high-rent district. mason is serving nine months at theo lacey, convicted of an unusual shoplifting charge. caught stealing a flea collar and a pair of workout pants. you re here because you stole a flea collar and a pair of workout pants? yes. and i do have a dog. that day, i was actually out of my mind on methamphetamine. i d been up for four days straight without sleep. i have no idea why i was even in that store. if there s anything that you could say is the devil s drug, methamphetamine fits that bill perfectly. it s a blessing i got caught stealing that stuff because i was praying to god to stop and i couldn t. so i guess this is his way of helping me stop. i can flex. inside jail, mason is an advocate for healthy living. my friends call me popeye
orange county jail. what are you in for? disturbing the peace. have you been in jail before? no, sir. all right. look here at the camera for me. the orange county jail is comprised of five separate jail facilities. the largest of these is the theo lacey jail, with an average daily population of 2,800 male inmates. theo lacey alone dwarfs many state prisons. i have an assistant sheriff at theo lacey. he always likes to say we don t have andy of mayberry. we don t have otis coming into the jail tank. that s not the kind of county jail inmate we ve got. we have 400 people in custody for murder today. we don t have people in jail for simple possession of marijuana, like some people might think. we have some very serious felony inmates in our custody. hands behind your back.
at theo lacey, convicted of an unusual shoplifting charge. caught stealing a flea collar and a pair of workout pants. you re here because you stole a flea collar and a pair of workout pants. yes. and i do have a dog. that day, i was actually out of my mind on methamphetamine. i d been up for four days straight without sleep. i have no idea why i was even in that store. if there s anything that you could say is the devil s drug, methamphetamine fits that bill perfectly. it s a blessing i got caught stealing that stuff because i was praying to god to stop and i couldn t. so i guess this is his way of helping me stop. i can flex. inside jail, mason is an advocate for healthy living. my friends call me popeye
look at all that. look at all that money. yeah, buddy. look at all those chips. that s why i don t have commissary left. i play poker like crap. this is the first grab in the toilet tomorrow. that and a bag of chips, i got your number. inmates housed in theo lacey jail are ready to bunk down for the night. oh! what you got, what you got, what you got? three of a kind right there. all right, hold on. let me go mortgage my house. i want to play again. but they re in for a surprise. so what s going to happen is we re going to have about a hundred inmates from this location move to another location. to make room for a new group of inmates, the workers will be transferred to a new barracks. they re going to grab their blankets and all their personal belongings. they re going to roll it all up into a bundle. and we re going to watch everyone very closely to make sure they don t hide anything. any large inmate move poses a potential security breach.
inside the armory at theo lacey, the emergency response team suits up to confront an inmate considered to be a dangerous threat. i m sending you guys into danger, i know. this is not a drill. this is an ad seg inmate. we all know what that means. correct? that means he s assaultive not only to other inmates but he s also assaultive possibly to staff. all right? that kind of amps it up a little bit. the inmate is albert briceno. he has been transferred to orange county from a maximum security state prison, in order to appeal his current sentence of more than 150 years on multiple counts of gang-related armed robbery. albert briceno is a gang member from hard times. that s a street gang out of the city of garden grove. he goes by the moniker of capone. he was mainly brought up into the gang life through his family. through his mom and surrounding family members. he was basically born into the