teeth. i got my teeth knocked out. but they said at that point, either that guy is crazy or he s bad, but we re going to leave him alone. he just ain t worth it! it works. i am a caucasian male. i speak english. i m educated. i m the oddball now, and i realize that. actually, this looks like one of the better meals. you should be here on pigeon night. i think they call it chicken night everywhere else. there s nothing in here that fascinates me or that makes me happy. this is as close to a living hell as i think i ever want to come. seeing many of the same inmates cycle in and out of their facilities is not uncommon for most jail officials, nor is it unusual for certain types of inmates to be housed together, as we discovered during a visit to the fifth floor of the los angeles county jail. i call it the drama floor. because you get a mix of everything.
inmates to be housed together, as we discovered during a visit to the fifth floor of the los angeles county jail. i call it the drama floor. because you get a mix of everything. you get a mix of general population from petty theft to burglary to the k-11 inmates who are the homosexual inmates. normally, they re separated from everyone else, simply because a lot of times they will be abused. there s a lot of homosexual inmates that can fool you, gender bending, and it s hard to tell. my name is tasha. my last name is swain. 37-year-old bernard tasha swain was serving a nine-month sentence for parole violation. so, how are you making money on the streets? prostitution and selling drugs. one of the things bernard did on occasion inside l.a. county jail was put on beauty pageants. he was like a peacock. he wanted to show off his feathers. do you like the miss america pageant? we do them in here, but we do them for the boys.
cell next to baez. he denies being a gang member to our producer. i just want to know why. why he stabbed me. i didn t even know him. he knows why because he s running with them. running with who? running with them guys, they were trying to set me up. to hurt me. that s why. i never even spoke to the guy. do you know the name of the guy you stabbed? no, don t know him. you just know that he was part of a gang? yeah. is that a reason to stab somebody? they ll both be charged with penal 120-05, which is assault in the second degree, as well as criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth. if found guilty, they could receive 3 1/2 to 7 in addition to what they re incarcerated with already. coming up on lockup: raw i call it the drama floor. gender-bending inmates. we cut sheets and towels and stuff like that, make little dresses. and jail inmates who are mentally disturbed. he didn t seem violent but he was definitely someone you who not want to be
angeles county jail. i call it the drama floor. because you get a mix of everything. you get a mix of general population from petty theft to burglary to the k-11 inmates who are the homosexual inmates. normally, they re separated from everyone else, simply because a lot of times they will be abused. there s a lot of homosexual inmates, gender bending, and it s hard to tell. my name is tasha. my last name is swain. 37-year-old bernard tasha swain was serving a nine-month sentence for parole violation. so, how are you making money on the streets? prostitution and selling drugs. one of the things bernard did on occasion inside l.a. county jail was put on beauty pageants. he was like a peacock. he wanted to show off his feathers. do you like the miss america pageant? we do them in here, but we do them for the boys. and we have the girls, the boys, the schoolboys, the vogue and all kind of stuff like that, so
i didn t even know him. he knows why because he s running with them. running with who? running with them guys, they were trying to set me up. that s why. i never even spoke to the guy. do you know the name of the guy you stabbed? no, don t know him. you just know that he was part of a gang? yeah. is that a reason to stab somebody? they ll both be charged with penal 120-05, which is assault in the second degree, as well as criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth. if found guilty, they could receive 3 1/2 to 7 in addition to what they re incarcerated with already. coming up on lockup: raw, i call it the drama floor. gender-bending inmates. we cut sheets and towels and stuff like that, make little dresses. and jail inmates who are mentally disturbed. he didn t seem violent but he was definitely someone you who not want to be left in a room alone with.