tv Lockup Boston - Extended Stay MSNBC May 14, 2017 6:00pm-7:01pm PDT
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ an inmate takes his fights from the streets to the halls of the jail. >> quiet down. >> and his boyhood friend follows his example. >> you guys did not start this fight? >> no. >> but you did finish it. >> two brothers turn to crime to support their habits. >> how could you rob someone with a rock?
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>> you hit someone with it really hard and you take what they have. >> i'm like jackal and hide when i'm using and not using. >> and now one faces the prospect of hitting the streets again. >> the chips are stacked against me. they want to do something different, but it is just tough. ♪ since the days of the battleground of the american revolution, boston, massachusetts, has become known as the city of neighborhoods with deep rooted loyalties running through the diverse communities. but when certain bostonians take t territorial pride a little bit too far, they could wind up in the suffolk county jail.
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>> there are approximately 180 so street gangs within boston, and just neighborhood street gangs that, you know, they are all comprised of a couple of blo blocks, a project, or sometimes a neighborhood certainly, and in almost every case, every group has some sort of serious feud with at least four to five other groups within the city of boston. >> and over the past ten years, the structure of those gangs has changed, and that's at a serious impact on the jail. >> such as it was, there was a little bit of a code about what you did and didn't do. and that seems to have gone by the wayside. what that translates into is some of the wild west mentality and sort of the shooting for any slight real or imagined. >> that is just how it is. bank robber robs banks. a nurse helps patients.
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gang members shoot each other. >> 22-year-old deshgs lsahun bloodworth has been one of boston's oldest street gangs. >> i got older, and i really liked the lifestyle. i liked the lifestyle. it is easier. it is easier than just showing up to work every day, and you know what i mean, and seeing the same people, and even though you don't like them, mad at them and you don't want to ever see them again, you have to come back to work and still handle your job and u all of this other stuff. >> bloodworth is currently housed at the jail on nashua street, and one of the two jails that currently comprises the
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suffolk county jail system. most of the inmates have not been convicted of a crime, but waiting sentence for their crime, and if they are convict and given a sentence of two-and-a-half years or less, they could wind up four and a half miles away at the other suffolk county jail. and bloodworth has been at nashua street for 2 1/2 months after pleading not guilty to armed robbery and assault and battery. >> i go back to court, and this case is looking unbeatable, so i will probably just plead out, because i have seen a lot of my friends get burnt in trials. you nknow what i mean? i don't think that i will take it there, and i will just take a deal and give them their win. >> he pleads guilty to the offic officer's plea of fwil ti he could face jail time with a
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childhood friend from the streets david peters. >> i don't know a time when i didn't know him. we met when were were about 3. >> we played dominos a lot, and we took some soap and played dominos to have something to play while we are in the room and [ bleep ], because you can't have cards or nothing. >> no radio, nothing. just me and him and these. we call them soppinos because it is a combination of dominos and soap. >> it felt good to see him, but even under these circumstances, we are both incarcerated. >> we in here, and the whole city of boston is bloody mean out here and we are all over the building. >> you get addicted to the lifestyle to, the streets, the whole long nice fast life,
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money, cars, fast women and everything that comes along with it. and you just, you get a rush from that after a while. >> that is a gun, and right here, and that is a einstein quote that you have to learn the rules to the game and play it better than anybody else. i applied it and tike frit einstein and applied it to the streets. >> like bloodworth peters is in jail awaiting a trial or possible plea deal. he is facing six charges including a possession of a firearm and assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest. because of the prior convictions peters could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. >> when it was a kid, you could not tell me that i was not going to the nba. that is where i thought that i was going to end up, but hoop dreams is over. >> they trying to take the rest
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of my 20 from me. i got a 3-year-old out there, and so it is like my father was never in my life and i might not be there for my son. so it is really a eye opener and make makes you wake up after a while. especially in the hole, you have a lot of time to think about [ bleep ]. >> you know, you have nothing but time to think about what you have done in your past, and [ bleep ], and this is meant to stress you out. you know what i mean? you are just sitting here all day and all night, and only one hour of rec, and that one hour of rec, you have to move or somethi something, and so it is all stress in here. they know what they are doing, and they are trying to keep us from wrestling, you know what i mean, but i have always been a rebel, you know what i mean? you teach me a lesson, and i will smack you in your face. you know even at school, the teacher tell me to sit down and i say shut the [ bleep ] up.
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>> and he has always been outspoke een and he does not bite his tongue for nobody, and always ready to fight ax and the heart of the lion and he is not going the back down from nothing. he is all about loyalty and he is going to be your friend today and he is going to be there for you, and he is going to go out of his way to make sure that you are all right. >> you touch me in here, i am going to push you on the streets. let's get it. >> in fact, it is that attitude that landed bloodworth and peters together in the segregation unit. when they were in the less restrictive population unit, they beat up another unit. >> they brought a new guy on to the unit which happened to be both of our enemy or whatever, and i punch ed him in the face, and sx haun came from behind and we just stomped him from behind. >> and peters hooked up with the childhood friend bloodworth and as it happened the brother of one of the people who had jumped him perhaps three weeks ago came into the unit, and they fought
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each other. >> it all stems from they got us, and now we have to get them. it is retaliation, you know what i mean? it goes back and forth and back and forth. you know what i mean? it is never ending, and it ain't no peace treaty or something like that. >> coming up, delshaun bloodworth goes off. and two brothers deal with a common enemy. >> when we are out there getting high, all we are thinking about is the next high. >> i can spend anywhere from 300 to $5,000 a day on haeroin and cocaine. this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible.
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relatively short, and often their first visit is their last. for others like 24-year-old nick, back-to-back arrests have led to a revolving door relationship with boston suffolk county jail. >> the stays in here are getting longer and the stays on the street keep getting shorter. i was in for 3 1/2 months. i was out for eight days and now i have been back for two months. eight days. most of my record is armed robberies, unarmed robberies, larceny, and i would use whatever, anything from a rock to a knife to whatever. whatever was available at that point in time. >> how could you rob someone with a rock? >> well, you hit someone with it really hard and you take what is
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in their pockets. >> most of bubanas' robberies have been to support his drug habits, but now he is back in for an assault and battery charge to which he has plead not guilty. the alleged victim is his girlfriend. >> they say that i assaulted my girlfriend at the time and she was arrested with me and she said that i did not assault her. i don't know. it is pretty much, and they knew that we were in a high drug zone and they wanted us to cooperate to get the bigger fish, and let the little fish go away, but they won't, so they arrested us. >> ten more. what is the name of the game? you are horrible. >> in jail, he has found comfort in passing the time with a familiar face from home, his older half brother ryan mcnei. >> this place sucks. >> elle the me about it. >> i'm tired of it. you know what i mean?
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>> yep. >> similar story to mine. just ten years older, and i'm better looking. i like my girls in twos. ask him who is winning. >> let you nknow at the end of the game. >> 34-year-old mcnei has been coming to jail since bubanas was a child. being locked up together has made this day a little easier. >> to see him in here hurts. you know, but at the same time, it is nice to have people around that genuinely care about you, and you know they have your back if something happens and it is a good are recreation to keep me laughing all day long. we have been saying that we will change for almost 20 years. my grandmother used to call it life on the installment plan. ryan, i have bad news, you are
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going to be doing life on the installment plan, and i used to hate that. no, i'm not. no, i'm not. i'm doing life on the installment plan. >> this time, mcnee has racked up eight charges including possession of a firearm, and assault and battery and unarmed robbery. he has plead not guilty to all charges, and he is a awaiting trial. >> and do me a favor to clean the tables when you are done and come by to give me some hot water, all right? >> though he is taking some friendly taunting from his brother, mcnee earns a dollar a day as a runner. >> the four of us, we serve the trace and clean the yupt, and pass out the uniforms and whatever we are asked to do, we do it around here. >> the job lets mcnee spend more time out of his cell which is a another benefit better access to coffee. >> coffee in a place like this
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is very important. i like to have my coffee. very important. coffee. nothing else to do but to sit around and workout and play cards and drink coffee. >> he does about 8 to 10 cups a day. it is a tough habit to keep up with his coffee habit. >> but on the outside, mcnee and his brother share far more dangerous addictions. >> on average day i could spend anywhere from 300, 500, to $1,000 a day on heroin and cocaine. i lived the life of an addict to the fullest, and i'm embarrassed by it. >> drugs have a had a hold on mcnee and buabanas since a young age and played a major role with the troubles with the law. >> when we are out there getting high, the only thing that we are thinking about is the next high,
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and scheming and not plotting and how to do this thing and that, and i'm like jekyll and hyde, and you put something in my system, i'm a totally different person. i'm not a good person, and i don't do nothing for nobody. i'm selfish. when we are in here, and sober, we are not under the influence of any drugs or anything, we are talking about our families and how we have to do things different, and more productive. it is just a healthier relationship, you know. >> he is young. he don't have to keep crashing into the same wall that i have been crashing into for the past 20 years, you know. i obviously have not been a good ex example for him, because out of the three of us, and my other brother graduated college and already in the third year of lawle school, and he chose to follow me, and i don't like that. you know. always wanted to be just like me.
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so i'm not very proud of that obviously. good kid though. i don't know if you have heard, but i don't do deliveries no more. >> all right. you can change, all right. >> ubanas could have his next chance on the out sooside very . he is due in court in two days to face the judge on the assault and battery charge, but he is optimistic that the case is going to be thrown out, because his girlfriend is unwilling to testify against him. >> that is why i am justs hoping for the best and expect the worst. you know. >> ex-presidenting the worst is key to security in the s segregation unit. >> how both of these guys are coming? >> yes. >> and for instance when delshaun bloodworth and peters
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are released for their daily workout, they have to be handcuff and shackled at the ankles. >> have to. they are such a threat to us. >> you are making me feel like a real criminal here. i don't want to wear these. >> all right, all right, all right. >> but even shackles can't totally stop violence. within minutes of their release as peters is talking on the pho phone, bloodworth attacks another inmate. >> fight, fight! >> break it up! break it up! >> within second, deputies have broken up the fight. >> get back. just take a second. putt this down. >> i'm good. i'm good. >> it is over now.
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>> hey, man. >> central control we have two restrained. >> you thought it was over, huh? you's a bitch. straight down. straight down. >> bloodworth claims that the other inmate called him a derogatory name. >> he called me a bitch and from where i am from, you call me a bitch that is an automatic wipedown. >> and he and the other inmate who declined to speak to us are placed back in their cells and the judge will determine what disciplinary action will be taken. >> were you litted? >> no, i cracked him with the cuffs. and these cuffs sta s will stop fighting, but it is worse. people are leaking all of the
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time. i would not be surprised if he is leaking right now. i am pretty sure that he got sent to the infirmary, right, right. >> and coming up, delshaun bloodworth is facing new consequences for fighting. >> 14 long days. >> 14 days. >> and i am just saying what would you do if somebody ul called you a bitch. >> and two brothers are preparing to say good-bye. >> when he is out on the street, i will prepare to see him. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. which is so smart on your guy's part. like fact that they'll just... forgive you... four weeks without the car. okay. yep. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it.
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♪ hey, yo, the bull [ bleep ] if i don't keep a full clip i'm the ice cream man and 20 bills full for a lick, and with that thing on my hip, and go on the street and be my team and you are going to be banged if you snitch, and ain't to bang to my, and the aim is six, and no blasting the keds, and yo, what up, y'all? >> for childhood friends delshaun bloodworth and peters, cell time together makes the
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time go easier, but after bloodworth attacked an animate, they will be on their own for a while. bloodworth was found to have instigated the fight, and he was issued a disciplinary report. >> they call it the d-report, and at approximately 1:45 detainees delshaun bloodworth me and the inmate number, and whoever the [ bleep ] he is were exchanging the blows in the 61 unit, and it was not an exchange of the blow, but it is more like me hammering his face. >> bloodworth has been moved to a single-person cell. >> back to the dungeon. >> and his time in segregation has been increased by 14 days. seven of them on shower status, meaning that the only time that he is out of the cell is for a shower. >> all right. i don't come out for rec at all. shower status everyday. i can't get a shakinging on nobo nobody, because i am on shower
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status. >> you can't fight again? >> well fx that is how you want to put it, and that is my slang, my lingo, and yeah, all day, you know, doing the same old, same old, and you can't, and when it is comes to sleep, people just say, well, you can sleep throughout the day, and just sleep the whole day, and you can't do that, because you will be up all night. >> deputy stangle who helps to run the segregation unit handed down the sanctions against bloodworth after a brief hearing with him. and now bloodworth has asked to speak with stangle. >> 14 long days. >> it is 14 long days. >> and stangle, what would you do if somebody ul called you a bitch. >> well, i would go right to the unit officer -- >> no, you wouldn't. >> and tell him what is going on. >> that is a lie. that is a respect thing. >> put it this way, i will tell you right now, i would not swing first, that is not what i would do. >> and so you would not swing first, what would you do? >> i will tell you that it is a
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thing that you chose to do that matter, and you chose to fight. >> i am a dog, and i don't take no shorts, spangle. >> i know, bang first and questions later. >> you know how it goes? >> yes, i do. and you know that you have the whole system down pat. >> not the whole system, but maybe 90%. >> 90%, yeah, man. yeah. >> hold on one second. >> go, sir. >> i want to be a c.o. when i leave here. i will be paid a lot of money. >> 3134 in a few minutes. >> and coming up, nick bubanas is leaving for a court date that will determine his future. >> and the odds are stacked against me, and i want to do something different, but it is just tough. >> new problems for david peters. >> did you start this fight? >> no. >> but you did finish it. that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian,
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latest poll is showing that only 29% approve of president trump's decision to remove james comey. and french president emanuel macron was sworn in today. and this comes one week after his decisive victory over the populist marine le pen. now, back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ like many of the 2400 inmates in boston's suffolk k n county jail, nick bubanas admits that his life has not been as successful as he once hoped for. but he thinks that he may have
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discovered one of life's secrets. >> i figured out for girls you go to the left ax and if you want a boy, you go over to the right, and that is how you make the babies, and left for the girls and right for the boys, right? >> bubanas' four-month-old da t daughter was born just before he went to jail. and it is the most beautiful disgusting thing i have ever seen, and i cut the cord. and the thing, they pass her to me, and it is weird how something that you, how you can just meet somebody and already instantly have love for them, and like i love that you cannot describe and you would do anything for them. that is my motivation right now to get out and try to do the right thing for e her. and hopefully, it is going to work this time, and i am going the do something different, and she deserves it. she needs her parents in her life, you know.
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>> today, the bubanas is on the way to court where he is hoping that channels of assault and battery will be dropped, because the alleged victim, his girlfriend, refuses to testify gaiagainst him. bubanas' younger brother, ryan mcnee has mixed feelings about the day. >> when he nick, i hope he gets out today and i am sad to see him go, but i want to see him on the street rather than in here. i don't want to see him in jail. >> i will try and call you tonight, all right. >> all right. >> you good? >> yeah. >> stay safe. >> all right. do it right this time, all right. >> i will. >> and yeah, i'm worried about him, because he is living the same kind of lifestyle that i live right now. he runs around just the same way i do. and i don't know what his situation is going to be when i leave, and i dont n't know if h has a place to go. if he doesn't have a place to go, he is going to do what he knows what to do and he is going
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to end up using and end up back here before i leave. >> you never know what you are going towards, and if i am going to to relapse and then be back here for a few months or it is the just the unknown. the probability of me returning to society and doing the same thing they have always done is high, you know what i mean. that is the chips are definitely stacked up against me. i want to change and i want to do something different. sometimes, it is just, it is just tough. you nknow. >> a few hours later, bubanas would have his chance for a fresh start. his charges were dismissed in court, and he was set free. when the news reached ryan, he had some words of advice for his younger brother. >> nick l.a. i just wish you the best of luck.
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you know, go out there to do the right thing and don't make the same mistakes that we have made. go home, and go to uncle bernie's house, and see your kid. don't be too anxious to get back here, because, you know, what you are going to get if you come backer here. you know, go out there and do something for yourself. i love you, kid. that's it. >> of the 700 people that we have currently in the facility, roughly 75, 80 constantly in trouble, and constant trouble going to the unit and get a fight, and right back to segregation. they do their time in segregation, and right back to the unit and get in another fight, and it is a constant circleel for some of these guys, and david peters is one of those guys. >> and so after being caught
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fighting alongside his friend delshaun bloodworth, he fought again. he joined four others assaulting a inmate on the unit, and he is now back in segregation, but he says that the other guy is the wu one who started it. >> i guess that he had an issue with one of my friends, and he thought that the best way to handle it would be to try to swing on my friend. and so, when we all seen that, we all reacted and first thing that we did when we threw him on the floor, and flipped him, and started to stomping his head into the tiles. we can only do so much, because we are all in the way, and i'm trying to kick him, but my man is right there, and trying to hit him, and it is all, crazy. crazy, but, yeah. he caught the worst end of it. >> hey, guys. >> deputy stangle is going to decide how many days peters must serve in segregation. >> you guys messed up yourselves
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this way we look at it. that is a one-on-one between that man and louis. >> yes. >> but you all guys joined in, because you all play as a group. >> yeah. >> you already know that. >> yeah, i know. i know. and the problem is that we don't like groups. groups are bad. groups get people hurt. groups get people charged with assault and battery within the facility. >> yeah, yeah, we can't afford no more. >> no, you can't. >> and i have been here six months and i have been in five or six fights. i mean, you have to fight. it happens. it is just instinct. you react. so this is what basically happens. and you coming, because and you think about it after when you are in the hole and sitting in there, and you are like, damn. >> along with determining how many days peters must serve in segregation, deputy stangle must also figure out where to place him when the stay in segregation is over. >> and david peters came into the building with issues and since being here he has picked
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up issues in the building that make it very difficult to house him here. >> you guys did not start the fight here, but you did finish it. and especially edgar. all right. >> yeah. >> so, what are we going to do with you? i can't guerarantee it obviousl and sitd not my end of the business. i do this end, i do the seg unit. but i will recommend that you are going back to 24. >> yep. >> and peters has had major conflicts with at least five other inmates and the jail tries to separate likely combatants. >> that is five units that i can't put david peters on, and consideringing the fact that we only have 11 unit s s to work w here, it is very difficult to make him housed. >> i am a headache to stangle. i get into fights, and these people, and these people and he don't know where to put me, and wherever i go, i am going to be gone, and cause somebody a headache. >> and so, see, that is the thing, i don't want to put my man in a situation where he is
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going to go somewhere else. >> well, if you start going somewhere, i have to go where he is going to go to be safe, too. >> it is like a silly soap opera, and they do the time and back to the general population unit, and sometimes they make it, and sometimes they don't and i am here to pick up the pieces. >> stangle is on top of the game, and he tries to know who is from where and who has problems with where, but it is no way to pinpoint everything. he is all right. he is all right though. >> at the end of the day, when you get out of here, you know, i don't like return trips, i will leave it at that. >> coming up, delshaun bloodworth's life at the county jail takes a major detour. >> going to hit the street, baby. >> and ryan mcnee gets news from his brother. >> he is doing what he does. probably before i leave here, he
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♪ boston suffolk county jail is comprised of two facilities, the house of correction for inmates who have been convicted and the nashua street jail for detainees awaiting trial. for the past ten months, delshaun bloodworth has been incarcerated at nashua, a waiting charges of armed robbery and assault and battery, but now he is about to make the move to the house, because he has accepted a plea bargain, and he has been sentenced to 2 1/2
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years. >> the junl said that this is a gift to me, and i should appreciate it, because i could have easily gotten more time, and people don't know but armed robbery is a serious, serious charge and soy gladly took it. >> and with the plea deal, bloodworth edadmitted his role the ronbry of a woman in downtown boston. >> we rolled up behind her. i told her not to get out, and i'm experienced because people like the yap, and no. and so, she might have yelled fi didn't say anything or she didn't see the gun, but, told her to give me everything that you got. and give me everything. i want everything, and i don't want just your money, but i want everything. >> did you say anything to the person you robbed? >> i would tell her, welcome to life. it is a cold world. if that wasn't you, it would be a next person. nothing personal, as we all
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know, it is just business. >> bloodworth will remain incarcerated, but he is about to see a major change. along with the group of other recently convicted inmates, he has just made the four-mile drive to house of correction. cuffed arm and arm, the men have been put back in their street clothes, but om to start the intake process all over again. >> all right. >> turn around that way. >> his bravado won't last for long. through each step of the intake process, bloodworth relives the night he was arrested. >> definitely not. >> can you stand up straight on the feet. we will go over some information with you. are you a citizen? >> yes, i am. >> are you a veteran? >> no, i am not. >> i have you at 628 boston.
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>> born and raised. >> any other names that you go by? >> nope. >> take your glasses off. i want you to turn sideways and against the wall. all right. face front. >> standard protocol dictates that the inmates be strip search and every cavity be investigated for contraband, but for bloodworth that is not the most embarrassing part of the search. >> can you take those off for me, your dentures. >> open your mouth. >> put them back in. >> what are you so upset about having them remo your teeth? >> because i am 22 years old, and what do you think about any 22-year-old is going to be, you know, a little embarrassed about that, you know what i mean.
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i can see it if i were 55 or something. >> just as he was at the nashua street jail, bloodworth is housed in the segregation unit at the house of correction. >> okay. the bend over on your knees and the cheek on the bed. >> this is a short term, and a litt brooefation for business. >> and this is a hard technique, and we have the low touch, low touch word there. i like that. i like that. >> ryan mcnee has been holding out hope that his brother nick bubanas could get back to a normal life after his release, but after getting word from
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home, he is not optimistic. >> i heard from nick a month ago at my uncle's house. he is doing him, doing what he is doing, and picked up using and doing his thing, but i have not heard from him in a month, and it is what it is, and that is what he does. nothing i can say or do is going to change him, because if i was out there, i would be in the same position, and i don't listen to nobody either, and probably before i leave here, he might be back here, who knows. >> mcnee is awaiting trial, and if found not giuilty, he could have his own chance at a life on the outside. like his bro the, he will have to battle his drug addiction to avoid coming back to jail. >> you know, i look in that mirror now, and my hair is growing gray, and i am starting to feel the effects of the aging process, you know. and my life, my life is just -- i don't know where the past 20 years went. they are by just like that. it is gone.
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when you are an addict, it really don't matter where you go, because no matter where you go, you are bringing the same person with the same problem and the same addictive behaviors, and when you're done and you don't want to do it no more, that's when you're going to be finished with it, when you've had enough. i don't know. i can't sit here and lie to you and tell you i've had enough when you're addicted you would think that i should have. but, definitely got more runs in me. coming up -- it's not something i would want to get hit in the head with. >> deputies confiscate a dangerous weapon from none other than delshaun bloodworth. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a coupe soup. [woman] so beautiful. [man] beautiful just like you. [woman] oh, why thank you.
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can range from 30, 40, up to 100, close to 200 inmates. and sometimes one, two, maybe if you're lucky three officer per unit. an officer having to worry about 180 people possessing weapons on a daily basis. so that's why it's very important for them to be on their toes to be on the lookout for suspicious activity. >> the latest inmate weapon confiscated by officers was found in the segregation unit at the house of correction. >> what makes this significant, obviously, it's a sock. but in the sock he had five double aa batteries. and these double aa batteries are something he can order for his walkman radio through his canteen and he chose to use the batteries in a method that they're not designed do. he would drop them in his sock, tie the sock, now you have an instant weapon. sometimes they spin it or just drop it. would have it in their hand, drop it down, bam. that's not something i would want to get hit in the head
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with. >> jail officials tied this weapon to one of the newest inmates to arrive at the house. delshaun bloodworth. >> i didn't believe i would get caught with the battery in the sock. you know what i mean? so -- >> it was tied back to mr. bloodworth due to video footage, video footage in the unit captured the object falling out of his pants and at that point they were able to issue him a disciplinary report for being in possession of contraband and being in possession of a weapon. >> in my jumpsuit, my one piece, somehow it slid through my -- slid through my pants legs. and there was a superintendent, he's like what the hell is this? i'm like, i'm like oh, [ bleep ]. my heart started beating fast. whatever. they accused me of premeditated fighting, you know what i mean? they thought i was going to move on somebody with the batteries in the sock or whatever. but that's not the case. >> bloodworth says he's caught in the psych of the old,
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unsettled disputes from the streets. >> it's where i'm from. it's where i'm from. you know what i mean? it's like i have a beef. you know what i mean? people inherit money from their family, my older mans, generation before me they had beef with the people i have beef with. so you know what i mean, i end up getting into a little confrontation with somebody, move on him, then he move on me, then he go back and forth, whatever you know, so i just want to live a normal life, you know what i mean? >> but even a normal life in jail could be a long way off. bloodworth has received another ten days in segregation for the weapon. and has been warned that if he continues to violate the rules he could spend the remainder of his two and a half years in segregation. he says he already feels the impact. >> i already feel myself changing. i'm different.
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i am. worse. [ bleep ] make you or break you, you hear it a million times but it's true. all we do is get bigger and more ignorant. you lock somebody in the cell for 23 hours what you think will happen? he ain't going to get nicer, he's not going to get more polite, he's going to rebel. he's going to act out. because you know, this is real [ bleep ] right here. this is real [ bleep ]. >> bloodworth's former cellmate and childhood friend, david peters, has had some of his own troubles lately. he received 30 days in segregation for his involvement in a five-on-one fight. now he's back in general population again. but the transfer came with a warning. >> they told me if i get in any more fight, i'll stay in the hole for the remainder of my
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stay or be shipped out. fight's happen. this is jail. put a whole bunch of men in one institution, no females, no nothing, what do you think is going to happen? [ bleep ] there's only so much you could do. i mean, nothing on tv. your bitch acted funny on the phone. what is there left to do? hit the [ bleep ] close to you. that's what happens in jail. you know? >> still awaiting trial on several charges, including possession of a firearm and assault and battery on a police officer, peters takes the long view when it comes to his future. >> i don't want to waste my life. this is the [ bleep ] that comes along with the game. it's like it's time-out. you on the bench right now. this is all a game. i'm on the bench, i'm not in the game. but my time will be up. coach will put me back in the game and it's time to get back out there, you know. >> now the closest peters gets to the game on the outside is receiving mail on the inside. >> this is my baby's mother and
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this is straight hate mail. so i won't even read this. but, yeah, [ bleep ] >> is there anything about your son in there? >> no, this is about some [ bleep ] i did on the streets. i mean, it ain't nothing to move me too much. it don't bother me. if they're that mad you want to sit down and take 15, 20 minutes out your day to write me, obviously you thinking about me. so i'm not forgotten. as long as i'm not forgotten, i'm cool. that's when you get no mail at all, you know the person moved on and forgot. i don't want to be forgotten
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