years at the house of correction, a separate jail facility for convicted inmates serving 2 1/2 years or less. due to multiple fights, he spent the first 13 months in segregation, but even under those restrictions he was still a significant discipline problem. daniel has gotten into many fights since he s been here. he s been involved in about ten fights. there are a lot of fights that he has actually asked or called to happen. so he s been involved in a lot more behind the scenes than he s actually been involved in. if someone is arguing with a c.o., i ll be in the background amping them up. just i like going at it. i don t know. i like when people yell. [ bleep ]. what? i don t know. it s fun to me. i just enjoy that. i like all the commotion and stuff like that. while esdale thrives on commotion outside his cell, inside is a shrine to order. that s my rug.
segregation is drawing to a close. he s about to be transferred to general population. tomorrow i get out. thank god. get to play in the big box again. out of the little box, into the big box. hate the little box. like espinoza, daniel also aspires to be placed on the general population unit. got to mingle with the crowd. you get to get out. be with everybody else. i never been to pop. only time i was in pop was in newman. i ve never really seen pop. i was only in there for like two weeks. what happened? a fight. everybody fights. right? that s the only way you can handle situations in here, you have to fight. someone says something to you or you got problems and you got to act on it. if you don t, they will. it s a jail thing. 16 months ago, esdale was convicted of possession of a firearm and sentenced to two
that s the blanket i use to keep on my floor. i feel more comfortable and cozy. makes it more like home. that s my cosmetics. each toothbrush doesn t has its own toothpaste so i don t get it mixed up. sounds funny. sounds weird, but that s the way i do it. same thing with deodorants. one day i pick up one. one day the other. you don t use the same one. that s the way do you. mouthwash, shampoo. two of everything. you don t want to use all one thing. there s another unique aspect to esdale s current living situation. due to his fighting or egging on of other inmates, jail officials decided to house him in an area where other inmates would be less likely to respond to him. lunchtime, gentlemen. we decided to remove him from segregation and put him in the infirmary where he wasn t with other people where he could incite or ask to start a fight
avoid. i understand that. i wasn t doing nothing aggressive. you understand? right. i know you weren t. i know i said my exact words was this. yes. call rochelle. tell her i need to speak to her. make a [ bleep ] decision. somehow, grow up or something like that. yeah, you did. make a decision. if you send me to c dub or send me to the box. yes. i was aggravated. i know that. the only way i know how to channel my anger is physically. instead of me doing that, i m yelling. i m yelling. yeah. and that s definitely recognized. that was recognized. rochelle, to tell you the truth, all jokes aside, i m not even trying to play with you. like you know, you got the job. you re the boss. i respect you. you understand where i m coming from? yep. you know i didn t care about being seg. i know. if i just did four months that s why i m saying you re not dead in the water. the next step for esdale is
outside his cell. today i m getting out of the hole. i m going go play with the big kids in the big box now. i m pretty excited. when you go to a new unit, you don t know who s on that unit or whatever. could be a lot of small time units. so i ll see what s going on. 30 days since i got to put a pair of sneakers on. my new unit. see what s going to happen. 2-4, open. daniel esdale has spent the last four months living and working in the jail s infirmary hoping good behavior would convince jail officials to overlook his history of fighting and grant him a transfer to general population. he actually got to a point where he had a detail in medical