are always briefed before entering a certain housing pod, adam 100. these particular closed custody inmates are very special management. they re in this pod segregated for a reason. you ve always got to stay on your toes when you re around them. the final factor in the unprecedented decision to isolate four women in a unit large enough for 32 came after one of them viciously attacked another inmate. the attacker was cynthia apkaw. apkaw is extremely violent. she severely assaulted that inmate to the point she needed facial reconstructive surgery. so that s why we do what we do now for the precautions of these people. she disrespected me so i beat the crap out of her. i went out there and i beat her ass in the cell and i pulled her out. dragged her in the middle of the hall and started beating the [ bleep ] out of her. i stomped on her face and beat her head into the floor. i don t think you can ever
them. anything they can use to hurt themselves, we take it away. we leave them with a suicide blanke it d be a lot more difficult to use that to hurt themselves than any other normal things they would have. while the safe cell is meant to protect martinez from himself, four of the most dangerous women of maricopa have been isolated in the special pod of high security cells known as adam 100 to protect staff and other inmates from them. there s currently only four inmates housed in this pod which normally houses 32 inmates. prior to entering the pod, maricopa county detention officers made sure we were aware of security protocols, including the evacuation plan. while we re in there, there will be two officers present and
i have seen people trip that are facing the death penalty. but i ve seen a lot more just regular weak bitches, come in looking at a year and try to kill theirself. later that s night, that s exactly what trevino tried to do. when officers did a routine check on her cell, they found trevino passed out. she had torn off a piece of her nightgown and tightened it around her neck. i could see her on a gurney. her face was already turning blue. so, yeah. the staff cut the cloth from her neck and successfully revived her. she was immediately transferred to medical. with trevino in the medical unit, the adam 100 pod is a very different place. with the three of them in there, apkaw, simpson and lopez, they re all relatively calm inmates. they don t deal with anything, they sleep all day. they sleep all night.
all they ve ever done is hurt me. while martinez s denunciation of his gang might cast him as a loner, norma lopez has just joined a notorious sisterhood, she s the newest member of the adam 100 pod. a secluded housing unit for four of the most dangerous women in the entire maricopa county jail system. i may look all sweet and innocent and stuff, but when it comes down to it, i can be tough if i have to be. lopez was placed in adam 100 after a violent assault on another inmate. i don t think i ve ever really lost a fight, like lost, like where i can say oh, yeah, oh, she got me, you know? she s also considered a high-security risk to staff. because her alleged crime involved the shooting death of a
drawn, and basically we re going to keep the door to our back so if there s any problems the cameraman will have to fall back. the two staff and myself will basically form an arc to protect the camera crew and we ll do a tactical retreat out of the pod and secure the door. these women do not get this classification because they went to bible study. these are women that have caused some serious crimes. i sometimes think people don t take female offenders as serious as they do the males. but these women tend to run things. and they can manipulate everybody. angela simpson is one of the four women assigned to adam 100. simpson, i think, is a very scary individual. she s probably the only one in there that i take every precaution in the world to make sure my staff and myself are safe.