Page 26 - Segregation Unit News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

what i really want to do is put you in a segregation unit, where nobody can get at you. i have an inmate where somebody has beaten them up once before. it gets all over this place like wildfire and then whatever pod i put you in is a potential for you to get hurt again. and i don't want that to happen, okay? so, where you'll go from here is probably segregation unit, protective custody. okay? i have no other choice for you. very good, sir. >> you're taking this all pretty calmly. i mean, you come to jail and get beaten up, you're waiting to go to prison. how are you being so calm about this...

Administrative seg sergeant. i don't want to put you in a pod, okay. what i really want to do is put you in a segregation unit, where nobody can get at you. i have an inmate where somebody has beaten them up once before. it gets all over this place like wildfire and then whatever pod i put you in is a potential for you to get hurt again. and i don't want that to happen, okay? so, where you'll go from here is probably segregation unit, protective custody. okay? i have no other choice for you. very good, sir. >> you're taking this all pretty calmly. i mean, you come to jail and get beaten up, yo...

>> all right. thank you, mr. colette. >> all right, man. >> i'm sorry i broke my word to you. you hear me? >> okay. we're going to try it again, man, okay? >> all right. thank you, mr. colette. >> all right, bud. >> unlike nava, rafael gonzalez is a newcomer to the segregation unit. >> rafael. you part of that mess from 16 last night? >> yes, sir. >> you know he dies, you go manslaughter charge, you know that. 20 to life. >> you think he's going to make it, though? >> don't know. >> i didn't mean to harm him that bad, you know. just -- anger. >> i understand rage. >> i seen him and i thought a...

>> morris prefers to be housed alone in the jail's segregation unit, because he says he was raped while serving a prison sentence for second degree murder. during that murder trial, two of morris' aunts testified he suffered an abusive childhood. morris says it was a childhood that also included more than one sexual assault. >> i can't remember how old i was. but i never forgot it. never. or forgot the rape in juvenile hall. or forgot the rape in oakland, california. unfortunately, it was like i had a magnet on my ass. a loud neon sign across my back. it was horrible. yeah. >> what are you lau...

The fight has broken out between two inmates. the officer on duty calls for backup. employs pepper spray in an attempt to break it up. but the fight continues. seconds later, backup arrives and the two men are separated. deputies then secure the unit, ordering all inmates back to their cells. >> told you -- >> the inmates involved are byron tolbert and wilfredo vasquez. >> get back over there. >> with their eyes still stinging from the pepper spray, the inmates are taken to the segregation unit. they're placed in separate cells and allowed to wash their eyes