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Alright.

That's all you got?

That's all you got. I'm good.

That all you got?

[bleep]

Yo, Sarge, am I good to take him?

That's all you got?

You alright, man?

I'm gucci.

That's good.

All that working out paying off, right?

I didn't even do nothing to him.

You never know.

I've dealt with over 10 jail deaths.

You've got to be ready at any moment.

Get on the wall.

There's an opportunity for a camera to shed light,

to fix something like this.

Get away from it, do it now!

Say yeah, let's do it.

Last chance.

Stop resisting.

See that right there Two shanks.

Stop.

[bleep]

I am not in a position-

Come here.

For this [bleep].

This is Clayton County, one of the worst jails

in all the state of Georgia.

You're going to have to protect yourself here.

Whoa.

I was stabbed 13 times, got my jaw broken.

Only the strong survive.

Hey...

What the hell, [bleep].

All right.

So basically they need to make sure,

get with the jail commander,

that anytime somebody's escorting

someone back to a cell, you only need to have

as many people out that he can deal with safely.

We have 200 people here for murder.

It's a dangerous situation, and ultimately, they will,

they're unpredictable on how they will act.

He will be charged with aggravated assault

because he has a weapon and he attacked the inmate

while he was in handcuffs.

Aggravated assault is a lesser crime to the murder

that he's ultimately originally in here for.

But they have to understand that they can't just

go on and send a message that you will be charged

or pick up an additional charge if you do that.

We tell officers every day,

you know, this is what you're up against.

So really you need to search them when they're coming out,

you need to search them when they're going in.

All inmates in here feel like it's a war zone.

They all willing to get back to whoever did something

to their family and you know what I'm saying?

They trying to hurt people.

As far as the shanks,

inmates now they use anything that they can find.

They going to find a way to sharpen it, try to hurt myself

or another inmate or another officer.

Be advised.

It was it housing in unit two,

section three, housing in unit two, section three.

51.

On the door, watch out, y'all watch out.

How did he get you? He came in?

Where's it at?

Okay, I want to know where did both inmates come from.

It's designed that both doors do not open at the same time

to prevent this same thing from happening.

So we just got to look into find out

which door was open first and who actually

hit the override button to open both doors.

And the guy in the white was reaching in his pants,

so he might have had a shank on him already.

You know, anytime someone has a shank

from within the jail, they make it from the walls,

the piping, the showers, the doors.

Once they break something and alter it,

it now becomes a criminal charge.

So they'll be charged criminally for that.

We just kind of got to look into it

and make sure to connect all the dots so that we can have

a good folder of prosecution to turn over

to the district attorney.

Chief on deck.

Listen up, listen up.

Everybody turn around

and put your hands on the wall above your head.

All right, we're going to go to each section

and we're going to clean out the sections,

look for contraband.

Oh man. Here we go.

Oh, money.

- Hello. - Money.

You're going to smell it in this room.

Oh yeah.

And either the inmate got it tucked

in their underwear now or he just smoked it.

Right here.

- We got a lighter. - We got stuff.

We just want to catch it.

All right.

Smell it.

Go ahead and get that.

Yes, sir.

Come on, give it to me.

Give me what I want.

Woohoo. How you doing?

Go to the yard.

Get the folks that's in room 15.

They all go in the handcuffs.

Hey chief.

Oh, oh. Right here.

I knew it.

- Oh, wow. - Yeah.

Well, at least we know who it belong to.

Come on.

Yeah.

Stand by.

Are those the guys out of room 15?

Yeah.

Oh.

Everybody else go quietly to door one.

Do not stop.

Let's go.

Oh, they going to the hole.

They going to the hole.

To the hole, never to be heard from again.

I have mandated our team to go down

and do three shakedowns a day.

We found several shanks today.

When you do a shakedown, you find things

that can potentially save someone's life.

The more shanks that we find, the more things

that we take off these inmates, I believe that's helping

our population and helping our operations.

All right.

I'm going to pat you down quick.

You got anything on you?

All right. All right.

Go ahead and have a seat.

Ow, ow.

Have you used any drugs recently?

No, sir.

No?

Move forward a little bit, bud.

I gotcha.

You've been through this before.

You know you can do it.

Right now what's going to happen

is we're going to scan you.

We're going to go change you over,

work on taking those bracelets off for me?

Yes sir.

You got any other jewelry on besides-

No. No, no, no.

All right.

And we'll go through the scanner.

I'm not [bleep], dude. I'm not incompetent.

I don't know why you're being an [bleep] to me.

I don't feel like I'm being an [bleep] to you

I'm sorry if you feel that way.

I don't mean to call you an [bleep].

I'm sorry.

So you going to come through the scanner?

Yeah, of course.

All right. Let's go.

Straight ahead with the orange line there, bud.

All right, you step on it and put your feet on the marks.

Yep.

Step forward there.

Keep your arms at your sides

and just hold still for a sec, okay?

You can go ahead and step out.

I can see you have some drug paraphernalia on you.

Can you pull that out for me?

Yeah.

Anything else on you I need to know about?

No?

All right, let's go get changed over, man.

We'll take it right here.

What's up, bud?

What's going on? You got to talk to me.

I don't know.

No, no, no.

Nope, nope. I swear to God.

No, no, no.

You swallow anything?

Nope, nope. I swear to God.

Have a seat, bud.

No. Okay.

Okay.

Does it hurt somewhere?

Right here. Right here.

Okay.

Did you use any drugs tonight?

No, no, no. No.

Let's get you over to the changeover room.

I'll help you.

I think you're fine.

Just trying to figure out what's going on with you here.

I'm going to grab you some clothes.

Is there any other drugs on your person I need

to be concerned about?

No.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so there's some drugs.

Yeah.

That's what we're worried about here.

I don't remember them being there.

I know. I know.

Let's get in the cell.

Follow Eric this way.

Well, the tablets aren't on right now.

It's three in the morning.

Have a seat.

A little food.

We'll work on it.

I promise you, man. Okay?

I appreciate you.

I know, I'm sorry.

Cooperating with me to the extent that you have.

Just chill out for a bit.

There's blankets and stuff in there, got it?

Okay.

All right. Now you're situated.

I've had numerous interactions with this inmate before.

He's been incarcerated multiple times.

As he stood up, a small baggy

of a white powdery substance fell out of his underwear,

tucked somewhere that I didn't see on the scanner.

He had originally had stated he didn't have anything on him.

He hadn't taken any drugs today.

Similar story to what the last few times

he had been booked in.

I just found some oxy in his poop.

Nothing happened for eight hours.

It was the same way yesterday.

We're like the first two or three...

He knew he had, you know, drugs on him.

Just the behavior of this inmate, we picked up on it,

you know, going down on the floor.

It's all to try to ditch it.

Or in the worst case scenario, hide it and then

get it into his cell.

We'll go through the scanner,

hold still for a sec, okay?

With our body scanner, as we're looking at the video

on that, you can see that it's set on the default setting.

We've asked them to run it on the higher resolution

because non-ferrous items, so like plastics show up better

and those things will, that are not supposed

to be in a human will actually pop up.

Yeah, so more training with the body scanner.

Being thorough in our jail, you know, really pays off

and I think the CO Wipli did an outstanding job.

All them tried to jump me, the girl right here.

She just hit me.

Hello. Oh, nothing honey.

Don't lose your mind though.

It always stunk in here.

We smell like ass.

Oh [bleep].

, did you have a good birthday?

You did?

Thank you for having a good birthday.

Thank you. Thank you.

I miss you.

They've been treating us like ass since you've been gone.

Please, my side was just started.

Can I take like a three minute shower?

Not right now.

Y'all are on isolation.

Y'all just can't be popping out taking showers

whenever y'all don't want to.

I'm not asking you.

I understand y'all pissed,

but I can't do nothing about it.

Isolation make them get on my nerve.

God, darn.

Come on. Uh-uh.

Look, y'all can't...

No, y'all can't get...

Look, y'all don't play with me.

Please don't play with me, not today.

Look, y'all don't play with me.

Please don't play with me, not today.

Hold on, hold on. That's the thing, y'all.

I just got back here, I haven't been here in [bleep] days.

Did you smell me?

Don't do that.

I'm stinky. How do you think I feel?

Listen, there's something going on in the cafeteria.

It's not like we're telling you now that we're not

going back in there.

to wash our ass, nor get anything to drink.

We are , period.

We ain't took no shower, we been in there five days.

Y'all have to go right now.

Y'all ain't supposed to be out.

I don't know. I don't know.

They took stuff out.

Where your clothes at?

She got clothes?

I just got back today.

I didn't know nothing about this isolation.

When's the last time y'all had a shower?

So this is what we're going to do.

We're going to start from cell one,

go all the way to cell eight.

Then we're going to start from cell nine,

go all the way to cell 16.

So y'all step back in.

I understand y'all haven't been out because of quarantine.

I just told them what the game plan is, all right?

I'm going to get everybody showered and taken care of.

All I need from y'all is to keep in mind that everybody else

behind you needs to take a shower just like y'all do, okay?

All right, y'all go ahead.

I can't hear everybody at once.

The sink is broke?

Yes, it's broke.

I gotcha. Come on in.

Just needed some help.

Look, like I tell y'all,

I apologize.

It's normal for me to handle situations like this.

We know this is a rough environment.

So to gain compliance, you know, just talk to them.

It's all about doing your job.

So we're going to let cell one, two, three out,

then we going to get these two together in the other three.

We had to start a damn-near riot just to get a shower.

We have to really do that.

That's hurtful. That's hurtful.

Seriously.

And I feel bad about it, but we been sitting

in this room with nothing.

No showers, no water, no nothing.

All right.

We back on flow. - They're irritated.

If we had to stay in our cell for 23 out of 24 hours,

I'd probably be irritated too.

As soon as Pill call done,

ahead and let one, two, three out.

Are you done?

Done with what?

Let's go where?

We've already been over this.

That's still not going to get you out.

You're still on felony bail jumping.

How many times do I have to tell you this?

Step away from the door.

Do it now or you're going to get tased.

Do it now.

Do it now or you're going to get tased.

Step away from the door, last chance.

Get away from the door now.

Back away from that door.

Last chance, back away from the door.

Get on your knees.

Last chance.

Back away from the door.

Get out your knees.

Get on your knees.

Stop resisting.

You will get the glove again if you don't stop.

Taser's detached.

All right.

Everyone okay?

Yeah, I'm good.

Inmate Yellow Thunder was getting more

and more aggressive towards jail staff,

threatening to assault us, break items.

Our glove is one of the newest use

of force technologies we have within the jail.

It's basically just metal contacts on a winter glove.

Unlike the taser where it deploys

neuromuscular incapacitation throughout the entire body,

wherever the glove is placed is where you will feel

that electricity.

It does not go through the entire body.

So when I grabbed his ankle.

That's where he felt the pain of the electricity.

Where you hit? There's three.

Where's the fourth?

Right under-

Right in his pants.

Woo.

I don't think it got you.

Nope.

It's just your pants.

We're going to pull it out of your pants, okay?

Just so that way it doesn't poke you.

I know you're upset.

I didn't want to have to do that.

That's why I gave you so many chances.

I respect you more than that.

So we're going to have you stand up here.

We're moving you into another cell.

So I'm going to have you take your left hand

out first there.

Put it on top of your head for me, put 'em up, okay?

As soon as she touched me with that glove,

that's what put me down on the ground.

I went down. I was like, all right.

I went down on my stomach, laid down.

Stop resisting, stop resisting.

I was like, all right, yeah, all right.

I'm not even doing...

You can't help resisting when you're being tased

and you're shaking.

So they consider that resisting, I guess.

That's funny as hell.

But I don't care who you are, where you're at,

it doesn't go your way.

We're in their house. Remember that always.

This is like the first application I've seen

the glove used.

It is one of the few of the-

Yeah.

Where it's actually been applied.

They've taken it to these locations.

They just said used it.

And you look at the, you know,

the taser application didn't work right away

and our CO did a great job of realizing it, reapplying,

and then having the glove there as a backup, you know,

and having to use that even during the handcuffing sequence.

He's going to see the judge the next day where, you know,

he could get out, but you know, inmates have to realize

when you display this kind of behavior, you know,

you're most likely going to catch more charges

and keep you longer in the facility,

which we don't want that.

And I don't think the inmate wants that either,

but their behavior, you know, dictates that.

He chose kind of poorly again.

Yeah, absolutely.

Volunteer.

Let's go, let's go.

Miss...

I go home in two days, I'm not trying to catch no

[bleep] charges.

Trying not to, but it's different when somebody

come snatch [bleep] out your hand.

Let it go.

Come on.

All right, breathe, breathe.

I know. Look, I know.

I seen it. I know.

Yeah.

But listen, you should care about that

because the last thing you want

to do is be in Clayton County Jail longer

than you need to be.

I know.

That's why we about to get her up out of there.

At least that'll make the next two days,

hopefully you can get out in the two days,

that'll make the next two days better for you.

All right, y'all just stay here for a second.

Grab your stuff.

Grab your stuff.

Grab my stuff?

Yes, ma'am. Grab your stuff.

Did not.

No, no, no listen. No, listen.

I moved her out of there,

just so that I know it's done.

If you want to go in there, grab your number,

and then go on the phone.

You're welcome.

So they have some overcrowding

and you have some women that are sleeping on the floor.

At one point, she allowed her to borrow her headphones,

meaning they were on some type of good terms.

But just to let you know that at, you know,

spirit of the moment in one second, it can,

something can change to where you're about

to have a fight over some headphones

that you allowed someone to have.

Yeah, Officer Richardson did an excellent job

of deescalating the situation, getting the female out

by herself, talking to her, calming that inmate down

and then going back in to address the situation

and separate them I think was a good job on his part.

When you take off the uniform,

everybody has a beating heart.

And that heart bleeds the same blood as everybody.

As long as you're doing the right thing every day,

doesn't matter if the camera's rolling or not,

but the camera is that extra thing to make sure

that we make sure that everybody

is just doing the right thing.

Good luck to you as you get on the outside, alright?

Our department's commitment

is always continuing to evolve.

What can we do better?

I'm very happy that we committed to moving forward

with body cameras in our jail.

The corrections officers here

that worked in the old facility know what it was like

to work in a jail that was not safe.

Now they work in one that is safe.

Our jail has got the foundation that's set up for success

for many, many years to come.

It seems like the board of commissioners getting

on board with helping me.

The community has always been behind me

and the employees are here.

They're sticking it out with me.

And as long as we all work together, as long as the cameras

are rolling, no one's going to be invisible