illegal items. what we will do is these guys that have razor blades on their bunk, they say, yeah, it was mine. okay, what we do is we write an incident form out and we send them down to the justice center, down to the 900 building. for 37-year-old inmate perry scranton, the dorm search is just part of being a prisoner. actually it don t feel too well. nobody likes people going through their personal property, but it s something that has to be done. it s their job. they have to make sure everything is right. after the search, inmates return to their cells to clean up the mess. next, lockup takes you inside old max, l.a. county s 50-year-old maximum security facility, and we ll see how two new inmates are dealing with the first week of being behind bars. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn t pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan.
south facility is an outside jail for low to medium security inmates. north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists and drug offenders. we find that the linear jail doesn t really work for us anymore. and what we have here is more of a podular design with the staff stations in the middle and then the inmates around the outside. a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmates, nccf was designed in 1983. nccf first made headlines in march of 1990 when the first president bush helped dedicate the jail s opening. one of this nation s founding fathers, said, if men were
otherwise known as old max, it was built in 1951 to handle overcrowding. the 15 dormitories inside the jail can house approximately 2,000 inmates. with the nation s jail population becoming more middle-aged, facilities like l.a. county s east jail are trying to accommodate older inmates and keep them away from more violent younger ones. well, this is the old man s dorm. which is a privileged dorm. you have to be 45 and older to be in this dorm. and if you mess up in this dorm, you go back to regular population. for almost 40 years, 51-year-old inmate will williamson has been committing crimes that land him in jail. yeah. it s sickening. it s something, you know, you just have to put up with that. you know, i did it to myself again. i said i wasn t coming back. here i am. same people, same everything. just like i ve seen people come
otherwise known as old max, it was built in 1951 to handle overcrowding. the 15 dormitories inside the jail can house approximately 2,000 inmates. with the nation s jail population becoming more middle aged, facilities like l.a. county s east jail are trying to accommodate older inmates and keep them away from more violent younger ones. this is the old man s dorm. it s a privileged dorm. you have to be 45 and older to be in this dorm. if you mess up in this dorm you go back to the regular population. for almost 40 years, 51-year-old inmate will williamson has been committing crime that is land him in jail. it s sickening. it s something, you know, you just have to put up with that, you know, i did it to myself
north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists, and drug offenders. we find that the linear style jail really doesn t work for us anymore, and what we have here is we have more of a podular design with the staff stations in the middle and then the inmates around the outside. a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmates, nccf was designed in 1983. nccf first made headlines in march of 1990, when the first president bush helped dedicate il s opening. one of this nation s founding fathers said, if men were angels, no government would be necessary.