america's prison, dangerous, often deadly. two million people are doing time. every day is say battle to survive and maintain order. >> down! >> located in the deep south, holman correctional facility where most of serving life sentences, we spent months do you meaning live on the inside where they have nothing but time and nothing to lose. holman, extended stay.

>> holman is one of houses for the 170 on death row. they are serving without possibility of parole. >> i think about dieing in prison. that's a bitter pill to swlo. >> all live with the inevitable. >> i watched a lot of people die. hardly nobody leaves. >> the only chance of getting out of prison will be inside a coffin. >> for inmates serving lengthy sentences, weeks go into months and months into years and a

lifetime slips away. the challenge so is to find meaning and not surrender to hopelessness and despair. ♪ had to spread your wings before it's time ♪ ♪ baby butterfly ♪ only 17 and she lost her life ♪ >> this musical duo writes or he hearse or performs and music for them is a lifeline. >> i like that. you like that part? >> i wish we could track it though. like the beat on it. >> this is going to be good. this is going to be a hit. >> the news is out. i can get lost.

it's company. i'm serving life without parole for a robbery in the first degree. i have been in prison 15 years. >> what the hell is this? >> we grew up together on the street. from birchling. i will be a crip for life. i will die a crip. when i came into it, i had to spill blood to get in. >> anthony's loyalty to his gang almost cost him his life. >> when i was booked into the jail, they put me in the block.

i'm banging in the county and trying to survive. i got stabbed in the eye. >> i got a sister. don't think this patch is not me. i might look like a thug, but i'm a good guy. >> i got to be real. i'm talking about my home girl. writing about it in the song. my home girl was a crip et and she was on cocaine and supposed to turn a trick with a guy for $20.

come by in prison walls. with no privacy in the walls, they have had to make do. >> it's our secret closet. we drag our coffee and smoke cigarettes and come up with whatever sounds good. >> smoke weed if we can. >> baby butterfly ♪ ♪ off in the streets of the club and looking for danger ♪ instead ♪ life ain't always what it seems. so many unanswered questions ♪ ♪ >> that's not rightment hold up. it's all in a hard day's work, people. >> i can touch you through song and uplift you. make you feel my struggle. you can identify with my struggle.

i think i have done good. >> when i will make this time pass. i right all my wrong when i get back home. i gotta get back home. >> i gotta get back home. they feeling me, man. . >> their concert may have been a hit, but this is still prison where a momentary lack of self control can have lasting consequenc consequences. anthony patterson is about to find out. >> he was placed in seg for rule

violation 38. it happened about an hour or so ago. we will have a talk with him and what happened and what led to this event. >> patter is asked to explain his behavior to the officers and our producer. the object of his alleged indiscretion. >> what happened? >> i had weed in my pocket. he put a joint in my pocket and said i was masturbating. >> i didn't see anything. >> he is accusing me of indecent exposure. if i had indecent exposure, that means you saw me? >> she didn't, he did. having your penis out indecently exposed, you are doing something other than urinate. you can't be playing that kind of game. take him up there. >> all right.

>> next on lock up extended stay -- >> all hell breaks loose. >> for anthony patterson, the nightmare of add seg is just beginning. >> they got me in this cell and i don't know how long i will be in here. >> plus -- >> the first instinct is putting the telephone cord around and choke him. >> here describes his brutal night of murder 24 years ago. >> i can't control myself and i ended up strangling her. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. ♪

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come here. >> many inmates serving life

without parole must create a home inside holman. meeting at the barbershop offers a refuge for the inmates. >> they want the 12-inch. >> at the barbershop, it relaxes me and gives me an opportunity to talk to people and relate to people and understand things that i thought i already knew. >> what do you think me being voted the sexiest player in the basketball league? >> you think they did you a disservice? >> i loved it. being in prison 25 years, i ain't been called sexy in a long time. >> sexy has been around as long as you have. >> it's an experience because it's psychologist. people always bring your problems in the barbershop. it's more of an opportunity to relate and communicate than get a haircut.

i have a murder charge. my intention was to burglarize and force entry into someone's home in the and in the process i took a life. >> his wife left him pregnant with their second child. >> i was thinking no matter what it takes and whatever happens, i'm going to pursue getting my wife back home. >> in his frenzied state obsessed with getting his wife back, he planned a robbery at a family friend's home. >> it was after midnight and i drive up in the driveway and get there and the dog is barking and the house is dark. i knew where the red room was and the light was on. i woke her up and she was in shock because it's late at night and she asked questions. what do you want this time of night? i said i need your respect. she said i can't help you. she said i need your help and i know you have the money. i need you to support me. she said i can't give you that

kind of money. i don't have it. i said i know you have it. >> a picture of my mother and i when i was a young boy. >> bill is the soften sherman moore's victim remembers the night of the murder as if it were yesterday. >> it was june 4th of' 83. my ex-neighbor called me and told me there was activity at the home and i might better get out there. >> she reached for the telephone and when she reached for the telephone, i thought she was calling the police. i got the telephone call and my first instinct is to put the telephone cord around her neck and choke her. i put my hands around her neck and choked her. i can't control myself. i ended up strangling her and stomping her with my fist and feet. >> he beat her to death with his hands and feet. >> before i know it, i hear a

wheezing sound and i said lord, i killed her. she's not breathing. i rush up out of the house and grab the pocket book and i got it and leave. >> i couldn't find the car keys or her purse. >> i went to the bank in the drive through and i write a check out for something like $150. >> sherman was at the bank with her trying to cash a check from my mother. >> the bank teller alerted police who picked him up at a motel a few hours later. >> they took me to the county jail and read me my rights and tell me what i'm charged with. capital murder. we are going to kill you. you took a life of some woman, a white woman and you are going to pay for it. >> moore was sentenced to life without parole and spared the death penalty. his victim's son got a chance to confront him.

>> i told him he could rot in jail. i could care less. >> as far as never getting out, he developed a reputation for extreme violence. >> i immediately adapted to prison survival and you had asked this automatic to life. don't befriend nobody. i had three stabbing cases. multiple fights and i had this attitude for like 16 or 17 years. out of 24 years i have been in prison, i done at least 15 in segregation. i was living in a dead end to my daughters gave me a wake up call and they told me how much they meant to me. this is my daughter, my heart, my reason for living. i decided to do something for my daughter and my children and family. >> with a new outlook, he began attending church and in 2004 after a few years of good

behavior, he was allowed to move into the faith-based dorm. >> i wanted a second opportunity to live. this is a lot different than living inside the dorm. you have access to go outside and come and go as you please. it's all about accountability and responsibility. >> after moving into the honor dorm and with a renewed sense of purpose, he was inspired to make amends. >> i know what i'm going to do to change it. write a letter to my victim. i took his mother's life and i want to ask him to forgive me. >> i'm very lonely. he expressed sympathy towards me and my family. >> one day moore called bill on the telephone. >> i didn't know what to think or say. i got upset and handed the phone to my wife and she finished the conversation. >> after calling bill, sherman moore continued to contact him.

>> lately he has written me a couple of letters and asking me to get in contact with the warden and ask for his release. i feel like if you commit the crime, you should do the time. i can't bring myself to go about that procedure. it's a bad day in my family's life. i'm sorry he has to stay in prison for what he did, but that's the way it is. >> next, on lock up extended stay. >> for happened years ago on february 24th 1999. >> sherman comes face-to-face with someone else's victim. >> i can't understand the way you feel, but i can understand the loss. >> there is no reason to take a life.

>> for inmates living in the honor dorm, there programs available. professor swanson at the university of west florida teach an empathy class to help them better understand the impact of the violent crimes. >> it's right for every human being no matter where they are that they have the opportunity to be accountable for what they did and understand what they did and why they did it and for many of the men who are lifers, making things right means changing their behavior. >> we are going to go over to the gate now. >> this afternoon we are honored to have pat with us. she has a surviving victim of a

really horrible crime. her daughter was murdered eight years ago. she is going to tell you her story and what happened and how it affected her and her family. >> i have to stand and move around. my name is pat. i didn't know how i would feel about being here today. i had a lot of anger and a lot of sadness. i look at all of you and i have to almost think as i am facing the man who murdered my daughter. here's a photo of peyton. it happened eight years ago on february 24th, 1999. someone had broken into her apartment. and there all the his rage came out. i thought how did she feel? how much terror gripped her? she fought. she fought very hard. they left her tied up and he left and peyton was able to

escape and freed herself. she was almost down stairs and he came back in the house. there she was tortured. he finally decided to cut her wrist off so she couldn't fight anymore. she was sexually assaulted numerous times and stabbed 17 times. the man who killed her is serving a life sentence without parole. we are not supposed to bury our babies. the day i saw her in her casket, her body was cold. she didn't have a smile on her face and told her over and over how much i loved her because the day she was born i told her i would always protect her. guess what. i lied. i lied. i felt like it was my fault. i stayed in bed for two months. my other daughter didn't have a mom anymore. i had to get out of my bed and i didn't want to.

people started calling me and i thought i have got to find out why peyton died so this doesn't happen. that's the journey that brought me here today. life is a precious gift. for all of us. you don't dump all that rage on to someone else. i don't have hate in my heart. what i have is compassion in my heart. i have faith and hope that because i have come here today that maybe one of you will reach out to someone in your life to give them hope. what happened here was unexpected for me. totally unexpected. i came here thinking i would unleash my rage and anger. what i found, i found what else i can do. to try to make a difference. >> i would like to say thank you. your strength is overwhelming. your love for your daughter and

the ability to try to make a difference in the world. we love you. >> i myself am in prison for taking a life. i can't say i understand how you feel, but i can understand your loss because i'm dealing with that every day. i will let you know that we feel your pain. >> it affected me. it shook me up. i wish every man had the opportunity to really know how their victim felt. >> we never see the victims. coming into this prison, you come face-to-face with the victim. i know this is tough, but it helps us see the reality of what we have done and it can't do anything but guilt. thank you. >> we never know where healing will come from. i truly feel some of them have

sorrow for the crimes they committed. >> you have all given me courage today and hope. >> i feel i made an impact. i felt i connected with a number of the men here today. i had to do this for myself. >> this has taught me to be able to grow. i have taken a life. it would be like me confronting my victim. talking to you will be able to help me understand the impact i had on this life. god bless you and be strong. there is no reason. there is no justifiable reason to take a life. >> next on lock up extended stay -- >> i wish i could get with eric and i haven't been able to write my music. >> anthony faces uncertain future in adseg.

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>> this is a rooster here. i have the whole thing and cultivated it and pulled the grass up and tried to keep it fresh and looking good. right now they are at the peak this time of year. they bring butterflies around. being locked up, you never see butterflies and bees and stuff like that. it gives you something nice to look at instead of just the bars all the time. my mother raised me up like flowers in the yard and it stuck with me. it makes me feel good about myself. even though i'm incarcerated, i still enjoy doing this. it has a good smell to it. i just love that. >> on the inside can change in

an instant. >> spread your swings ♪ >> his musical collaboration was interrupted eye an apparent bad decision directed at our producer. >> he accused me of indecent exposure. >> she doesn't see me, he saw me. >> having your penis out indecently exposed. something other than uniating. >> i was coming back up on the d side and observed him masturbating. on you after you were standing there talking to him five minutes earlier. >> you don't have to see him. anyone can see him. love johnson saw it. the officers saw it. that being the case, he would initiate disciplinary action. the process of searching him, he

had these joints in his pocket. >> now what? >> he will be placed in segregation and we will have a hearing for both charges and he will either be found guilty and given sanctions or found not guilty and released back to population. >> meanwhile, anthony's writing partner eric got word of the incident. >> your writing partner -- >> the guys were telling me you know you are going to jail with your partner. i feel bad about that. that's my -- we are like brothers. we do everything together i won't see him for six to months before he gets back. if he sends a letter through to the inmates being released from

segregation, they will bring us the letter and we call them scribes. he will read it and address it. whatever. i won't have to wait until someone from population is going on to segregation and takes him. i miss doing music with him. we collaborate and i make his stuff sound better. we get together and we really just hum. you know what i'm saying? >> eric struggles to cope in general population. and back in adseg, the isolation is taking its toll on anthony. >> right now, i don't know

what's going on. i can't put the puzzles together. it happened so fast, they were going good for me and all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose. they got me in the cell and it's so hot in here. i don't know how long i will be in here. >> in adseg, inmates are housed in their cells 23 hours a day. men here spend days with limited human contact. >> this is the dead. to me this is a big cemetery. right now i don't need that in my life. it happened at a messed up time. to be cutoff from society. the population. trying to put everything together, it's just the pieces do not fit together right now. i wish i could get with eric. i haven't been able to write my music. i keep getting stabbed in it because that's how we collaborate together. when i come out of the cell, i

have at least five to ten new songs. some dealing with the emotional stress that i'm under. i think i have more negative than positive songs because due to the heat, me wanting to be free. it's just so much going through my mind. i have to put it on paper. i don't have nobody to talk to and listen to me write. i will put it in song and hopefully somebody will buy my cd and be able to do big things. i got to put it in song at this point. what more can do i? >> coming up -- >> they got me on a negative vibe right now and i'm feeling down and out. >> we check in with anthony a week later and find that isolation is wearing him down. >> i look out the window and

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. >> about half the inmate population at holman will never leave. more than 170 men will meet their fate here in holman's death chamber where all exclusions for the state of alabama are carried out. in 2002, the facility switched from the electric chair to lethal injection. >> this is the control room. process of carrying out the executions happens here. here's the drug concoction. during the process while administering the drug, i'm able to have a visual of the condemned on the stretcher. i push all seven syringes. three are the drugs and seven total syringes. my role is the execution. i can't be any more specific about that. that's what the role is. by statute in the state of alabama, the warden is responsible for that duty.

>> holman's barbershop is the perfect place to get a cut, offer advice or just gossip. when there is an execution,s take on a somber tone. >> i see when they brought him out, his body was so heavy and that black body bag on, he looked like he was tall and they brought the family of the victims seen all of them come in. i was like [ bleep ]. talking about scared. it's a sad occasion. >> all executions occur at 6:00 p.m. they go into lockdown,

restricting any movement. >> the inmate will be escorted in his cell. no property allowed. if he needs to use the phone, we allow them to use the phone. his mail is brought and he passes it back out. last year we did one. the year before that we did three or four. this door leads us into the execution chamber. we have three viewing rooms. this is a gurney. on the left is his witnesses and the news media and on the right are the victims's witnesses. he is escorted in to sit down and a team of people strapped him down on the gurney. his arms are placed there. the day of the execution i will come through that door and come around in this area and basically face the condemned and

read to him and offer him an opportunity to have last words. most guys don't say a whole lot. back into the control room, we prepare to carry out the duties and communicate with the commissioner's room. to ensure there have been no last minute stays and we move forward. we start the process of administering the drugs. it takes approximately 20 to 25 minutes from administering the drugs and bringing the doctors into the room, having them perform an examination and declaring death. we exit. the execution team takes back over and the body is delivered over to forensics and that concludes the process. >> i don't see how a man could be that cold-blooded inside.

to kill nobody. i couldn't at peace with myself. >> a lot of people would not want to take the job at this facility simply because of having to deal with the executions. i generally will silently say a prayer prior to coming back here. you push them back until it comes that time and you deal with that at that time. >> roughly half the prison's population whether on death row or life without parole won't see the outside world until the end of their sentence which in most cases means death. >> i'm going to a funeral. we are burying one of our inmates. this fellow died of natural causes and had been in the prison for quite sometime. family members were not able financially to be able to get the body for burial or even have

a burial spot. as a result of that, the state takes responsibility for whatever inmate it has in custody at that time to bury him and have a funeral. whether it's a life sentence, life without parole or even a death sentence, they accomplished their sentence when they get to this point. a lot of them is terms of options prefer death as to living in prison. >> lord we thank you so much for your blessing and goodness and life. i pray that we may be able to understand our life and loss with regard is tearful and sorrowful. we know that he's a gain as far as heaven is concerned. >> it's been with the utmost respect. it's part of the normal life cycle. the man was incarcerated and he was there. that was the sentence imposed upon him. that's part of it.

>> though it was tough and hard and though there were probably tragedies he left behind him, when he came to know you as lord and savior, we know that things changed. >> this is one of the aspects i consider as bringing about a sense of human dignity to life of incarceration. >> we ask and pray that you bless the family and comfort them knowing that you are the resurrection and the life. we pray all these things and thanks in jesus's name, amen. death is death no matter who you are. in this case it was freedom. >> next on lock up extended stay -- >> how you doin'? >> sherman sees his family for

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for the roughly 360 inmates serving life without parole, knowing they may never leave prison takes its toll. but this hardship is often shared with their family members on the outside. >> today is a very important day. i'm here to visit my father. it's wonderful because this is father's day weekend. i'm very excited. very excited.

it's going to be a very unique visit. it's been really difficult for both of us, not being able to hold him at least once a month and say, dad, i love you. he's always been incarcerated ever since -- well, before i was born. he's always been here. so it has really been a tough experience for myself. but with prayers and the christian background i come from, i've been able to maintain. >> it's been a little bit over a year since we've seen each other. she's my reason for not giving up. continuing to survive, continuing to go forward. i feel not only fortunate but i feel blessed to have her in my life. hey, babe. >> hi, baby! >> how you doing? >> good. >> miss you. >> it's been too long. >> i know. you look so good. >> not as good adds as you. >> happy father's day. >> thank you, baby.

where do you want to sit? >> how have you been? >> i'm great. >> you look good. i thought you would be an old man with gray hair. what's going on? you probably didn't think i was coming, did you? >> i knew you was coming. you told me last night. >> i've been missing you. i really have. i've been missing you. it's tough. he's my inspiration. i just really admire him and look up to him. although he's here, he's still my everything. >> she is my inspiration. she's my motivation. she's my reason for not giving up. the day she told me that she loved me wasn't the first time that she told me, but it was a time in my life where i was understand how much he she loved me. what i have with her is something that i know that a lot of fathers don't have, cherish every moment, and i cherish every moment and we were able to build a bond. she means the world to me.

there's nothing i wouldn't do for her. you know, i was thinking this morning -- >> i love you more. >> how much that i love my daughter. there's no boundaries. there's no limitations. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. when she got ready to leave, it's always the worst time when you have to separate and go your own ways. it's a moment i never forget. >> i love you. so much. >> she told me that she loved me. it goes straight to the heart. bye, baby. >> my bye, daddy. i love you so much.

daddy? daddy? i love you. it was kind of tough for me especially having to leave. everything was pretty much emotional. daddy can be very dominant and firm and to the point but today was out of the normal. it was a lot of tears. i love my dad. meanwhile, back in ad seg, it's been nine days since anthony patterson was first charged with indecent exposure and possession of marijuana. >> keeping god first, hoping it all goes good with the music and all. >> how has it affected your writing? >> well, it's kind of got me on a negative vibe right now. i'm kind of feeling down and out, but all and all, i'm staying focused, right?

trying to keep everything in the right perspective. it's hard to be taken out of population that fast and all of a sudden, boom, this happens. i look at this back window here, i look out this window and you see death row right there. you know what i'm saying? mentally it's doing something to my mind, but, you know, i'm looking at it for what it is. you know what i'm saying? it's deep. guys dying right down there. i have a homeboy over there. there's nobody perfect. i'm not claiming to be perfect. you know what i'm saying? i'm just trying to make it, maintain, god has blessed me with talent. hopefully we can turn a negative into a positive. ♪ trying to make something out of nothing ♪ ♪ trying to make sense of it all ♪ ♪ cause too many years gonna pass me by ♪ ♪ locked up behind prison bars ♪ and it hurts my heart ♪ looking out my window ♪ i see death row ♪ and it ain't no joke ♪ looking at my home boys i grew up with ♪ ♪ it was like i was cut short ♪ whoever thought they'd live on

death row ♪ ♪ always said i'd be the first to go ♪ ♪ they always saying able the first to go ♪ ♪ but i know there's a better place for me ♪ ♪ i know there's a heaven for me ♪ ♪ every day that passes ♪ i step closer to my own casket ♪ ♪ the madness mixed with the sadness ♪ ♪ the clock keep tick down ♪ i find myself asking how ♪ was i born in this world ♪ to die alone a homeless child ♪ ♪ i've got to keep it all real ♪ i've got to keep it no frills ♪ ♪ i've got to keep it hard-core like this concrete steel ♪ ♪ how everybody's pushing me, and pushing me, man ♪ it hurts my heart, you know what i'm saying? it headquart it hurts my heart.