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Segregation cell, ten kay days of it, for fighting with another inmate. and to make matters worse, he says some of his personal belongings, including letters from his daughter, were stolen by other inmates when he transferred cells. like living in hell. it's dirty. it's nasty. it stink. i wouldn't let my dog live like this. i lost my phone privileges. i can't talk to my kids or my wife. the commissary's nothing. i'm not even depressed about that. $20 ain't nothing. but it's the point of my letters from my daughter. that's what gets me through. you know what i mean? i'm through, man. i won't ta...

Going to give me some of your food or you got to get up. and i said, "hey, if you touch my food, we're gonna have a problem." and he proceeded to touch my food. >> narrator: thompson rises from his seat. seconds later, the other inmate, keith reeves, appears to put a hand in his face, and thompson strikes back. >> i punched him in the mouth like four times, and then he tried to take another tray and pour it overtop of my head. and then i got him in a headlock, and i just choked him out. >> narrator: other inmates step in to break up the fight when an off-camera officer arrives and threatens to...

Gallop in a one-man segregation cell. now, even though he has an open case in a nearby court, jail officials have appealed to the state prison system to take him back where he can be better managed. >> we don't like to keep inmates in segregation for extended periods of time. we know that it's not good for their mental health. we've been working on a transfer for him to the state for about four months. and they said no twice, and this past time they said yes. sometimes they'll accept inmates if they are extremely violent here and there's nowhere elsewhere we can put them. >> gallop will now tr...

Kids who eventually turn over to heroin because it costs a lot less money on the street. >> addiction leads inmates to feed their habit in jail. >> not that it happens often, but there are occasions when the mail will be used to try to bring in contraband into the facility. inmates become very ingenious and get relatives to mail them contraband, drugs. >> officer domenico was recently on mail room duty when he came across a suspicious birthday card. the card was turned over to one of the jail's investigators. >> two cards glued together with four decks of heroine taped inside. it was addressed...

That. >> the first step was housing gallop in a one-man segregation cell. now, even though he has an open case in a nearby court, jail officials have appealed to the state prison system to take him back where he can be better managed. >> we don't like to keep inmates in segregation for extended periods of time. we know that it's not good for their mental health. we've been working on a transfer for him to the state for about four months. and they said no twice, and this past time they said yes. sometimes they'll accept inmates if they are extremely violent here and there's nowhere elsewhere we...