Life Inside Jail: Experiences of Officers and Inmates

Jail transforms officers' mindsets, demanding constant readiness to manage disruptive inmates effectively.

### Inside the Jail: Daily Encounters and Challenges of Law Enforcement
* 🚔 After an arrest, suspects enter jail, where they are **presumed innocent until proven guilty in court**.
* 👮 ‍♂️ Officers must shift their mindset from civilian life to a **professional demeanor**, preparing to handle **various criminal behaviors daily**.
* 🔒 Disruptive individuals, such as one who **screams obscenities**, must be **restrained to maintain order** within the facility.
* 👩 A woman in custody for domestic violence is repeatedly defiant, leading to her placement in a **restraint chair for safety**.
* 💔 Inmates share personal stories, revealing **complex relationships and past traumas**, such as one man discussing a **violent incident with his wife**.
* 💰 The cycle of reoffending is evident, as some individuals admit to **making money through illegal activities** immediately after release.
* 🔑 The intake process is crucial for maintaining security, as officers must **remain vigilant against potential escapes or assaults**.
* 🕒 Officers note that their work can be **unpredictable and intense**, with many inmates facing **recurring legal issues** that bring them back to jail.

After arrest and before trial comes jail. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. [Music] Every time when I come into jail, it's always a different frame of mind. You have to switch from being like you are at home into being an officer and being into the way that you need to act while you're in jail. You have to deal with criminal mind. When I come in here and I kind of look around and I see what's going on, I get into that frame of mind and get into ready to be able to operate as an officer and to do whatever I need to do with the people that I'm going to deal with on a day-to-day basis. [Music] Looks like she's being disruptive, walking down the hallway, just screaming obscenities. Put your knees on the bench so that she can't be disruptive anymore to anybody else in the facility. We're gonna put her in the cell, but they were moving her jewelry and she doesn't want them to remove a ring.

[Applause] The door shut, man. There's a phone right next to you. Oh yeah, do it. Hopefully she'll sober up and settle down. [Music] You're gonna end up upstairs naked. You're not going to have access to any telephone. You're going to be by yourself in a room. They do work. Get arrested for domestic violence. [Music] [Applause] Nothing, nothing. You got enough fight. Listen, listen. You got in a fight with your aunt. [Applause] IE. You're gonna leave her down there a few more minutes. If she doesn't calm down, we'll take her upstairs. [Music] So what did you used to cook in your spoon? It's my wife. My wife put it in my purse. Why? Why? That's my wife. Hello, legally or just married in Hawaii, Oahu, whatever. I don't know. My wife. She had one. No, my wife's Cuban. Wrong Island. We just brought her in. First lesson, Constitution. The mirror guys got her undercover. That was all. Did you see the little

Spooner, there she was cooking. Oh yeah, absolutely. She claims she's been off for a week now. She's very proud of herself. Oh wow, she's been sober for a week. Yes, so she's all clean according to her. [Music] Does your wife know what you're here for? No, no. And why are you here? Prostitution for prostitution. How come your wife doesn't know why you're here? And how come she's in the federal penitentiary? Transporting drugs. Oh, because she's Cuban. So she's transporting dope for us. So she's in federal penitentiary and you're here. And you said that you're supporting your child that you had with her brother. So you got together long enough to get pregnant. Two minutes. What do you do if you've been married 13 years? Really? That's a long time. She's a bitch. She cut my throat. Holy, you're kidding me. She did that? She did this. Wait, wait, show me that scar again.

my hair's in the way. How many stitches or staples? 48 stitches, yeah. How did, why did she, why did she cut your hair? She got my gallbladder in half. Oh, she could, she'll, she sliced through your abdomen as well, and you're still with this woman? No, well, she's the penitentiary. No, I'm not with her. Well, I know, but those are obviously more than six months old. The way I was brought up, I'm supposed to stick with the person no matter what, and she's cute. That's amazing. We'll talk more. Oh, she's got a very interesting life. [Music] She was given the opportunity to calm down, and she continually bangs on the door, and she was banging on the phone again, so now she's going to be placed into this restraint chair. [Music] Come on over here, man. Come on over here, man. Come on, you're gonna have a seat in this chair. Oops, nice black chair right here, please. [Music] You bang it off the wall, it tends not to

work very well. Sir Richard's still gonna talk to her, see if she's gonna cooperate, come out what she's pissed off about. She's in here for better domestic violence, but she says she didn't do anything wrong, please. So they're going to leave her in the chair now because she got disruptive again once they talked to her about the clothes. Cooperative, so it's up here right now, so we're gonna wait, let her calm down a little bit, wait till we have at least one more female so we can control her better if she does resist us when she comes out locally sitting there from the wild from the chair. She'll calm down and be more cooperative later. So how much do you make a night? It depends. Some weekends, like a couple of thousands. Some weekends, I can make a couple of defense. Here's a copy of your churches. Oh, you're so good to me, thank you. What is it? What do you put on there? Prostitution. So let's do prostitution. Excellent. And you're gonna get out for

free wow I got a 200. Oh my babysitter. All right, she's been in here probably at least 50 times for the same thing. Pre-trial is going to let her out. She's going to let her out on her own, and she's going to get out of jail tonight, and she's going to go right back to doing what she was doing before. She just said it. She makes more money when she first gets out of jail, so she'll continue to come in and in and out of this jail for probably another 50 times or more. [Music] Intake is a pivotal position in terms of security because we cannot be lax in this position. Anything Can Hurt. We have had escapes. We have had assaults both on staff and on inmates. You just never know what's going to come down in here. [Music] If you kick, you're going to get some mace in your eyes. Straight hair, head straight down, down. Get him down, get her down, get her down, get her down, get her down.

down stop resisting man let's go slow it down we got it now slow it down pretty good oh my God okay you wanna pick her up side by side just pick her up we got it we're gonna take her in just relax let's get around let's just move around [Music] here [Music] [Music] do it I haven't done right in here [Music] [Applause] come on we had a call that AP was bringing in a combative female and apparently she was celebrating her birthday and she was picked up when we got out there she slipped through the Cuffs she was still very uh disruptive with APD I tried to calm her down she refused to calm down she's still being disrupted just monitoring her how did you find it okay okay all right all right then foreign [Music] out there but we have any other displays listen we have any other displays are you going to force me to bring you back into one something like this okay so just bite

your time. Listen for your name. We'll call you. We'll drive on. Move you along. Okay, you can have all that. You can have that in due time. You're welcome. What'd you think? She'll put his clothing. She can't go out there like that. Yeah, because I'll show my vagina. Settle down with that. All right, settle down with that. Go out there, use the restroom, and I'll bring a uniform in a little while. Yeah, ma'am. Ma'am, you need to sit down. Okay, all right. You don't have to swing. Well, you need to sit down when you're told to sit down. This is jail, not the house. You'll do as directed. Rivera over here. So Scott, what's going on with her now? Um, well, she'd come out of open seating a couple times. I know you told me not to. Yeah, shouldn't say you want to listen. So put her back in 512. Very good. Okay, good work, man. No, thank you. All right, why are you in here? No, no, because you're being defiant. It's one thing. It's one thing to be

upset. Okay, it's another thing to be totally defined disregard directives. My partner that's going to replace me, he's the one that's going to let you out of here. All right, just bite your time, even have a sit. All right, I'll let him know you've been fine since you've been back here, but we can't have you doing what you're doing out there where you just go help yourself to the nursery station or whatever like that. Okay, I would rather have her sitting out here with everybody else, but she's just too out of control right now. The intoxication's in her system, but just not letting her be in control of herself. And uh, we're gonna have to deal with her later on because right now she's just too out of control. [Music] I've been working down here in booking for about six years now. I really enjoy it down here. There's always something going on, which helps you get through the night. Once you go upstairs, it's locked down most of the night, so it gets a

little boring down here. I stay active. I stay awake all night. Put your hands down to yourself, just straight down your side. Same with the other one. All right, man, have a seat in this row right here, all the way down at the very end. The nurse is going to call you up in just a minute. Push you in here for possession of the stolen motor vehicle. Did you admit to knowing the vehicle was stolen? Yeah, she said she bought the car, eighteen thousand dollar car. She pays two thousand dollars for it, and then, um, three days ago, a friend comes up to her and tells her, Hey, that car's stolen. And, but she never reported that to us, that she had bought a stolen car. So, and then she ran from us tonight. How you doing, Melissa? You said you paid two thousand dollars for the car. Yeah, what kind of car was it? Yeah, she didn't think that was kind of funny. Well, she, she just got some drug charges. She's planning on skipping town on her bail. I need to sell this car. I need to get out.

of town. I need the money, so you thought she was just trying to get quick money, and that's all it was. Yep. You've been in here before for methamphetamine charges. Are you still doing the methamphetamines? I picked it back up again. Yeah. How long have you been doing it? Yeah, probably five or six years. Did you stop for a while, though, you said? Yeah, I've stopped periodically here and there, six months here, six months there. Why do you start up again? I wish I knew. I wish I knew. After you get fingerprinted, then you'll be able to get on the phone. Who is she coming for tonight? How you doing tonight? I was doing just beautiful till I went home and found my suitcase stolen, my clothes. Okay, all right. So if you went home and found something stolen, how could you end up in here? I had a warrant. She said, Oh, she says I got a warrant. Y, let me know if you want this one. Did she tell you what the warrant was for? Release your hands. They go on your head.

do you understand? Yeah. All right. No, I know you don't. Yes, I do, ma'am. All right. Yeah, of course. Yes, we have your ID right over here. [Music] First seat at the end of this row. She called saying that her roommate had kicked her out of the apartment, and uh, she doesn't actually live there. She's homeless. She just lets her stay there every now and then. A suitcase was left out yesterday outside. Nobody's seen it taken. Nobody knows who took it. Nothing like that. She just left it outside, and it disappeared. Go figure. What are her warrants for that? She's here tonight trespassing, defrauding an Innkeeper, and another trespassing. Thank you. So how many times have you been in here now, Helen? I don't know. You counting? No, I'm just curious. You don't remember me from when you were up in 3EF? And maybe uh, a few times. Okay. What are you talking about? I could own the place. No, I was just asking. I don't know. It's not in your business how many times I've been.

in you you want to know the truth. This Joker, who I'm living with, my suitcase is gone. Was it your roommate that you took it, or was it somebody else? Do you think it was your roommate or somebody else who took it? Then his friend said that I stole some money from him, and I didn't, because I'd stayed there last night. No, they stole my clothes and yeah, sure, brought you in when you tried to file a report about your soul and stuff. Yeah, I called the police. I want my clothes. Alright, I'll see what I can do for that, and I'll see what your warrants are for you, okay? I'll be back and talk to you in a few minutes. Thank you. The good thing is they discharged you with the one count of possession of a stolen vehicle. You don't have any warrants or anything like that that you're here for, do you? Do you know what the bail is for that? No, I don't. Okay, the bail's gonna be three thousand dollars. Are you going to be able to have

somebody bail you out, or are you going to have to wait till you see the judge? No, absolutely. Okay, it'll still take a bunch of those posts at least 12 hours to get to release. They can start working on it a lot faster, which helps out. It never really hits them until they start going through this from where they're at, why they're here, Helen. Okay, coming straight down here if we're going to get you a place to lay down for a little bit. Okay, you just have one County department keeper and one count of trespass. Okay, keep coming down this way. Okay, and you said what after you get this cleared? Ah, we're gonna be eating in about an hour. You're saying though after you get done with this and get it cleared up that you're gonna be getting Social Security so you won't be coming back. Oh, that's great. Happy New Year. Merry Christmas. Good luck to you. Yeah, thank you. All right. All right. Have a good night. Foreign [Music] [Music]

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Life Inside Jail: A Day in the Life of an Officer

Jail is a place where suspects await trial, and officers must quickly switch their mindset to deal with criminal behavior.

Disruptive inmates are managed by enforcing rules and separating them from others.

The interactions reveal complex personal stories, including issues of domestic violence, prostitution, and drug trafficking, highlighting the challenging circumstances of both the inmates and their families.

A woman with 48 stitches from a violent encounter reflects on her tumultuous relationship and upbringing.

Another inmate is disruptive and aggressive, leading to her being placed in a restraint chair.

The intake process is crucial for security, with staff prepared to handle any potential escapes or assaults.

Handling a Combative Birthday Celebration

A female celebrating her birthday was picked up by APD and became disruptive, slipping through her cuffs.

The staff attempted to calm her down, but she continued to be defiant and disruptive.

After multiple attempts to manage her behavior, she was eventually directed back to her seat and given instructions to sit down.

Dealing with an Out-of-Control Individual

A partner is set to replace the speaker and will help the out-of-control individual.

The speaker has been working in booking for six years and finds it active and engaging.

The individual in question is facing charges for possession of a stolen motor vehicle and has a history of drug charges, planning to skip town on bail.

Struggles with Addiction and Homelessness

The individual has been using methamphetamines for five to six years, with intermittent periods of stopping.

They ended up in jail due to a warrant, following the theft of their suitcase and clothes.

The person is homeless and has been staying with a roommate occasionally, while also facing multiple charges for trespassing and defrauding an innkeeper.

The narrator's suitcase is missing, and there are accusations of theft between roommates.

The narrator denies stealing money and claims their clothes were taken.

The police are involved, and the narrator is facing a $3,000 bail for possession of a stolen vehicle, with plans to clear up the situation and eventually receive Social Security.