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>> not that i know of. >> are you safe here in the jail? >> as long as they keep me in that little room i got. >> all right. we need to be wrapping up. i'm going to change your medicine a little bit. all right? >> all right. >> i hope you feel better. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you for talking with me. can i come back and see you? all right. thanks. >> this is a man who has an unusual -- i mean, enough that it even surprises me. his life is that unusual. his background. so he's going to have emotional triggers that nobody else in this jail can understand, and he's safest being by himsel...

But i try not to think about it. >> moore, now on new medication, has been taken off suicide watch. the jail's goal is to return him to general population. >> hi. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. how are you? >> that decision will depend in part on whether dr. easley feels he's ready for it. >> what made you so mad and angry? >> that i let my son down because i ain't never -- my father was there, but he was doing the same thing i'm doing, in and out. and i feel like if i can be there with my son more and more, he won't turn to the streets like i did. like i was looking for a rol...

>> officers also place protective head gear on moore to prevent further self-injury. >> the nurses will keep monitoring. the officers will be checking him every 15 minutes. and he'll have an inmate one-on-one watcher that will sit outside and observe him also. and we'll just keep a check on him, and probably here in 30 minutes or an hour, maybe if he's -- if the medication takes effect, then we might look at taking him out of that restraint chair and placing him back in his cell. >> psychiatric staff will also meet with moore in an attempt to better understand his self-abusive behavior and to ...

Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently he's shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought he'd never be is a math tutor. >> all right. let's start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail he's grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and now he wants to pay it forward. >> i'm helping the gentlemen get ready for their ged test. it's ...

Single cell. been in there for a while. [ banging ] now that ain't me. it used to be me. >> ooh. >> reach is a toothbrush. >> that's how we playing? >> another inmate at louisville metro has always seen significant change. six weeks after seeing her daughter -- >> i'll be walking away in here reading my bible. >> -- and soon to be sentenced for assaulting her mother, monique jeffries has had a conversion. >> what are you doing, monique? >> going to muslim service. i changed my religion. okay. i've got to go. >> there's no such thing as i hate this group of people or i hate this race of people ...