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00:19I'll give you the last one, back up, pay for pay for pay.
00:27My man, we want to get you out.
00:50Is that common or not?
00:53Physical altercation, sure it is.
00:58If they don't follow the rules, then there is disciplinary consequences for that.
01:04There are over 3,000 jails in the US, detaining over half a million.
01:10Each one, a world of its own.
01:13Running a jail is tough.
01:16Surviving inside is tougher.
01:19Let's go, let's go.
01:21For 120 hours, 5 days, our cameras are inside.
01:26Capturing the officers, inmates, and moments that define life behind bars.
01:34I'll be home soon, alright?
01:43Butler County, Ohio.
01:45Thirty miles north of Cincinnati.
01:47A former paper and steel manufacturing boom town.
01:52Neighborhoods that house generations of factory workers now face the effects of rising criminal activity, drug trafficking, and violence across
02:01the county.
02:03Resulting in one of the highest opioid death rates in the state, with over 1,000 overdose deaths in the
02:08past decade.
02:09It's a tough neighborhood now.
02:11When I was growing up, it was different.
02:13It was a working class neighborhood.
02:16I was here when this jail was built from scratch.
02:27If you commit crime and you come to Butler County, Ohio, you've come to the wrong place.
02:33I promise you.
02:37Before we go back in the back, I have to ask to make sure nobody has weapons, correct?
02:42Correct.
02:43Okay.
02:44You can go ahead and open the doors.
02:48Justice is a simple thing.
02:50If you violate the law, you should receive justice.
02:54Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, justice should be the same for everyone.
03:00With nearly 50 years of service in law enforcement, Sheriff Jones has recently been elected to a sixth term.
03:08He is the most tenured sheriff in Butler County history and one of the longest serving sheriffs currently in office
03:15nationwide.
03:17Basically, we have in all three facilities, we have about 1,100 prisoners.
03:22We have close to 500 employees.
03:25Sheriff Jones holds his jail to strict standards of cleanliness.
03:29Order and discipline.
03:31Very clean, very organized.
03:33This jail is 20 years old.
03:35It looks like it's three years old.
03:38I can go into a prisoner jail and can tell sound.
03:42If it's a healthy sound or an unhealthy sound with the prisoners.
03:46And if it's too loud or if it's too quiet, I can tell that's not a healthy noise.
03:52And you can't learn that in a book or learn that in school.
03:55You learn it by being there with thousands of inmates.
04:02How you doing?
04:02Good, sir.
04:04How's everybody doing?
04:06The jail is a very important operation of sheriffs all over the country and in this county.
04:11You know what I expect?
04:13I expect it to be clean, orderly, and we keep the inmates safe.
04:19We have one of the best jails in the United States, I believe.
04:22And it's because of all of you here.
04:26What are you reading?
04:27Anne Frank.
04:28Ah, Anne Frank.
04:30Sheriff Jones is on a routine walkthrough of his facility.
04:35OK, it's PV time.
04:37I came to Ohio and they just put me in jail.
04:40Put you in jail, those dirty bastards.
04:43I always try to help people, treat them with dignity and respect.
04:48You guys are doing OK.
04:50I know it's jail.
04:51It's not the most fun in the world.
04:53But I've been doing this jail stuff for 49 years.
04:57I want them to have respect for themselves, get their lives together.
05:03I was at Lebanon Correctional, 17 years.
05:07How many been there?
05:08I was there with you.
05:09You was there with me.
05:10Damn, hit the rock.
05:11Man, I was a major there.
05:14Yeah, yeah.
05:14How old were you?
05:1517.
05:1617.
05:17You were just a young guy.
05:18We go a ways back.
05:20I wish I could wave a wand over him and help him never come back here.
05:25You doing all right?
05:26I'm all right.
05:27Good as I can be.
05:27Nice tattoos.
05:28Thank you, sir.
05:29Hey, sir.
05:30It's good to be.
05:31What if I ask I know about a TV in a cell?
05:33You don't have TV in a cell?
05:34A lot of cells, nah.
05:35Every cell, no.
05:36OK.
05:38I'll work on that when I go out.
05:40Not every cell has a TV.
05:42We are limited on TVs right now.
05:44Tell them I want them to order TVs, but we got the money for the TVs.
05:48Yes.
05:48I will pass that on.
05:49The people I have working here, the supervisors, we all work together.
05:53We pull the rope in the same direction.
05:55So it works quite well.
05:56We're very unique.
05:58Good job, man.
05:58I'm going to tell you why they have TVs.
06:01The best babysitter in the world.
06:04When they're watching TV, they're not fighting, stealing, and causing me problems.
06:12We treat you as humans.
06:14We treat you as people.
06:16And it works pretty good for us.
06:19Doesn't mean they don't come back, sad to say.
06:25Our sheriff, he expects the jail to be clean.
06:29He expects it to be orderly.
06:31He wants a well-run facility that he's proud of and that the officers can be proud of.
06:39Lieutenant Tendham begins her shift in the men's maximum security unit.
06:43As a high-ranking officer, she's tasked with upholding the sheriff's high standards inside the jail.
06:48I've been here for 20 years, so corrections is my passion.
07:01In order to maintain control, inmates in CPOD are allowed limited recreation time.
07:08And due to disciplinary measures, they can be locked behind their doors for up to 22 hours a day.
07:16This is C Block.
07:17We house 96 inmates.
07:19Max in here.
07:24How are you guys?
07:26Uncover your light, okay?
07:29What's going on, man?
07:30Just waiting to get out of this mother .
07:32Yeah?
07:33Yeah.
07:34How much longer?
07:35Probably like a year.
07:38How are you guys?
07:40What's the story in here?
07:42It's cool, boring, locked down all day.
07:46But we've got TVs, so it'll make it a little, a little bit better.
07:50A little bit better.
07:51How are you?
07:52Good, how are you?
07:53They want to know if you're planning on cutting hair tonight.
07:56Yeah, pick them out.
07:57Okay.
07:58That's what I did.
08:00Inmate Eric Wilson is a repeat offender who has spent the past two months in the unit.
08:05They gave us TVs, but they're clear so people don't hide contraband in them.
08:09You can't see daylight.
08:10All the windows are smoke.
08:11You can't even see outside.
08:12You know?
08:15It's horrible.
08:16This is where we spend most of our day doing nothing.
08:19Making stuff like this, painted with M&Ms and made out of toilet paper.
08:24Take a Q-tip, take the color off the M&Ms and put them in there.
08:29You can find all kinds of stuff to do when you're bored to death in here.
08:32You know what I mean?
08:33It's not much fun.
08:34Not very comfortable.
08:36Why is it all that old screen stuff?
08:38Black people pop the socket to light toilet paper to light to smoke and stuff like that.
08:43That's why it's all burnt.
08:45It's a pretty tight ship, but things still get in here?
08:48Oh, yeah.
08:49There's always a way to sneak stuff in, but they don't get in past Butler County's sheriffs very much.
08:55I'll tell you that.
08:57All right.
09:09So, I received a tip from an inmate that there's a person selling Suboxone strips inside the housing unit.
09:18Suboxone is used to treat opioid addiction.
09:22Jail investigator Jason Lobenthal oversees operations aimed at limiting drugs and violence inside the facility.
09:29Drugs leads to overdosing and it leads to violence.
09:33For me, it's not snitches get stitches, it's snitches save lives.
09:39Butler County ranks among the highest in drug offenses in the state.
09:43As the drug crisis continues on the streets, jail investigator Lobenthal is tasked with containing the war on drugs inside
09:50the jail's walls.
09:52We've had some recent issues at Court Street based on some contraband being illegally conveyed into the jail over there.
09:59The Butler County Jail operates across three locations.
10:03The main facility, the former Court Street Jail, home to program-based inmates, and a third site known as Resolutions,
10:11where inmate workers are housed.
10:13So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through some phone calls to see if there's any
10:18conversations on these calls regarding any type of drugs over Court Street.
10:23Here in the jail, Sheriff Jones is all about technology. Our camera system is state-of-the-art. Our inmate
10:31phone system. It's very useful to have this technology within the jail.
10:44So, once I get information, I have to kind of put the pieces together. It's kind of like a puzzle.
10:50Investigator Lobenthal pulls up security footage from the night before.
10:54I do see a subject walking on the sidewalk in front of the jail.
11:04If you look here, you'll see a homemade fishing line drop down.
11:08Usually, it'll be ripped up inmate sheets that they use. They'll tear pieces off.
11:13And it looks like a tortilla bag that the inmates receive in commissary.
11:17So, it's down there on the ground.
11:20The subject. He's wearing the same dark clothing hoodie.
11:24And it does look like his face is covered.
11:27Looks like a Halloween mask of some type.
11:29He walks over straight to the bag.
11:31Puts something in the bag.
11:37And walks away.
11:41Shortly after that, the bag goes back up to the second floor window.
11:49The next step is to conduct a search of the location over at Court Street.
12:20J Block, the female detention unit.
12:24Due to a smaller female population, minimum and maximum offenders are housed together.
12:35For their safety, all new inmates entering from intake are searched for contraband before entering the pod.
12:42I was going to try to pull that back up for you, but I feel like we screwed that up.
12:46I don't know if I've ever seen you. What's your name?
12:48Wiley.
12:49You been here a while?
12:49Like six months.
12:51Six months? Yeah, I thought you were new.
12:52Rookie Officer Deputy Wiley is still adjusting to life behind the badge.
12:58I've only been here for like six months. I've had some females come through here that have been back in
13:03four times since I've been here.
13:05And some of them are great.
13:08You'll have some people that'll come in and it's like the first time every time.
13:12Don't come to jail.
13:15First and last time here, guys, okay?
13:18I chose nights. It's easier with having kids because when I'm gone, they're asleep.
13:28I've got an 11-year-old and then my youngest just turned seven.
13:34Stay on the wall, ladies.
13:37Summertime's hard. School's a little easier. I can sleep during the day.
13:42This is my first summer and it was a challenge.
13:48Your bedroll had socks in it.
13:52Yours? You can't bring socks in.
13:55There are days where it feels a little bit like you're dealing with kids in regard to some things.
14:00Just constant reminders with some people.
14:04We're doing whippet. Can I explain to them what a whippet is?
14:06A whippet is, I put an apple Jolly Rancher and melt it.
14:11Somebody's got to whip it until it melts.
14:13And then we take coffees.
14:15It's like a lot of coffee, a lot of Kool-Aid, a lot of Jolly Ranchers.
14:19And you just got to keep stirring it and stirring it and stirring it and stirring it.
14:23Amanda makes the best whippet. That's what she's known for here.
14:26I think we're more emotional than the guys are. And a lot of us are moms.
14:31It's peach Kool-Aid.
14:33Yeah.
14:36It's so long.
14:37It's so long, man.
14:37It works.
14:38Yeah, it's when I come around and eat it.
14:40Yeah.
14:41Having all that caffeine, you can really feel it.
14:44You start sweating and, yeah.
14:46As far as if you need something, I think all the girls are really, really helpful.
14:51And then it looks like this one. It's all finished.
14:54Yeah, it's amazing.
14:54Yeah, it looks yummy, you know?
14:55Yeah, it's like, wow.
14:57That's how you eat it.
14:58You put it on your hand and then you...
15:00You don't do that already.
15:01Oh, yeah.
15:02I want food.
15:03Here, I want some, too.
15:05I know.
15:05I already had a bunch, though.
15:07It's very, like, it's very tart.
15:10Like, it's very tart and, like...
15:11It's good.
15:12It is.
15:13It's like, it's like a cat.
15:16It's like a cat.
15:22It's like a cat.
15:23I actually need to do a seltzer.
15:25I got it right here.
15:28Here, I got it.
15:28I got it right here.
15:31We have to do a routine as else.
15:33Just every shift.
15:36I think it brings up in here.
15:41There's nothing wrong with our room?
16:06What's the type of stuff you've found before?
16:10Suboxone.
16:11Things like Suboxone are so small, you can have them wrapped up in the tiniest little piece of paper.
16:17Butler County is among the hardest-hit areas in Ohio by the opioid crisis.
16:22When access to drugs is cut off, inmates will use anything to chase the effect.
16:28No, we do, y'all.
16:30They be slipping coffee, y'all.
16:33Listen, listen, they put coffee on the step and they...
16:36Bro, why was this the ? You can't say that.
16:39Oh, they do.
16:44That would be...
16:49Coffee.
16:51Girls snort coffee.
16:53So I'm definitely gonna say something to them about this.
16:57It can be like parenthood where you are going into your kid's room and you know that they're not supposed
17:02to have 14 Dorito wrappers and five brown bags on the floor.
17:05And the same thing with some adults here.
17:07You know they know better.
17:08He was joking around with that.
17:10You guys can't be doing stuff like that.
17:12That's contraband.
17:13Yeah.
17:14Contraband, you guys had a ton of verbiage in there.
17:17I'll roll that piece of paper with coffee on the end of it.
17:19They're definitely snorting coffee.
17:22They're snorting coffee, guys.
17:23It's that bad.
17:24Sometimes it's so bad it'll be like pouring out their nose.
17:26It's so trifling.
17:33In downtown Hamilton, jail investigator Lobenthal works to stop the flow of drugs being smuggled into one of the county's
17:41facilities.
17:48The subject that I saw on the video came from this area, walked over, dropped whatever he had in the
18:00bag and walked away.
18:02So our job not only entails the prevention of contraband to within this facility.
18:07We also need to make sure that the integrity of the facility is intact to ensure that there's no way
18:14to have stuff introduced into the jail.
18:21So what we're doing here today is we're going to remove all the inmates.
18:24We're going to pat them down immediately and we're going to move them into the rec room.
18:28Officers prepare to execute an unannounced raid and shakedown on the housing unit, suspected of smuggling contraband.
18:34Get rid of something.
18:35Yeah, we've got to hit them now.
18:36Quickly.
18:38Step over here. Grab the wall. Keep it, fellas.
18:44Line up. Go down the wall.
18:49We're going to inspect everything. Go ahead and start hitting the bunks.
18:55What are you looking for up there?
18:58This specifically is the area where I believe the fishing line was put down to the ground level.
19:09Look in the crevice here. It looks suspicious.
19:12What did you find?
19:13A little bit of residue over here.
19:16Some white powdery substance there.
19:18We'll get a test kit on to see if it tests positive.
19:23This test kit here I have tests for fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, and ecstasy.
19:33We recovered dozens of narcotic fines from this facility just this year.
19:40So we'll break it and we'll wait for a color indication on here.
19:48Got a little color in there.
19:53Right now it shows that it's pink with white, but there's a tone into it that could be a positive
20:00test for amphetamines.
20:08Butler County, Ohio.
20:10At the Court Street Jail, Investigator Lobenthal and Sergeant Schultz have just received a positive hit for amphetamines.
20:18It's an indicator that it's definitely some type of narcotic.
20:21With the confirmed presence of drugs in the cell block, the search for contraband continues.
20:30Got some mash.
20:33What do you got there?
20:35Some bread.
20:35It looks like they're trying to make a mash to make homemade hooch probably.
20:39Okay.
20:40So we located some food items, some bread, brownies, different things like that.
20:44Anything that has some yeast in it, they'll use this to make a mash, to make a homemade wine, or
20:49they refer to it as a hooch.
20:50They'll let this ferment, and they'll mix it up, and then they sell it, or they consume it themselves to
20:57get intoxicated.
20:58This would make probably close to a gallon, I would say.
21:02Okay.
21:04So, hey Sarge, let me get your opinion on this.
21:09This is where I believe the fishing line was put down.
21:13If you put some pressure on the side of the air conditioner unit, you can actually press it in somewhat,
21:18and you would successfully be able to push something through to gain access to the outside.
21:26As of right now, that's the most obvious place that I would see.
21:30That's the most likely point of entry for the contraband.
21:35We'll have to have maintenance come in here and take a look at this.
21:39So, we discovered the entry point.
21:42Before any further attempts, we're going to go ahead and have that repaired, so they will not attempt any future
21:47fishing lines out of that particular hole.
22:00Please give us some talking matter!
22:02Back at the main facility, CPOD inmates are released for recreation.
22:07Thanks, Regina.
22:08What are you talking about?
22:09What are you talking about?
22:11What are you talking about?
22:12What are you talking about?
22:12What are you talking about?
22:13What are you talking about?
22:14I got to start cutting hair.
22:15Grab a chair, Rick.
22:16Everybody here knows me for cutting hair.
22:19I'm the block barber usually.
22:21Everybody needs a haircut, but not everybody can afford one.
22:27I'm not cheap.
22:28I'm expensive.
22:31I've been in here for a month and a half, almost two months.
22:35I'm in here for flinging and looting.
22:37I decided to run from the cops.
22:39When I'm not doing drugs, I'm perfectly fine.
22:42I would never think about running from the police, you know, when I'm not doing drugs, but...
22:48If this dude would give me the clippers, it's barbershop time.
22:52I've been coming in and out of here for 20 years now.
22:55A lot of times for misdemeanors, every once in a while for felonies.
22:59I had my own business going for a while, doing renovations, kitchens, bathrooms, basement.
23:04I did pretty well with it for a while, and then ended up going down the wrong path again,
23:10and then eventually ended up in this place.
23:13Clippers ain't the best, but they'll get it done.
23:15If you mess it up, I know where you sleep.
23:18This is my bunkie.
23:21The county jail fees.
23:25How much do you charge a haircut?
23:27Like three or four bucks.
23:29Three or four dollars in here is like 30 or 40 on the street, really.
23:34In here, money's a lot different.
23:36It helps so your family don't have to put so much money on your commissary and stuff like that.
23:41It eases the burden on your family a little bit.
23:43And it'll only cost you two students.
23:46Food is currency in here, because everything costs money.
23:50You got a lovely vending machine over there.
23:52It's going to cost you some money.
23:56What are your hopes tomorrow?
23:58I'm hoping the judge will give me a break this time.
24:00I haven't had a treatment program.
24:03Every time I've been in trouble, it's straight to prison.
24:06I got court tomorrow.
24:07I'm going to try to talk to my attorney about getting the drug program,
24:11then get probation.
24:12I've been getting in trouble a lot my whole life,
24:15so it's about time for me to stop, you know.
24:19I'm not going to sleep very good tonight, probably.
24:22Wondering what's going to happen tomorrow.
24:24When your freedom is at stake, it's kind of hard to not worry about, you know.
24:39We're going to head down to our isolation pod.
24:42Sergeant Rumpler begins his rounds in the isolation pod,
24:45more commonly known as the hole.
24:50This is the toughest block in here.
24:58You just got to have a stronger mentality to do this assignment down here.
25:05They try to catch things on fire out of the sockets when they're out on wreck and stuff like that.
25:11Inmates are placed here for violent behavior, threats against staff,
25:15possession of contraband or repeated rule violations.
25:19Stays can range from 30 to 60 days and longer if the inmate continues to re-offend.
25:25We had an officer get punched in the face pretty good.
25:30Got his bell rung, so to speak.
25:37That inmate is over here.
25:38Hey, we getting no phone calls?
25:40Inmates in the hole are allowed one hour of daily out-of-cell time for calls, showers, and movement.
25:45I've been here 40 days.
25:48The people just bug out and start just kicking doors, piling up the CEOs.
25:53Hey, hey, yo!
25:55I'd rather be in prison.
25:56Hey, we got your phone calls?
25:58It's weird in here being in a cell for 48 hours a day.
26:03You feel me?
26:05My coffee, my glasses and everything.
26:08Well, I'm not going to give you an answer right now because I don't know.
26:11I'm not going to lie to you either.
26:12But let me look into it and I'll give you an answer by the end of the day.
26:16I try to treat people like human beings.
26:19I don't care what you're in here for.
26:21Everybody's going to get treated as they act.
26:25Trades will be passed to the inmates shortly.
26:27I think we have four inmates on Wardenburger right now.
26:31So that means they're within their first seven days in isolation.
26:35Four inmates on Wardenburger.
26:40It is a meatloaf that the kitchen comes up with.
26:43But you receive that the first seven days that you're in isolation.
26:47It doesn't have the flavor that a normal tray would have.
26:50And it's the same loaf every day for seven days.
26:53Here's what a Wardenburger actually looks like.
26:56There's a loaf of bread.
26:59It's just another deterrent, I think, to help encourage good behavior, so to speak.
27:04Is this inmate just getting a Wardenburger?
27:09Could you please bring me my legal papers and my Bible?
27:13Okay, I'll make sure you get your Bible.
27:21They beat us like dogs in here, man.
27:25Have you had the Wardenburger?
27:27Bro, listen, I don't eat them bitches.
27:30What's it taste like?
27:33It's oatmeal mixed with potatoes.
27:36Bro, it's just nasty, sick as hell.
27:39This is one of the frequent flyers I was telling you about that come.
27:43He spends the majority of his time in isolation.
27:51Fights.
27:52Just not following the rules.
27:55I've tried to talk to him and counsel him a little bit, but it don't work.
27:59Last year I did a whole year in a hoe.
28:01I just got out and I came back for a fight.
28:06Bull .
28:07How do you get fired?
28:09Reading books, crashing out on people, fighting.
28:13There's nothing else to do with .
28:15I'm already in a hoe.
28:17The probability of violence is higher in here than out in general population.
28:22We had the incident last night where the inmate propped his door open in 14.
28:29It came out and attacked another inmate.
28:32That's being investigated right now.
28:34They'll come down and do that inmate's hearing and we'll go from there.
28:39I'll beat the out of the dude.
28:43I should have punched him harder.
28:58In this situation, we'll review the footage.
29:02If we determine that one inmate was a victim,
29:06he usually doesn't get any extra-disciplinary time or repercussions.
29:11Butler County, Ohio.
29:13Sergeant Rumpler is investigating a fight that occurred in the hole with inmate Cordova the night prior.
29:21You see inmate Cordova slide his cell door open.
29:24He was supposed to be locked down for the night.
29:26So somehow he rigged up the door where he could slide it open without the officer opening it
29:31and attack this inmate.
29:39The officer came in to separate the inmates.
29:42A rear fall takedown had to be issued here.
29:47Inmate Cordova does not stop resisting.
29:51Officer has inmate Cordova on the ground and handcuffed inmate Cordova to stop the threat.
29:58Inmate Dangerfield, he stopped resisting and cooperated with instructions.
30:04If you looked at Mr. Cordova's incident reports in the last 12 months,
30:12assault, unnecessary noise, another assault, contraband, and then he's vulgar, profane language where he's cussed out officers and made threats
30:21towards officers.
30:22He's been given multiple chances and he has not proven to be able to be productive in general population.
30:34For what I've seen and what I've read in the reports, I believe Mr. Dangerfield was a victim of the
30:40situation.
30:41I did not see him being an aggressor in any way.
30:45Inmate Cordova will definitely get more time because he created two major security risks.
30:49One, he wedged his door open, and then two, he attacked another inmate, which put everybody at risk, including the
30:56officers and other inmates.
30:58Alan, due to inmate Cordova's instinct to use violence, I will take another officer with me just to show a
31:05little more force if necessary.
31:0996 to 8 January burn route, worst case scenario for me is that we will have to use force to
31:15subdue compliance from M.A. Cordova.
31:25I'm here real quick.
31:36I'm here to do your disciplinary ticket over the incident that occurred on 11-2.
31:43At this time, you have an opportunity to tell me your side of the story.
31:46I don't know. I'll just take full responsibility on my ticket. That's all.
31:50You will be receiving 30 more days of isolation.
31:53Okay.
31:53All right? I mean, the fact that you probably...
31:56I have 75 days already in isolation, though.
31:58Okay. Okay. Because you're blatantly bad behavior.
32:03You know what it is.
32:05All right, man.
32:08All right.
32:09Next field is Thursday promotion.
32:12Such a stupid ass cook.
32:13Actually, I was expecting some type of inappropriate behavior, but Mr. Cordova admitted to his wrongdoing, and we added an
32:22additional 30 days to Mr. Cordova for his behavior.
32:27I feel bad for you, though. I'm going to take full responsibility.
32:31Man, woke me up in my sleep. I'm about to smell a blunt.
32:36You already know.
32:48We'll go ahead and do a perimeter sweep.
32:50See if we can locate the event outside.
32:52That may have been dropped.
32:56Canine Sergeant Thunder is a six-year-old black lab.
33:00My dog, in particular, is trained on all major narcotics, crack, coke, heroin, meth, and marijuana.
33:06We have an issue with inmates getting contraband into the jail, whether it's mailed in or dropped off outside.
33:13This is a popular... This is our loading dock over here.
33:17Typically, if we find something outside that's been dropped, it'll be in this area.
33:21The value of narcotics inside a facility is triple the amount it is of street value.
33:29For someone who's incarcerated, if they can get narcotics in the facility, it's a lot of money for them.
33:35Our main goal is to keep it from getting in.
33:39We've had multiple hits out here in the perimeter area.
33:42Individuals drive by and just open their window and toss narcotics out.
33:46We had groundskeeping going on at the time.
33:48They knew that we had inmates going to be out here cutting the grass and doing weed eating.
33:52We were able to intercept it, and Thunder took me right to where it was at.
33:55So, it's not uncommon.
33:58Every time we find something, I mean, that's potentially 100 overdoses we've stopped.
34:02That's how I look at it.
34:04And potential for 100 officers to be affected by that.
34:08So, anything we can do to help mitigate that, we're going to do it.
34:17See how he freezes?
34:18He's like, pay me.
34:21Get rid of that.
34:22I mean, even something that small.
34:24If we have a trustee to come out here to take care of the grounds, they're going to pick this
34:28up and try to smuggle this into the jail.
34:31They don't care if it's already been partially smoked or whatever.
34:34They're going to try to get this into the facility.
34:38We've cleared the perimeter.
34:40Didn't find anything today.
34:47After a tip from an informant, Sergeant Schultz has been called to join jail investigator Lobenthal to conduct a cell
34:54search on two inmates suspected of smuggling drugs into the facility.
34:58Open F-pod slider, please.
35:03Top left.
35:07Gentlemen, step on out of here for me, please.
35:10Don't grab nothing as long as you're dressed.
35:12Get up.
35:15Check them out.
35:16The suspected inmates are removed and escorted to intake to undergo a body scan for contraband on their persons.
35:29Here.
35:31Here.
35:32Leave it.
35:34Good boy.
35:36Sit.
35:38Ready?
35:39Go find it.
35:43Positive alert.
35:52Neil, he hit immediately on the locker.
35:55After a positive K-9 alert for contraband inside their cell, the inmates are being body scanned.
36:01You got anything on you you shouldn't have?
36:04Nothing hidden.
36:05Nothing taped to you.
36:07Tied to you.
36:08Inside of you.
36:09all right go ahead and stand up here straight ahead don't move
36:24all right change it to okay there you go all right
36:30what's up on a scan machine ready all right just stand still
36:45all right it's a clean skin so we're gonna go ahead and change them into new jail uniforms
36:54step over here away from the toilet you don't have any drugs or anything on you
37:00nothing in the cell so if somebody gave me information it would be bad information
37:05yes sir okay would there be any reason why there would be a positive alert
37:10in that cell from that canine no nothing
37:17we're gonna go ahead and just have them sit up and booking while we go ahead and search that cell
37:28okay so so i'm going to take the top bunk let me take the bottom bunk
37:41check the seams they can rip out the seams and place hidden objects within these seams we're going to
37:49look at any possible place they could hide drugs
37:55yummy warden burger
38:02envelopes can be used as money in here he had at least at one time some type of drug in
38:08my opinion
38:09whether he still has it has yet to be proven
38:16so we're going to go ahead and open the cell back up and give it back to the inmates we
38:21didn't find any
38:21drugs
38:25just because we didn't find it doesn't mean that we gave up or that they won
38:28at the end of the day they know that every little action that they do within a jail i'm going
38:33to be
38:45watching
38:46back in seapod inmate eric wilson returns from court where he hoped for news on a release date
39:04so yeah i went to court today and uh it was a continuance
39:10the continuance delays the case leaving the remaining length of inmate wilson's custody uncertain
39:16i was up all night almost just to go to court to be told come back in two weeks
39:21you know definitely don't want to go to prison ain't going to help me none
39:25i've been to prison five times and it hasn't helped uh in any kind of way
39:31a lot of these guys in here ain't bad guys they just need
39:35treatment of some kind when they put you off for two weeks that means you're going to be here for
39:39two more weeks before you go find out anything then you got
39:43pre-sentence investigations and stuff like that and they're going to put you off for another month
39:48this is time time time i'm ready to get get out or get to the next place because this ain't
39:54the place to be
39:58anything keep my mind occupied in here that's what that's the name of the game
40:07don't go crazy in here
40:13our county inmates are serious people so yeah my guys carry a heavy burden and i think they
40:20do it pretty well as you can see when you walk up down the pods it's quiet it's clean
40:25i think we're doing a pretty good job and living up to the sheriff's expectations
40:31i'll take the sky i'm fortunate to be able to lead this organization best job a guy could ever have
40:43you are the people that make this work you guys run the jail
40:51come on let's go get the slippers off come out it is a cat and mouse game we have additional
40:56tips
40:56that come in so we're going to do additional searches it's just another day at butler county
41:00this is how it is at the end of the day at the butler county jail we're not going to
41:07stop we're not going
41:09stop looking for contraband we're not going to stop looking for visitors staff members anybody that
41:16wants to break the law and bring drugs into the jail
41:19show you we can it's going to be cops and robbers day in and day out
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