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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, nurses and deputies meet to discuss inmates' treatments and behavior. to protect the inmates' identities from msnbc's cameras, the staff refers to their booking numbers. >> inmate 227 i saw yesterday on the seventh floor. he's doing a l...

>> 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 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.

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, nurses and deputies meet to discuss inmates' treatments and behavior. to protect the inmates' identities from msnbc's cameras, the staff refers to their booking numbers. >> inmate 227 i saw yesterday on the seventh floor. he's doing a lot better. so i thought we'd giv...

Out so you guys can keep your fluids nice and cold and for drinking. it's really important to check each other out, make sure you guys are okay. we're looking at 105 heat index plus for the next four to five days. >> the towers. curry. >> sir. >> tower one. >> it's 6:45 a.m. at stateville correctional center. >> tower two, voight. >> officers on the 7:00 to 3:00 shift are preparing for their day. for the next eight hours, 400 correctional officers will police more than 2,600 inmates. before most inmates wake up, the humans and machinery whose sole purpose is to ensure the prisoners stay secure...

County jail houses all of the women inmates. like tower number one, its modular design with no bars and high visibility makes it easier for deputies to manage the inmates. >> it's a lot easier because you don't have the movement going on that you did like at the old jails. you had a lot of movement. everybody had to go down and eat chow in the chow hall. and now they all eat in their pods. 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. >>...