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I assured him that there are sort of safeguards in place to help protect him or that, you know, if he feels that he's unsafe that he can get help when needed. but he was adamant he wanted to be housed by himself. >> the institutional classification committee routinely reviews the status of every segregation inmate to consider moving them back to general population. now it reviews morris's request to remain segregated. >> now, when he asked for this,m we did tell him that all of his privileges would be revoked andw he was okay with that. >> we do restrict privileges for people that request segr...

Suffolk county jail is anything but fun and games. inside the jail's nashua street facility is a housing unit for those inmates whose charges have given them a reputation among other inmates. a reputation that could result in grave consequences. >> special housing unit, what we call the shu, is typically what most people refer to as pc, protective custody unit, the people who go to protective custody or special housing are those whose charges either make them very difficult to place in general population or quite often involves some sort of sexual crime charge. that individual is generally not...

Flooding, busting sprinkler heads. hanging their arms out the flaps. just anything to disrupt the unit and stop the flow of the unit. you have to be prepared for those things. >> the unit houses 48 inmates and is always at full capacity. >> they're a danger to themselves and/or others. they have violated one of our regulations within the jail, and they have been sentenced for a period of time in segregation. >> segregation inmates are confined to single-person cells all but one hour per day, which they can either spend in the day room or in an adjacent recreation area with little to do but wal...

Hand? >> my, my, my, my, my juice or whatever it was in it. i wasn't going to hit him with it. it's like this bottle here. i'm thirsty. >> he's just young, he's immature, he's a child. if you understand that dwayne is a child, immature, that's what he's looking for is that negative attention. >> stafford was given 30 days in segregation for the incident with the officer. all segregation inmates are routinely reviewed for the possibility of an earlier return to general population. >> 1a does get full very quickly. and you may give somebody a charge of 30 days. but once you're full and they're h...

With this bull [ bleep ]. >> he likes to be confrontational, inmate stafford, from time to time. he plays around, you know. anything to draw attention to himself. he likes an audience. so that makes it difficult. it slows us down from doing our day-to-day work. >> stop resisting, i've got to take the cuffs off. >> [ bleep ]. >> he can be on and off. so, it's a daily thing with him. so, a lot of times if you just sometimes talk to him, and if you can relate to him, relate to him. he'll calm down a little bit. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. they really have to [ bleep ]. destruction of property even t...