The Fulton County Jail officials say they house the worst of the worst every single night.
According to the Atlanta Police Department, 79 people were arrested for murder last year and 233 were people arrested for rape. They said more than 2,000 were arrested for aggravated assault.
But what happens after the arrest?
Inside the jail walls, there's a life unknown to the common eye.
Some offenders are in for a long time and are numb to the process. Others receive an unwanted invitation to a life they just didn't expect.
Col. Mike Adger, the chief jailer at the Fulton County Jail, gave 11Alive an unprecedented exclusive look at a totally different type of living, though some would call it survival.
"There are no easy days, there are different days," he said.
Adger explained that the focus of jails is not rehabilitation, but pretrial detention. But because people return time and time again, they try to prepare people to want to stay out of jail once they do come.
"We move about 100 people a day, just to keep them separated from people they are trying to do harm to," he said.
Adger said they take the job of trying to keep the peace seriously.
"We have the DART team, the Direct Action Response Team, if there is something about to happen."
11Alive's Ron Jones saw first hand into the cells and spoke to some of the young men there. One of them even admitted that he's learning from his past actions.
"See, this Department of Corrections taught me about correcting myself," he said. "I learned the hard way."
Authorities talked to 11Alive about the security.
"Prior to 2013 we had old door locks," Adger said.
However, that was not effective.
"So we did some product research and some prototyping and came up with," he said.
