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Inside the two facilities that make up the sacramento county jail cell, 4,000 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 approximate 2500 sacramento 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 flt i fell asleep sitting up in a chair one time. my feet were always killing me. >> i was homeless out there. i didn't really have a spot...

Got your mattress cover, blanket, towel, wash cloth? okay. come with me. you're going upstairs, 2114. >> right now he's staying in p.c. status until that's taken care of by the classification unit. >> this is a two-man room, but he's going to be the only man in there. it will be bigger than the other one you were in. are you all right with this one? >> for now. how hard is it to switch me to off p.c.? i mean -- >> that's up to classification. that's not up to us. all right. you take care of. >> the cell downstairs has a cut in the wall, and that gives the appearance of it being shortened where...

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. my fee...

Inside the two facilities that make up the sacramento county jail cell, 4,000 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 approximate 2500 sacramento 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 flt i fell asleep sitting up in a chair one time. my feet were always killing me. >> i was homeless out there. i didn't really have a spot...

Ceiling, the walls. then he takes the squeegee and the bunks get clean. all the metal gets clean. >> the smell is good. >> i'm telling you when he leaves, it's clean. i even allow him to clean the officers' bathroom because he does such a good job. if i was able to take him home, i would take him home and allow him to clean my house. that's how good of a cleaner he is in here. >> my mother tell me, he said your room clean? very clean? yes. >> so, edwin, did you count on this? >> no, i didn't. it smelled like a rat died in here. >> coming up. >> i'm working trying to get something like 15 to 20...