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On any given day there are around 1,500 inmates at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia. and the jail relies on a select group of them to help the facility running. nonviolent inmates with good behavior can become trustees who work in a variety of roles. including barbers, cooks and janitors. >> your days go a lot quicker. you get up so early, it makes you tired at the end of the day. >> keeps you out of the cell. keeps you from being locked up all day like other guys and stuff. that's the only thing i like about it. >> while they say they like the work, not all of the jobs...

On any given day there are around 1,500 inmates at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia. and the jail relies on a select group of them to help the facility running. nonviolent inmates with good behavior can become trustees who work in a variety of roles. including barbers, cooks and janitors. >> your days go a lot quicker. you get up so early, it makes you tired at the end of the day. >> keeps you out of the cell. keeps you from being locked up all day like other guys and stuff. that's the only thing i like about it. >> while they say they like the work, not all of the jobs...

On any given day there are around 1,500 inmates at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia. and the jail relies on a select group of them to help the facility running. nonviolent inmates with good behavior can become trustees who work in a variety of roles. including barbers, cooks and janitors. >> your days go a lot quicker. you get up so early, it makes you tired at the end of the day. >> keeps you out of the cell. keeps you from being locked up all day like other guys and stuff. that's the only thing i like about it. >> while they say they like the work, not all of the jobs...

On any given day there are around 1,500 inmates at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia. and the jail relies on a select group of them to help the facility running. nonviolent inmates with good behavior can become trustees who work in a variety of roles. including barbers, cooks and janitors. >> your days go a lot quicker. you get up so early, it makes you tired at the end of the day. >> keeps you out of the cell. keeps you from being locked up all day like other guys and stuff. that's the only thing i like about it. >> while they say they like the work, not all of the jobs...

>> you don't look happy. >> not happy cleaning up somebody else's urine and feces. >> justin padilla and edward abernathy are here to clean toilet water off the floors in four cells in the section of the jail known as the bubble. the inmate that caused the flood is a familiar face to the clean-up crew. >> i'm trying to sleep right now. >> they're tired of me. probably going to poison my food. >> javier elia has intentionally clogged his toilet, causing a flood so severe, the water filled the cells adjacent to his. >> one is flooded right now, it can actually leak over into each of the rooms he...