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Tulsa county jail are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. their one hour out can be spent either in the shower or rec yard. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. >> sergeant collette, who runs the unit, says he frequently checks in with the inmates and tries to help them adapt to the isolation. >> the brain is very powerful and you can fail to flourish and literally will yourself to death. i do not want that in here. it's like i tell these guys in the seg when i first meet them, i want you guys reading. i want you doing a little exercise in your cell. if i wanted mushrooms back her...

While they're in here. i'm governed by state and federal laws that i must do these things and i am mandated to do these things. i don't have to like it. a lot of times i don't like it. but i do it because i am the one responsible for making sure these mandates are met. >> hi, alvin. >> hey, sergeant collette. >> how you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. >> all right. you know why i come by, to check on you. it's the anniversary of what allegedly you have done. >> yeah. >> i want to check on you mentally. are you hanging in there? do i need to get mental health here? >> i'm good. i'm good. >> ar...

If i wanted mushrooms back here, i'd be a gardener. what i say to them is free your mind. your ass will follow. >> jacob england has been in segregation for nearly a year. he's followed sergeant collette's advice but has also participated in extracurricular activity with some of his neighbors. they call it cadillacing, and it involves using string to pass items between cells. >> what are you doing? >> cadillacing a soup. i'm giving him a soup. he's going to come down off the top rung. i'm going to pull in his cadillac and tie on a soup and push it back underneath the door and he's going to pul...

Say i'm like a celebrity to them >> why? >> just because of how high-profile my case is. >> while england seems prepared for whatever fate awaits him sergeant collette has grown concerned about watts. >> alvin watts's demeanor has changed, and that concerns me. i'm always looking in alvin's cell, seeing what's changed. he has become more reclusive. alvin used to have a lot of stuff written on the walls. it's all gone. if you learn to read what's -- what the inmates have written on the walls, it's a picture into their mind, to what's going on with them. and i don't like blank slates. that worri...

>> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail! >> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail! >> segregation inmates at the tulsa county jail are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. their one hour out can be spent either in the shower or rec yard. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. >> sergeant collette, who runs the unit, says he frequently checks in with the inmates and tries to help them adapt to the isolation. >> the brain is very powerful and you can fail to flourish and literally will yourself to death. i do not want that in here. it's like i tell these guys in the seg when i first meet them. i want you...