in ad seg, darrell samuels and michael edwards are being held for the fistfight they had on the basketball court. drop it! officer deed is the investigator who will talk with the inmates and determine who started the fight. we have certain behavior patterns that inmates must abide by according to the title 15, which is given by the director. and when they violate this, i have to write a written violation report 115, once it s written, the inmate is logged, inmate is served and heard by the hearing lieutenant. i m serving inmate edwards a 115 and inmate samuels a 115. they had a fistfight on the yard friday, the 30th of march. they ve both been charged with battery on an inmate because one inmate received serious injuries. oh, it s a serious 115. it s an a-1 offense. this is a serious 115. they could lose up to a year of
investigative employee, want anybody investigating, want anybody making any statements? no, just the employee working that day. he ll be at the hearing then. see what he saw. do you have any questions? no. all right. hey, jamie. what happened was, man, i went on to see edwards, right? up at the hospital. at the hospital, yeah. doesn t look too good. worse for wear, yeah, he got facial lacerations. the only person he wanted at the hearing was reporting officer gunman, that s the only person he wants there. he doesn t want nobody investigated. so that s it on that, however, samuels wants somebody investigated. so i m going to go up there and get these guys out on the tier, right? 227. 227? oh, yeah. samuels is up there being
lesser offense, mutual combat, he received 61 days, which he was satisfied with. after working out in the yard, inmate samuels meets with counselor woodford to review his case and plans for the future. go on in. there was a concern about giving you that break because you were right there on the wall. yeah, i know. it could have gone either way. i know. and the only reason you got that break is because the lieutenant said, i believe this kid can turn it around. don t disappointment me. you change your own destiny. yeah. so you ve got to stay out of trouble, okay? i m trying to do my time, not starting no trouble. what it is is, i m trying to learn how to walk away from it. that s going to be hard. things happen. around a bunch of men and we all got our own issues and stuff happens. samuels behavior inside prison determines the length of his stay, but with little
going to get the log, see who was out there that day, ask them the questions you want me to ask them. was it self-defense, did he swing on you first, is that what you want me to ask them? that it was self-defense, he swung on me first. he swung on me first. the whole yard seen it. i will give you a copy of the report once it s typed. all right. all right? all right. see you in a little bit. what i m going to do right now, right, i have to get the yard list from the officer so i know who to question and i ll go ask these individuals per inmate samuels, right, did the other inmate swing on him first? friday was the 30th. right here, willie. just give me the house and the name. officer alejos locates witness names in the yard log. there are five inmates officer deed must question. thank you. all right, willie. due process. a man, he has that right.
i couldn t do this without these guys right here, especially with lieutenant fuller and sergeant lee. [ applause ] oh. he s still not getting more hours. the fight investigation in ad seg found both samuels and edwards guilty of mutual combat. samuels has moved to the reception center and is awaiting transfer to another penitentiary in the coming weeks. there he will serve out the six months remaining on his sentence. that was on the yard. they were playing basketball. edwards was getting kind of rough with samuels, right, he didn t like the way they were playing, didn t like what was happening to him, so he just swung on him and tried to hit him. from there the fight ensued. he was looking at getting 360 days. credit for this incident, but since it got reduced down to a