inside estrella s g dorm, inmate kelley mcnaughton is considered a force of nature with a powerful magnetic draw. recently, mcnaughton and one of her dorm mates had an argument that nearly escalated to a physical confrontation. detention officers were called in to break it up. now mcnaughton will have to face sergeant martinez to defend herself for the write-up she received. to be honest with you, i ve gotten out of every single write-up i ve ever had in my entire life. she likes to manipulate a lot. she always has a story. you ll see when we talk to her. usually like i bring on the tears like right at the right time. bunk 25! good morning. hi, how are you? i m not so well. what happened? i ve always told you the truth. remember? so what happened? okay. do you want the truth this time?
day-to-day security at the maricopa county jail in phoenix is handled by detention officers. sheriff s deputies assigned to the jail and who are the front line in maintaining order. they re backed up by the jail s intelligence division, which is constantly gathering information on potential problems before they can escalate. the key s going to look like this. okay. it s going to be pretty much just etched out of the toothbrush. okay. all right. but we ve got to hit them quick because if not he ll swallow it. all right. the fourth avenue jail s intelligence division suspects one of its maximum security inmates of having a homemade handcuff key. do the cells in four bravo 200, 100, 3, 4. do they have the back windows into the water wells? yes, they do. okay, they do. we will be monkeying around in your water wells. if you call the briefing room
jail, detention officers say they restrained richada crawford just as she was about to get into a fight with another inmate. doing me wrong! [ bleep ] doing me wrong! but crawford denies the allegation. that s what they accuse me of doing was starting an altercation with somebody. so i said, okay, if you all are going to move me from this pod i may as well fight the girl. i might as well get a reason to go to seg. might as well have a reason, and they stopped me in my tracks. do you have an anger issue? that s what they told me but i don t believe i do. if i m really mad to the point where i just can t take it no more, i write. but if i m to the point i m mad and you re right here in my face, we re going to have a problem, you know? though only 20 years old, crawford has had numerous stays at tulsa county, dating back to age 16, when she was sent to the juvenile facility after stabbing
crawford! richada crawford has not sought out counseling. come here. but the anger issue she says she has had since childhood might have gotten her in trouble again. sit there in that chair. she happened to be on the phone with her girlfriend, star brown, when detention officers ordered all inmates back to their cells to deal with an unrelated issue. the d.o. cut off my phone call, and i wasn t on the phone a whole five minutes. i don t know what happened after that. why you mrs. matthews, don t look at me like that. i don t know the situation. she probably was told to do something, started talking back from there it just escalated. i don t even know. but knowing her and how her mouth is, that s probably what got her in trouble. all right?
the detention officers who work in the booking department at the tulsa county jail are always ready for the unexpected. it s one of those things, you never know what a police officer s going to bring in here. it s something you ve just got to learn to deal with over years of working here. joseph giro s arrival was preceded by a night in wch he allegedly went on a crime spree that involved trying to kidnap a couple at a convenience store and leading police on a wild high-speed chase. before he was arrested at a tulsa casino with a loaded, sawed-off shotgun. he was the inmate that claimed he was given some kind