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General population. >> tomorrow i get out. thank god. get to play in the big box again. out of the little box, into the big box. hate the little box. >> like espinoza, daniel also aspires to be placed on the general population unit. >> got to mingle with the crowd. you get to get out. be with everybody else. i never been to pop. only time i was in pop was in newman. i've never really seen pop. i was only in there for like two weeks. >> what happened? >> a fight. everybody fights. right? that's the only way you can handle situations in here, you have to fight. someone says something to you or y...

Absolutely nothing. over what? because somebody tried to take my [ bleep ] away from me. i protected myself. this is what happens. that guy was coming at me with a weapon. i had to do something. i had to do it right then. she's talking about why didn't you get an officer? hell, i can't get an officer. if i went and got an officer, where would i be now? i'd be the one lying in the hospital all cut up. it's a bad deal all the way around. no such thing as defending yourself. coming up -- >> i didn't know he had a knife. >> the stabbing victim comes to general population. >> i stepped back like ...

Behind thealls of hackensack, new jersey's bergen county jail, paul dixon recently had what appeared to be an emotional breakdown. he just spent time in the mental health unit for a routine evaluation before being released to general population. a short time later he began wailing and was placed in a restraint chair. >> if you put me in medical, in the suit, i won't say a word. >> dixon later calmed down and returned to his cell and now officers have determined the episode was not a breakdown, an act of manipulation. >> he definitely is manipulating the system. he was comfortable in the mental...

Mental health housing. >> how much was real and how much was fake? >> um, all of it was fake, basically. i just -- it was like a whole act that i was doing. >> why? >> so i could just get to the other housing unit so i wouldn't have to come to either here or go to general population. >> it's not uncommon for inmates to want to spend time in the mental health unit. there are no cells, fewer inmates and it's a quieter setting. >> i just like it to be quiet where i could watch tv. >> you're a heck of an actor. >> thank you. i seen a lot of people throw temper tantrums before, saying they are hear...

Wouldn't pursue an ad seg over it so we decided at that time he can go into general population. we had no reason to ad seg him from here. >> many prisons segregate sex offenders for their own protection. but not in colorado. instead, inmates who attack sex offenders are transferred to another state prison. >> we are adamant that we will not segregate the sex offenders here, and we integrate them with the rest of the population. and we do that, in essence, to manage the population and not close doors in regards to where we can house them. it does create problems because the general population o...