. they figured out that the best way to get the government to do the right thing was to become smarter than the government. to learn more about drugs than the doctors who were advising the public health officials and then to shame the federal government...