tv Lockup Santa Rosa MSNBC April 13, 2012 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. get me a wheelchair! >> up here an inmate has a self-inflicted injury to his left arm. >> an inmate takes drastic action and leaves his cell a bloody mess, while another -- >> you want to explain this, why you have a homemade key in your property? >> -- is found with dangerous contraband. >> having a handcuff key is like mainly for my defense. >> looking at probably one of the biggest screw-ups in the united states sitting right here looking at you. >> an old-timer counts his losses.
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>> lost my brother, sister, my brother, my mother. pretty much my whole family's passed away since i've been in here. >> me being homosexual, i'm like an out cast, i'm like scum of the earth here. >> and a younger inmate looks forward to hitting the streets. >> i'm going to thank god it's over. there are more than 102,000 men and women doing time in the florida state prison system. of the 56 state prisons for men, one is considered the end of the line, the place male inmates go when other prisons can't handle them, the santa rosa
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correctional institution, located on florida's panhandle. >> pretty much predominantly in here, you have two emotions, it's anger and fear, okay? if you go out acting like an [ bleep ], you're going to be treated like an [ bleep ]. if you step out of line, you're going get put back in line. >> except for a few brief periods, jack hill has been in florida prisons since 1977. he's been at santa rosa for the past year. >> the one thing this place will do, it will do one of two things, and this is not physical, it's all mental. it will either break you down. you will be filled with hate, anger, you know. the only way is you just -- you have to stay focused, and after a while, that becomes a way of habit, you don't even think about it, you know? you see a bad situation, you try steer away from it. you know? >> he is currently one of the more than 2,800 inmates housed at santa rosa.
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those considered to be the worst of the worst are assigned to the close management unit. >> we have the largest close management population currently in the state of florida. those inmates are more assaultive and more disruptive than the normal population inmates in the state. the close management inmates, if proven to be an inability to live in population due to repeated disciplinary reports within the department. disruptions of institutions throughout the state, disobeying orders from staff, non-receptiveness to the correctional process as a whole. >> the 1,100 inmates in santa rosa's close management unit represent more than a third of the prison's population. they all live under the most restrictive conditions, and some handle it better than others. a medical emergency on the unit has required correction staff to respond in hazmat suits.
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>> let's go! >> moments earlier, an inmate was discovered bleeding heavily in his cell, apparently from self-inflicted wounds. >> come on. let's go. >> the inmate now escorted to medical is armando doctor. serving 15 years for aggravated assault with a weapon, doctor has been known to cut himself when under stress. >> out of the way. >> out of the way. >> watch your head. >> close the door. >> over here. close the door. meddle emergency. >> stand there. let me get the gauze and clean him up. >> slow down. we'll support you. we'll support you. get your foot down. >> we did a 10:00 security check and everything was fine in here. about 10:15, 10:20, we heard some yelling, some commotion, so i stepped in just to investigate
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the noise. that's when i found inmate doctor sitting and he had cut his arm in two places. find additional staff to suit up with the precautionary suits to come in and handcuff limb and bring him out to medical to check his injuries. >> you got a wheelchair available? >> yeah, we got one over -- >> you need to get him to the front. >> get me a wheelchair! a wheelchair. >> stop moving around. just be still. let her do what she needs to do. >> i'm not doing nothing. >> the cutting incident was not doctor's first encounter with staff today. earlier, he had a disciplinary hearing for masturbating in front of a female corrections officer. >> we turned around and found him guilty. he turned around -- i had a feeling that he was going to do this. this is his thing. this is what he does.
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>> he's kind of noted for doing things like this, acting out by cutting himself if something doesn't go right for him. inmate doctor is very rooted in reality, and what you saw with the slumped over, his very weak voice, you know, i think it's just manufactured to gain attention and to try to, you know, send him to a different environment, such as our in-patient facilities. >> while doctor received a disciplinary report for the masturbation incident, he will not receive one for cutting himself. >> no, we don't usually write drs for self-interest behavior. he will be seen by a psych, checked out to make sure everything's okay. we'll clean his cell up and they'll send him back to us. >> i want to know what he used to cut himself. still in the stall or thrown it out here? it hasn't been recovered. sometimes take the batteries,
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sharp didn't on the ground. makes an excellent razor and you still have enough handle left to slice at will. so, i'm going to check the walkway here, make sure nothing got thrown out. >> that's a lot of blood. that's a lot of blood. >> carlton williams, serving a five-year sentence for possession of cocaine and fleeing police, works as a houseman or cell block custodian. >> my job, clean feces, blood, chemical agents. i volunteer to be a house man just to get gains. i get ten days a month, four months a year, of gains. i've been here for 18 months. i have money left, i'll go home next year. when i enter a cell, a room that has blood or anything that's a danger to me, of harming me, i always be cautious. i tell myself, i've got to
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protect myself and don't let none of this stuff get on me, you know. that's why i have this suit and chemical agents and gloves or whatever because i need to protect. got to be done if i want to gain time. i'm ready to get it over with, go ahead and get back to my cell. >> how did it go? >> cleaning the blood up? it was a lot. it was a lot. this was the first one i did with that much blood. so i guess i'll be more experienced on the next. >> cell's been decontaminated now. it's been cleaned out, bleached, all of the fluids removed. normally, what happens is once the inmate's bandaged up by medical, he's sent back down. in the doctor's case, he won't be sit back down. he had to have iv fluids in for the loss of blood, so he'll remain with medical staff probably the rest of the day and be returned to us tomorrow. but his cells been decontaminated and ready for him to come back. coming up --
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>> medical has been notified and is en route. >> officers rush to armando doctor's cell for another emergency. >> he did it again. >> and -- >> that's straight up the middle. that's a homemade cuff key. >> a cell search leads to big trouble for one inmate. [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em, with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds, and stops new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control.
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my name is christopher saballos. >> and they call me 100. >> we going to go ahead and drop out a new song. hear the beat. hand it out. ♪ if i had a hundred grand, lord that's all i need for one big chance ♪ ♪ if i don't blow it, i'll be damned, if i had a hundred grand ♪ ♪ lord, i might go off the deep end and go blow it all this weekend ♪ ♪ it might be just enough to take me out of the gutter ♪ ♪ keep the law off my back and keep me out of the gutter ♪ ♪ keep me out of trouble, i
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promise i made my mama ♪ ♪ if i don't do that, i don't know how to hustle ♪ ♪ hundred grand smoke it like a chimney, better hope before i get a chance to spend it ♪ ♪ if i, if i had a hundred grand, lord, i might go off the deep end and go blow it all this weekend ♪ >> hey, school, baby. >> hey. i know. >> appreciate that. >> at the santa rosa correctional institution in florida, dreams of what could be run through the imaginations of many, but less so for those who have already spent decades on the inside. >> to be honest with you, probably looking at probably one of the biggest screw-ups in the united states sitting right here looking at you. i've been incarcerated since i
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was 18 years old. when i was 18, i did a burglary and received a life sentence for it. >> jack hill was convicted of both burglary and assault. and although he received a life sentence, he has been eligible for parole three times. >> i've been on parole and violated. i'm back. let me say something about parole real quick. i've heard people say this a lot of times -- man, you get paroled, what are you doing back? how did you come back? how did you mess up, you know? when you're on parole, you actually live under a more stricter environment than you do in prison, okay? if you get a traffic ticket on the street, say you run a stop sign, you're going to pay your little ticket, you're going to go about your way. that's not going to happen to me. they're immediately going to send me back to prison. so, you live with this threat over your head constantly, and it's a lot of pressure. >> these days, hill lives with a little less pressure than
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roughly one-third of santa rosa's inmates. he is housed in a general population unit, where there is more freedom of movement and privileges. >> see that right there? that's nectar of the gods. that's nectar of the gods. can't get beer, but you can drink coffee. >> borrowing coffee from a neighbor is considerably more difficult, if not impossible, for the 1,100 inmates housed in the closed management unit. >> step over here one at a time. step up. >> turn around. >> they are in confinement for violence or other serious rule violations and are subject to frequent cell inspections for weapons, drugs or other forms of contraband. >> turn around, back out of the cell. >> right now, we're going to conduct a routine cell search of a couple cells up here on wayne 1. every shift has to shake down a
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certain number of inmates every day, and this is what we'll do. we'll go in there and have them cuff up and they'll submit to restraints. we'll place them in the shower and then go through the belongings they have in their cell. the controlled contraband for the safety of sanitation and the security of the institution. we're just going up there and we'll pick a number that's random. it kind of keeps them off their toes, because if we were to go in and start searching from cell 1 all the way down, then the others will know, hey, we're going to get searched next, so let's get rid of our contraband. so, doing it at random, it gives us a good chance to find something, if they do have anything left in there. see, this one, this is not right. >> what's this? >> feel this one. feel that one? >> open both of them? >> go ahead and open that one. yeah, that's soap. what is that? >> whoa, whoa. look at that. >> let me see that.
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man, that's a cuff key. that's a homemade cuff key. that's made out of metal. that's a homemade cuff key. this right here can get somebody killed. this is why we do our shakedowns and do them at random. if they knew we were coming, they would have never -- we would have never found this. it would have been gone. they would have flushed it. this right here is very serious. >> the key has been discovered in the cell of inmates lionel bowden and fausto duran. >> this here can get an officer killed. >> but it was in bowden's deodorant container. >> think if we hadn't have found this what would have happened. we don't know what he was planning to do. >> bowden is serving a 21-year sentence for armed robbery. he's been a closed inmate for nearly a year after being caught with a shank. >> yeah, look. it fits in here perfect. didn't get the dimensions just right, because it fell over a little bit, but it fit in there
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and it turned. bowden, you want to explain this? why you got a homemade cuff key in your property? >> there's nothing to explain, l.t. you found it in my property, you know. >> okay. >> i can't explain it. >> why did you make it? >> in case i need it. >> need it for what? >> i don't know, l.a., you know. nothing that really, you know. something might happen at a certain time and i might need it. you know, i might be -- >> you're going to escape with it, is that what you're going to do? >> no, not going to escape. >> i'm going to have you write a statement, you understand? we're going to house him alone, immediately put him on heightened security, okay? >> later, bowden explained, he made the key from a battery. >> you take the outside casing.
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you have to roll it, you know what i'm saying, so you can grip it. that's what i'm rolling it for. >> have you ever held a cuff key? >> truthfully, i make them one at a time. >> how much does a cuff key go for? >> $25. >> we have to get all of his property packed up and shift him over to heightened security, single cell over there. get the inmate out, get his stuff packed up and let's get him out of here. >> sometimes a risk has to be taken, though. if i'm making it and i get caught with it, then i face the consequences. i've got to accept the consequences. >> inmate bowden, i'm going to go ahead and place you on high security, go ahead and move you out of the dorm, all right? appreciate your honesty with that. you want to make any other comments? >> no. >> turn around and cuff up.
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>> all right, back out. kneel down. black box. >> the black box is a security device placed over bowden's handcuffs to cover the keyhole and prevent him from tampering with the lock. >> bowden, you understand you're being placed on heightened security and this will be required every time you exit your cell, right? >> him having a handcuff key, that's pretty scary. he can turn around and either hurt a staff member, or being on the transport, trying to escape on the transport, you know. there's been officers in other states that have gotten killed because inmates escaped them, and they've had handcuff keys, and we don't want that to happen. coming up -- >> stand right there. >> lionel bowden answers to authorities. and -- >> i know i'm a man, but i consider myself a woman. >> -- an inmate deals with his identity. >> he was sentenced as a male,
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the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us.
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>> like all prisons, the santa rosa correctional institution near pensacola, florida, has strict codes of conduct for inmates. >> the staff in this facility keep very tight reins on this inmate population, because if you continue to allow little violations of rules go, then they turn into big things, and with this caliber of this population, we have to manage it this way. >> hey, hey! >> more than three quarters of santa rosa's inmate population are serving time for violent crimes including assault, rape and murder. but even those convicted of non-violent crimes are expected to follow all the same rules and protocols. >> they nitpick about every little thing. they're so by the rules here. you've got to walk a narrow line, and if you do anything outside of that, this is where you end up, in confinement with
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nothing. >> tell me about your hair wrap. >> my headpiece? this is just a t-shirt, really. this is illegal. i'm not supposed to be wearing this, really. >> jurez williams has been at santa rosa for seven months. >> i've been incarcerated three times, also for the same thing, for violation of probation for prostitution. >> williams says he began turning tricks at 12 years old and has been arrested eight times for prostitution. >> with prostitution, you first catch me, it's a misdemeanor. after the third one, they upgrade it to a felony, and that's what happened with me. what the judge told me, if i get caught again for prostitution, it will be a five-year sentence. >> and you still consider it? >> i can't help it. i cannot help it. if someone gave me like $1 million right now and told me
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you don't have to do this no more, i think i would just upgrade everything i have and continue doing what i do. >> williams's many mug shots offer a glimpse of his life as a transgender prostitute. >> i don't know why. i'm addicted to it, so, that's all i can say. >> one time, he was even mistakenly booked into a county jail as a female. >> i know i'm a man, but i consider myself a woman. on the street i live my life as a woman. my name is sharoyal taylor. that is not an advertisement. i was taken off the street, off and on. i plan on eventually getting the whole surgery done, if i make enough money to do it. >> but williams's preference to live as a woman makes no difference at santa rosa. >> inmate williams was sentenced as a male, sent to a male facility, so that's the way he's treated, is as a male inmate. >> though he has spent time in various jails and prisons,
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williams finds santa rosa especially hard to deal with. >> i have to deal with a lot of negativity about me being who i am. so with me being homosexual, i'm like an outcast compared to everyone else in here. it's like, i'm like scum of the earth here. out of all the times i've been in prison, i've never been through this much crap. >> currently, williams has little, if any, contact with other inmates. he is housed in a single-man confinement cell. >> an inmate supposedly wrote a request form for me and said i was going to make an attempt to escape. >> why didn't you write it up? >> i have no idea. they either don't want me to room with them, didn't want me in the dorm. could have been anything. >> the anonymous letter stated that williams was going to kill two correction officers during his escape attempt. williams believes he was framed, but was placed in confinement pending an investigation.
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>> sometimes it is hard for us as security to be able to determine which ones may have validity and which ones not. so, that's why we take them serious when they have to do with anything with escape or staff safety. >> but within a few more days, williams can put his current troubles behind him. he only has one week left on his sentence. >> this is a release handout, you know, just letting you know all the things that i have to do. like, i have to go register as a convicted felon in the county that i'm going home to. right now, i'm just, i'm overwhelmed with excitement. i just want my freedom. i want to see my friends. i want to see my family, so it's kind of hard being, like, enclosed in here by myself, because i just want to, like, ahhh, go crazy. coming up -- >> all right, guys. get him up in the wheelchair. >> armando doctor prompts another emergency response. and later -- >> what were you planning to do with the handcuff key? >> -- lionel bowden faces a
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here is what is happening. president obama is at a leaders' dinner, part of the summit of the americas. he is expected to focus on the summit leaders for more than 30 countries which begins later today. in the meantime, secret service agents traveling with the president have been sent home amid allegations of misconduct according to reports the misconduct involved one agent and prostitution. that's the news, and now back to lock up. >> prisons like the santa rosa due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> okay, right there. >> hold up!
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>> prisons like the santa rosa correctional institution in florida can be dirty places. blood, sweat, feces and urine are part of the fabric of life here. the task of cleaning that fabric, the inmates' clothes and linens, falls squarely on 18 inmates who work in the laundry facility. among them is michael jacobs. >> we operate day to day, eight to ten hours a day. we deal with a lot of different things here. i mean, you've got fights, stabbings, a lot of stuff that goes on here at santa rosa. it's a level 6 facility. >> some of the worst laundry comes from the close management units. >> violent inmates back there. you know what they're capable of. it's just a place you don't want to be. florida's most troublesome inmates all in one building. >> the most hazardous laundry is washed separately from all the
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rest. >> these yellow bags right here, these are the ones that usually come in. what we do, we usually don't open them until we stick them into the machine, you know? this is daily, the blood and stuff from cutters and suicide. >> armando doctor, a close management 1 inmate, recently contributed to the latest load of yellow bag laundry when he deliberated cut himself inside his cell. the damage was so severe, he needed a transfusion to replace the blood he lost. two days later, he's cut again. >> see doctor laid out in there on the floor. appears inmate doctor has a type of self-inflicted injury to his left arm. came up on the cell, he was unresponsive laying on the floor, necessary to do a life safety check. now he's sitting up, restrained. medical has been notified and is en route. >> he's been doing this quite a while. this is probably his fifth time he's cut and we've had to pull him out and deal with him this way, and it's getting to be
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about a monthly thing. >> what's going on with you? why are you doing this? >> i tried to talk. but nobody wanted to listen. >> who'd you try to talk to? >> sarge. >> did you talk to mental health? >> i tried to get sarge to get them. he ignored me. >> do you declare a psychological emergency? >> yes, sir. i'm in fear for my life. >> from who? >> the nurse hit me in the face. >> who did? >> and sergeant threatened me. >> looks to me like you should be in fear of your life from yourself. >> all right, guys, see if we can get him up in the wheelchair. >> work with me, doctor, use your feet. come on, work with me. watch your step backing up. >> while inmate doctor has made serious allegations, mental health staff say this is not the first time. after several evaluations, they say doctor has ulterior motives for cutting himself. >> he's kind of noted for doing
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things like this if something doesn't go right with him, but what he's doing is not related to his mental health. it's, in my opinion, it's more manipulative. he's trying to get out of something or he's using us as a way to manipulate the system. so, we want to keep an eye on the cutting, because we don't want anyone to die, which, he really doesn't want to die, but he did accidentally do it. >> it's a new cut. it's not the same cut as the previous one. it's a new cut on his left, upper bicep up here. it looks fairly deep. ultimately, it's for some type of secondary gain and he's going to continue doing it until he either gets what he wants, or there's no way of telling. i don't know what it is he's trying to get out of it. >> threatening me! she's threatening! >> before doctor can be brought back to his cell, it has to be cleaned and disinfected, and
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once again, that job falls to houseman carlton williams. >> like that, he did it again. they should have known that from the get-go. he was trying to prove a point. >> this time, officers have retrieved the object doctor used to cut himself. >> it actually does look like that, he had it tucked in his cheek. >> after the cleanup, they remove all objects from doctor's cell to prevent another cutting incident. >> removing his property is not for punishment, it's for his own protection. so, it's kind of going to be up to him how far this goes. we're here actually to protect him and we just have to take it step by step. >> doctor will remain under observation by both security and mental health staff. he will be given back his mattress and other possessions once it's determined it's safe to do so. >> watch your head, doctor.
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listen to him. when he lays down, don't want you to get up, okay? >> okay, i'm going to be good. >> we're not going to leave him unattended. we will come by and check on him, what not. the staff is very good at what they do and they will make sure that he stays safe and we will not allow him to seriously get harmed. back out. coming up -- >> first time i cut, i was in my teens. >> -- armando doctor explains his actions. but then is confronted by corrections staff. >> you said to me, "you got me, sarge, you got me." those are your exact words, "you got me." why are you going to tell them on camera something different? i walked up and caught you red-handed with it.
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nothing changes here. every day is just like yesterday and tomorrow's going to be the same as today, you know. about the only thing that changes here is the faces. after a while, even the faces begin to be the same, you know. you know, that's one of the things about doing time, nothing changes. >> jack hill finds working out to be the best remedy to the monotony of his life at the santa rosa correctional institution in florida. >> part of the routine we do, we'll come out here, we'll walk laps on the track. some guys get into the basketball. you know, me, i mainly, i get
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into pull-ups, you know, push-ups, stuff like that. everybody's got their own little way of getting tension and aggravation, this is your stress release right here. >> hill has spent most of the past 35 years in prison. besides a few releases on parole, he's had a couple of others of his own making. not long after his conviction for burglary and assault, he was participating in a work release program and escaped. >> i was working outside, i met a girl. you know, you get thinking with the wrong head, you're not thinking like you should. remember, now, you've got a young kid here who's never had really no serious contact like that. she says, i love you, i don't want you to leave. okay, let's go, right? jump in the car, we didn't come back. that was my first escape, big escape was it. i got caught that night down the road, crashed on me. >> a year later, hill was back on work release, met another girl and hit the road again.
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>> from that point on until they got me, it was rock and roll. i was on the run for almost a year. well, first, went to texas, you know. left texas, went to vegas. left vegas and went to california. left california, come back to texas. left texas, come back to florida. left florida, went back to california, then come to alabama, and s.w.a.t. team got me. >> hill's escapes are from another florida prison. no one has ever escaped from santa rosa. but escape was one of the first things that crossed the minds of corrections staff when they discovered a homemade handcuff key inside lionel bowden's deodorant container. >> having a handcuff key is like, you know, mainly for my defense, you know? >> having a handcuff key is not really unusual, but sometimes it's necessary. you know. periodically speaking, you know. >> bowden, who is serving a 21-year sentence for armed robbery, says this isn't the
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first time he's received a disciplinary report during his time in prison. >> i've had dr, possession of a weapon dr, possession of a handcuff key, several disrespect drs, a couple fight drs. during my seven years since i've been incarcerated, i guess about four of them confined. >> bowden was already in the prison's close management unit when he was caught with the cuff key. >> stand right there. say your name. >> lionel bowden, 5502. >> now he must face the institutional classification team, or ict, who could change his status from close management level 2 to level 1, the highest security level in the entire prison. >> you're currently in close management 2. your classification officer is recommending upgrade to class management 1. >> what were you planning to do
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with the handcuff key? >> sell it. >> have you sold one before? >> yes, ma'am. >> how much do you make for a handcuff key? >> about 15, 25 bucks. >> you realize the danger that presents in this high-security facility? for $15, $25, not only to you, but other inmates and the staff as well? you know the seriousness of the consequence? >> yes, sir. >> step out. >> bowden will wait outside, but it only takes a matter of moments for the classification team to reach a decision. >> inmate bowden, the institutional classification team, we're going to recommend upgraded close management 1. this recommendation goes to state classification and they have the final decision. >> yes, ma'am.
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>> we're also approving a two-year visitation suspension. >> yes, ma'am. >> is there anything else you'd like to tell us? >> no, ma'am. >> already considered a high security inmate, an upgrade to level 1 means that bowden's existing privileges and movements will be even more restricted than before. armando doctor has been a close management 1 inmate at santa rosa for the past several months. >> i've had him in the dorm with me for years since i've been here, and it's been a constant trouble. but he is one of the more extreme cases we've dealt with in the dorm as far as the constant cutting and the misbehavior. >> doctor's arms have only begun to heal since two cutting incidents weeks earlier. >> i wasn't thinking at the time. i was just aggravated, i was angry. i couldn't think of anything else. >> i've done it periodically off and on over the years when i felt that, you know, a situation
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had got too tough that i couldn't deal with it, and i might have retaliated physically. so, i took the physical retaliation out on myself. >> doctor says his squinting is the result of being poked in the eye while in the infirmary, one of several allegations he has made against staff. >> doctor's allegation against staff was never found warranted. it was checked, but unfounded. he was wanting to be moved out of the dormitory, so he was using those allegations against staff to try to dictate where he could live. >> while staff denies injuring him, doctor has been injuring himself since childhood. >> the first time i cut, i was in my teens, growing up in foster care. i felt they had done me wrong taking me away from my family, you know. i wouldn't talk to nobody.
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i had a lot of good people that tried to take care of me, but my main problem was, i never opened up, because at times, when i tried, something always happens. so, i always kept closed. and due to the fact that, you're not my mother, you're not my father, you're not nobody in my blood line, i wouldn't talk and i wouldn't try to be a part of the family. >> since his latest cutting incident, doctor has moved back into his cell and has not received any further sanctions because the prison does not issue them for self injuries. >> he's got full property back. he's allowed all of his outside activities. he's been seen by mental health recently the last few days. he's been really good. he's been real quiet since coming back to us this time. we haven't had any issues out of him. >> but the incident that apparently triggered doctor's cutting was a disciplinary hearing where he was given additional time on close management level 1 for masturbating in public.
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escapes from prison work release programs, jack hill has spent the majority of his adult life behind bars. and those years have been further tarnished by his many losses. >> i lost my father, my grandfather, my grandmother, my great grandmother, my great grandfather, you know. i lost my sister, you know. i lost a brother, i lost my mother. my aunt, my uncle. pretty much my whole family's passed away since i've been in here. i used to take mail and letters, you know, for granted. and i used to take visitations for granted. now i don't have neither. >> hill says his late father's advice is what keeps him going. >> i think of what my dad told me back years ago. he said don't ever give up. whatever you do, son, don't ever give up. you know, i think of the fact that my mother passed away while i was in here, and my goal, my goal is to win my case and have the expiration of sentence
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stamped, done, paid in full, and i want to lay it on her grave and tell her, mom, i've done it, i've done it. i'm home. >> hill will eventually have another chance to fulfill his goal when he becomes eligible for parole again in the future. but for jurez williams, who has spent seven months here for felony prostitution, the time is now. >> today is my last day in the sentence. i'm ready to go home. i'm real happy. i'm trying to contain it right now, so. >> did you sleep last night? >> no, not at all. i've been up all night, all day. >> santa rosa corrections officers will accompany williams to the pensacola bus station and stay with him until he boards a bus for home. >> how does it feel walking out of here?
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>> like heaven. like heaven. i'm ready for my freedom. it's been seven months without it. >> okay, you're going to receive $50 when you get on the bus. i'll count it out for you. 10, 20, 30, 40, and $50. you will receive that when you get on the bus. in the meantime, i'll keep it with your paperwork. >> okay. >> williams is given state-issued civilian clothing, but it probably won't compare to the outfit he was first arrested in. >> what were you arrested in? >> some hot shorts and a pair of snow boots and a leather jacket and a nice bra. that was it. >> so, what do you think of your new clothes? >> i guess i like them. >> are you going to be wearing them on the street? >> no way. no, not at all. i would not wear this on the street. i have clothes at home, so, this is going to the trash or will be
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burned as soon as possible. >> williams and another released inmate are loaded on to a transport van, and within minutes are outside the confines of santa rosa. >> we're out of here. >> thank god it's over. finally. you never really appreciate the small things in life, like trees and grass, until you get out of places like this. >> at the bus station, williams makes a phone call to his sister. he has big plans for his first night home. >> i just got to the bus station. i'm waiting on my bus. i want a pack of newport 1,000, yes, a fresh back of newports 1,000. my laces have been cut. i need a fresh cut. i need an eye bow, yes, and
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