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Taking me away from my family. you know? i wouldn't talk to nobody. i had a lot of good people that actually tried to take care of me, but my main problem was i never opened up, because at times when i tried, something always happened. so i always kept closed, and due to the fact that you're not my mother, you're not my father. you're not nobody in my blood line, i wouldn't talk and i wouldn't try to be a part of the family. >> since his latest cutting incident, doctor has moved back into his cell and has not received any further sanctions, because the prison does not issue them for self-injur...

Five-year sense for possession of cocaine and fleeing police works as a houseman or cell block custodian. >> my job is to feces, blood, chemical agents. i volunteer to be a house man just to get -- i get ten days a month, four months a year of gain time. i'm here 18 months. i'll have money left, i'll go home next year. when i enter a cell, a room that has blood or anything that's a danger to me, a harm to me, i always be cautious. i tell myself, i've got to protect myself and don't let none of this stuff get on me. that's why i have this suit and the chemical agents and gloves enwhatever else ...

A couple cells up here in wing one. every shift has to shake down a certain amount of inmates every day, and this is what we'll do. we'll go in there and have them cuff up. they'll submit to the restraints. place them in the shower. go through their belongings in the cell. control the contraband in the institution. we'll go up and we'll pick a number that's random. it kind of keeps them on their toes, because if we were to go in and start searching from cell one all the way down then the others will know, hey, we're going to get searched next. let's get rid of our contraband. doing it at rando...

Rosa's inmates. he is housed in a general population unit where there is more freedom of movement and privileges. >> see that right there? that's nectar of the gods. that's nectar of the gods. can't get beer, but you can drink coffee. >> borrowing coffee from a neighbor is considerably more difficult if not impossible for the 1,100 inmates housed in the close management unit. >> both of you, step over here one at a time. >> turn around. >> they're in confinement for violence or other serious rule violations and are subject to frequent cell inspections for weapons, drugs or other forms of contr...

Than the normal population inmates in the state. the close management inmates, if proven to be an inability to live in population due to repeated disciplines within their department, their disruption of institutions throughout the state, their disobeying orders from staff, their non-receptiveness to the correctional process as a whole. >> the 1,100 inmates in santa rosa's close management unit represent more than a third of the prison's population. they all live under the most restrictive conditions and some handle it better than others. a medical emergency on the unit has required correction ...