you choose the yellow brick road or the black road you get a flashlight. a big one with some big batteries because it s going to be a long road. you only think about that when you get in places like this and you got 23 hours a day to think about it. it s not too late, it s never too late. sanders says he hopes jail staff will agree with that statement, and requested a transfer back to general population. he believes if granted he will avoid the problems he has had in the past. i have to change. something got to be different. something got to change. change doesn t seem to be on the mind of javier elijah. he has just been moved from administrative segregation unit to the more restricted disciplinary segregation unit or unit 2d for repeatedly flooding his cell by stuffing his toilet with rags and flushing it other and over. elijah says it started with a simple request to change cells.
the consequences for sanders were steep. this is his 94th day in administrative segregation. i expected to do my 20 days and go to another dorm but maybe because of my past. some of sanders rule violations include disorderly conduct, obstructing and threatening an officer, and fighting. inmate sanders received his ninth inmate disciplinary report. after that, because of constant rule violations, once they did a review they decided to put him into administrative segregation. explain some stuff you did in the past. like fighting real bad like just on the scrub like people that can t stand up for themselves, just to be seen by my peers, you know what i m saying? sanders was arrested nine months earlier on charges of armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm after allegedly robbing a liquor store with two other men. although he denies involvement
at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, most of the inmates that end up in the jail s segregation units do not get there by choice. but de andre sanders says his most recent stay is here by design. i did it on purpose. i acted out. officer came in and i cussed him out and told him [ bleep ] off and mind your business. sanders says he had grown tired of the rowdy atmosphere in the former general population unit. the officers wasn t punishing people accordingly and saying like punishing the whole dorm together. you ve been doing time since i was 13. i can t do time in a place like that, so i acted out, insubordination, so i can get away and get somewhere quiet to get myself together. i guess you got to face the consequences.
in the crime and has pled not guilty, sanders says he was staying with one of the suspects when police raided the home and arrested them both. i guess they found a gun in the house. he was like you know anything about a gun? i told them the truth. i m like i know about guns. i like guns. i have a fetish with them. they are like what about this gun here and never showed me a gun and asked me about a similar gun. i know about a gun like that. they said did you touch it? i said i touched many guns. they got me by saying i touch guns. not even a gun that they found. just saying i touch them got me in this situation. i didn t think before i speak. they say the truth will set you free, not in cheatham county. sanders says his three months in ad seg have made him reflect on the life he s lived. you are the company you keep. if i want to be a genius i surround myself around geniuses. if i want to be a bad guy i surround myself around bad guys. whatever road you choose.
they can t. i can break stuff in here. i can do it. i know how to get their attention when i want it. i know how to make them run in here. i know how to do all of that. they want to hurl me to prison. i need to get out of chatham county jailhouse before i end up doing something to somebody in here. coming up a setback for de andre sanders. i m back in admin seg for the duration of my time. despite what he thought charles shepherd discovers not everyone gets along with the tattoo guy.