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but the tulsa county jail is a city within the city. along with numerous security concerns that come with temporarily housing some 1800 men and women, facing a huge array of criminal charges, it contains its own versions of the local post office, a hospital, and busier restaurant than just about any other in the city. it also contains a gigantic laundry facility. >> we usually do anywhere from 10 to 12 loads. each load, each washer, the big washers are 125 pounds. the small washers are 75 pounds. if that can kind of give you an idea. >> the various colored uniforms coincide with each inmate's classification. >> all county clothing is generally orange. they have blue for juvenile. red for federal. black and white for state. and white for the kitchen workers. >> along with regularly washing all uniforms and linens, the laundry staff has another task. whenever new shipments of underwear arrive they must be dyed orange. >> socks, boxers, bras, panties, all underwear is dyed. the reason that it's dyed so is we can get it back. >> when inmate
but the tulsa county jail is a city within the city. along with numerous security concerns that come with temporarily housing some 1800 men and women, facing a huge array of criminal charges, it contains its own versions of the local post office, a hospital, and busier restaurant than just about any other in the city. it also contains a gigantic laundry facility. >> we usually do anywhere from 10 to 12 loads. each load, each washer, the big washers are 125 pounds. the small washers are 75...
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the victims were discovered together inside a tulsa apartment. all four women had their hands bound behind their backs. and each had been shot in the head. poore lives in the same complex and says he was friends with two of the victims. though he has yet to enter a formal plea, poore says he is completely innocent. >> people say you supposed to have faith in the system but it don't work like they say it's supposed to. they're going to kill me for something i didn't do? i don't want to die for something i didn't do. the part that got me so emotional is that these are our friends and now i'm being -- they saying i'm being charged with their deaths. >> poore recently completed a twelve year sentence for armed robbery of four convenience stores and has numerous jail stays on less serious convictions. >> for the first time in my life, i'm innocent and everybody thinks i'm guilty. >> tulsa homicide investigators believe poore is not only guilty, but he did not act alone. they say he was aided by another man booked into the jail a few days earlier on a
the victims were discovered together inside a tulsa apartment. all four women had their hands bound behind their backs. and each had been shot in the head. poore lives in the same complex and says he was friends with two of the victims. though he has yet to enter a formal plea, poore says he is completely innocent. >> people say you supposed to have faith in the system but it don't work like they say it's supposed to. they're going to kill me for something i didn't do? i don't want to die...
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riding conviction. >> don't like tulsa, oklahoma very much. come on vacation, leave on probation, come back on a citation. it's just an easy place to get in trouble. >> this time she's charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest. but she also faces a more serious charge. strong arm robbery in neighboring creek county. she has pled not guilty to all three charges. >> i allowed myself to be accustomed to the darker side of life very young. i learned how to do drugs at a very young age, the moment i hit 18 i started stripping. it will eat you up, consume you, that lifestyle. i'm just a lost child trying to get back to my adulthood, really, because i can't get back to my childhood because i have two children i'm supposed to being a mother to. >> you really had a quick jump in your cuffs. you understand me. >> if lopez is struggling with the responsibilities of both adulthood and parenthood the same might be true of the father of her two children, matthew west. he is currently incarcerated about 60 yards down the hall in the
riding conviction. >> don't like tulsa, oklahoma very much. come on vacation, leave on probation, come back on a citation. it's just an easy place to get in trouble. >> this time she's charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest. but she also faces a more serious charge. strong arm robbery in neighboring creek county. she has pled not guilty to all three charges. >> i allowed myself to be accustomed to the darker side of life very young. i learned how to...
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>> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail! >> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail! >> segregation inmates at the tulsa county jail are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. their one hour out can be spent either in the shower or rec yard. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. >> sergeant collette, who runs the unit, says he frequently checks in with the inmates and tries to help them adapt to the isolation. >> the brain is very powerful and you can fail to flourish and literally will yourself to death. i do not want that in here. it's like i tell these guys in the seg when i first meet them. i want you guys reading. i want you doing a little exercise in your cell. if i wanted mushrooms back here, i'd be a gardener. what i say to them is free your mind. your ass will follow. >> jacob england has been in segregation for nearly a year. he's followed sergeant collette's advice but has also participated in extracurricular activity with some of his neighbors. they call it cadillacing, and it involves using string to pass items bet
>> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail! >> [ bleep ] tulsa county jail! >> segregation inmates at the tulsa county jail are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. their one hour out can be spent either in the shower or rec yard. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing pretty good. >> sergeant collette, who runs the unit, says he frequently checks in with the inmates and tries to help them adapt to the isolation. >> the brain is very powerful and you can fail to...
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i want to get out of tulsa. i'm getting out of here. i hate this place. >> wood did get out a couple days later. and then he was sentenced to time served. >> are you going back to prison? >> no. >> you are? >> all right. bro, i'll keep in contact with you, bro. >> sign your bond. take care of yourself and don't come back. >> all right. y'all, take it easy. >>> coming up, kenneth witty winds up back in segregation but for a reason nobody saw coming. >> yeah, tell me, tell me, tell me. what's going on? @ñ ♪ >>> at the tulsa county jail, kenneth witty was regarded by the staff as one of the jail's better-known troublemakers and we got a small taste of that ourselves. >> kenneth was always messing with me and in one way or another, whether it be that i was doing a walking shot and he would start off on a nice pace and i would be backing up and then he'd slowly start to increase his speed and i would try to stay with him. >> you're going to have to learn to back up faster, brian, for real. come over here. start running. >> he would laugh.
i want to get out of tulsa. i'm getting out of here. i hate this place. >> wood did get out a couple days later. and then he was sentenced to time served. >> are you going back to prison? >> no. >> you are? >> all right. bro, i'll keep in contact with you, bro. >> sign your bond. take care of yourself and don't come back. >> all right. y'all, take it easy. >>> coming up, kenneth witty winds up back in segregation but for a reason nobody saw...
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got them all over me. 38 of them. >> you live in tulsa, oklahoma. in the heart of the bible belt. >> uh-huh. and you walk around like this. >> oh, yeah. i like it. >> why? >> because it's different from everybody. it helps me to be myself. yeah, it's lonely. hard to be able to talk to people. you are like man, i want to talk to somebody today and you don't get to talk to him because no one wants to hang around you because of what you look like, yeah, i mean -- i will die for these tattoos if i have to. they are my religion. i have to be respectful for my religion. i have to stand up for it. and even if it takes my life. i'm going to do it. >> more than anything, he was kind of sad guy. i mean he had gone to such great lengths to have this scary looking exterior. when i sat down to talk to him about what he saw for his future, he wanted a house and a car and he wanted these typical things, but i said well don't you ever want to get married. >> children, marriage, anything? >> and his response was very sad to me. >> no. >> no. >> i'm not going to get
got them all over me. 38 of them. >> you live in tulsa, oklahoma. in the heart of the bible belt. >> uh-huh. and you walk around like this. >> oh, yeah. i like it. >> why? >> because it's different from everybody. it helps me to be myself. yeah, it's lonely. hard to be able to talk to people. you are like man, i want to talk to somebody today and you don't get to talk to him because no one wants to hang around you because of what you look like, yeah, i mean -- i...
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but tulsa county inmates call it cadillacing. >> you got a newspaper over there? >> i got a puzzle to send you, bro. >> inmates tie objects to string and send them back and forth under cell doors. >> he made some good burritos last night and sent them to me. >> you can't cadillac a burrito. >> yes you can. >> under the door? >> under the door. burrito comes in a plastic bag like this. okay, maybe he'll pay me two of them. slid underneath the door. hooked them on a string. i tied them, brought them over here. you can bring it back to life once you get it out under the door. tastes delicious. >> i had to smash the hell out of them, but you put them all back to shape. >> huh? >> i put them all back in shape? >> did you really? that's good because i was thinking i really -- >> give me the recipe, okay? >> huh? >> you got to give me the recipe. >> maxwell tries to keep his spirits up, but says thoughts of brandon's upcoming trial for second degree murder weigh heavily on him. he recently asked jail officials to allow him a brief visit with brandon. but as a segregation
but tulsa county inmates call it cadillacing. >> you got a newspaper over there? >> i got a puzzle to send you, bro. >> inmates tie objects to string and send them back and forth under cell doors. >> he made some good burritos last night and sent them to me. >> you can't cadillac a burrito. >> yes you can. >> under the door? >> under the door. burrito comes in a plastic bag like this. okay, maybe he'll pay me two of them. slid underneath the door....
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@ñ >>> more than 30,000 men and women are booked into the tulsa county jail every year. most leave within hours. but on any given day, there are about 1 00 who reside here until their cases are resolved in court. many have prior stays in the jail and in prison. few have been as well known in the population as jimmy maxwell. >> there are four or five names in the prison system you hear of. folk lore. jimmy maxwell is a fighter, good fighter. he never lost. no nonsense. we were in the open prison, business is business. if you didn't have his money, you would get socked in the jaw, or ball bat to the head. >> he's notorious. that's all i can say. >> i've taken down a few heavies over the years. i haven't got a lot of tolerance for not paying me when i want -- when i'm supposed to be paid. >> it's the living, dope, cigarettes. that's just -- that's the -- that's the dollar in there. that's how we survive. >> but even in prison, maxwell says he did better than just survive. >> bought my wife is set of boobs from drug dealing activities. that was a mistake. you don't want to d
@ñ >>> more than 30,000 men and women are booked into the tulsa county jail every year. most leave within hours. but on any given day, there are about 1 00 who reside here until their cases are resolved in court. many have prior stays in the jail and in prison. few have been as well known in the population as jimmy maxwell. >> there are four or five names in the prison system you hear of. folk lore. jimmy maxwell is a fighter, good fighter. he never lost. no nonsense. we were in...
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living in the heart of tornado alley, people in tulsa, oklahoma know to be ready for a destructive force of nature. it's also that way inside the walls of a half million square foot structure in downtown, the criminal justice center for the tulsa county jail. >> another day in para dice. >> most of the 1800 men and women have been charged with crimes and awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. but newly arrived james maxwell is an exception. he's not only a convict, but is as familiar to staff and inmates here as the turbulent storms that proceed any twister. >> james steven maxwell, he could be considered somewhat of a legend. some of the inmates look up to him. they give him a lot of respect. he really upholds what they're going to call the outlaw dance with law enforcement. >> jimmy maxwell. jimmy's a legend in the department of corrections in oklahoma. he's a tough guy. wouldn't want to be messed, for sure. good guy. good heart. but if you cross him, he's going to be strong. >> that man is 74-2 in the boxing ring in the penitentiary behind the fence. >> he spent most of his
living in the heart of tornado alley, people in tulsa, oklahoma know to be ready for a destructive force of nature. it's also that way inside the walls of a half million square foot structure in downtown, the criminal justice center for the tulsa county jail. >> another day in para dice. >> most of the 1800 men and women have been charged with crimes and awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. but newly arrived james maxwell is an exception. he's not only a convict, but is...
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tulsa county inmates call it cadillacing. >> you got a newspaper over there? >> i got a puzzle, bro. >> inmates tie objects to string and send them back and forth under cell doors. >> he made good doritos last night. he sent me a couple of them. they was the bomb. >> you can't cadillac a dorito. >> yes, you can. under the door. it comes in a plastic bag like this. okay? he made me two of them. squash them down, put them under the door. you can bring them back to life once you get them out from under the door. delicious. >> i had to smash the hell out of them. >> but you know what, you put them all back in shape. >> huh? >> i put them all back in shape. >> did you really? i was thinking -- >> give me the recipe, okay? >> huh? >> give me the recipe. >> maxwell tries to keep his spirits up but thoughts of brandon's upcoming trial weigh heavily on him. he asked jail officials to allow him a visit with brandon, but as a segregation inmate and escapee, he's a security risk. >> there's a possibility that as bad as i don't want to think think about it, we may never se
tulsa county inmates call it cadillacing. >> you got a newspaper over there? >> i got a puzzle, bro. >> inmates tie objects to string and send them back and forth under cell doors. >> he made good doritos last night. he sent me a couple of them. they was the bomb. >> you can't cadillac a dorito. >> yes, you can. under the door. it comes in a plastic bag like this. okay? he made me two of them. squash them down, put them under the door. you can bring them back...
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got them all over me. 38 of them. >> you live in tulsa, oklahoma. in the heart of the bible belt. >> uh-huh. and you walk around like this. >> oh, yeah. i like it. >> why? >> because it's different from everybody. it helps me to be myself. yeah, it's lonely. hard to be able to talk to people. you are like man, i want to talk to somebody today and you don't get to talk to him because no one wants to hang around you because of what you look like, yeah, i mean -- i will die for these tattoos if i have to. they are my religion. i have to be respectful for my religion. i have to stand up for it. and even if it takes my life. i'm going to do it. >> more than anything, he was kind of sad guy. i mean he had gone to such great lengths to have this scary looking exterior. when i sat down to talk to him about what he saw for his future, he wanted a house and a car and he wanted these typical things, but i said well don't you ever want to get married. >> children, marriage, anything? >> and his response was very sad to me. >> no. >> no. >> i'm not going to get
got them all over me. 38 of them. >> you live in tulsa, oklahoma. in the heart of the bible belt. >> uh-huh. and you walk around like this. >> oh, yeah. i like it. >> why? >> because it's different from everybody. it helps me to be myself. yeah, it's lonely. hard to be able to talk to people. you are like man, i want to talk to somebody today and you don't get to talk to him because no one wants to hang around you because of what you look like, yeah, i mean -- i...
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there are 1800 men and women incarcerated at the tulsa county jail. most are only accused of crimes. >> i'll see y'all later. be good. >> because the inmates are innocent until proven guilty, officers try to afford them as many privileges as possible. but one man who has just booked into jail will require special handling. >> this guy here in holding cell nine, he is here on four counts of murder. we keep him in a cell by himself because of the high publicity of the case. we don't want him to be with general population in case someone here is a relative of the people murdered. for his safety and ours. just keep him locked up by himself. >> the new inmate is james pore. he is charged with first degree murder for the execution style slayings of four women a month earlier. they are found together in an apartment. all four had their hands bound behind their backs and each shot in the head. he lives in the same complex and says he was friends with two of the victims. he has yet to enter a plea, he says he's completely innocent. >> people say you supposed t
there are 1800 men and women incarcerated at the tulsa county jail. most are only accused of crimes. >> i'll see y'all later. be good. >> because the inmates are innocent until proven guilty, officers try to afford them as many privileges as possible. but one man who has just booked into jail will require special handling. >> this guy here in holding cell nine, he is here on four counts of murder. we keep him in a cell by himself because of the high publicity of the case. we...
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since then, witty had become a well-known inmate at tulsa county but his days here were numbered. he had been convicted on charges of driving under the influence and illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to ten years. during our shoot he was awaiting transfer to prison. >> he had a problem child from the word "go." >> the sergeant supervises the jail's segregation unit where he spent is majority of his time due to a lengthy disciplinary record. >> it's colorful, let me put it that way. >> i need meds. >> mostly, the problems that i've had with him is his disrespect. >> go put ashirt on. >> no. >> he tends to be vulgar. always agitated. he doesn't really listen. he wants things when he wants them and you tell him you got to wait and he starts to scream. >> he goes from zero to 150 in . 2.1 soakeds. he -- 2.12 seconds. he had no medium ground. >> when it came to speaking with us he took on a different demeanor. >> what's your last name? >> witty. >> it fits me. >> when i first started dealing with kenneth, i found him to be very much like a child. he was very funny. he was v
since then, witty had become a well-known inmate at tulsa county but his days here were numbered. he had been convicted on charges of driving under the influence and illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to ten years. during our shoot he was awaiting transfer to prison. >> he had a problem child from the word "go." >> the sergeant supervises the jail's segregation unit where he spent is majority of his time due to a lengthy disciplinary record. >> it's...
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. >>> located on the edge of downtown tulsa, it looks like any other government building. but behind the walls of the tulsa county jail, things play out daily. >> let him go. >> the jailhouse as 1,800 men and women. most have been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial. >> unless they violate the rules or need to be segregated for security reasons, they spend the majority of the days outside their housing units. a single officer, completely exposed to the inmates, exposed in the pod. >> there is one officer in the pod at all times. just one. >> it's not about physical anymore, it's about maintaining control. they don't have weapons when they go to the pod. they are in the pod with 94 inmates, every day, all day. they are conversing with them, looking in the cells. >> we are going to treat you as a human until you prove you can't be. >> studies show it cuts down on inmate violence and it growing in popularity throughout jails nationwide. but this man would prove to be a magnet for violence. olson is talking to the pod you have a when he is brutally attacked. inmate rafa
. >>> located on the edge of downtown tulsa, it looks like any other government building. but behind the walls of the tulsa county jail, things play out daily. >> let him go. >> the jailhouse as 1,800 men and women. most have been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial. >> unless they violate the rules or need to be segregated for security reasons, they spend the majority of the days outside their housing units. a single officer, completely exposed to the inmates,...
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tulsa might have meant a fresh start, but the fighting continued. it turned out alaska wasn't the problem. their marriage was. on june 7th, 2011, just a couple of weeks after they'd moved into the university club high rise, josh's bags were packed and he was waiting for a ride. that's when he fell to his death. and now detectives started focusing their attention on that 25th floor apartment. >> i made sure that the upstairs was secure and went and applied for a search warrant so that we could go inside. >> reporter: once he entered the hilberlings' apartment, felton looked for evidence that maybe there had been a fight that had gone terribly wrong. but he couldn't find anything to suggest the couple had been in the throes of a violent struggle just before the fatal push. >> the furniture was all in place. you know, other than the broken window, there was nothing that would indicate that there -- any kind of struggle had taken place. >> reporter: when you think about a pregnant woman, 5'5", pushing her husband, who's 6'4", out a window like that, is
tulsa might have meant a fresh start, but the fighting continued. it turned out alaska wasn't the problem. their marriage was. on june 7th, 2011, just a couple of weeks after they'd moved into the university club high rise, josh's bags were packed and he was waiting for a ride. that's when he fell to his death. and now detectives started focusing their attention on that 25th floor apartment. >> i made sure that the upstairs was secure and went and applied for a search warrant so that we...
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the walls of the tulsa county jail, high-stakes dramas play out daily. >> let's go. >> let him go! >> the jailhouse is about 1,800 men and women, most have only been charged with crimes and awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> we in the concrete jail. >> unless they violate the rules or need to be segregated for security reasons, they spend the days outside their units in housing units or pods. under a system called direct supervision, a single officer completely exposed to the mates is stationed inside each pod. >> we have general population pods which house 94 inmates. there's one officer in that pod, at all times, just one. >> all right, guys, let's lock down. >> it's not about physical any more. it's about maintaining control. they don't have weapons when they go into the pod. they have nothing but a key and a radio and they're in the pod with 94 inmates every day all day. they're out there conversing with them, looking in on the cells and making sure they shouldn't be doing something they shouldn't be doing. we're going to treat you as a human until you prove t
the walls of the tulsa county jail, high-stakes dramas play out daily. >> let's go. >> let him go! >> the jailhouse is about 1,800 men and women, most have only been charged with crimes and awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> we in the concrete jail. >> unless they violate the rules or need to be segregated for security reasons, they spend the days outside their units in housing units or pods. under a system called direct supervision, a single...
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energy lives here. >>> tulsa, oklahoma, has known tough times. its residents brave life in tornado alley. its cultural influences include the wild west and big oil. inside the tulsa county jail, those same thick and often heavily tattooed skins are always on display. lester stokes will soon leave the jail to serve six years in prison as a prospect for the irish mob, a rapidly growing gang he hopes will provide him protection. >> irish people eat better than everybody else. >> proving irish heritage, however, is not a requirement for membership. >> my mom has red hair and i figured people with red hair usually are from ireland, right? irish people. i don't know where my family is from. i've never checked my family tree. >> what is this? >> mayonnaise. >> what the -- >> we never get mayonnaise. >> [ bleep ]. i don't trust it. >> i know. >> i don't trust it. >> but stokes knows for long-term happiness he will need more than his gang. >> my daughter will only be 11 or 12 years old when i get out. the oldest one. i might still be able to be a dad. but
energy lives here. >>> tulsa, oklahoma, has known tough times. its residents brave life in tornado alley. its cultural influences include the wild west and big oil. inside the tulsa county jail, those same thick and often heavily tattooed skins are always on display. lester stokes will soon leave the jail to serve six years in prison as a prospect for the irish mob, a rapidly growing gang he hopes will provide him protection. >> irish people eat better than everybody else....