officials at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, say there s approximately one fight per day among the 1,500 inmates inside the sprawling facility. the vast majority of those fights are between male inmates. ed. men got to prove their manliness. can t let somebody run the show if they think they re running the show. fortunately it s not as common for the women to fight. they do seem to keep it a little more in check. i think there s more verbal squabbles than physical altercations. but less than 24 hours earlier, lori dowda was in fact in a fight. now she has a black eye to show for it. i got hit from behind in my eye. she came and knocked me in my head and i didn t see nothing after that, everything went black. i let my guard down.
man in the photos as joseph caputo, detained after he jumped the white house fence today. criminal charges are pending. back to lockup. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. like many jails across the country, officers at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, fight a constant battle against the proliferation of contraband items. what we have here are things that are found during a daily shakedown that we have here in the jail. alongside the jail-made weapons that captain brooks says staff has confiscated from inmates over the years, are a number of improvised tattoo guns. this one right here is pretty ingenuous.
for one young couple. i m the youngest one in here. it is scary. i can t sleep at night. people scream in their rooms. it s really scary. a fight sends two women to segregation. when you hit me don t think i m not going to touch you back. for one of the combatants isolation takes a toll. i m going crazy in that room. they want to violate the rules and regulation but don t want to do the time. located on the atlantic coast of georgia, savannah is one of the south s oldest and most historic cities. a leading travel magazine twice listed savannah as one of america s favorite destinations. more than likely it wasn t taking county jail into consideration. this is not where i wanted to
with sleep train s money back guarantee, and of course, same day delivery. are you next? sleep train s ticket to tempur-pedic event ends sunday. your ticket to a better night s sleep at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, the most violent or troublesome inmates are housed in the facility s administrative segregation unit, also known as ad seg. this right here will make you cry for your mother, man. not every inmate in ad seg has a history of violence or misbehavior. we have a lot of high-profile cases here where inmates have to be put in admin seg. many of our inmates are fairly famous figures on our local news stations. so because of that, they may be
at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, rhett manning had recently pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter for hitting a man with his car and received a five-year sentence. manning s lawyer then petitioned the judge to give him status under the first offender act, a georgia law that allows some first-time felons to have their convictions purged from their record after they complete their sentences. now manning has returned from court where a judge has given him his answer. got some good news, bad news, no news? pretty good news and just got to figure the rest of it out. okay, that s good, that s good. best news, best news. basically the judge granted me the first offender s. that means when i ve completed the sentence, i won t be considered a convicted felon.