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Current one-year sentence for larceny, so far he's been a model inmate. >> i have seen no issues with him since he's been here. really is a pretty decent guy. >> his good demeanor helped him earn one of the trusted jobs. >> i'm the police bitch pretty much. i clean. i pass food. i do anything the police ask me to do. >> trufts don't get paid but -- trustees don't get paid but spend more time out of their cells and often get an extra meal or two. >> i've been working out, lost weight. lost probably 15 pounds. i've been doing this, gained back seven or eight already. all i do is get cakes. i'm [...

15 years for accessory to robbery in florida. he says his job as a band tour bus driver led him to drug addiction, and it was all downhill from there. >> it's a lot faster pace on that west coast than for a country boy from florida, so it was a different world out there. >> during his first prison term, mccrory was less than a model inmate. >> the first couple, smoked a little reefer, drank me some wine, didn't care. didn't make a difference. i just did what i wanted to. this time, i tried to do it the way it should be done. the staff looks at you a little different than when you are not an id...

Saying, "well, i told you i was going to do it." we acted proactively on this one worked out better for everyone. >> the inmate who made the threats, anthony kimbley, had made the threats two weeks earlier as the inmate launched the assault on officer hamilton. several inmates rushed the door of the housing unit. kimbley was reported to be among them. up until then he was regarded to be a model inmate. >> what's going on, man? you never caused problems. you know, just cool out. we'll get you back over there eventually. >> he is going through some personal issues, he says. so he said he is goin...

A lapse of judgment. a crime is committed. it can result in years behind bars, and regaining freedom can seem impossible. >> we have a lot of freedom out here, you know. we have everything that a person would have at home. >> golden barnett, and nine fellow inmates share creature comforts that don't exist inside the castle. they've become minimum-security inmates who live in a house on the prison grounds. >> trust is what i lost to society. to trust me in society. so this is a start, and it's a great start. >> for eight years, barnett has been a model inmate. now he works as a custodian as he ...

Rise and shine, ladies. get up. get dressed. no talking whatsoever. listen up for instructions. left face. grab your chains. take your marks. all right, ladies. what's rule number one. >> i will be a model inmate. >> that's exactly right. that's what we're going to do today, all day and every day. mark time, march. forward march. >> left. left, right left. >> the crack of dawn brings a military-style drill to the women's general population housing unit at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. >> sound off, one, two. sound, off, three, four. one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.