out here? it hasn t been recovered. sometimes take the batteries, sharpen them on the ground. makes an excellent razor and enough to handle to slice at will. pretty much check the walkway. make sure nothing got thrown out. that s a lot of blood. a lot of blood. carton williams serving a five-year sense for possession of cocaine and fleeing police works as a houseman or cell block custodian. my job is to feces, blood, chemical agents. i volunteer to be a house man just to get i get ten days a month, four months a year of gain time. i m here 18 months. i ll have money left, i ll go home next year. when i enter a cell, a room that has blood or anything that s a danger to me, a harm to me, i always be cautious.
so you live with this threat over your head constantly and it s a lot of pressure. these days hill lives with a little less pressure than roughly one-third of santa rosa s inmates. he is housed in a general population unit where there is more freedom of movement and privileges. see that right there? that s nectar of the gods. that s nectar of the gods. can t get beer, but you can drink coffee. borrowing coffee from a neighbor is considerably more difficult if not impossible for the 1,100 inmates housed in the close management unit. both of you, step over here one at a time. turn around. they re in confinement for violence or other serious rule violations and are subject to frequent cell inspections for weapons, drugs or other forms of contraband. turn around, back in the cell. right now we re going to conduct a routine cell search on a couple cells up here in wing one. every shift has to shake down a
various jails and prisons, williams finds santa rosa especially hard to deal with. i have to deal with a lot of negativity about me being who i am. so with me being homosexual, i m like an outcast compared to everyone else in here. it s like i m like scum of the earth here. out of all the times i ve been in prison, i ve never been through this much crap. currently, williams has little if any contact with other inmates. he is housed in a single-man confinement cell. an inmate, i m supposed to write a request form for me and said that i was going to make an attempt to escape. why would anyone write that? i have no idea. they either don t want me to room with them, didn t want me in the dorm. could have been anything. the anonymous letter stated that williams was going to kill two correction officers during
certain amount of inmates every day, and this is what we ll do. we ll go in there and have them cuff up. they ll submit to the restraints. place them in the shower. go through their belongings in the cell. control the contraband in the institution. we ll go up and we ll pick a number that s random. it kind of keeps them on their toes, because if we were to go in and start searching from cell one all the way down then the others will know, hey, we re going to get searched next. let s get rid of our contraband. doing it at random gives us a good chance to find something if they do have anything up in there. this one. this is not right. let s see. feel this one. feel that one. here. go ahead and open that one. yeah. that s soap. what is that? whoa. whoa. there we go. let me see that. look at that.
said it s time to get your life right. i stayed in that confinement cell for 90 days. then they transferred me to another prison. when i got to the other prison, i started making aa and m.a. meetings. i started going to church. i started reading the bible more, studying. jones served 18 years of a 25-year sentence at a florida state prison before he was released on parole. he moved into the noah house, a residential substance abuse program, in tampa. they help ex-offenders get a fresh start in life. they help you stay straight, you know. i wanted to stay straight. i didn t want to go back to prison. i always, you know, participated. and so they finally gave me a job. my job title was peer advocate. and i basically helped ex-offenders.