it s another day and another important lesson for the inmates involved with the horse program at the rio cosumnes correctional facility near sacramento. do we lose some horses today? two. two horses. a month earlier, joe misner and the inmates were asked to train four fillies on an accelerated schedule, 30 days instead of the usual 120 days. you got to pet her like she s your girlfriend, not like you re smacking her around, buddy. misner feels they beat the odds having two of the fillies ready to go. these guys have not had the opportunity of years and years of working with wild horses. so we have a school of hard knocks where they re having to
this is not a place to be children, you do not want to be here. nobody ever asks for long-term stay at the rio cosumnes correctional center. it s one of two large jail facilities run by the sacramento county sheriff s office. but robert carey and nashe dake have made the most out of it. we usually move everything out of the way at dinner time and end up eating at the table. this our table, it doubles as a table for us. we seem to kill a lot of time playing cards, lately. carey is serving time for illegally manufacturing and selling firearms. he said he did so during a financially stressful time. he now wishes he had just reached out for help instead. i know now that it s wrong. i had other avenues and that man has pride and you know, caveman style, we don t ask for help. we don t ask for directions. as a trainee in the wild horse program, carey knows that
and feel more like a prison than a jail. deputy woods has worked at both locations. at the main jail it s more cell and more floors. and everyone s confined, everyone s agitated, everyone is so upset. everyone s mad. kind of like a dark and gloomy place. here, when you re here, it s outside, it s more fresh air. so it s a huge difference. rio cosumnes also houses the majority of the jail s ab-109 inmates. or those who would normally be serving lengthy sentences in california state prison. one of the benefits is that most are now closer to home. so they might get more business. visits. i m going to be honest, the word prison kind of scares me, so i ve never been. so i don t want to go. but ab-109 is cool because my family is closer, so it s kind of not being like, hey, i m in prison. it kind of feels better. but not all ab-109 inmates are happy with the law.
but prisons have been doing this for a much longer time than a county jail. one small privilege at rio cosumnes is the ability to check out a musical instrument. nashe dake said he seen playing music since he was 7 years old. this is what is called a classical guitar. it has nylon strings on it. it s a pretty decent guitar. it has pretty good intonation on it. what they do, they come to the window, they check out the guitar. i inspect to make sure all the strings are there, all the fret, the equipment is in good use. when they return it we inspect it again to make sure everything is still there. it s a bent sorry card. for a guitar pick. it s real good stuff he s got going on. he can be able to play with just about anything as you can see. we brought a spoon over there and tried that out, too. he can make anything happen there. he s really talented.
sprawling branch jail. the rio cosumnes correctional center. you water those mares there? ab-109 inmate robert carey has been in the horse program since it was implemented five months earlier. its goal is to make wild horses suitable for adoption. we leave in the morning and we get back at night. we re tired and sore by the end of the day. it s a long day but it makes the day really fast. and that s important. carey is only one year into a 12-year sentence for manufacturing and selling firearms and high-capacity magazines without a license. carey said he learned how to make guns from his father who did so legally on their pennsylvania farm. it was just part of our every day life. we d go to the range and spend the whole day at the rifle range and stuff. pick up brass and reload them. that s what i did as a kid behind him. even when i didn t know how to shoot, i would be out on the range picking up buckets of