for weapons. cells are checked twice daily. and all inmates are strip-searched when returning from the yard. these are actually pieces of our building, aluminum louvers that were in our ventilation system. and so the inmates found out they can get them out pretty easy and sharpen them up. basically, they ll put toothpaste on the cement and just work it across like you would with a knife on a stone or anything like that. we re like animals in here, every day. if i do something to you, what s the worst they can do to me? give me some more time? i m a lifer. in the same uinta complex, the state of utah houses the inmates whom its courts have condemned to die. we don t have a lot of violence in there. we don t have a lot of negative events. you can either do good time or you can do hard time. our inmates on death row, they have elected to do good time.
and all inmates are strip-searched when returning from the yard. these are actually pieces of our building, aluminum louvers that were in our ventilation system. and so the inmates found out they can get them out pretty easy and sharpen them up. basically, they ll put toothpaste on the cement and just work it across like you would with a knife on a stone or anything like that. we re like animals in here, every day. if i do something to you, what s the worst they can do to me? give me some more time? i m a lifer. in the same uinta complex, the state of utah houses the inmates whom its courts have condemned to die. we don t have a lot of violence in there. we don t have a lot of negative events. you can either do good time or you can do hard time. our inmates on death row, they have elected to do good time. there are fewer than a dozen men on utah s death row on various levels of appeal. ralph menzies has been there for 17 years.
these are actually pieces of our building, aluminum louvers that were in our ventilation system. and so the inmates found out they can get them out pretty easy and sharpen them up. basically, they ll put toothpaste on the cement and just work it across like you would with a knife on a stone or anything like that. we re like animals in here, every day. if i do something to you, what s the worst they can do to me? give me some more time? i m a lifer. in the same uinta complex, the state of utah houses the inmates whom its courts have condemned to die. we don t have a lot of violence in there. we don t have a lot of negative events. you can either do good time or you can do hard time. our inmates on death row, they have elected to do good time. there are fewer than a dozen men on utah s death row on various levels of appeal. ralph menzies has been there for 17 years. ralph s crime was a brutal
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surrounding mountain ranges with names like wasatch, oqirrh, timpanogos and uinta. building uinta-5 houses the receiving and orientation, or r&o. uinta-5 is probably a time when they are most afraid. it s when they first hear the slamming of the doors, see the officers. and it can be a very difficult time for the inmates. after 20 years in the corrections business, lieutenant dale whitney knows that the first few moments with an inmate can be the most dangerous. we don t know when these guys came in, what their crimes are, if they re coming down off some kind of drugs. we don t know what their mental state is. anything you are allowed to have, you ll get back. it will be letters, photos, legal papers. basically, that s it. our intake officer will take them, one at a time, into a strip room and strip them down, do a visual cavity search. searching there, too?