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Martinez has undergone a psychological evaluation and has been transferred from a padded safe cell back to his own cell in the high-security unit. >> you were having a rough day that day, right? >> real rough. >> what was going on, your girl? >> yeah, just a lot of family problems. i was trying to get a call in and they weren't hearing me and i was just trying to basically let them know i was going through some things if i could talk to a counselor for a five-minute call. i said, i don't even need to have five minutes, just give me a couple of minutes. they weren't hearing me. >> martinez's an...

I've got problems on the street. >> one week after what staff described as a suicide attempt, maricopa county inmate manuel martinez has undergone a psychological evaluation and has been transferred from a padded safe cell back to his own cell in the high-security unit. >> you were having a rough day that day, right? >> real rough. >> what was going on, your girl? >> yeah, just a lot of family problems. i was trying to get a call in and they weren't hearing me and i was just trying to basically let them know i was going through some things if i could talk to a counselor for a five-minute call....

>> i'm in a secure dorm. come. i'm in a secure dorm. >> i have been in here several years and i have had offenders climb with a rope in here, in this secure unit. for one he's got an assaultive history on staff. it could be used to hang somebody or choke somebody. it could be used to escape. to climb a fence. i mean there's multiple things that this could be done with that would not be a good thing for us. >> he is placed in a separate holding cell while a team of corrections officers assemble to search his cell again, even more closely than the last time. we've got ball peen hammers to tap ...

Way, he will become disruptive. just the other night he was upset. he started tearing the bunk off the cell wall. he is constantly having to be replaced in the emergency restraint chair. it doesn't bother him when we put him in the emergency restraint chair. >> he always seems to find ways to mutilate himself. razor blade between his teeth. wherever he can place it. >> a lot of people, negative attention is the only attention they know how to get. is it appropriate? no. are there better ways to get attention? yes. is this the only thing he know to do? yes. >> because of his behavior, he will r...

So in order to go in there and hopefully take him out without an incident. >> mclemore, come here. come here. get in that water, man. we'll talk about it when you come out. all right? >> you going to kill me. >> we ain't going to kill you or hurt you. >> you're gonna hurt me. >> no, we're not. >> mclemore, we're going to bring you out, all right? >> all right? are you going to work with me? >> yes. >> the officers move in to restrain mclemore. smeared on the cell wall is the word "satan." >> all right. stand up. >> stand up. slow down. go right straight to the shower, okay? >> nothing surprise...