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So we don't have the movement. and you also have direct supervision where everybody is moved with a deputy or custody assistant officer. >> 16-year veteran nancy medina is the line sergeant for tower two. >> how you doing, ladies? >> she's responsible for all the deputies and custody assistants on the evening shift. >> i start out with check-in. we check in all our employees for the shift, specifically p.m.s. and then i go from floor to floor and check and make sure they're doing their jobs, the count is clear. >> how come you're all in there? are you having a party in there? >> we have a cert...

Can see them. >> in case of a riot, catwalks can also be locked down to protect deputies from violence. >> are you mentally insane, dude? next -- "lockup" takes you inside tower number one, where the biggest challenge is protecting inmates from themselves. last season was the gulf's best tourism season in years. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf.

Because that's when either you will be assaulted or they will assault somebody else. >> high power inmates are housed in single 6 x 9 cells and are monitored by surveillance cameras and deputies 24 hours a day. >> basically, this is what we call the catwalk. it's the security corridor for staff to go down a row and visually either do a security check or count or just get down the row and see what's going on. the walls are all painted black so that they don't see us. this is a one-way mirror. and so they can't see us but we can see them. >> in case of a riot, catwalks can also be locked down to...

Assistant or officer. >> 16-year veteran nancy medina is the line sergeant for tower two. >> how you doing, ladies? >> she's responsible for all the deputies and custody assistants on the evening shift. >> i start out with check-in. we check in all our employees for the shift, specifically p.m.s. and then i go from floor to floor and check and make sure they're doing their jobs, the count is clear. >> how come you're all in there? are you having a party in there? >> we have a certain number of inmates that are in the facility, and what we do is we have to actually count the heads to make sure ...

Community every day, mental health professionals and sheriff's deputies are working together to find better ways to identify and treat their patients before they head home. tower number one is a 185-foot-tall facility that has no bars. the thousands of square feet of security glass and other acoustical materials serve as sound barriers, making it a uniquely quiet facility. its high-tech design allows a module control deputy to see into each of the 96 cells with one glance. this is where all of the male inmates with mental health problems are housed. every morning in tower number one, doctors, ...