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Quiet man. i miss brian, too, man. i miss brian, man. for real, man. all right? though at times kelly's future seemed hopeless, he got a chance for the fresh start he longed for. but it would be a very fresh start. following our shoot, he pled guilty to his latest drug charges and was sentenced to time served. but there was a twist to his sentence as well. utilizing the georgia law that allows for banishment, kelly has been banned from stepping foot in savannah or the rest of chatham county for a period of 15 years. the jail official who heard from him says he's resettled in another state and ...

Affixed toilet paper on to the window with toothpaste spelling out "big mark." this was at the front entry of the jail. all the administrative staff walked in. >> the plaza below hinkston's window was also used by civilians visiting the jail or doing business in county courthouses. >> and there's a lot of women that walk down there and mark said he was trying to look for somebody to come visit him and possibly start a relationship with. >> since i've been in this cell, i put my name in this window and i wrote it in toothpaste. i also sing one of my little play heads out there. just in case you...

>> imagine being buried alive in a windowless cell 23 1/2 hours a day. the sunlight hasn't touched your skin in years. you feel like you're living in darkness and humanity has been drained from your soul by the cruel and inhumane conditions being inflicted upon you. imagine being buried alive and being deprived of your basic senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. you're faced with extraordinary isolation. complete idleness. and limited environmental stimulation. which pushes you to acts of desperation and paranoia. imagine being buried alive and losing your sense of time. you can't te...

Just in 2014 alone, ten states made reforms to their solitary confinement policies. they restricted the use for juveniles and the mentally ill. and were likely to see more reforms for other inmates as well. >> one of those reforms, may very well have to do with placing limits on how long an inmate can remain in segregation. especially if they are already serving a significant prison sentence. christopher trotter would likely support such an idea. when we met him he had been in a windowless segregation cell at the wabash correctional facility in indiana for near lay decade. trotter wrote about ...

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 harshly, because they don't want you to do it again. an...