jail s 14,000 residents. we make 88,000 loaves a week. every inmate has to get four slices of bread per meal per day. we also make bread that s used in the facilities to feed the employees. so, we make a lot of bread here. they gave us a couple of loaves and this huge crock of butter, and we slathered this butter on loaves of the bread, and it rivaled any bakery in new york. inmate rhonda narducci was hoping that the bakery would help turn her life around. when i first came in here, i wanted to hurt myself. i was really depressed. i was going crazy. i said my first felony, i said, oh, my god, my record s so messed up now. i don t know what to do. so, i got myself into the bakery to keep myself busy, and i love the bakery. ever worked in a bakery
and we have the girls, the boys, the schoolboys, the vogue and all kind of stuff like that, so it s a variety of things that you can run for. it s not just beauty. we cover with sheets and towels, stuff like that, make little dresses, you know. we destroy state property to make the outfits, in other words. do you wear makeup? yes, actually. look at my face. we explored another special housing unit at l.a. county as well, the mental health ward, where we encountered one of the most unforgettable scenes ever shown on lockup. there was one gentleman in particular who i could barely see him because there was so much graffiti on his cell door and all over his walls. it looked like hieroglyphics. a lot of the writing on the door is human feces, and he also has combined a little mustard on it for coloring. so, that s what he s writing with on the actual door.
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.
spokesman, he offered a plug for life here. if you like being told what to do, if you like being told what to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, [ bleep ], scratch your ass, if you like taking a chance of getting your ass kicked or getting killed, whatever, by inmates or police, if you like this type of thing, then this is the place for you. like many other inmates here, regan has had multiple arrests. most people that come to jail stay in jail. regardless whether they go home, they come back, come back. spend the rest of their life in jail. while inmates can sometimes be in denial about the circumstances that have brought them to jail, regan was crystal clear. me, like a lot of other people, it s not that we don t have the knowledge to do different things. i know carpentry, i know masonry. i know it s not like i don t have the ability or the skills. it all comes down to choice. i just choose not to, for various reasons, you know.
she s with her father s mother in florida. what s her name? roseanne. she writes to you? yeah. what does she write? oh, she s saying that she loves me, she misses me. i feel like crying right now. it s okay. it s all right. are you all right? yeah. it s okay. i do miss my daughter. i know you do. i know you do. all right. my heart went out to her, because whenever prisoners begin to talk about their children, it is the one very sensitive spot in their lives. and no matter what they may have done to get them to a jail, to prison, they still are very touched and love their children. but the good thing is that you got a lot out of being here, right? yes. since i ve been in here for several months doing my eight months, i feel good now.