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Inside the disciplinary segregation unit of boston's suffolk county jail house of correction, inmate ricardo gomes has been causing problems since early morning. >> okay, sergeant medeiros, approximately 2:15 p.m., outside the 131 segregation unit where inmate ricardo gomes was placed in the restraint chair after being disruptive. >> after urinating on his cell door, threatening to throw feces on staff, and tampering with the shower head, gomes has been immobilized in a restraint chair. he's been there for almost two hours. >> i'm not going to go inside the housing unit and see if he's ready t...

So new inmates come in, detainees come in and they go right at it and they end up here. >> here is the segregation unit where inmates are placed after fights or other serious disciplinary violations. other than toiletries and legal papers, they are not allowed personal property and are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. while segregation is officially known as the 6-1 unit, inmates have another name for it. >> the box. >> get down. >> it's hell on earth. >> the box sucks. >> a lot of times you go to the section, you hear a lot of screaming. i'm going to kill you. i'm going to get you. >> [ ...

Again? >> hey, if that's how you want to put it, you know what i mean, that's my little slang, my little lingo, but yeah, so all day, miss, you know. doing the same old, same old. and you can't -- and when it come to sleep, people just say oh, you can sleep throughout the day. just sleep the whole day. you can't do that because you would be up all night. >> deputy stangel, who helps run the segregation unit, handed down the sanctions against bloodworth after a brief hearing with him. now bloodworth has asked to speak with stangel. >> 14 long days. >> it is 14 long days. >> but stangel, what wo...

>> these units are very large, can range from 30 to 40 inmates all the way up to 180, close to 200 inmates. and sometimes one, two, maybe if you're lucky three officers per unit. an officer having to worry about 180 people possessing weapons on a daily basis. so that's why it's very important for them to be on their toes and look out for suspicious activity. >> the latest inmate weapon confiscated by officers was found in the segregation unit at the house of correction. >> what makes this significant, obviously, it's a sock. but in the sock he had five aa batteries. and these aa batteries are ...

Day. >> hayes' easygoing attitude stands in contrast to the alleged crime that brought him to jail in the first place. attempted murder. he's pled not guilty and has been in jail for nearly four months awaiting trial. >> here i am again. and because of my past history and my record, you know, they kind of somewhat using that against me thinking i'm either a threat or a menace to society which i'm really not. >> hayes's long-term future is up to the courts. for now he's facing possible time in the jail's segregation unit if the disciplinary board sanctions him for the fight. he will have a hear...