mr. vales. deputy vales is soon leaving the jail for another job within the sheriff s department and this is the last service he will be summer vicing. unless another deputy volunteers to step in the weekly gatherings will cease. i m taking all of you with me just like every night when i left. what i m leaving here is the tools that you have been given to make your lives better. some people would say some of these guys are monsters or animals and who cares what they have to say. i do. with everything bad that ever happened in your life always remember you can always learn from it but you it doesn t have to consume you. just move forward. that is my challenge to you. amen. deputy vales says he helped start the group not out of a reledgous calling but because it is important to offer a positive experience to inmates most of whom will inevitably
when we started our push to be one of the grievest county facilities in the country. so the ones here on the roof don t move or do anything but you take the sun in to help us create energy. the ones behind us there on the hillside those go ahead and rotate with the sun as it passes over are to be more efficient. we went and installed more on the services building and those actually heat up the water for the entire facility. in all, santa rita has 9,000 roof top solar panels and another 100 installed on the 1100 installed on the h hillside behind the jail. the jail also in talled five wind turbines and a hydrogen fuel cell power plant that serves as a pollution free source of electricity and heat. we wanted to be one of the leaders in the area. do something good for the earth. the jail s protective custody wing, an unusual church service might be doing some good for inmates who otherwise would be enemies. they are former gang members,
no, bitch. nobody said you can take it into existence and you are not going to do that. that is a hex. for real. my apologies. all right, thank you. mcfarland will soon have a chance to find an audience in the real world. he has just one month left on his sentence. but few changes at santa rita will have much impact on the majority of other men in the jail s protective custody unit as the one involving deputy vails. amazing grace how sweet the sound several months earlier deputy vales helped start an ongoing church service between protective custody inmates, who are usually kept separate from each other for safety reasons. he recently left the jail for another position in the sheriff s department. the services could only continue if another deputy volunteered to take them over and risk bringing enemies together. but that hasn t happened.
the most dominant gang at santa rita is the northerners. they are for the most part hispanic inmates from northern california. they are lot the jail. a prop meant gang. you could have one in minimum. general population. there are tribe balances deserenos. southern, california. they are vastly outnumber. when at the come in here to the facility because we are up in northern california this is all considered northeno territory. we have to keep them separate from general population and other gang members for the most part. it is hard to be a serengo in northern california. miguel depends on heart because he can t rely on much else. anybody could beat me up, you know. it has happened before.
a popular guy? the most popular guy here. when you grab the bag, check this. ramirez. ia you ford. i ll look it. the jail provides minimal kits to inmates like john mcfarland who have no money available to them. if they don t have money. they got stamp, envelopes. tooth brush. a razor. tooth paste. cope. pencil. a little package. other inmates have plenty to get through the week. cereal for the morning. noodles. cappuccino cookies. my mom and dad support me. they put money on my books and i am able to get everything i