due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. on the ground! >> no way to handle the situation in here if you don't fight. >> she got a broken eye socket. i put her in the infirmary for eight days. >> love that. >> i chased after a court officer. they said i hit one and kicked one and spit on him. >> for those inmates all too willing to throw a punch -- the jail has a special place.

>> the box. >> separated from everything. so you learn to deal with it. it's called the box life. boston, massachusetts, is by any standard a world class city, but ever since its colonial days, some have called it a fighting town. and located in the heart of the city is a place for anyone who does their fighting outside a ring. >> step inside, gentlemen. back to the wall, please. >> more than 12,000 people a year pass through the walls of suffolk county jail. though the jail also holds inmates who have already been

convicted and serving short sentences, this man arrived here having only been accused of a crime. if they don't make bail they will stay until their case, resolved. that could take months if not years. >> so many housing people, very violent crimes with people with completely non-violent crimes but it's a maximum security facility. if you're one of the nonviolent one, it's something you definitely need to get used to. >> with an average daily population of male and female inmates, someone reaches their boiling point virtually every day of the week. >> on the ground! >> we're back -- >> the most common violation is fighting. it's common to fight for them over rivalries and gang differences.

people get transferred into new units. so new inmates come in, detainees come in and they go right at it and they end up here. >> here is the segregation unit where inmates are placed after fights or other serious disciplinary violations. other than toiletries and legal papers, they are not allowed personal property and are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. while segregation is officially known as the 6-1 unit, inmates have another name for it. >> the box. >> get down. >> it's hell on earth. >> the box sucks. >> you hear a lot of screaming. i'm going to kill you. i'm going to get you. >> [ bleep ]. >> these people really do not like each other, and they will take every opportunity to whoever whoever's listening how much they don't like somebody else. >> unlike some segregation inmates, dan espinoza usually keeps quiet.

especially about the fight that earned him 30 days here. it happened the night he was arrested but he says he doesn't remember a thing about it. >> from what i was told i chased after a court officer when i was being cuffed up. they said i hit one of them and kicked one and spit on him. >> he came in severely inebbriated of some sort. not sure if it was drugs, drunk, he was definitely under the influence of something when he came in. >> espinosa was arrested for soft lifting and instead he was taken directly to the segregation unit. fortunately for him, he wasn't charged for his behavior and later pled guilty for his original charges. he blames his problems on the abuse of prescription drugs. >> i was on klonopin. felony pills.

>> why do you say that? >> because every time i take them i get felonies. >> i fell when i was in the ironworkers union, tore my knee up, had my knee reconstructed. i was on vicodin, percocet. and it eventually led to heroin. i've enjoyed heroin a little over 20 years. >> espinosa said he supported his addiction while shoplifting and then would sell them in ethnic neighborhoods. >> i would grab a rack of ed hardy jeans and go to the italians, puerto ricans for the clothes. go to the chinese for the electronics that you can get you know, from watches. >> if convicted of his current charges, espinoza could face several years in state prison. >> hate to say it, but maybe it's what i need. >> while his legal future is still uncertain, his time in

segregation is drawing to a close. he's about to be transferred to general population. >> tomorrow i get out. thank god. get to play in the big box again. out of the little box, into the big box. hate the little box. >> like espinoza, daniel also aspires to be placed on the general population unit. >> got to mingle with the crowd. you get to get out. be with everybody else. i never been to pop. only time i was in pop was in newman. i was only in there for like two weeks. >> what happened? >> a fight. everybody fights. right? that's the only way you can handle situations in here, you have to fight. someone says something to you or you got problems and you got to act on it. if you don't, they will.

>> 16 months ago, esdale was convicted of possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years at the house of correction, a separate jail facility for convicted inmates serving 2 1/2 years or less. due to multiple fights, he spent the first 13 months in segregation, but even under those restrictions he was still a significant discipline problem. >> daniel has gotten into many fights since he's been here. he's been involved in about ten fights. there's fights where he asked or called to happen. so he's been involved in a lot more behind the scenes than he's actually been involved in. >> if someone is arguing with a c.o., i'll be in the background amping them up. just i like going at it. i don't know. it's just fun to me. i just enjoy it. i like all the commotion and

stuff like that. >> while esdale thrives on commotion outside his cell, inside is a shrine to order. >> that's my rug. that's the blanket i use to keep on my floor. i feel more comfortable and cozy. makes it more like home. that's my cosmetics. this toothbrush, toothpaste so i don't get it mixed up. sounds weird, but that's the way i do it. same thing with deodorants. one day i pick up one. one day the other. you don't use the same one. that's the way do you. mouthwash, shampoo. you don't want to use all one thing. >> there's another unique aspect to esdale's current living situation. due to his fighting or egging on of other inmates, jail officials decided to house him in an area where other inmates would be less likely to respond to him. >> lunchtime, gentlemen. >> we decided to remove him from segregation and put him in the infirmary where he wasn't with other people where he could incite a fight or do it himself.

>> this is the infirmary. this is medical, this is where sick people come down here. i come down here and i maintain their behavior, i get a detail. in detail, you pass the trays out. then if i follow the detail, i can go back to population. >> in the meantime, esdale will try to make the best of his work detail and life in the infirmary. >> i got a tv in the cell. i never thought i would see a tv in the joint let alone in my cell. i got a tv. work out. sometimes you talk to yourself. >> what do you say to yourself? >> everything i want to hear. that's the best thing about talking to yourself. you can hear anything you want. >> coming up, an inmate nicknamed smiley deals with her troubled past. >> i punched a lieutenant in the face, so they gave me a full assault and battery on a police officer.

>> we got tuna today for lunch. got no choice but to eat it. back to our cells after this. every day in here is a living hell. every day. ain't no sunshine in this jail. >> there is some sunshine in boston suffolk county jail at least on the open air recreation. depending on their security level, inmates are allowed out for an hour or more of rec each day. during bad weather, recreation is taken in housing unit day rooms where inmates work out any

way they can. >> got to do pull-ups every day. about ten reps a day. ten at the times, a hundred. i do my push-ups, squats. i work on the legs. >> now raise your left arm up. >> over on the women's side, some inmates aim for a mind/body connection for a more concentrated breakfast. >> bring the hand on to the chair. >> from time to time the jail allows a volunteer yoga instructor to conduct a class. >> cool like the breeze. >> i like it. it's really relaxing and makes your day go by easier. takes away all your stress. >> 23-year-old valerie minacapelli hasn't always been so mellow. she's nearing the end of 90-day sentence for a fight with a

police officer. >> i got in a fight with a girl. they got rough with me so i fought back. i punched a lieutenant in the face. they gave me assault and battery on a police officer. they call me smiley, because i'm always smiling. i'm a nice person, but don't get in my personal space because it's going down. >> minacapelli proved her point just a few days after arriving in jail. she got into fight with another female inmate. >> she got a broken eye socket. i put her in the infirmary for eight days. time to go. >> the fight earned her a lengthy stay in the female segregation unit. she was released to general population a few weeks ago. despite her sometimes violent tendencies, she claims her numerous days in the suffolk county jail stem from her addiction to cocaine and heroin. >> when i was with my kids, i

never did nothing. never did no drugs. did nothing. i was a stay-at-home mom. i was good, and then started racking up charges and doing drugs. it was all downhill. >> she says she turned to prostitution to support her drug habit. her two children, ages 5 and 6, are now in the custody of their father. >> i do write to them. i don't get any mail back from them. i don't get to talk to them on the phone. my family talks to them. he won't let me talk to them on the phone in jail. >> despite the pain, minacapelli has found room for laughter in jail, particularly with her cellmate cindy archer.

>> the first day we came in, we laughed. so hard she was on the floor rolling. >> yeah. i was against the wall slapping the wall, everything. i haven't laughed so hard in my life like that. >> like minacapelli, archer also struggled with addictions to heroin and cocaine. she's currently serving one year for prostitution. i was street walking. i would go there and you know, jump in the car, get the money. but usually i would rob the guys. i would take the money out of their wallet, put the wallet back in, because they didn't even know. i know how to do it. you know whey mean? surprised i'm not dead yet, but that's how i got my money. when you're high, all you want to do is get another hit. if you're dope sit, you need to get money to get more dope because your body's aching for it, and that's disgusting. had i think about it now, yeah, i'd love to get high. think of the consequences. think of the consequences. those were abscesses when i shot coke, they'd get big. in the hospital on antibiotics. i know they look horrible, but she's got to be thinking that could happen to her. i could save her from getting these scars. i have them. but the thing is, i'm alive, and

i can still try to help her. stay with her. don't let her get any further into her addiction and try to control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like she said about the stars, i think about that all the time. when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks. i'm like, wow. you know what i mean? we're too pretty for that. we don't need to have all these marks and scars on my body. all the things i lost getting high. you know what i mean? it's crazy. but you have to get clean for yourself. you can't do it for other people. >> daniel espinoza has also paid a price for drug addiction.

high when he was arrested for shoplifting, he assaulted several deputies during his initial court appearance. as a result, he spent his first 30 days at suffolk county in segregation. but now he's on his way to general population where he will have more privileges and time outside his cell. >> today i'm getting out of the hole. i'm going go play with the big kids in the big box now. i'm pretty excited. when you go to a new unit, you don't know who's on that unit or whatever. could be a lot of small time units. so i'll see what's going on. 30 days since i got to put a pair of sneakers on. my new unit. see what's going to happen. >> 2-4, open. >> daniel esdale has spent the

last four months living and working in the jail's infirmary hoping good behavior would convince jail officials to overlook his history of fighting and grant him a transfer to general population. >> he actually got to a point where he had a detail in medical where he served food to the other inmates and cleaned the unit, so he came a lot farther than we ever anticipated him coming. >> esdale did finally get a transfer, but definitely not the one he wanted. he's back in the box. >> i'm in segregation because i had a disagreement with the officers. i was told if i work and behave, i can choose where i want to go, but then when it came down to it, you can't go here, you can't go here, you can't go here. you go where we tell you to go. >> he likes to get what he wants. he's very manipulative, and yesterday morning had an incident with the juice leaking and decided he didn't want to serve the juice. so when the officer asked him to go into his cell and he's not going to work his detail that day, he basically had a little bit of a fit and said i'm not getting what i want so move me out. >> i got aggravated and said i'm not doing the juice. why do the work if i'm not going

to get what i'm supposed to get out of it. >> he packed up his things. the sergeant asked what he was doing. he said i'm leaving today one way or the other. the officer let it go. later in the day he was fine, but decided to make a comment, meaning that michelle needs to make a decision. she needs to i think he said, grow up and either move me to the work program or to the box. and i made the decision he went to segregation last night. >> coming up -- >> beaten pretty severely. passed out at one time during the fight. >> a brutal assault brings consequences that could go beyond time in the box. with an esurance quote, you know you're getting a great deal. you can thank our tech team for that. sure, i'll let them know. bye-bye. aha! anything you want to share? with the tech team? oh, i'm dating that girl in accounting. seriously? yeah, we're pretty serious.

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the city of boston is known by the nickname beantown. but inside the walls of the suffolk county jail where fights can break out suddenly, the inmates have another name for the city. >> straight from the bloody bean. you know what i mean. >> the bloody bean. you know? >> this is bloody bean. >> bloody bean. >> daniel espinosa has just

helped give the name some credence after spending 30 days in segregation, or as he calls it, the little box, he's finally been released to what he calls the big box. general population, where he had more privileges and time outside his cell. but now just six days later, espinoza is on his way back to the little box. >> we got in a fight. jumped someone. >> he got involved in a three on one in which he and two others pretty brutally assaulted another inmate. >> i beat the [ bleep ] out of him. sent him away in a bus. >> what's that. >> an ambulance. >> like i said, beat him severely. passed out one time during the fight.

went to the hospital, bleeding from the ear. not sure of the head trauma, if any. >> the jail normally punishing fighting by places the inmates in isolation for up to 30 days. >> the altercation on two. >> for especially violent incident, the jail may also choose to file criminal charge, but first, staff will review surveillance video of the fight. >> at that table is four detainees including daniel espinoza. you can see mr. espinoza looking back to see where the officer's positioned and see where the officer's sight lines are. another interesting proposition, this gentleman knows the attack is coming and he's vacating the area because he doesn't want to be a participant. as the gentleman raises his arm, that's the signal to the others that the three-on-one attack is now ready and then he strikes the victim and you see mr. espinoza arrive who joins in and what ensues is a flurry of

punches and kicks to an essentially defenseless detainee. >> if additional criminal charges are filed against espinoza, the most likely charge would be assault and battery. a conviction could then send him to state prison for up to eight years. >> most people come into the building. they don't want to make what they have worse. so they generally keep really bad behavior in check on their own. yeah, there's a lot of fights and things like that but they quickly are broken up. but they don't go too, too far. a person to pick up an additional charge like this is actually very rare. >> the long-term consequences are still unknown, his day-to-day life back in the box is completely predictable. >> i try to sleep until, like, 1:00. and i get up. read for a while. work out. anything, just to make the time pass. separated from everything, you know, the outside world. so you learn to deal with it,

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back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. operation 2052. >> did you find him? >> yes. >> when valerie minacappelli entered suffolk jail, she not only hit it off with her cellmate, she got closer to her fiance. >> i couldn't wait to get up here and try to find him. >> he's housed in the men's unit on the other side of the jail. luckily enough, she has a perfect view of his cell window. >> that's his over on the bottom. he has a heart in the window. >> yep. >> in pink.

>> as inmates, minacappelli and her fiance cannot talk to each other on the phone. so now they use ray different method to mun indicate. inmates call it skywriting. >> you write the letters backwards. because it's like looking in the mirror for him. you put your hand up like that and start another one. then i wait for him to reply. i'm grateful at least we can talk to each other. oh, he's got his heart up. yeah! and his hand. oh, my, i love him. it's crazy things love will make

you do. right? >> daniel esdale would also be happy top see a friendly face. he recently refused to perform his job detail in the infirmary and became verbally abusive to staff. the incident earned him a minor disciplinary ticket and a transfer back to segregation. he's not happy about being back back in the box. >> i stare out the window all day. work out and just stare out the window all day and talk through the doors. what did you say? >> despite his setback, esdale still believes his four months in the infirmary should have earned him a shot at going back to general population. he's requested to speak with assistant deputy superintendent rachelle steinberg in order to plead his case. >> how you doing? >> i'm all right. >> i dealt with him for probably the last five or six years whether it was in classification or in my current capacity as a assistant deputy superintendent. >> you made a comment to the officer.

>> he's a very smart individual. however, he's very manipulative, knows how to play the game and he's a good talker. >> i just want to see if i can get this straight. you're telling me that whole 4 1/2 months i slipped up one time and everything goes down the hill. that's what you're telling me? >> no. you had a choice and you made a choice not to do what was asked of you. >> i just can't -- i really don't understand that because it all started off in the morning. >> yeah. >> about some juice. i didn't want to pour the juice. i had other issues going on too but everything was adding up. you know what i'm saying? >> yeah. >> you have to look at positive side. he didn't catch a ticket for threatening somebody or trying to hurt somebody. he didn't catch a ticket for

making thrashing noises. >> i never said you're dead in the water, but you're not going back -- >> if i get into fight, you can do that. i don't care. >> i'm not saying you're dead in the water, but -- >> i hate myself. >> but i don't know. you had a setback. that's all it is. no one's saying you're dead in the water, but you need to make sure you're maintaining yourself up here with no issues. >> rachelle, can i ask you a question? seriously? >> you asked me ten questions. yeah? >> did you honestly think what i caught a ticket for was really that bad for me. >> the ticket wasn't bad. it's the fact that you were getting escalated so quickly and

i'm getting angry over the most minor thing, that the next step was what we were trying to avoid. >> i understand that. i wasn't doing nothing aggressive. you understand? >> right. i know you weren't. >> i know. i said -- my exact words was this -- >> yes. >> call rachelle. tell her i need to speak to her. make a [ bleep ] decision. grow up or something like that. >> yeah, you did. >> if you send me to cw or send me to the box. >> right. >> i was aggravated, rachelle. >> i know that >> the only way i know how to channel my anger is physically. so instead of movie doing that, i'm yelling. >> yep. >> i'm yelling. >> that was recognized. >> rachelle, tell you the truth, all jokes aside, i'm not trying to play with you. like you know, you got your job. you the boss and i respect you. know what i'm coming from? >> yep. >> you and i both know usually i wouldn't care about being -- about being seg. doesn't matter. i'll stay here. i just feel as though, if i just did four months. four months. >> that's why i'm saying you're not dead in the water. >> the next step for esdale is administrative segregation or asu hearing that will determine how long he remain in segregation. >> you'll most likely be seeing asu tomorrow. yes. >> i'll be there. >> all right. >> i'll be there. >> yep. it was nice seeing you, though. >> you, too, daniel. >> it's always nice seeing you. you're always going to be good in my book, no matter what. always going to be good. get the [ bleep ] ou consequences of his actions, it's time for espinoza to do the same. he's been called to a disciplinary hearing for a brutal attack, a three-on-one attack on another inmate. a fight jail officials called one of the worse they've seen in years. >> espinosa has what could be a big incident. he might charge it criminally. you must understand your rights. >> since most fights are broken up before therapy serious, they usually are handled internally, he might charge it criminally. you must understand your rights. >> since most fights are broken up before therapy serious, they usually are handled internally, but for espinoza the fight was so violent, he could face new criminal charges.

>> you have the right to remain silent. >> so he's read his miranda rights prior to discussing it. >> you understand your miranda rights as i read them to you? >> yeah. >> so what happened? >> told him -- >> so he didn't leave and why did you tell him to leave? >> he robbed from my cellmate. >> he was stealing from the unit and other people, as well so you banged him up. why did you do it so badly? >> i can't answer that question. you know? it went on for a while. >> you guys took breaks. >> i didn't take breaks. >> true. you were the one -- the other two were taking breaks. all right, but why so long? you know what i mean? >> i lost the concept of time.

>> well, basically, you know -- yeah, it was pretty bad. you're probably going to do 30. i can't imagine in terms of you not doing 30 in terms of segregation. all right. thank you. >> 30 days in segregation could be the least of espinoza's problems. should the d.a. decide to proceed with criminal prosecution, if convicted, espinoza could potentially face eight years in state prison. >> so was it worth it? >> tired of being in here. put me in a cage and i'm turning into a beast. that's what it's like. that's what i do. >> coming up -- >> what happened? >> bought a ticket. >> you seem to be spiraling out of control before that, though. >> daniel esdale tries yet again to catch a break. >> daniel is a little bit of a special case. >> i knew it was going to happen.

every day i get up. i have breakfast. i go back to bed until 10:00. i'll get up, have my coffee. take a shower. have to go back in the room from 11:00 to 12:00 till lunch. watch tv during the day. go on the treadmill. >> when it comes to doing time in suffolk county jail, cindy archer is an old hand. this is her 14th stay at the jail. and she's learned a few tricks along the way. >> i make eyeliner. see? eyeliner.

>> makeup is considered jail contraband and inmates caught with it could receive a disciplinary write up. archer turned to an unusual source as a substitute. >> this activates the eyeliner. activate it with hair grease and it turns black. doesn't hurt me. i've been doing it for the last ten years. like real eyeliner. nobody can make it as black as me, though. >> during those ten years she's been in and out of suffolk county on a variety of petty charges, which says is fueled by her drug addiction. currently she's serving a year for prostitution. the time has been made easier by the presence of her good friend valerie minacapelli. but few things in jail are permanent. minacapelli was released a few days ago. >> i miss valerie very much. i called her monday night. she said she was doing okay. she answered the phone, a collect call from me. i talked to her mom. they were doing good. she's so happy that her daughter was home. >> it won't be long before

archer can join her friend and she vows it will be the last she'll see of the suffolk county jail. >> i'm getting released in five days, and i'm trying to get to a program, and i'm going to stay clean. i'm not going to come back here. >> archer recently took a small step toward freedom when she was allowed to join the jail's community work program. twice a week the program sends them outside the jail to perform public service, such as painting and landscaping. >> you get out of jail for the day. you go and work a real job. you only get $3 a day, but it's worth it to me because it helps me get through the day when it gets me back into the real world. >> almost like a stepping stone, to get out of the door, go to work, children with families. different than being in a house with 30 females. >> the population, it's a gradual. >> yeah, but i don't think they're any smaller. >> today some female inmates are headed to a public library to

shovel snow. >> the classification process to get into the community program is very strict. >> you can't have escape charges or parole violations. >> the program's director heather mcneil has known archer for years. >> cindy archer i've known since 1991 when i first started. she was in here with her mother in '91. we're almost working together, which is kind of scary. >> can we have a cigarette together? >> no, we cannot. >> oh, please. >> it's not worth it. >> i know that. i know. >> take your shovel. i'll get these. >> she has been in and out for so long that this is kind of like home, unfortunately. she feels probably safer in here than she does on the street. >> i'm almost happy to be doing

something like normal, you know? >> daniel esdale is also hoping for a bit more freedom. he has five weeks left to serve on his two-year sentence for possession of a firearm. as unlikely as it is, he's still holding out hope that he can serve that time in general population. >> it's still a possibility just like this big. i might. i doubt it. >> esdale is currently back in segregation after refusing to perform his job in the jailhouse infirmary. >> open 4, please. >> but he sees it as one small slipup after four months of what was for him unusually good behavior. today he's meeting with jail officials where he'll learn what's in store for him. >> i'm going get administrative because of my history in the building. then i'm going to pop because they think i'll come back in and fight. >> assistant director of

classification, cindy is in charge of esdale's hearing. it's not the first time she's seen him. >> how are you doing today? >> fine. >> this is not where i wanted us to be. you know that? right? >> yep. >> what happened? >> caught a ticket. >> i know you conduct a ticket. you seemed to be spiraling out of control before that. >> yeah. >> because i kept getting restricted for no reason. >> he is a little bit of a special case. he is a special case because of the level of violence he's shown to us. fighting, continuous disruptions. four cell moves and he just doesn't stop. so now we need to move forward. >> i'm going to asu. >> correct. but you knew that. so what we're going to do is place you into asu. i would sailed probably for the remainder of your sentence. okay? >> no restraints, right? >> correct. we're starting you out on asu, no restraints. you came out of the infirmary. it was nothing violent. no reason to put you on full

restraint, but you know that can be our next step. we can even move further if that's the way you want to go. i hope it's not. you don't have that much time. a little more than a month left with us. i hope you can ride that out and do what you're supposed to. do you have any questions about what is going to happen? >> with what? >> with asu. i want to be clear about everything. >> doesn't get better than asu. i can't go to pop. so, no, no questions. >> all right. thank you. >> now, knowing he will spend his last five weeks at suffolk count any segregation, esdale is led back to his cell. >> he's a player. he's the type of inmate who reads you and if you're afraid of him, he's going to act up. if you're not afraid of him, he won't act tough. >> i knew it was going to happen. >> he doesn't know where his lies begin and his truths end. very compulsive. he likes to keep himself clean.

he will beat up a cellmate because a cellmate doesn't keep himself clean. that's just his personality. >> it's just stupid because i knew this was going to happen where i can't leave the box. you know what i'm saying? >> take the dog out of the cage. he nibbles. he don't even nibble. he barks because he's so used to biting. instead of looking at the positive side and saying he barked. he didn't bite. he barked. he didn't bite. that's corny. >> i thought i. [applause] looked at the box [ bleep ], it's a box. at least i know where i'm going to be at, though, right? >> esdale's future appears certain. cindy archer has suddenly taken an unsettled return. she just returned from her work

detail. >> why did they have you wrong? >> i don't know. i have no idea. >> when we strip searched her, we found that there was cigarette residue over her bra. and it's all over the bra. looks like she might have smoked it. >> there was makeup all on there. i don't have any cigarette. the makeup i wore from the other day. they searched me, i have nothing. >> having tobacco could delay archer's release. >> we'll probably hold her inside. won't go back outside until she leaves friday. that will be the end of it. there no contraband. maybe she doesn't want to leave. maybe she wants to stay. that might be one of the reasons, too. she's afraid to leave here so she's trying to sabotage herself. >> coming up, big developments for three suffolk county inmates. >> hey! [ male announcer ] you don't make the world's best chicken

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i was [ bleep ]. >> inmates at boston's suffolk county jail often refer to the disciplinary segregation unit as the box. but for a handful of inmates, time in the box does nothing to deter their behavior. >> i can't help it, man. you know? >> in those cases, the jail has one other drastic option. it can transfer them to another jail in a neighboring county. >> we'll accept inmates from other facilities who are having issues in their populations or vice versa. what we try to do is give them a fresh start. we'll send individuals out to different counties where the drama may not be and they see if they can live in population because we don't want a large contingency in our segregation

units. we try to keep down the violence. some of the violence we do. >> that's taken with one of the most notorious inmates. daniel esdale. >> yeah, man. >> mr. esdale was transferred to another facility for a week. he was here for a long time and sort of taking that known identity for him out of it and placing him somewhere else where he's not so known will be good for him. it was a real win/win for the department and dam because he's given another shot in another county. >> reporter: the suffolk county jail has almost been a second home to cindy archer but today she'll have another chance to put it behind her. >> i'm leaving. i'm going home. i'm getting diggs charged. yeah. i'm excited. i'm going to do the right thing,

i'm going to stay clean. and i'm not going to come back. >> what's the first thing you're going to do? >> smoke a cigarette. you know? okay. bye, kirby. >> as she is processed out, archer gets to exchange her jewel uniform for the clothe she was arrested in earlier? >> do you have them? bye! >> you guys be good. moy god, my god. this is the best feeling in the world just to get out of jail. i'm in here 10 months on the year. >> you want to go home? >> yes,ier yes, sir. oh, i'm going home. 10354. thank you. my release papers. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm going outside to smoke right now. >> archer arranged to stay with an old boyfriend while she gets on her feet. >> i just got out right now. i'm on my way out there, okay?

i'll call you when i get there. please, have your phone with you. all right. i'm call you in half an hour. all right? >> i value my life very much now and my freedom too. i'll have to value it every day when i'm out there and think, if you do drugs it's only going to last for a minute. you're going to get back to the drugs and have a habit. another case, down the infirmary looking like [ bleep ]. i have the power to change myself. i just got to stay away from all bad -- all bad things. >> dan espinoza expects to walk out of jail any day now, as well, but his freedom is not guaranteed. authorities might still bring criminal charges against him for his role in a three-on-one fight in the general population unit. but a $750 bail has just been set on his original charges of shoplifting and larceny and he's got the money.

>> i'm going to bail out. hopefully i beat this case. most of my cases i have on my record are beaten. people don't show up. i hope that's what happens. when i beat these cases i'm all done. i think i'll try the mundane life. >> but espinoza has tried before. >> when i think i am where i should be, i have the house, the car, the girl now. everything's great. usually when i pick up own, i'll start out smoking weed thinking it's okay to smoke weed once in a while. that leads me to heroin. once i see heroin, i look at everything i have, then i've been happy, real happy, but sometimes i like the pain. >> "the box life"