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Oh, [bleep]

Ooh damn.

Hey. Hey.

Hey, back up.

Come on, bro.

Come on, move.

Hey, chill out.

Hey, chill out, boy, chill out.

Come on, bro.

Chill out!

Hey, stop moving.

Chill out.

Chill out, come on.

Never know.

I've dealt with over 10 jail deaths.

You got to be ready at any moment.

Get on the wall.

If there's an opportunity for a camera to shed the light,

to fix something like this...

Get away from the door now.

I say yeah, let's do it.

Last chance.

Put him on the ground.

Stop resisting.

See that right there?

Stop.

Damn it.

Put that down.

Back up.

I am not in a position-

Come here.

For this [bleep].

Not just these cameras, the ones that are on your chest.

Make sure that we're paying attention to the little details.

When you're doing your head counts,

pull the stuff off the lights,

pull the stuff off the windows,

pull the sheets off the doors.

If there's inmates out after lockdown,

call the supervisors, call more help, lock 'em down.

We have to enforce these rules

if we want 'em to be followed.

All right?

All right, be safe.

I've been the sheriff since December 22nd, 2022.

What makes life tough in the Clayton County Jail

is not having the proper funding

to make sure that everything is working smoothly.

Sheriff on deck.

Carry on, carry on.

We are severely understaffed,

severely overcrowded,

and the infrastructure of the jail is falling apart,

which contributes to violence tremendously.

Right now, we have 2,000 inmates in the jail.

200 of them that are here for murder.

Another seven or 800 that are here for attempted murder.

Put your hand behind your back.

Yeah, face the wall for me.

He just got in a fight.

He needs to be charged, all right?

We have to make sure that we're prepared

for the type of inmate that we're seeing today.

If there's any issues or anything that happens, you know,

I want to put my best foot forward trying to fix it.

Sheriff on deck.

Carry on.

All right, what we got?

Hey.

When incidents happen here at the jail,

me and my command staff review it

and discuss how we can fix it and do better.

Another option, solution to this is feed in tiers.

So if you can feed the top,

and then have them return and feed the bottom,

instead of having, you know,

30 to 40 or 50 people in the actual day room at one time.

We do this to make sure

that something that's already boiling

don't overflow and spill over into everything.

Okay, no problem.

Thank you baby.

You're welcome.

Two!

Open the door.

Give me that sheet.

No, you not.

Now, you know I gotta call the code.

Put it under there?

I'm not gonna open it.

I don't trust y'all.

They got a big ass machete in there.

No.

No, y'all need to give me that machete.

Give it to me.

Let me see it.

Tyler Williams, give it to me.

Which one?

What the [bleep] is that?

Give it to me.

I'm gonna do this.

Put it out.

Stop playing.

If y'all want me to let y'all out for free time,

you better [bleep] give it to me right now.

Sergeant Strickland,

can you ?

Open the door!

Okay.

It's kind of hard to get them help.

when they're destroying the stuff

that we're trying to help 'em with.

Only one of our showers work

and only one of our toilets work.

And it got mold in it.

And we got, and people got lice too.

Central control open 7.

This is ain't housing unit five, this seven.

We do work over here.

Officer Daniels, central control.

One.

'Cause you be playing too much games for me.

You grown, stop playing all them games.

Yeah, you be playing games.

Go, go, go.

That [bleep] shoulda touched me, I woulda punched you again.

On God, he can't be in here. He ain't

got no beef with that We be down over here.

We be down over here.

Come on, come on.

Stop playing.

Back up.

What we doing? [bleep]

[bleep] - Back up.

Back up, back up, back up, back up, back up.

No, hell no.

Hell no.

Officer Daniels to central control.

We have an active 29 in housing unit seven, section one.

Officer involved.

29, officer involved.

Housing seven.

Back up, back up, back up,

back up, back up, back up.

- Gon' get worse. - No, hell no.

No, he did not.

No.

We aint doing this, we aint doing this.

Bro.

Okay.

All that .

He said [bleep].

I know, I know, I know, I know.

He punched me in my lip.

Housing unit seven, section one

is now under control.

Yo, no, no, no.

- Who? - Pickett.

You saved Daniels?

All right. So what happened?

Yeah.

Your camera is on?

My camera on, yeah.

- It's on, okay. - Yeah. Okay.

Come on.

Come on, .

Wait up! Stop.

Issue of why the inmate is upset, it appears because he's

been asking the officer for something

for some time and the officer has continued

to push it off and not giving it to him.

But from the inmate standpoint, what should have happened,

the inmate should have asked a supervisor for it...

And back up because I want to see when he pushed him.

The problem is how the pill call is being conducted.

They should all be lined up on the wall

and then come down as he calls them.

So how close they are right now

is not even supposed to happen.

Come on, come on.

Next thing is even if you're going off of what

the officer stated, the inmate threw the water down

or spilled the water.

What he could have said was,

"Hey, it's not going to be disciplinary.

"You're going to go for disciplinary segregation."

You definitely need to get with the jail administrator

and make sure that he pushes down

the proper pill call protocol.

Walk into some retraining for the officer on how

to handle these situations when these situations arise.

I believe that the inmate did it on purpose.

It's just once he places his hands on the officer

and pushes him, that changes the game in terms,

it makes it a criminal aspect. - Mhmm.

I've been here three years.

I try to influence the inmates to change, man.

You know what I'm saying?

The judge wants you to change.

Don't be in here trying to stab people,

officers, inmates, each other.

It's not good.

It don't look good on your record.

So just do what you got to do.

Do your time peacefully and go home.

How did they get out?

Once you get to housing five, do not enter the section.

You ought to wait until the supervisor get there.

It's the direct order.

Get on the ground.

I want to see [bleep] on the ground.

So what's your issue?

Hey Ms. Williams, how you doing?

Sergeant Strickland.

I'm good.

He's currently upset.

He came out, he pushed past the officer,

him and his roommates.

He threatened to stab me and my lieutenant,

fight us, and you know what I'm saying, threatening me.

Like I'm the one that let him call you on my phone.

You know what I'm saying?

I told her I always threatened her.

So I'm going to call your mama y'all.

Strickland, don't call my mama.

I only do it just to, you know what I'm saying?

Just bring them back to the self.

You know what I'm saying?

Hold up.

You wanna talk to your mom?

Mom.

Hello.

Hello.

Hey, mom, look, whatever this [bleep] tell you,

I don't want to hear that [bleep].

These folks had me in my

[bleep] room 48 hours.

I'm pissed off.

I'm telling you right now, I finna catch a charge.

I don't give [bleep] what this [bleep], just told you.

These folks try me.

They playing with my head.

They playing with me.

I swear to God, mom.

And whatever this [bleep] told you,

I don't give a [bleep] what he told you.

Tyler.

Tyler, this ain't got nothing to do

with nobody else but me and you right now.

Can you hear me?

Yeah, I can hear you, ma.

I can hear you loud and clear.

Take your mind from that right now.

Turn your mind from all of the energy

that you using on the negativity, Tyler.

'Cause you can't win

and you can't beat them people right now.

You see what I'm saying?

So calm down.

Bring your energy down, son.

If you catch another charge, they're going

to keep you in there longer.

I'm trying to get you out of there Tyler.

Calm down.

Bring your energy down, son.

And you got to realize that's their job

to do what they doing.

They ain't doing that [bleep] personally.

Calm down, Tyler.

All right, I'm calm.

Okay?

get through this, Tyler.

All right?

I got you.

Okay, my son.

All right, love you.

Let me talk to the officer.

Yes, ma'am. I'm here.

I understand I'm locked up.

I understand I'm in a predicament

where I can't get [bleep] done for myself,

but at the end of the day, y'all are acting like a shower

and a phone is a reward.

That [bleep] not no reward when they put it

in a dorm with this.

I'm not mad at y'all by this-

Go ahead, continue.

Did you see my note?

I wrote to the officers.

I wrote them a whole note begging these folks

to y'all please make sure I come out.

Let me tell you something.

If you aggressive, they not going to open the door.

Look at you in my shoes.

If you was an officer, you going to let me out?

If I'm being aggressive, you going to let me out.

I know you like to fight.

You might, you probably will because you like to fight.

But what I'm saying is, that's not how it goes.

We don't reward bad behavior.

What I was trying to explain to Tyler Williams

was we do have a respect level with each other.

You ask me to do something, I'll do it.

If I need you to do something, you should be able to do it.

With me calling his mom, it was on a thing

where he needed to get back on track.

One day he was very upset.

Say he didn't have no money on his books.

So what I did was I just used my county phone.

I said, "Hey man, call your mom."

See what's going on with your family.

That's how I got his number, you know what I'm saying?

So, but that's how it goes.

At the end, the mother and the sergeant had communication.

So the mom knew how to call the sergeant

and the sergeant knew how to call him

because he had her number.

He called her, so they spoke.

So they did well.

I tell my officers everyday in roll call,

always to just stay vigilant at all times, stay on point,

and treat inmates like you never know.

On a security inmate, you never know what they're

going to do.

Wood County has been in need of a new jail for decades.

We ran out of space in the old facility

and it wasn't safe for our staff

and it wasn't safe for inmates.

We've been in the facility for about 15 months now.

The cost was around $93 million.

But we looked at, hey, this is a community need.

I've been here almost eight years in the sheriff role.

Thank you.

Probably one of the biggest issues

our community's facing are addiction issues,

drug issues, alcohol issues,

heroin seems to be a big issue, and opioids.

And with the drug use, that leads to other crime.

Nice job.

I watched the video on you catching the guy

that was concealing it.

Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

As far as more of the violent offenders, it's probably,

you know, two-thirds.

You know, because of the addiction issues

that we're seeing within our facility,

people that are addicted and they're coming off it,

they're going through withdrawal, very agitated.

Stop playing around, are you done?

They're thinking of, I want to get high.

I can't.

And they're pissed off about it.

Back off the cell.

Body cameras are a very, very valuable piece of

equipment and it gives the perspective of that interaction

when we're reviewing footage.

And there always can be a training opportunity.

Like, hey, I did it right,

but I could do it this way next time.

And it just made sense to have body cameras in our jail.

Go in there.

We'll just lock you in. - No problem.

You can just chill in there.

What are you doing?

You better stay away from it.

They're probably already aware,

but don't [bleep] go run and tell them

that's why we're there.

I appreciate you.

What'd he say?

He said he didn't know anything about it.

He said if there was anything going on,

he stays away from what they're doing, so.

Officer Wayne, he does medication pass

in the afternoons.

He saw Trevor, one of our inmates, open his mouth

at the end of taking his meds.

He saw a med in the roof of his mouth and under his tongue.

Trevor walked away.

Wayne called him back, made him take more water,

but that kind of initiated this search,

make sure that there wasn't anything left over

because if he did it once, he's most likely been doing it

and just hasn't been caught yet.

Yup.

Enterprise, do you have anybody in there

that's willing to run a Ziploc bag up to us?

No, you're good. Stay in there.

Move over.

What?

Yes.

Go ahead and head in there and go into D1.

All right, we'll be back.

I'll explain a little more in a little bit.

So next deputy will come over with a drug test kit,

take a sample of it, see what the results are,

and we'll go from there as far as issuing rule violation,

lockdown time, things like that.

They said that they found a white powdery substance

in a modified pen.

The [bleep] am I going to do with that?

And then they were like, "Well, we have, we have proof

"to assume that you are snorting your medication."

What the [bleep] am I snorting my medication for?

It does the same effect no matter which way I do it.

After the full investigation that we had done

on it, basically we wrote him up for two 10-day rule

violations, one being misuse of medication for cheeking the

meds, and the other one being for creating a disturbance

because we had who knows how many officers on hand along

with the deputy that came in and tested it.

The other inmates really didn't seem

to know too much about it, so it was kind of isolated

to this one individual.

We already do the cell searches,

including non-inmate areas in case they're accessed

and something's hidden there.

And we do them randomly right now.

All right, with this we probably

should step it up a little bit.

Why don't we connect with canine

to maybe do weekly, you know, something like that.

I'll let them, I'll let the staff know and the sergeants.

Okay, perfect.

Stop yelling in my hallway.

I said it three times.

Why?

Let's go.

Grab my [bleep] out.

The faster I can get to talking, the easier it is for

me to bring them from that 10 down to that two or three

to where hopefully the situation can be resolved.

Okay.

And you have to tell the truth as best as you can

because if the inmates feel that you're

just telling them something to stop what they're doing

and you don't follow through the next time,

As soon as someone get upset, as soon as they go to

court or they get some bad news from their family,

it's let me go up.

Let me rip this down.

Let me tear this down.

They're supposed to receive free time.

They're supposed to have running water and running toilets

and they're supposed to have phones that work.

They're absolutely correct that that's what it is.

But the issue that I have with them is how they do it.

They need to utilize the grievance system

where they place it on the grievance and it goes up to me

or to the chief board for review.

Do not take things in their own hands

like what they're doing.

So luckily now here in this case

Umm.

the only thing that I saw that was remotely criminal,

what they did was cover the camera.

But I didn't see them do anything else

on a criminal aspect.

But again, that's not the way you do it,

but I do like that they stood up for something

that they were supposed to have,

a simple right that they're supposed to have.

It's an excellent response

by Major Bennett and the officers.

I think he came in and actually talked the inmates down.

He was the one to deescalate the situation, told them

what he had scheduled to get the phones fixed.

It wasn't heavy-handed or too much show of force

or too much force.

I think it was perfect with how they

deescalated the situation.

- Sheriff on deck. - Carry on, carry on.

In the state of Georgia, there are 159 sheriffs.

You know, I don't think anything that I'm facing here

is no different from the other 158 sheriffs.

You got to have somebody that really cares about it.

Saw some of the body camera footage on the cell

search that you guys did.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, on the med pass and all that.

Nice job.

It was awesome.

You know, finding something in that little tube,

just a reminder of what inmates can do and hide.

How you doing?

- Good, sir. How are you? - I'm doing alright.

Anybody's life can change like this

and then you're ultimately in the jail.

Walk through slowly.

The inmates are here

in a very small confined space

and tempers flare and tempers go high.

Stop him.

So ultimately I want to make sure

that the officers are doing what they're supposed to do

anytime something happens.

And the camera always shows us the truth.

Everybody good?