me assault on staff. since i was in the shoe when i left, they brought me back in the hole, that s how they do it. now i m waiting to go to icc to find out when they re going to let me get out. matthew usually returns to prison for petty crimes. he has a history of committing more serious offenses behind bars. he s capable of a lot of violence in custody in the prison system. and in fact, he hasn t been in a general population setting since i think maybe 2003. and that s because he keeps getting in trouble. he batters the officers. he s resistant, uses alcohol in custody. whoops. that didn t work. good, how are you? good. this is institution classification committee. this is for administrative
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 s 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
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
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 flat head screwdriver parts to it. basically, for mr. ruiz, for him it s been a good thing 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, i m from orange county jail. just hours before he would answer to the judge. ruiz used his time in isolation to write a letter to his girlfriend who he had not spoken to since his arrest. baby i m sorry for not picking you up at work. i was in a police car at the time. i hope you re there when i get out. the only thing i can dream or think about is all the right things i m going to do when i get
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. oh, no. 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 disneyland. you just don t know what ride to get on. i said 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 f