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Of different races are housed together, that can lead to trouble. >> prisons segregate. the jail settings do not. >> we don't segregate by gangs, either. so you could have two bloods and a crip in the same cell. >> for the most part, they've got to get along. they're in a jail system, they're waiting to go to court and be deemed either innocent or guilty. until then, they're going to function in our system the way the sheriff wants it run. >> big bro. i want you to take bam bam. >> sergeant erby leads one of maricopa's special response teams. a s.w.a.t.-like unit of highly trained sheriff's de...

Again. >> when i came back and spoke with him, he told me, he said, i was involved in a fight. i asked him where he got the scratches from his face. he said the other guy hit me a couple times but it was mutual and right now it's quashed. so he really doesn't have any issues with the guy right now. coming up -- maricopa special response team attempts to recover a homemade cuff key from an inmate considered to be especially dangerous. and later, they turn the jail inside out in search of a very important missing key. >> the set of keys for the armory, for some reason we've got a bathroom ke...

The fourth avenue jail in maricopa county, arizona, houses more than 2,000 male inmates, including those considered to pose the highest security risk. racial tensions run high in this facility, as inmate cecil kunkel discovered shortly after our interview with him in which he showed off his many tattoos. kunkel and the inmate he fought, robert hurd, were placed in isolation cells and were unavailable to us, pending an investigation. but hurd's friends made their feelings about kunkel crystal clear. >> we don't like cecil kunkel. >> what's on his head. >> yeah, baby. scalp his ass. >> take that...

Tried to make the best of life at maricopa. >> i only went to two days of high school but since i've been here the past four years i taught myself how to read. i can read good now and i'm going through books like crazy. >> got some books for you, man. here you go, cermano. >> appreciate it, man. >> no problem, man. >> i like the romance books. yeah, i like them romance books, but i like to read anything. westerns, mysteries, action. i'll read anything. if it interests me and it's a page turner, i'll read it. if it's not, i throw it away or give it to someone else. ♪ no fairy tales no fairy t...

Start picking my jury on tuesday. and just go from there, i guess. >> knowing he would soon be facing a jury, kunkel's lawyer also advised him to grow his hair. >> because when you go in there looking the way i look, people are like, damn, this dude's been in prison all his life. he's got to be [ bleep ] up. you know what i mean? i don't want people to think that about me. you know what i mean? they offered me three plea bargains already and i turned all of them down because i believe that at least one person on that jury panel will be like, you know what, he was entrapped and i can't convict ...