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And she has met hundreds of inmates, coping with solitary confinement. >> they kind of run of gamut. i've seen people who sleep all day long and all night long. there's almost like this constant state of depression. then you see the ones who are just so, so needing to have their voice heard since they have no one else to talk to, they'll make a tremendous amount of noise, they'll kick the door, they're constantly screaming. mental health issues arise because you are deprived of what's so basic, and that's just interaction with another human being. and i think that that can cause a lot of negat...

>> a lot of the cases that i do is like basically freestyle. whatever come to my head or comes to me at the moment, i just sound off and everybody all do it in unison. >> of course it reminded me of boot camp. you know, at times you know, going through and the discipline, and the camaraderie. because there is camaraderie. everybody's together. you know, listening to the same cadence and marching in step. there's a discipline to it. you know, everybody has to be in step or it's not going to work. to be there it brought back some memories. it was pretty neat and cool to be involved with that. >>...

Obsessive thinking. and we often find in prisons that inmates are in solitary confinement for months, if not years at a time. but what we're also finding, is that jail inmates are also spending more time behind bars. their trials are taking longer to resolve. and as a result, they're spending more time in segregation as well. >> when we travelled to the fairfax county adult detention center in virginia, we encountered the toughest, most restrictive segregation unit we had ever seen. >> you mess up, you're going to be punished and punished harshly, because they don't want you to do it again. an...

Known for its historic neighborhoods, cobblestone streets and oak shaded public squares, welcome millions of tourists each year. anyone arrested in savannah will likely spend time in the chatham county detention center. most of the 1,500 inmates here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. no matter what neighborhood they come from on the streets, this one here most try to avoid once they arrive. >> unit 2 is our disciplinary unit. inmates typically arrive at that unit because they cannot follow rules and regulations. they have problems outside obv...

Inmates that break rules can wind up confined to their cells 22.5 hours a day in the segregation unit. most everyone refers to segregation as the box. it's a place where even making a phone call is a little more difficult than normal. >> talk to me a little bit about using this phone. >> i got this number shape back here to tell us how the phone is because we got to dial it backwards. i just feel for this bump on the five, like the braille, right there. that's how i know that's the five and then i'll just dial around it. >> is this in every unit? >> in general population you can see the phone ...