i m just me. i m jerry. juan rubio continues to bide his time in a segregation cell. eager to return to a mexican mafia housing unit, despite being expelled from the gang. what do you do while you re in there? i read. work out. think. what do you think about? my life. how i m going to fix my life. i get out and i do the same mistakes over and over. i ve been doing it all my life. but i m going to get out. i m going to get out, and i m going to change that. rubio s latest troubles arrived after he broke one of the mexican mafia s most important codes. he attacked a jail officer. now eight days later all right, mr. rubio, i m going to have you have a seat in this chair here. rubio must face the
could i get my parking validated? fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. at boston s suffolk county jail, maintaining the safety of inmates and staff is a top priority. key to that goal is identifying and segregating inmates with violent histories, inmates like deven gallop. he s pretty notorious here due to his gang affiliation and his willingness to fight not only inmates but staff. he cannot make it housed with anyone, he cannot rec with anyone. and so we had to do something about that. the first step was housing gallop in a one-man segregation cell. now, even though he has an open
segregation cell at the orange county jail are letters from his 15-year-old son, jesse, who is currently housed in the county s juvenile facility. my son, he writes more. i send him drawings. i send him a little workout list. because he was asking me for the workout list. he tells me that the workout list was whack. i was like, man. i figure he s young. try to give him a light one. you know? he wrote back, talking all kinds of smack. i was like, all right. so i wrote him a hard one. i haven t heard him yet. he s always telling me, write me back, dad, write me back fast. i m probably the only one that s keeps in constant contact with him, you know? they don t know that, you know i still support him from in here, you know. his days at the orange county jail could be coming to an end. a judge will soon decide whether or not to grant his appeal to have the gang enhancements dropped from his armed robbery charges. the decision could be the difference between ever seeing freedom again
years earlier and has since been convicted on five counts of assault with a firearm and one count each of firing a weapon from a moving vehicle and attempted murder. his sentence has been delayed pending appeals but his violent ways have continued during his long stay at santa rita. ronnie padilla, when he came in here, he started causing problems and getting charged with assault in here. one of those assaults resulted in an additional conviction for attempted murder after padilla stabbed another inmate. the victim had a fairly good-sized cut on his side of his neck. due to his behavior, padilla has been confined to his segregation cell 23 hours per day for the past six years. it s hard for me to do time like this. being here by myself. i start to think about my case. family. my future. feels sometimes like i m going to be here forever.
joseph giroux is also unhappy with the sparse accommodations of his segregation cell and has asked to move to general population. awaiting trial on 14 charges related to an alleged crime spree that ended with his arrest inside a tulsa casino with a loaded shotgun, he could be in jail for a while. he s already spent 17 years of his life in prison on various drug convictions and accessory to murder. he doesn t have a lot to show for it except for the tattoos he acquired there. says white pride. i ve got like a bunch of demon faces filling it all in, just like a collage. pretty much skulls and demons. but a neck tattoo carries a different message. cut my throat one time and i just filled it in, colored the scar in and branded, basically, jesus saves on my neck.