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>> 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're part of the 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 about my little girl and somebody ...

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 feud to get hurt, again. i don't want that to happen, okay? so, where you'll go from here is probably segregation unit, protective custody. i have no other choice for you. >> okay. >> very good, sir. >> you're taking this all pretty calmly. i mean, you come to jail and get beaten up and you're waiting to go to pris...

>> you don't want to get caught between these things. >> the dangers posed by the jail's agvs pale in comparison within those posed by some of its inmates. philip white was recently given a 26 year to life sentence for the murder of his girlfriend. as he awaits his transfer to prison, white is in the jail's disciplinary segregation unit where inmates are only allowed out of their cells only one hour at a time one at a time. an aspiring rapper on the outside, white says he usually spends his hour teaching other inmates how to rap. ♪ counting this money >> when you say that, add a little swag ...

Unison. >> of course it reminded me of boot camp. at times going through the discipline and the camaraderie. there is camaraderie. everyone is together listening to the same cadence. there is a discipline to it. everybody has to be in step or it's not going to work. it brought back memories. it was pretty neat and cool to be involved with that. >> one of the more interesting and necessary jobs i have seen in a jail or prison was in louisville. >> nothing. talking to you. >> it was called on one and a general population inmate was brought into a segregation unit. she would sit outside the cell ...

Man. >> thank you, sir. >> it went better than i thought it was going to go it could have went a lot worser. he didn't have to go that far, i guess he you could say looked out for me kind of. >> for nonviolent infractions, suffolk county often used the probation option. which kept being inmates out of segregation. and the units themselves were much less isolated than others we've seen. >> it was actually nothing like any other segregation unit i had seen before. >> inmates were confined 22 1/2 hours per day, but could still communicate with each other and were even given time in an outside rec...