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Both facilities are run by a former secret service agent determined to bring the experience he learned guarding a vice president to the job of overseeing thousands of inmates. >> traveling around the world with vice president cheney really taught me more than anything a lot of the self-discipline qualities that i need to succeed here, and much of what i learned there helped me in running the jails. we run a pretty orderly operation here. the inmate behavior for the most part is not to a level that causes us concern. we look at other jails around the country where violence is widespread. that i...

Former secret service agent determined to bring the experience he learned guarding a vice president to the job of overseeing thousands of inmates. >> traveling around the world with vice president cheney really taught me more than anything a lot of the self-discipline qualities that i need to succeed here, and much of what i learned there helped me in running the jails. >> we run a pretty orderly operation here. the inmate behavior is not to a level that causes us concern. we look at other jails across the country where violence is widespre widespread, that is not a problem we typically deal w...

They sit in that cell the entire day and at 9:30 at night we return the mattress with their sheets and blankets. >> the other part of what they do is the loaf. which is this vegetarian ball they bake. they make the inmates eat it three meals a day, six days a week. >> it is a nutritional loaf. it is vegetables, mixed with flour and yeast and oil to hold it together, baked in a loaf about four inches wide and six inches long. >> kind of like chunky water. >> we've seen segregation in various facilities. and you know, sometimes you ask officers what's the policy about? and they don't really know...

Treat disciplinary segregated inmates very effective in controlling inmate behavior. when i started in '91-92, we probably had eight to ten fights a day. now if we have eight fights a week, that is a large number. >> when we met courtly curtis, he was a general population inmate who would later be sentenced to one year in jail for obtaining money under false pretenses. during the course of our shoot he got into a fight with another inmate over football. >> it was horse-playing. it was horse-playing. your team is a bum, and they are never going to win. he got mad. he came on this side of the ta...

Behavior. they got them there. >> we have found the way we treat displenary segregated inmates very effective in controlling inmate behavior. when i started in '91-92, we probably had eight to ten fights a day. now if we have eight fights a week, that is a large number. >> when we met courtly curtis, he was a general population inmate who would later be sentenced to one year in jail for obtaining money under false pretenses. during the course of our shoot he got into a fight with another inmate over football. >> it was horse playing. you team is balm, never going to win. he got mad. he came on...