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We first encountered him as he was being transferred to a new housing unit. >> we happened to be following a mental health staff member one day as she was visiting the segregation unit. as we were heading toward medical, we saw inmate chairs being brought down. from that moment, things kept spiraling. >> he began to threaten that he was going to, you know, do whatever he could to manipulate his housing, to be put back to where he wanted to be. >> causing havoc down here. they might as well put me back in my cell. >> he's a manipulator. what he does is what we call supervisor shopping. if he do...

Result in things like hallucinations, panic attacks, 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 ha...

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 of a distressed inmate who was locked up 23 hours a day and engage that person. if they were getting distraught, this person would just bring them down. talk them down. >> during only her third week on the job, crystal was assigned to an inmate from suicide watch. >> she would scream and yell and i was one person who could get through to her. i accounted like she was my daughter. it's like she promises she...

Recommend a job drop. do you want to appeal this? >> yes, sir. >> yes, sir, i don't think the $25 is appropriate. >> i can suspend that. i will suspend the $25. >> okay. and richie would like time to get his affairs in order before he has to go away for five days. >> everything i heard and saw, he attempted to alter the results of a drug test. >> i was given five days in solitary confinement and he recommended a job drop, which means i'll probably go to pots and pans in the kitchen. >> ziggy's first stop is the segregation unit, better known as the hole, where he'll be locked up 23 hours a day...

The transfer he'd been waiting for. after a fight in his dorm, surveillance video caught morgan trying to clean up the blood. >> you could be a firsthand witness to an actual crime, but if you live by the convict code, you see nothing, you hear nothing, and you say nothing, and that was the case unfortunately with peaches. he was witness to a crime. but he wouldn't cop to it. >> morgan was moved to the segregation unit pending an investigation into his role in the fight. but he denied any involvement, even when confronted by deputy warden jodi brown. >> hey. >> they said i was involved, jodi, ...