at the rio cosumnes branch of the sacramento county jail system it has been less than 48 hours since ryan sobel was transferred to one of the maximum security housing units here. he will soon be on the move again. 7:30 in the morning. i walked in there, they started asking questions and i had to show them paperwork, which is your charges and one of the guys came in and threatened me. and last night some black guy from upstairs turned around and threatened me, then took my dinner tray right in front of me. i just don t want any confrontation. when we got there this morning, i felt a lot of tension with the individuals that were out and about. i could tell that things obviously weren t right. he will definitely not be returning to that pod. we re going to find a different housing area where he s not going to have the same issues.
at sacramento s county s rio cosumnes correctional center a new cell with friendlier inmates seemed like a ray of sunshine for purple heart recipient ryan sobel. but it s been all downhill from there. they gave me five days in the hole with everything taken from me. which was a definite experience. kind of brought me back to the movie cool hand luke. sobel was given five days in segregation. locked in a single-man cell 23 hours a day with loss of privileges. for attempting to send a letter to his girlfriend, ariel potter. the letter was written to her grandparents. i put a note in there saying can you reroute this to ariel s address. i thought that was okay. the letter i had written telling her to stay strong and that i loved her also said that i will see her at the next court date. unless an inmate is given
farming valley. once a world war two training base for army pilots, it s a collection of barracks, housing units that look and feel more like a prison than a jail. deputy woods has worked at both locations. at the main jail it s more cells and more floors. and everyone s confined, everyone s agitated, everyone is so upset. kind of like a dark and cold place. here, when you re here, it s outside, it s more fresh air. rio cosumnes also houses the majority of the jail s ab-109 sentences. one of the benefits is that most are now closer to home. so they might get more business. i m going to be honest, the word prison kind of scares me, so i ve never been. but ab-109 is cool because my family is closer, so it s kind of not like the hey, i m in prison, kind of feel. but not all are happy with the
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 sheriff s office. but robert carey and nashe dake have made the most out of it. this was 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. a man has pride, you know. we don t ask for help.
appreciate it or not, but i m sure they do. they don t want to walk and in their own [expletive] all day. you know? [ laughter ] i was slightly uncomfortable, at first. i was watching them all the time to make sure they weren t sneaking up on me or anything like that. dake will serve his two-year sentence for auto theft and forgery at rio cosumnes instead of prison. his prior convictions include burglaries, forgery and theft from an elder. he says all of it was fuelled by a methamphetamine addiction. i was stealing. and any money that i could pull in, i was bailing drugs, whether it was from jewelry, whatever the heck i could get my hands onto sell. food didn t really matter at that point. you re just, like, i need to take care of my addictions first. that s how you know it s really got a hold of you. it s got its hand on you like