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In jail. but lohden seems determined to make an impression. >> that's my bunk. >> yeah, it's mine now. you snooze, you lose. there ain't no bunk assignments in [ bleep ] jail. get that [ bleep ] right. >> hey, come back out here. >> they own bunks around here? >> come back outside. >> i'm good. >> come on, come on. we're going to go out here -- >> excuse me? excuse me? excuse me. >> i said i'm sick, and i've got to be on the bottom bunk. >> okay, that's fine. but i didn't think the jail, nobody owns no bunks around here. [ bleep ]. >> we thought she was calm enough after talking to her to put ...

Home incarceration or make her serve the rest of her sentence in jail. but lohden seems determined to make an impression. >> that's my bunk. >> yeah, it's mine now. you snooze, you lose. there ain't no bunk assignments in [ bleep ] jail. get that [ bleep ] right. >> hey, come back out here. >> they own bunks around here? >> come back outside. >> i'm good. >> come on, come on. we're going to go out here -- >> excuse me? excuse me? excuse me. >> i said i'm sick, and i've got to be on the bottom bunk. >> okay, that's fine. but i didn't think the jail, nobody owns no bunks around here. [ bleep ]. ...

"forbes" magazine calls it the best city in america in which to raise a family, but even the best families face problems. a few miles from downtown is the kent county jail. >> people ask me all the time when i'm out there in the world, who do you got in jail? i always tell them, we have your family members, we have your neighbors, your co-workers. >> on any given day, about 1,000 men and women are incarcerated here. >> i want you on your bunks. time for head count. i need your i.d.s. >> some are convicted, most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial and the resolution of their cases. >>...

Cousins quentin carthen and isaiah thomas. >> [ bleep ] 21-4, blood. >> [ bleep ]. >> 21-4, blood. >> [ bleep ] lying. >> they cope with the close confines of their maximum security cell by keeping it clean and following daily rituals. >> we in a outhouse with bunks in it. some bunk beds in a bathroom. if we don't clean up the dust is going to pile up, dirt going to go everywhere. it's grimy up in here. we try to keep it clean so it smell clean, so the floor clean. we going to work out, sit around. rolling up the mattress, that's a form of discipline. makes more space, pushes everything out of...

Inside the two facilities that make up the sacramento county jail system, 4,000 men and women sleep on steel bunks with thin mattresses. for many of them, that's an improvement compared to the living conditions on the outside. they were, at one time or the other, among the approximately 2,500 sacramento area homeless. >> i pretty much surrender myself here. i wasn't really arrested. i was saved. i was homeless when i got arrested. >> i started living in an abandoned building. i had a couple of blankets and there was a chair up there. i'd fall asleep sitting up in the chair all the time. and i ...