to officer henderson who has tried to get through to the 18-year-old inmate in the past. i already talked to everybody, you know, members and i m getting out of the pham. i m done with the fam. when did you come to this decision? i been sitting on it awhile. i have two sons and when i get out they ll be two years and change and three years and change. so they still be young. i m going to be there the whole time. i m not going to go nowhere. and because of them, i ain t going toome back to jail. i can t come back to jail. i spent too much time here it ain t cool. that s awesome, i m proud of you for real, that s real good. that s showing maturity. i think he s sincere. and i believe in him. all i can do is believe in him. you know, hope the best for him. like other officers at the jail, henderson grew up on some of the same tough streets as inmates like cooperwood. the things i ve been through at their age as a teenager and
your last two, take it inside. mcdaniels, 66. take it in. 2 west 40. chavez, 2 west 71. what s this [ bleep ] [ bleep ] they gave me 90 days. what s that [ bleep ]? 90 days? yeah. what s that [ bleep ]? [ bleep ] i m here 35. i m reputable in them streets, you know? t.j.! what s that? [ bleep ] you ever been in here? not here, not in prison. this ain t nowhere to be, man. this ain t cool.
shampoo. i don t know who made this. do i know it s safe for my body? i don t know. would you eat it if you didn t know who dished it? i don t think so. that s all i got to say. i cook my own food in my own cell. you know what i mean? you want to be eating out of trays? go ahead. bring it here. inmates like david monroe have found a more creative albeit more expensive option in cell cooking. i am making roast beef and corned beef tacos and in here, in prison, we have to cook in bags. we just get this off the canned goods, take the top off, flatten it so you can cut. other than that you don t have much to cut with. it s a whole lot harder than having a knife. as long as you ain t using it as a knife, the officers ain t they understand that you have to cut your meat. i haven t eaten anything in the chow hall in a really long time.
officers in the chow hall, i try to keep the traffic where i can control it on the steps and have a gap here so if something were to kick off from there, from this point where we re talking, i can have a visual. you ve got five landings right up in here. as you can see, i can t see what s going on there, there, i can barely see what s going on on here, so i m relying on body language on the inmates and also my officers. this is where it becomes tricky up inside of here. that s it. stand by. stand by. this is my house. this is my home. this is what i do every day, eight hours a day. look at this food right here. look, we got to get something out of here. this ain t cool. what is this? despite having four meal options prepared by inmates, many prisoners attend chow for the social benefits but refuse to eat there. supposed to be spaghetti, broccoli, and salad, and i don t know what this look like.
what the hell? you got a vein popping out, dude. you know that? your brain. he s gone. you ready? i ve been ready. don t depend on others. that s how i made it 26 years. i don t depend on nobody. a lot of these cats might seem cool but they ain t cool. there s a lot of jomos and homos too. you got a bunch of those in here. and you peepee men on here. you have any questions on something like that or someone wants to run his mouth or something like that there, wonder what it s about, don t jump out there like a fool, you end up with your ass on lockup. let us know and we ll take it to them ourselves. do it the hard way or we can do it the easy way. believe me, they ll go the easy way. yeah, i appreciate it, man. on one condition, quit beating my ass in handball.