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Assistant or officer. >> 16-year veteran nancy medina is the line sergeant for tower two. >> how you doing, ladies? >> she's responsible for all the deputies and custody assistants on the evening shift. >> i start out with check-in. we check in all our employees for the shift, specifically p.m.s. and then i go from floor to floor and check and make sure they're doing their jobs, the count is clear. >> how come you're all in there? are you having a party in there? >> we have a certain number of inmates that are in the facility, and what we do is we have to actually count the heads to make sure ...

Proposition 36 where we're supposed to be able to go to drug programs if we have a drug problem and i do have one. >> 50-year-old habitual drug offender kimberly jean mayby has a difficult time being treated like an inmate. >> we're threatened for everything, threatened to sit for count. we are threatened to get on our bunks. we are threatened to get things out of our hair that may just make us feel a little more feminine but every year that i come to a county jail i am defeminized more. >> 46-year-old mother of three children, denise, committed her first robbery at the age of 40. >> number si...

>> i got four years state prison even though and in spite of the newly adapted proposition 36, where we're supposed to be able to go to drug programs if we have a drug problem, and i do have one. >> 50-year-old habitual drug offender kimberly jean maybe has a difficult time being treated like an inmate. >> we're threatened for everything. we're threatened. to sit for count. we're threatened to get in our bunks. we're threatened to get things out of our hair that may just make us feel a little bit more feminine. but every year that i come to a county jail i am defeminized more. >> 46-year-old i...

For the shift, specifically p.m.s. and then i go from floor to floor and check and make sure they're doing their jobs, the count is clear. >> how come you're all in there? are you having a party in there? >> we have a certain number of inmates that are in the facility, and what we do is we have to actually count the heads to make sure that every body is where it's supposed to be. if it's not, then we have to find out where the body is. >> 44? >> more than half of the women inside l.a. county jail are in for drug-related charges. >> i got four years state prison even though and in spite of the ...

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