sentences, usually less than a year. listen up for your name. stand on the floor there for me, please. but most jail detainees have pending court cases and have been denied or are unable to make bail. put your stomach on the wall. stomach on the wall. hands behind your back. there is another type of jail detainee, as well, and they re often the most dangerous, those who have just been arrested, sometimes still drunk, high on drugs or fresh from committing a crime. my biggest challenge in here is dealing with the varieties of people that come in from the streets. we have a lot of mental patients. a lot of the inmates that are arrested have psychological problems and they haven t taken their medication for a long time. are there voices talking to you? yes, there are. you do hear that? yes. i do. okay. how long have the voices been talking to you? for a while. for a while. sometimes they are
roseanne. she writes to you? yeah. she says that she loves me and misses me. feel like crying right now. it s okay. it s all right. you all right? it s okay. i just miss my daughter. i know you do. i know you do. my heart went out to her because whenever prisoners begin to talk about their children, it s the one very sensitive spot in their lives. no matter what they may have done to get them to a jail or to a prison, they still are very touched and love their children. but the good thing is you got a lot out of being here, right? yes. ever since i ve been in here, doing my eight months, i feel good now. i just thank god that i m in here. i m glad because when i was in
i speak english. i m educated. i m the odd ball 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 facility us it not uncommon for most jail officials, nor is 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 court you get a mix of general population from petty theft to burglary to the homosexual inmates. normally they re separateed from everyone else because a lot of times they will be abused. there s a lot of homosexual
because a lot of times they will be abused. there is a lot of homosexual inmates that can fool you. they are 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 a parole violation. how do you make money on the streets? prostitution and selling drugs. one of the other things that bernard did on occasion inside l.a. county jail is to put on beauty pageants. like a peacock, so he wanted to show off his feathers. you know the miss america pageant? we do them in here but we do them for the boys and we have for girls and boys, the school boys. the vogue and all that kind of stuff like that. it s a variety of things you can run for. it s not just beauty. we cut up sheets and towels and make little dresses and you know. we destroy state property to make the outfits. do you make them look better?
starts scratching seat number 3, i m going to say that s who we must search. right here we found two empty balloons. now, a lot of people, what they like to do is stuff either the marijuana or crack cocaine in these balloons. seat number 10 and 11. so right now i m going to request for the visitor in seats number 10 and 11 be searched. an offcamera search of the visitors in seats 10 and 11 revealed no contraband and denied knowledge of the balloons. but inside the reception area, all the visitors were given yet another warning. okay. listen up. if anyone is caught contra banding will be arrived. so look into your pockets and see your wallet. if you happen to find something by chance you can put it in this bag right here. this is your last chance.