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A day. seven days a week, two days out of a week you get yard for three hours and the rest of the time you're stuck in a cell, in a small cell with a celly. i haven't had a cellie in 20 years, so it's hard learning cell etiquette. i'm a fish out of water. >> he still hasn't learned yet. he's kind of off. they should have gave him medical attention before they brought him in the cell. mental attention. >> mental attention. >> yeah. dude has issues still. >> yeah, got issues. you spend 20 years on death row, you're going to have some issues. >> yeah, he has big issues. >> i was lucky, i was very...

Now he works in a dorm setting. >> i have 200 inmates and it's only me. it's like going totally other side of the spectrum. everything down here is observation, just watching, listening, getting the feel for the dorm and if you're always watching, you can tell when something's starting to go bad, hopefully stop it before it gets bad, but things happen down here all the time. you have a lot of drugs down here. partner found two hypodermic needles in this dorm about three days ago. so you got the drugs, you got the inmate-manufactured alcohol, you got the gangs, you got the weapons. so it can be...

Pretty good. >> it's an open environment. there's -- right now i have six staff members. >> [ bleep ]. >> you're doing a good job of it, too. >> breaking all my rights. >> another day on the job. >> almost all the individuals down here are parole violators. they've been out on parole, couldn't hack it. got picked up for something, they sent them back in here. they generally do six months, under a year, something of that nature. either they go main line to another institution and do the rest of their time or they're released back out on parole. prison system is severely overcrowded. beds are at...

I haven't had a cellie in 20 years, so it's hard learning cell etiquette. i'm a fish out of water. >> he still hasn't learned yet. he's kind of off. they should have gave him medical attention before they brought him in the cell. mental attention. >> mental attention. >> yeah. dude has issues still. >> yeah, got issues. you spend 20 years on death row, you're going to have some issues. >> yeah, he has big issues. >> i was lucky, i was very lucky and they put me in a cell with a older black gentleman who's been around, and he's -- you know, he's open to teaching me. so he's teaching me about ce...

Six staff members. >> [ bleep ]. >> yeah, you're doing a good job of it too, huh? >> breaking all my rights. >> another day on the job. >> almost all the individuals down here are parole violators, they've been out on parole, couldn't hack it. got picked up for something, they sent them back in here. they generally do six months, under a year, something of that nature. they go mainline to another institution and do the rest of their time or they're released back out on parole. prison system's severely overcrowded. beds are at a premium. this is the rc overflow. we house 384 individuals. the gy...