plate inside the slit. because those piercings, according to him, are irremovable, we don t know that and we don t know what those piercings are capable, once they re taken out, they could cob tan contraband. they could be used as a weapon, could be against himself, against staff or even fellow inmates. i have another one on the back of my neck. it s called a surface staple. as you can see, there s a bar through my neck and there s two flathead screwdriver parts to it. basically, for mr. ruiz, for him, it s been a good thing for him being isolated, because he won t be exposed to a general population setting. he won t be exposed to gang politics. he won t be exposed to inmate pressures. so for mr. ruiz, it might have been a saving grace for him that he actually had piercings and that he was removed from general population so he doesn t have to answer any of those questions. well, as you know by now, i m at orange county jail.
caliente. morgan also earned the respect of other inmates as well as compensation in the form of commissary goods by providing skilled services not often found in prison. among other things, he s a tailor. now stand up here on the chair. i ain t getting on my knees, honey. you got me twisted. i m not getting on my knees. you do it any other time. [ bleep ] none of the straight inmates were embarrassed to be seen with peaches. and that was also unusual in a general population setting. for a gay man in prison. it s like disney land. you just don t know what ride to get on. my family goes, are you ready to come home? i said yeah i m ready to come home i just haven t earned my mickey mouse ears yet. so a couple more years and i ve got my mickey mouse ears and i m out the door. uh-huh. and i m taking all the rides with me. i ll go ahead and fill out the paperwork and have you sign it. morgan also held a prison job as an inmate advocate. a sort of amateur lawyer for
in a general population setting, so this is what they do. the nature of the beast. we ll give them a couple of days, there will be another one back here. obviously, this is the place to hide your stuff. just got to have us beat them. one time. good. the risk of smuggling drugs and weapons into corcoran has cost some inmates not only their jobs, but the small taste of freedom that came with them.
of the 3,000 inmates at the santa rita jail near oakland, about 10% are women. most of them live in general population units where they re free to be out of their cells and socialize several hours per day. but approximately 20 other female inmates live a far more confined life in the jail segregation unit. those are the people housed separately. there s one person per cell. never allowed to be two people in a cell. it can be anybody from a high-profile case, can be a safety issue, it could be somebody who does not i call it doesn t play well with others. they don t fit in with the general population setting. kelsey, you got one hour. all right. each of the women is allowed out of their cells one at a time for one hour per day. don t be mad because you re not out. kelsey erwin uses her time to make daily rounds with nearly
you he will do good and his behavior is good right now, but not so long ago, he came out and assaulted an officer. he s a big man, he s hard to control, he s a dangerous man and he is appropriately assigned in that segregation cell at this point. he is dangerous. as far as my vote, i don t think he d ever need to be in a population setting. segregation is a place of confinement for men who you must separate from the general population. and steven parker is one of those guys who must be separated. we must keep him controlled at all times. i guess i m going to go crazy. i don t know. i guess i m going to spend the rest of my life in prison and keep doing the same things i ve been doing. i don t know what else to do. until somebody kills me, i guess. i don t know. next on lockup: extended stay life on death row was a very traumatic experience. death was definitely next.