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Coffee today. i'm about to start sweating profusely. >> colin mccaffrey is the type of new young inmate who could be a prime target for predatory extortionists. >> whenever they give you, they want something back, want you to do favors for them, so that's how you get caught up in it. that's how you get into fights, because they expect something from you. yeah, whether it's sexual or not, it happens. i have to remind myself every day. this is prison. people are doing a lot of time. >> mccaffrey is known by other inmates in his general population housing dorm as jit, short for jitterbug, prison ...

Through meditation and seeking other things, but it's hard, kind of hard. can't be a sheep among wolves, know what i'm saying? >> kozlowski decided instead to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, especially when it comes to new inmates. >> you get new people in prison, they're kind of scared. so when you send your homeboy which is kind of big to step down on him, what you do is intervene, you know, he's all right, leave him alone. so now he owes you. he feels gratitude towards you. so suddenly, you put him in debt to you. so when he gets money, tell him hit the canteen window. initially, if you do i...

Lonely, depressed and get mad. it releases pain. when i see blood, it just give me a good relief. it's like smoking a cigarette. >> cruzado, who has been treated for bipolar disorder but is not currently classified as a mentally ill inmate, says prisons do not adequately treat people like him. >> people, you know, who have a serious mental disorder, you know, there should be somewhere for us. prison shouldn't be the solution, you know? this is not no rehabilitation. this is punishment to me, you know what i'm saying? this ain't prison, not supposed to be punishment, it's supposed to be rehabil...

Oh, yeah, i love it! >> there is a predator/prey relationship among the 2,800 inmates serving time at florida's santa rosa correctional institution. predators often extort weaker inmates, a practice very familiar to jesse kozlowski and his cellmate, tafari coke. >> as soon as they come in, whenever they get their money receipt, they let us know how much money they got and we'll make out a list for either half of what they got or depending what type of person they is, we'll just take everything. >> since cash is banned in prison, the payout typically comes in the form of commissary goods which ...

Approximately 65 major institutions in the state of florida, that's major institutions. it's not counting all of the work camps and work releases. and the county jails are overflowing with people right now. there's people waiting to come to prison. every day at the reception center, five days a week, there are buses coming in and out from the county jails. >> 30 miles away from pensacola, in the small town of milton on the florida panhandle lies a compound that's never on the itinerary of local tour buses. but once a week another bus, one nobody willingly rides, passes through the gates of the...