and lot of people don t understand that. when you go out and put in 10 applications a day and every single place just knocks you down. i hate not having a job because i feel like a bum. but some days i d just rather feel like a bum than go out and feel like a low life, like get crapped on. because you come home feel like a piece of [ bleep ]. it is not worth it sometimes. schiele says he eventually reached rock bottom can tried to quit suicide by over dosing on precipitation pills. i was in a coma. i don t remember how long. but i mean it was over. they brought my children down to see me. brought my priest. father tom came and blessed me. forgave my sins. and gave me a clear path. and one day i sat straight up in bad, had a tube in my throat. i can t breathe i m freaking out. and i they had me intubated. and i grabbed it and it didn t come out but i did a good job ripping up my vocal cards.
crime scene photos. they have been asked to retrieve body parts on occasion. it s the type of experience that you never forget. the images never leave you. two spots have recently opened up on the dead run team and schiele has once again applied for one of the volunteer positions. i think i do a very good job at it and i m very respect. of that. they need somebody to come in and do that. there is not always that want to do that. thanks guys for coming up. and we re going to talk to you about the dead run position a little more in-depth. what we really want you to do when you are out there is you are under the control of the custody and the officer the who s in charge. all right? you re at all times discrete and respectful. you are going to be around families that are grieving and a lot of situations you will be involved with homicides, suicides, young people, old people. you know, men, women and children unfortunately. treat these bodies as if they were a relative of yours and
every year about 55,000 men and women pass through the booking department of the hamilton county justice center in cincinnati. i got a pair in my purse. most will be released within hours. but for those who stay the jail will become their home for an indefinite period of time. the job of keeping it clean falls to inmate workers, known here as porters, like tomas schiele. in jail i mean i am somebody. in here i feel needed, i guess. i have a purpose.
he wants to do a good job every run he goes out on. and it puts my mind at ease he s one of the guys out there doing the job. but this will be one of schiele s last runs. he s nearing the end of a 60-day sentence and will soon be leaving the jail. what s your plans for the future? well, number one above all is not to come back to jail. good. i got a job waiting on me. okay. got some after some treatment programs set up. help keep me in line a little bit. fantastic. and other than that, just going to go out there and give it your best. give it my best. spend time with the kids. but schiele won t be regaining his freedom just yet. he s about to be transferred to the neighboring butler county jail for failure to pay child support. i owe a lot. it s in the $20,000 to $30,000 range. i do feel like a piece of [ bleep ].
it hurts. i get to live with that reminder for the rest of my life. it s what i do. but i m over that now. schiele says one of the few positive aspects of his life in recent years was the unusual job he held the last time he was incarcerated here. he was once of the jail s dead run porters. about 12 or 13 years ago the county came to an agreement with the coroner s office we would respond within the county to any of the dead runs they had that require bodies to be picked up. we average probably about 70 or 80 runs per month. together and have a driver that goes out with them, a certified officer from intake and we re on scene usually within 30 minutes. they have a lot of responsibility. they have been asked to position bodies in certain positions for