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Cincinnati is another city of sorts, the hamilton county justice center, population 1300. most of the men and women in this jail are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial or the resolution of the cases. >> we are returning a small city basically. it is a city that never sleeps. when your city never sleeps there is always something that you need to pay attention to. disagreements, argument, assaults, fight, attempted murders. i've seen it all. anything can happen. >> you can either have a good day or you can have a day to go straight to hell. >> and it's not been a good day for an inmat...

Soon after they leave, giroux becomes enraged again and head butts the door. [ bleep ] though giroux's behavior has since stabilized, sergeant colette, who runs the segregation units, has another reason for isolating him as well. >> his words were "i'm not housing with no mexican." he refused to house with anybody that was mexican, and that is not permitted here. mr. giroux will stay in segregation until we modify his behavior and he decides, you know, housing with a mexican isn't so bad after all. >> most inmates prefer to live in the jail's general population units. they enjoy more time out ...

Inside the general population units of san antonio's bexar county jail, long periods of monotony can be shattered by sudden violence. on a saturday morning inmates pass time in the day room when a fight breaks out in the second floor cell. >> code 2. code 2. charlie alpha. >> the jail's special emergency response team races to the unit and orders all inmates to the ground. within moments it's all over. one of the participants is a member of the white supremacist gang the aryan brotherhood, adam verlander, who's here on charges of car theft and evading arrest, to which he has pled not guilty. >...

>> while abdallah contemplates the moral choices of a nation, antwan rivers recently had to choose between keeping his hair extensions and long nails and being confined to the protective custody unit. >> protective custody, i can't go there. >> well, until you cut the nails and take the hair off, you have to go to a1b. i can't send you to general population with the nails and hair on. >> rivers has made his choice and is now in one of the far less restrictive general population units. >> i mean, i feel plain. i don't feel like me. i feel like me because this is how i am born, but like i don't ...

Isn't so bad after all. >> most inmates prefer to live in the jail's general population units. they enjoy more time out of their cells, televisions, and the ability to socialize with others. but sometimes, that leads to conflict. >> we just had an officer call on the radio that she needed help. don't know what the issue is but we should find out shortly. >> now i'm getting in trouble for what? so can i go ahead and fight it, then, if i'm going to get in trouble? >> ain't fighting nobody, that's the whole gist. >> that's what i'm saying. i didn't do nothing. i'm going to do something i'm going ...