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Prisons like the santa rosa correctional institution in florida can be dirty places. blood, sweat, feces and urine are part of the fabric of life here. the task of cleaning that fabric, the inmates' clothes and linens falls squarely on 18 inmates who work in the laundry facility. among them is michael james. >> we operate day to day, eight to ten hours a day. you know, we do a lot of different things here. i mean you got fight, stabbings, a lot of stuff that goes on here at santa rosa. it's a level 6 facility. >> some of the worst laundry comes from the close management units. >> violent inmat...

Inside the louisville metro department of corrections jail, donald coleman was within two weeks of going home. that's when he got into a fight in the jail's laundry facility with another inmate. though coleman said the resulting injuries were due to hoeplay -- >> you got a knot right here. >> he told us something else. >> he called me a bitch and i split his head open. >> where's coleman? you coleman? >> yeah. >> come on, man. you got disciplinary hearing. >> the next morning coleman had a hearing with officer hale who would determine whether he could get time in segregation. and if so, how mu...

Inside the louisville metro department of corrections jail, donald coleman was within two weeks of going home. that's when he got into a fight in the jail's laundry facility with another inmate. though coleman said the resulting injuries were due to horseplay -- >> you got a knot right here. >> he told us something else. >> he called me a bitch and i split his head open. >> where's coleman? you coleman? >> yeah. >> come on, man. you got a disciplinary hearing. >> the next morning coleman had a hearing with officer hale, who would determine whether he could get time in segregation and if so, ho...

>> for every six days that you work, you get another extra day of good time and an extra day of work time taken off of your sentence. so for every six days that you're in custody and they are working, it's like eight days as long as they behave. >> gonzales works in the laundry facility. >> where is this one going, sir? >> that's going to surplus. >> i work on the clothes that everyone wears. i sort them and fold them. take them off the truck brand new, yeah, they're all fresh, socks, pants. i get new clothes every day, never dirty, always new. that's what matters. that's what matters. >> did ...

The dope comes out. they take it off there and use it. more than likely, chop it up and sell it, piece by piece. his argument will be he didn't know it was coming in. it's coming in off the streets. that's all he has to say, i didn't know it was coming in. this is an actual address. we'll turn over to squad and let them know it tested positive and it's up to them to see what they want to do. >> acting on an inside tip about contraband continuing to come through the laundry facility, on corcoran's "b" yard, the sergeant and his team launch a surprise search. >> this is our level three general p...