you don t need to be coming in here. have a seat and the deputy will come and they re going to search you and then you ll go inside. okay. before markert is taken to her housing unit, she must undergo a full body strip search by a female deputy. all right. take your pants off. and i ll take those. take your socks off and turn them inside out. go ahead and separate your feet, a wide stance, step back so you don t hit your head. bend forward. you re going to bend forward all the way. use your hands to separate your butt cheeks all the way, cough three times, really hard. cough. all right. go ahead and get dressed. this is your first time in santa rita? yeah. welcome to santa rita. go ahead and grab your stuff. that felt uncomfortable, like, getting undressed in front
i knew she was up to something. when are you supposed to be home? are you sentenced? march. and you ve stayed clean? yes. good. you proud of me? i didn t go that far but i didn t get high the whole time. good. they think i transport drugs in here. well, i did it for a minute last time i was here. all i wanted to do is get high. so get high, get high, get high. how would someone get drugs in here? all women have a a pocket. that s how. any time anybody is brought into jail, into custody, they are subject to strip before they come out to housing unit. i ll take it. we take their clothing then they bend over and they squat. use your hands to separate your butt cheeks. all the way. all the way. cuff three times on your mark, cuff. [ coughing ] all right. and if something falls out or if we see something, we tell them, hey, what s in there, pull it out. and sometimes it can be way up there that it s no way it s going to come out for a couple
i knew she was up to something. when are you supposed to be home? are you sentenced? march. and you ve stayed clean? yes. good. you proud of me? i didn t go that far but i didn t get high the whole time. good. they think i transport drugs in here. well, i did it for a minute last time i was here. all i wanted to do is get high. so get high, get high, get high. how would someone get drugs in here? all women have a a pocket. that s how. any time anybody is brought into jail, into custody, they are subject to strip before they come out to housing unit. i ll take it. we take their clothing then they bend over and they squat. use your hands to separate your butt cheeks. all the way. all the way. [ coughing ] all right. and if something falls out or if we see something, we tell them, hey, what s in there, pull it out. and sometimes it can be way up there that it s no way it s going to come out for a couple
them one at a time back into a strip room, do a visual cavity search. searching all that too? yep. they try to do it with a level of dignity and respect to not make the person uncomfortable. bend over and spread your butt cheeks. thank you. what size of underwear? because utah receives a relatively small number of new arrivals on intake days, officers can make the process more comfortable for inmates. we found a very different atmosphere at the sprawling and constantly bustling los angeles county jail. stand up, spread your feet. shoulder width apart. lift up your left foot, wiggle your toes. l.a. county, which is probably one of the largest jail systems in the world, is a completely different experience. drop them, turn around. and the inmate reception center is gigantic. you know, they get 400 guys a day. 2,000 a week. hands up. hands over in place. reach back.
yeah. it s different when you step in the door right now, all right? okay. step through the door. 90-day observations are used to better gauge what type of punishment a convict deserves. depending on his behavior, an inmate s sentence can be suspended completely. we re doing intake from alameda county right now. first process, we check their aps, check it, make sure it s correct, make sure we got the right inmate, all the numbers match up. then we do a body search and give the county all of their clothing back. before they leave, they get that. i know what it is. i want to see it, okay? step over there. take all of your clothes off, put it in the middle can. shoes, too. we have them open the mouth, shake the hair out, lift their testicles, turn around, bend over at the waist, spread their butt cheeks, make sure nothing s in the body cavity. turn around. step through. keep walking. for many arrivals, the experience of checking into prison is far from new. it s an all too