when it finally was over, we came in with the national guard, the state police. and we rushed in and first thing that i had encountered when i walked in by the control center, a body right there under water. that i tripped over. and i could still see his face. i was in wyoming when the riot happened. i was watching on tv and everything, seeing all the guys in the yard. and then that s when they told me that i was lucky to get out. they would have killed you in the riot. he s in pc now, cellblock four. i heard he was tortured with a settling torch. one of the torches they use to cut into the cellblocks. two weeks after they transferred me back to new mexico. the gym was still burning. i was put in cellblock two, you know. national guard was still feeding
facility is a housing unit for those inmates whose charges have given them a reputation among other inmates. a reputation that could result in grave consequences. special housing unit, what we call the shu, is typically what most people refer to as pc, protective custody unit, the people who go to protective custody or special housing are those whose charges either make them very difficult to place in general population or quite often involves some sort of sexual crime charge. that individual is generally not welcome in any housing block. these inmates often become targets in general population. where other inmates consider it a badge of honor to attack them. george shipps has been in this special housing unit for ten months now. i am here for downloading child pornography on my computer. that s my charge. shipps, who has pled not guilty to charges of possession
killings. before her death, sammy s mother also filed a report that ochoa sexually molested his daughter. ochoa vehemently denies harming anyone, especially sammy. that s my little girl. she was my reason for living at that point. she was a bundle of energy. she always had something to say. and she was a million laughs a minute. you know, she that s my baby. we didn t get a mourning period. you know, the day we were told that she died we were told that we killed her and i remember mentioning to both of my parents, this time it should be all about sammy but it can t be. you know, it has to be about us because we re on the defensive. conrad s older brother, baron, is housed in a different protective custody unit. his is for openly gay men. i think gay people in general are a bit less aggressive than heterosexuals. baron is charged with sexually molesting conrad s
while abdullah contemplates the moral choices of a nation, antwan rivers recently had to choose between keeping his hair extensions and long nails and being confined to the protective custody unit. protective custody, i can t go there. well, until you cut the nails and take the hair off, you have to go to a 1 b. i can t send you to general population with ils thnad hair on. riverhas madeis choice and is now in one of the far less restrictive general population units. i mean, i feel plain. i don t feel like me. i feel like me because this is how i am born, but like i don t feel as pretty as if i was as i was when i came in or when i was out on the street. turn around, face me. open your mouth, lift your tongue up. rivers has had numerous stays at the jail and says being openly gay has never caused him a problem. as long as i can hold my own weight, i m good. people, you know, come and talk to you such and such, your roommates, they share words with you. but other than
though jarrett might be out of the jail in a few days, he uses the computer kiosk in his housing unit to once again request a transfer. i put it as to attention sergeant price, explained the whole situation, how i got on p.c. without actually being told where i was going, just asking for another unit. this is not what i wanted at all. i didn t want to be locked up. coming up, the jail makes a decision on william jarrett. and hey, baby girl, how you doing? joseph mayberry makes contact with the one person who matters most. inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, sergeant price has just received another request from william jarrett to be moved out of the protective custody unit. and here it states again, i m having multiple anxiety attacks that result in myself blacking out. this is due to the small rooms that i m locked in. please return me to general population. wi thiinmate s personality, it s very possible that he s going to have oblems in any unit he s p