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>> jewish. >> same difference. christians -- however you look at it, christian, star of david. >> a few years days later, toomer would no longer need to explain his tattoos to staff. he reached a plea deal to lower his first-degree burglary charge to third-degree burglary and was sentenced to time served. his release is imminent, and he says he won't be back. >> i'm no better than you, you're no better than me. if i can do it, you can do it. all right? >> yeah. >> well, i'm a couple steps ahead of you. >> yeah, yeah. >> and you got a lot of catching up to do. but you if you put your mind to it...

As i'm walking to my destination. i want to isolate myself and pinpoint a plan of what i'm going to do. my thing is making my mark in this world, period. >> toomer leaves behind first-time inmate william jarrett who 24 hours earlier said he fainted in his cell. now he's in the medical unit for a four-hour observation period after he was found passed out again. >> he around 2:00 had a 37e, a medical emergency. so we're going to go in, check in with him, see what happened, and go from there. so what happened today? so another medical emergency? >> i guess i just -- i blacked out, and i guess i f...

Inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, deangelo toomer is awaiting trial on a burglary charge. he has just been sent so disciplinary segregation for allegedly threatening an officer who had ordered him to take down the pictures on his cell wall. >> i came to lockup for refusing to obey. that was the initial charge. then another officer, he tried to come back with another charge 45 minutes later saying that i allegedly tried to threaten him. which is bogus. >> after speaking to other staff members, the disciplinary committee felt they could not substantiate the threat and dismissed it. ...

William jarrett. >> he's a good kid, but he has some issues. >> while toomer is in segregation, jarrett is in protective custody. but they share the same unit and restrictions such as 23 hours per day in their cells. >> in this unit, i've been told there are some crazies here and there's some dangerous people. they're looking at me like i'm a weakling, and they're going to -- first chance they get they're going strike because that's how it is in jail. >> i try to pass things on him. but he's very emotional. i saw him over there crying. he would go to prison and he would be crying, showing emot...

First-degree burglary to which he has pled not guilty. toomer says regardless of what happens with the case, he wants to change. >> i've done a lot of things in my life i'm not proud of, and i've lived a life in gang -- gang banging. first, i regret these. i regret these so much. tattoos. i studied a lot of things in prison. basically trying to find inner peace because i was trying to change myself. so what i try to do to keep myself sane, avoid foolishness and try to stay out of as little trouble as possible. >> i see his reaction with inmates. he's definitely got a leadership style. it's a s...