during our extended stay shoot in savannah, field producer jacob hector only saw the light side of darkside. it wasn t the person i was expecting to meet. after speaking with him for a couple of minutes he stopped me and he said hey, thanks for talking to me, that was like having a visit. and you know that stuck with me. and that kind of says a lot about people that are confined in segregation. they don t have somebody to just to chat with a lot of the time. 23 hours a day spending this here, how it affect me? this cell right here is like more is more harder than in prison. i liked eric kelly right off the bat, i know he had issues some issues with some of the staff. but he was just very honest, when we talked to him, you know. he made us laugh at times and to lear the stories and to hear the officers reaction and then actually talk to him face to face and find out that he was a big taylor swift fan. i love you, taylor. i love you.
out big mark. this was in an area that was right at the front entry of the jail where all the administrative staff walked in, the sheriff himself. the plaza below hinkston s window was also used by civilians visiting the jail or doing business in county courthouses. and there s a lot of women that walk down there and mark said he was trying to look for somebody to come visit him and possibly start a relationship with. since i ve been in this cell, i put my name in this window and i wrote in some tooth paste. i also seen one of my little play heads out there. just in case you don t know what a play head is. that s a little female that you run into and happen to establish a little friendship with. the one with the white and black stripe sweater on with the black pants on. i been here for community service for four days now and he been bothering me. knocking on the window trying to get my attention. look, he rapping on it right
he has had several convictions and once served a four-year prison sentence for possession and sale of narcotics. i sell drugs, so you know, not a violent offender, not a rapist, nothing like that. i just try to get quick money and end up coming back. obviously i m here again so i m not good at it. suswell, come on in, take a seat. suswell has a disciplinary hearing with sergeant silvaggio and officer nicholson about the cigarette. the alleged violation could earn him considerable time in what s known as the box or segregation. how do you plead, guilty, not guilty, guilty with explanation. not guilty, sir. not guilty. so what happened, then? i ve never been through this before. yes, you have. years ago. this isn t your first charge, we know, come on, man. no, no. i don t know, the guy say he smelled smoke, i can t get blamed for somebody else doing something. i never had nothing in my hand. they searched the cell. they never found nothing, they didn t smell nothing
all right? though at times kelly s future seemed hopeless, he got a chance for the fresh start he longed for. but it would be a very fresh start. following our shoot, he pled guilty to his latest drug charges and was sentenced to time served. but there was a twist to his sentence as well. utilizing the georgia law that allows for banishment, kelly has been banned from stepping foot in savannah or the rest of chatham county for a period of 15 years. the jail official who heard from him says he s resettled in another state and is doing well. coming up imagine for the last nine years, being entombed in a windowless cell. the inmate who survived nearly a decade of solitary confinement.
washcloth and one religious item. a bible, koran, whatever religious item they would like to read. they sit in that cell the entire day and at 9:30 at night we return the mattress with their sheets and blankets. the other part of what they do is the loaf. which is this vegetarian ball they bake. they make the inmates eat it three meals a day, six days a week. it is a nutritional loaf. it is vegetables, mixed with flour and yeast and oil to hold it together, baked in a loaf about four inches wide and six inches long? kind of like chunky water. we ve seen segregation in various facilities. and you know sometimes you ask officers what s the policy about. and they hardly know, they just say that s the way we do it. but at fairfax, it was different. everybody i asked had the same answer. that segregation should be harsh. should be really tough. because they don t want the inmates to repeat their