due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. 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
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. so, to give d
them can be found at orange county s largest facility, theo lacey. one way to measure the challenge of managing such a large inmate population can be found in the theo lacey kitchen, where inmate workers prepare 9,000 meals per day. i ve actually heard that if an inmate had to be incarcerated they prefer to come to orange county jail because they are fed well. they are fed more colorfully. and our nutritional guidelines and standards are the same as the rest of the state. but we put a lot of care and energy into what we do. while lower security level inmates eat in the chow hall, the majority of inmates are confined to their cells. their meals are delivered by inmate workers, like robert mason. really helps that i used to work at denny s. it makes me thankful where i am at because at least we get to come out three times a day. it passes the time a lot quicker. these guys are locked down 23 hours a day, 22 hours a day.
i love it. and mama loves you. every year, nearly 70,000 people make their way through one of the five facilities that comprise the orange county jail. on any given day, up to 3,000 of them can be found at orange county s largest facility, theo lacey.
as we get further down this section we come into the 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.