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>> 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 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 don't even need five minutes, just a co...

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 remain housed in the observation ...

Attention of your supervisor. >> we release information to the staff prior to change of shift. so anything that's important or imperative that they need to know prior to taking over their post we'll try and share that with them. just be conscious of it. know it's out there and something that could impact how your post operates. >> i knew people that brought it in. i knew people that sold it. i knew everybody. >> nick battaglia was recently sent to segregation after officers intercepted a heroin-laced birthday card that was addressed to him. battaglia then told staff how suboxone gets into the ...

>> 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 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 don't even need five minutes, just a co...

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 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 don't even need five minutes, just a couple minutes. they weren't hearing me. >> martinez's anguish was so intense he took to expressing it on his cell wall. he says he believed his former...