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Cell. >> right now we're going to conduct a routine cell search on 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 ge...

>> though he has spent time in various jails and prisons, williams finds santa rosa especially hard to deal with. >> i have to deal with a lot of negativity about me being who i am. so with me being homosexual, i'm like an outcast compared to everyone else in here. it's like -- i'm like scum of the earth here. out of all the times i've been in prison, i've never been through this much crap. >> currently, williams has little if any contact with other inmates. he is housed in a single-man confinement cell. >> an inmate, i'm supposed to write a request form for me and said that i was going to mak...

>> these days hill lives with a little less pressure than roughly one-third of santa 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 an...

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 random gives us a good chance to find something if they do have anything up in there. >> this one. this is not right. >> let's see. >> fe...

And i was drunk all the time. i didn't know how to stay sober. >> as jones grew older, his addictions to crack and alcohol grew more ferocious, and so did the robberies he committed to support them. he had been in and out of several jails and prisons. but at age 35, he was sentenced to 25 years for multiple counts of armed robbery. but prison didn't stop his taste for alcohol. he used to make hooch, or illegal inmate-made wine from a mixture of rotting fruit, sugar and bread. >> i used to get drunk. and i used to start fights. and one day they sent me to confinement to the hole for extortion. ...