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Appreciate you guys coming. i want to recognize that we have over 50 people dedicated for this mission today. it's good to see everybody coming together, working toward a common goal, several institutions, okaloosa, walton, century, the ig's canine. what we're doing this morning, mass search. our goal is to identify, locate and remove items of contraband, making santa rosa a safer place for the inmates and the staff. >> today's search will cover two housing units and involve officers from santa rosa, three other state prisons, and the state's inspector general's canine unit. the dogs are train...

>> two. >> all right, y'all, hold it down. hey, if you stop talking and get up here, we'll go to chow. we structure everything like the military. and we like to have everybody do the same thing all together and they stay in compliance when they do that. if you've got your hands in your pockets, you're wrong. if you've got your hands in your jacket, you're wrong. >> we make them walk on the line so we do have consistency. and if everybody's walking in a straight line, it makes our job a whole lot easier. y'all take your hands out of your pockets. >> while florida's santa rosa correctional insti...

Governor jerry brown and called for a realignment of where criminals serve time, low level offenders and especially parole violators would no longer come to state prisons. they would instead go to county jails. but the jail is under a court order to relief it's overcrowding according to the sheriff, the state dumped its problem on the county and the county is now dumping criminals on the streets. so no matter what the state or governor says are the county's duties in terms of handling these parole violators, you just have no room? >> the overcrowding situation is such that we can't afford it. ...

Just because they're from across town and all that. i haven't done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones i'm going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> duker on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of the food chain. >> everybody's like that when they're young. they don't see the big picture. they can't see it yet. you know what i mean? it's just whatever happens ...

>> i'm serious. you don't have to marry him. >> yeah, i mean, it seem that way. you're placing this inmate in the cell with me. i mean we're not -- we're not outside the cell all day. we're inside that cell all day. >> yeah, but that should have been a consideration before you went to prison. >> the committee is baffled, not only by hamilton's stubbornness but by its sudden appearance after nine years behind bars at other state prisons. >> you have been taking a cellie up until the time you got here. once you got here, you stopped taking cellies. >> that's not a luxury of being in prison. he s...