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00:19I'll give you the last one, back up, pay for pay for pay.
00:26My 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. Each one, a world of its
01:12own. Running a jail is tough. Surviving inside is tougher.
01:18Hit them with the thunder.
01:19Let's go, let's go.
01:21For 120 hours, 5 days, our cameras are inside, capturing the officers, inmates, and moments that define life behind bars.
01:34I'll be on soon, Frank.
01:37I'll be on soon.
01:48I'll be on soon.
02:10I'll be on soon.
02:16I'll be on soon.
02:21I'll be on soon.
02:27If you commit crime and you come to Butler County, Ohio, you've come to the wrong place. I promise you.
02:37Before we go back in the back, I have to ask to make sure nobody has weapons, correct?
02:42Correct.
02:42Okay.
02:44You can go ahead and open the doors.
02:47Justice is a simple thing. If you violate the law, you should receive justice. Doesn't matter if you're rich or
02:55poor, 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. We have close to 500 employees.
03:26Sheriff Jones holds his jail to strict standards of cleanliness, order, and discipline.
03:31Very clean, very organized. This jail is 20 years old. It looks like it's three years old.
03:38I can go into a prisoner jail and can tell sound. If it's a healthy sound or an unhealthy sound
03:45with the prisoners.
03:47And 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. You learn it by being there with
03:57thousands of inmates.
04:02How you doing? Good, sir. How'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? I expect it to be clean, orderly, and we keep the inmates safe.
04:18We have one of the best jails in the United States, I believe. And it's because of all of you
04:24here.
04:26What are you reading?
04:27Anne Frank.
04:28Ah, Anne Frank.
04:30Sheriff Jones is on a routine walkthrough of his facility.
04:43I always try to help people treat them with dignity and respect.
04:48You guys are doing okay. I know it's jail. It'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. How many been there?
05:08I was there with you.
05:09You was there with me. Damn, hit the rock. Man, I was a major there.
05:14Yeah, yeah. How old were you?
05:1517.
05:1617. You were just a young guy. We 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? I'm all right. Good as I can be.
05:27Nice tattoos.
05:28Thank you, sir. Hey, sir.
05:29Okay, sure.
05:31You don't have TV in the cell?
05:34A lot of cells, no. Every cell, no.
05:36Okay. I'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, I 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.
05:54So it works quite well. We're very unique.
05:58Good job, man.
05:59I'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.
06:11We treat you as humans.
06:14We treat you as people.
06:16And it works pretty good for us.
06:19It doesn'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.
06:32He wants a well-run facility that he's proud of and that the officers can be proud of.
06:39Lieutenant Tendam 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 T-Block. We house 96 inmates. Max 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?
07:39Okay.
07:40What's the story in here?
07:42It's cool, boring, locked down all day.
07:46But we got TVs, so it'll make it a little, a little bit better.
07:50A little bit.
07:51How are you?
07:53Good, how are you?
07:53They want to know if you're planning on cutting hair tonight.
07:56Yeah, pick them out.
07:57Okay.
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.
08:28And you 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 all's green 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 do 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.
09:36It'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.
09:51We've had some recent issues at Court Street based on some contraband being illegally conveyed into the jail over there.
10:00The 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 gonna do is I'm gonna go through some phone calls to see if there's any conversations on
10:19these calls regarding any type of drugs over at Court Street.
10:24Here in the jail, Sheriff Jones is all about technology.
10:27Our camera system is state-of-the-art.
10:30Our inmate phone system.
10:33It's very useful to have this technology within a 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.
11:27It looks 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 do nice to pull that back up for you, but I feel like we
12:45screwed 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.
12:57I've only been here for like six months.
12:59I've had some females come through here that have been back in four times since I've been here.
13:05And some of them are great.
13:08You'll have some people that will 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.
13:20It'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.
13:38School's a little easier.
13:40I can sleep during the day.
13:42This is my first summer and it was a challenge.
13:48Whose bedroll had socks in it?
13:52Yours?
13:53You can't bring socks in.
13:54There are days where it feels a little bit like you're feeling with kids in regard to
13:59some things.
14:00Just constant reminders with some people.
14:04We're doing whippet and cake.
14:05Explain 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 and you just got
14:20to
14:20keep stirring it and stirring it and stirring it and stirring it.
14:23Amanda makes the best whippet cake.
14:24That'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 cooling.
14:33Yeah.
14:35It's so good.
14:37It's so good.
14:37It's so good.
14:38Yeah.
14:39When I come around and eat it, you can really feel it.
14:44You start sweating.
14:45Yeah.
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.
14:53It's all finished.
14:54Yeah, it's amazing.
14:54It looks yummy, don't it?
14:55Yeah, it's like wow.
14:57That's how you eat it.
14:58They put it on, you put it on your hand.
15:00You don't do that already.
15:01Oh yeah.
15:04I want some too.
15:05I know.
15:05I already had a bunch of them.
15:07It's very like, it's very tart.
15:10Like it's very tart and like, like.
15:12It's good.
15:12It is.
15:13It's like, this is our part of our school.
15:15You're welcome.
15:15I'm like a cat.
15:22I'm like a cat.
15:22I'm like a cat.
15:23This should go out.
15:24I actually need to do a seltzer here.
15:36We need to clean up a little bit in here, and then honestly they're gonna get mixed for
15:54this. They put it on their walls. They've got toothpaste on the wall. This, monstrosity.
16:01I don't even know what the hell the game plan is with that, but it is not allowed.
16:07What's the type of stuff you've found before?
16:10Suboxone. Things like Suboxone are so small, you can have them wrapped up in the tiniest
16:15little piece of paper.
16:17Butler County is among the hardest hit areas in Ohio by the opioid crisis. When access to
16:23drugs is cut off, inmates will use anything to chase the effect.
16:29They be slipping coffee, y'all. Listen, listen. They put coffee on the step, and they...
16:36Bro, why was this the ? You can't say that.
16:39Oh, they do.
16:40That 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
17:01not supposed to have 14 Dorito wrappers and five brown bags on the floor. The same thing
17:06with some adults here. You know they know better.
17:08He was joking around with that.
17:10You guys keep doing stuff like that?
17:12That's contraband.
17:13Yeah.
17:14Contraband, you guys had a ton of garbage in there.
17:17I rolled that piece of paper with coffee on the end of it, they're definitely snorting
17:20coffee.
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. It's so tragic.
17:34In downtown Hamilton, jail investigator Lobenthal works to stop the flow of drugs being smuggled
17:40into one of the county's facilities.
17:48The subject that I saw on the video came from this area, walked over.
17:57Dropped whatever he had in the bag 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
18:13no way to have stuff introduced into the jail.
18:21So what we're doing here today is we're going to remove all the inmates, we're going to
18:24pat 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
18:32of smuggling contraband.
18:34We're going to get rid of something.
18:35Yeah, we've got to hit them now.
18:36Quick roll.
18:38Step over here.
18:39Grab the wall.
18:39Keep it, fellas.
18:44Line up.
18:44Go down the wall.
18:49We're going to inspect everything.
18:50Go 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
19:05level.
19:09Look in the crevice here.
19:11It looks suspicious.
19:12What did you find?
19:13A little bit of residue over here.
19:16Some white powdery substance there.
19:19We'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.
19:32We 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
19:59positive test for amphetamines.
20:08Butler County, Ohio.
20:10At the Court Street Jail, investigator Lobenthal and Sergeant Schultz have just received a positive
20:16hit 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.
20:31Got 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
20:49or they 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
20:56to get intoxicated.
20:58This would make probably close to a gallon, I would say.
21:05So, hey, Sarge.
21:07Let 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
21:19and you would successfully be able to push something through to gain access to the outside.
21:27As 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
21:45so they will not attempt any future fishing lines out of that particular hole.
22:00Please give us some total fire!
22:02Back at the main facility, CPOD inmates are released for recreation.
22:06Thanks for trying to go.
22:09What are you worried about me, bro?
22:11I got to worry.
22:12You want to go for real?
22:14I got to start cutting hair.
22:15Grab a chair, Rick.
22:16Everybody in 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.
22:30I've been in here for a month and a half, almost two months.
22:34I'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...
22:47If the 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, and
23:10then eventually ended up in this place.
23:13Clippers ain't the best, but they'll get it done.
23:16If you mess it up, I know where you sleep.
23:18This is my bunkie.
23:22The county jail phase.
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.
23:49You got a lovely vending machine over there.
23:52It's going to cost you some money.
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 a drug program, then get probation.
24:12I've been getting in trouble a lot my whole life, so 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.
24:41Sergeant Rumpler begins his rounds in the isolation pod, more commonly known as the hole.
24:50This is the toughest block in here.
24:53Like this.
24:54He went to the hole.
24:56Hey, you they ass beating here yesterday.
24:58I missed it.
24:59You just got to have a stronger mentality to do this assignment down here.
25:06They 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, possession of contraband, or repeated rule violations.
25:20Stays can range from 30 to 60 days, and longer if the inmate continues to re-offend.
25:26We 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.
25:46I've been here 40 days.
25:48The people just bug out and start just kicking doors, hollering up the CEOs.
25:54Hey, yo, yo!
25:55I'd rather be in prison.
25:56Hey, we're not getting phone calls!
25:58It's weird in here, be in a cell for 48 hours a day. You 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, so that means they're within their first seven days in
26:34isolation.
26:35Four inmates on Wardenburger.
26:40It is a meatloaf that the kitchen comes up with, but you receive that the first seven days that you're
26:46in 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.
26:56The loaf of bread.
26:58It's just another deterrent, I think, to help encourage good behavior, so to speak.
27:04Is this an 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 feed 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?
27:32It'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.
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 the hole.
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.
28:14There's nothing else to do.
28:15I'm already in a hole.
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.
28:35They'll come down and do that inmate's hearing and we'll go from there.
28:39I beat the out of Lue.
28:43I should have punched him harder.
28:56Okay.
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 Rumbler 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
29:32and attack this inmate.
29:40The 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,
30:11assault, unnecessary noise, another assault, contraband, and then he's vulgar, profane language where he's cussed out officers and made threats
30:21towards officers.
30:23He'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 be an aggressor in any way.
30:44Inmate Cordova would definitely get more time because he created two major security risks.
30:49One, he wedged his door open.
30:51And then two, he attacked another inmate, which put everybody at risk, including the officers and other inmates.
30:58Allen, 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 we're en route.
31:12Worst case scenario for me is that we will have to use force to subdue compliance from M.A. Cordova.
31:24Cordova.
31:25Come 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 store.
31:47I'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?
31:54I mean, the fact that you probably-
31:56I have 75 days already in isolation, though.
31:58Okay.
31:59Okay.
32:00Because you're blatantly bad behavior.
32:03You know what it is.
32:05I already know.
32:07All right.
32:08All right.
32:11Actually, I was expecting some type of inappropriate behavior, but Mr. Cordova admitted to his wrongdoing
32:21and we added an additional 30 days to Mr. Cordova for his behavior.
32:27I feel bad for you, though.
32:28I'm going to take full responsibility.
32:31Man, woke me up in my sleep.
32:34I'm about to smell a blunt.
32:36I already know.
32:48We'll go ahead and do a perimeter sweep, see if we can locate the event outside.
32:52That may have been dropped.
32:55Canine 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 popular.
33:15This 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 for narcotics inside a facility is triple the amount it is a 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 a hundred overdoses we've stopped.
34:02That's how I look at it.
34:04And potential for a hundred 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.
34:22I mean, even something that small.
34:24If we have a trustee to come out here to take care of the grounds,
34:28they're going to pick this up and try to smuggle this into the jails.
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,
34:49Sergeant Schultz has been called to join jail investigator Lobenthal
34:53to conduct a cell search 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.
35:16The suspected inmates are removed and escorted to intake
35:19to undergo a body scan for contraband on their persons.
35:29Here.
35:31Here.
35:33Leave it.
35:34Good boy.
35:36Sit.
35:38Ready?
35:39Go find it.
35:44Positive alert.
35:52Elliot immediately on the rocker.
35:55After a positive canine alert for contraband inside their cell,
35:59the 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.
36:10Straight ahead.
36:11Don't move.
36:24All right, change it to, okay, there you go.
36:27All right.
36:30Want to step on a scan machine?
36:33Ready?
36:35All right, just stand still.
36:44Clean.
36:45Clean.
36:45All right.
36:45It's a clean skin.
36:46So, we're going to go ahead and change them into new jail uniforms.
36:55Step over here.
36:56Away from the toilet.
36:57You don't have any drugs or anything on you?
36:59No, sir.
37:00Nothing in the cell?
37:01No, sir.
37:02So, if somebody gave me information, it would be bad information?
37:05Yes, sir.
37:06Okay.
37:07Would there be any reason why there would be a positive alert in that cell from that canine?
37:12No.
37:12Nothing?
37:17We're going to go ahead and just have them sit up in booking while we go ahead and search that
37:21cell.
37:28Okay, so, somebody want to take the top bunk.
37:30Somebody take the bottom bunk.
37:42Check the seams.
37:43They can rip out the seams and place hidden objects within these seams.
37:48We're going to look at any possible place they could hide drugs.
37:54The yummy warden burger.
38:02Envelopes can be used as money in here.
38:04He had, at least at one time, some type of drug in my 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.
38:21We didn't find any drugs.
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 watching.
38:46Back in CPOD, inmate Eric Wilson returns from court, where he hoped for news on a release date.
38:54Should I get mad here?
38:56If you ask the police, I can do a disappearing trick.
38:59Yes.
39:01But, no, I don't know any court truths.
39:04So, yeah, I went to court today and 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.
39:18Just to go to court to be told, come back in two weeks.
39:21You know.
39:23Definitely don't want to go to prison.
39:24It ain't going to help me none.
39:25I've been to prison five times and it hasn't helped in any kind of way.
39:31A lot of these guys in here ain't bad guys.
39:33They just need treatment of some kind.
39:36When they put you off for two weeks, that means you're going to be here for two more weeks before
39:41you go find out anything.
39:42Then you got pre-sentence investigations and stuff like that and they're going to put you off for another month.
39:48This is time, time, time.
39:50I'm ready to get out or get to the next place because this ain't the place to be.
39:58Anything to keep my mind occupied in here, that's the name of the game.
40:07Don't go crazy in here.
40:13Our county inmates are serious people.
40:16So, yeah, my guys carry a heavy burden and I think they do it pretty well.
40:21As you can see, when you walk up down the pods, it's quiet, it's clean.
40:24I think we're doing a pretty good job in living up to the sheriff's expectations.
40:36I'm fortunate to be able to lead this organization.
40:40Best job a guy could ever have.
40:43You are the people that make this work.
40:45You guys run the jail.
40:51Come on, let's go.
40:52Get the slippers on and come out.
40:54It is a cat and mouse game.
40:55We have additional tips that come in, so we're going to do additional searches.
40:59Just another day at Butler County.
41:00This is how it is.
41:03At the end of the day, at the Butler County Jail, we're not going to stop.
41:09We're not going to stop looking for contraband.
41:11We're not going to stop looking for visitors, staff members, anybody that wants to break the law and bring drugs
41:19into the jail.
41:25It's going to be cops and robbers day in and day out.
41:27Of course, when we
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