due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates "lockup." >> prison is not a nice place. >> he was a big-time football player at lsu. in his life, i guess it went in a different direction and ended up here. >> i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. >> you act like you so high on a pedestal. you so much better than everybody. >> one count of rape, three kidnappings. >> aggravated sex offense.

>> 21 years for manslaughter. >> robby is not trained to kill. he's trained to apprehend. >> i got my horse, my guns. >> you never know what could happen. >> the judge says in her final summation, you are nothing, mr. baker, but a pebble in the pond. you're nothing but poor white trash. >> in rural louisiana, halfway between new orleans and baton rouge, is the second largest prison in the state, the elayn hunt correctional center. although the facility is relatively new, it opened in 1979, the look is anything but modern. armed officers on horseback, work crews farming the land, and no air conditioning. in the next hour you will meet some of the men doing time including a former nfl player and two aspiring boxers who win the opportunity to compete

against a rival prison. >> a mile and a half from the banks of the mississippi river, what appears to be a toll booth is the entrance to the elayn hunt correctional center. this all-male facility houses more than 2100 inmates. >> every monday and tuesday the reception process will start at about 5:30 in the morning. the inmates will come from the various parish prisons and other doc facilities and they will all pool here. >> the men arriving today have been convicted of a wide range of crimes, everything from marijuana possession to murder. >> i'm here for one count of rape, three kidnappings, and aggravated burglary. >> we have a lot of inmates come up to us and said we didn't do it, they got me wrong. we're not here to judge, just here to make sure you serve your sentence out. >> new inmates are given a white jumpsuit and lined up single file for a medical evaluation. >> what we're doing this morning is drawing blood for sexually

transmitted diseases, syphilis, gonorrhea, that type of thing. >> prison policy mandate that is all incoming prisoners have their heads shaved and all facial hair removed. >> when i came here in '86 for aggravated burglary, i got 30 years. every time you come through here, you have to have it cut for your picture and i.d. even though they just did this a little under two years ago. they think you change, i guess. >> as the final step in processing, inmates are given housing assignments ranging from general population to more secure units. >> open front. >> because the prison has a zero tolerance policy for rule infractions, any form of misconduct can send a prisoner to extended lockdown where

inmates spend up to 23 hours a day confined in their cells. >> d1 cellblock is the maximum security area of the institution. this is where we house the worst of the worst inmates, inmates that can't get along with other inmates within the institution. >> ryan stinson convicted of  nine counts of burglary and  possession of stolen property i in extended lockdown for  breaking one of the prison's  cardinal rules. >> i'm in here for aggravated  sex offense. copulation with another inmate. we was in a cell with each othe and i did sexual favors for him one night the sarge come down  and caught us and locked us up. >> sexual activity in the  institution is forbidden. those that get involved in homosexual relationships, it's very serious. we treat it as such. i would say that would happen maybe once, twice a month where an officer actually has to cite

somebody for doing that. >> i'm homosexual. i've been homosexual all my  life. it is kind of hard, i mean,  because i like to wear makeup  and do my eyebrows and wear  certain clothes, but due to  certain policies we're not able to do this, so it puts us in an awkward position, you know what i'm saying? >> once inmates complete their  time in extended lockdown, they transfer to the working  cellblock, a 90-day transitional housing unit where prisoners  must earn the right to return t general population. one of the inmates here is  24-year-old ahmad lawrence who  goes by the nickname pimp. >> my nickname, pimp, i got that from my big brother and all my  cousins by me having a lot of ladies when i was young, when  they're girlfriends, you know,  it didn't matter what i did or 

did it, i still kept them. >> incarcerated four years ago on a cocaine charge, he's doing time for allegedly selling drugs in prison. >> i was always in the population, got in an incident. somebody went and told the  lieutenant colonel that some  drugs were being sold on the compound. they ended up finding me guilty and sent me to extended lockdow and i won my appeal and i come  to the working cellblock. now i'm doing 90 days and i'll  be on the compound soon. >> if and when ahmad earns the  right to return with good  behavior, he could be placed  here. in the most coveted quarters. >> basically this is a trustee housing unit, no bars, the inmates have a little more freedom here. they're still locked in at  night, at count times they have to sit on their bed and be counted. they do have a microwave they  can use. they have the televisions where they plug in where it's real  quiet. the sound you hear now is  basically what you hear anytime of the day or night.

what's up, eugene francis. >> but while inmates are awarded certain freedoms for good  behavior, officers and staff  never underestimate how  dangerous many of these men can be. >> we are dealing with inmates. they are here because they committed a felony. >> we got it, captain. >> coming into the institution  every day i'm always on alert. i know i'm not walking into a  college campus. >> i'm scared every day. you know, because it is prison. i don't take this lightly. >> mock extractions are  performed routinely as training exercises. this particular drill is called a tier extraction when an inmat is out of his cell and loose in the hallway. >> we take the officer put him  in the suit to make him -- he'l pose as the inmate and we'll  dictate the scenario to him. he will pose whatever threats we'll put up against a team and the team will go in and extract him.ys are you ready?

>> i'm ready. >> the mock inmate's objective  is to get past the officers and out the door. the team's objective is to restrain the inmate with as little injury as possible. >> controlled aggression. you can't go fast. he's on the tier. you don't have a hostage, just him. you take your time. worst thing to do is get  separated and an officer is in  one-on-one with the inmate. they'll stack up side by side and have the capture shield and conventional shields. they're going to close the spac in on the inmate until he  basically has nowhere else to  go. >> get on the ground! put your hands behind your back put your hands behind your back >> in case exercises get out of hand, officers use the code wor

>> red, red! >> are you all right? >> i'm all right. >> okay.óó?ow >> another way officers stay  prepared is through arms  training. full-scale escape drills give  tactical squads the training to prevent escapees from reaching  the prison's outer perimeter. >> we have a team and chase team made up of correctional officers. we have dogs trained on tracking. >> trained dogs play an important role at elayn hunt. this one has tracked down an officer posing as an escaped inmate. >> if this had been the real deal, the dog caught within five to six minutes. >> one of the newest dogs at the prison is named canine robby. >> robby is not trained to kill. he is trained to help apprehend and a visual that may be hiding in a building or is not cooperating with orders.

if the individual is still fighting, then the dog has to be physically removed because the individual is moving. the dog won't come off. i consider canine robby as a partner. i am confident he will assist me. handler protection is part of what he's certified to do. >> that's a good boy. that's a good man. that's a good man. >> up next, one inmate's fall from football stardom to a life behind bars.?ú >> i lost my family. that's the biggest thing i deal with every day. 

at first glance someone might mistake this for a college football training camp. but this team is made up of inmates from the elayn hunt correctional center. >> our philosophy is to keep the

inmates busy. if we keep them busy, they will stay out of trouble. sports help manage the inmates, it gives them something to do. it helps people learn how to work together and to me good sportsmanship makes a good person. we have a full-time sports director who organizes team sports such as football, basketball, soccer, baseball, and we even have a boxing team. >> among the players on the elayn hunt football team is the prison's most famous inmate. >> i'm ramsey james dardar, sr. i've been here five years and i'm serving 32 years for simple burglary. i admit i committed the crime. as far as being a bad person, i don't think i'm a bad person. i just think i allowed a drug addiction to cause me to make bad decisions. and i stole for drugs. >> he's known here in south louisiana mostly because he was

a big-time football player at lsu and kind of a hometown hero. >> i come from a small town named cecilia, louisiana, probably the only time you see a red light there is christmastime. it's that small. >> in the 1983 nfl draft, he was picked by the st. louis cardinals and later played for the houston oilers. >> i played with the great warren moon, some of the great players. played for the man in black, jerry glanville. >> number 44 for the washington red skins. this right here is herschel walker, 1981. i can name you a few guys, famous guys, that got a skew of the scars on me. >> ramsey's football career ended when a neck injury forced him to retire. >> from there it's like i guess

downhill. got convicted in '91. got out, stayed out about a year, and here i go again. i chose drugs socially trying it out with the crowd, you know. ended up hooked. i feel like i let a lot of people down. i'm just trying to do what i can do right now to try to, you know, regain some of that swagger back. you know, i'm getting kind of old, but i still have faith that one day i could, you know, get back out and maybe contribute something to society. everybody knows prison is not a nice place. football helps me get away from the pressure of being locked up.

>> ramsey spends much of his free time mentoring younger inmates, both on and off the field. >> they look up to him, listen  to him, follow his lead in a lot of ways, especially in sports. he's like the coach and the player. >> let's go, baby, let's go. we've got to get it together. let's get it right, baby, let's get it right. >> this is mr. callaway, better known as kiki the bullet. he's an awesome athlete. like i said i played with some  good athletes, but that's one of the best i played with. >> 38 sweep, tackle full on one everybody got it? >> ramsey dardar, i admire his  style of play on the field and  off the field. he's a perfect role model. he's been to levels i dreamed of getting to that i was deprived of going. i been incarcerated since i was at a young age, 16. now 28. all i did all my life was play  sports. i'm in for manslaughter.

it was a mistake. i was just young. >> with less than six months to serve on his manslaughter y charge, he says prison has  taught him not to judge people. >> everybody in jail not cq#qcy criminals. everybody in jail not animals. everybody incarcerated is not a warlock or a demon. everybody has faults. it's just mistakes, we took the wrong turn in our life. >> for ramsey, one wrong turn cost him more than just his  freedom. >> i lost my family, you know. coming to prison, that's the biggest thing, you know. that's the biggest thing i deal with every day. there's my queen, lost her, but i might get her back. i believe, i have faith. >> coming up, officers take 

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in louisiana farming has been a long-time tradition at correctional facilities throughout the state, including elayn hunt. >> we have a farm here where they grow the food. that's why the food costs are so low because they grow a lot of products we feed the inmates here. >> every weekday morning just after sunrise a crew of inmates prepares for a day of grueling work in the fields adjacent to the prison. several armed officers on horseback supervise them. for security purposes all inmates are first lined up, counted, and frisked for contraband. after the count is checked and

double-checked, officers and inmates make their way to the supply depot where inmates retrieve water jugs for the hot and humid day in the fields. they will also collect the tools they will need. >> knowing that they have tools that they could easily use as weapons and they have done it before, it makes you watch your back. >> you get it like this, like that razor blade there. i learned that sharpening them knives on the floors in them cells at angola. >> joel baker, convicted of triple homicide, goes by the name white trash. >> the judge gave me my name. it's kind of ironic. upon sentencing they had me charged with three murders, drug deal gone bad in a hotel room, shootout. they shot me, i shot them, but the judge says in her final summation after the jury

delivers a verdict, said a great injustice has been done upon society this day. due to a conflict in the prosecution by the district attorney you will remain in prison for the rest of your natural life, but you are nothing, mr. baker, but a pebble in the pond. you are nothing but poor white trash. all my life i was a bad boy. i look back and i see all the stupid mistakes that i made, and i see the young people that's here at this prison, and i hear all the stories because i listen, and i think to myself, you do not know how fortunate you are. you're going out there with another chance, whether it's five years, ten years, or what. you're getting another chance. i'll never get that chance. i would give my leg, my arm, for that chance. i'm never going to get it. >> after assembling with their tools, inmates begin the long march to the field where they will spend the day harvesting vegetables and picking weeds. each inmate earns two cents an hour. >> we have 63 acres of vegetable gardens that we grow vegetables on, anything from squash,

tomatoes, mustard greens, collard greens. >> inmates at elayn hunt harvest more than 1 million pounds of crops a year, all of it used at the prison. >> one hammond, two baker. >> early in the mornings it's not so bad. we still have a little coolness in the air. as the day progresses, the humidity starts to go up and the dew points go up, and it tends to slow a lot of them down. >> the temperature can reach up to 100 degrees. still, the three dozen inmates represent a formidable force, but the mounted officers keeping watch over them are prepared for any trouble. >> i'm comfortable out on my lines. got my horse, my guns. inmates are intimidated by it. >> they probably feel i'm the danger. i got nothing to lose. i mean, what you going to do, give me some more time? i can't do what i got.

i do one life sentence, you take back one, i still got two more. you take back the life sentences, i still have 35. i mean, i'm more of a threat to them than they are to me. >> to keep inmates from escaping, gun guards form a square perimeter around the farm detail by placing themselves at opposite corners. inside the square, unarmed guards called line pushers supervise the inmates. >> the gun guard that you see out here, he has the area toward us and also the area going the opposite way. it's a 90 degree. the other gun guard in this area over here, he has a 90 degree angle the other way which watches the two guard line that is way. >> the gun line is there for inmates so they know what not to cross. >> the gun line is an imaginary boundary. an inmate who gets too close to the line is verbally warned.

if he continues, a warning shot is fired. if he fails to heed the warning, officers are authorized to wound the inmate to stop him./÷ >> we had at one time where an  inmate took off running and we  had to run them down, and we just run them down and caught them, and my career which spans over 27 years, i have never had to use deadly force. >> in addition to preventing  escapes, gun guards must be  prepared to protect the line  pusher. >> the pusher, he has to work  the inmates, tell them what to  do, different than the gun  guards. the gun guards are just making sure they stay in their area. >> chris has worked in the fiel for six months. recently he changed positions  from being a gun guard to  becoming a line pusher. >> me as a line pusher, i don't carry a weapon, and when you go from being a gun guard carrying two weapons to line pushing and you lose that security blanket, it's not a real good feeling in your gut. >> i want all that grass out th front. we watch these guys, make sure 

they're working. it's a mind game really. they'll test you, and you just  got to keep up with them. five rows on the very end. work your way back. five, four, three, two, one. make it in their head that  you're not out here playing. basically you just got to put  your foot down and let them know you mean business. >> as their day of hard labor  comes to an end, inmates load  vegetables onto flat bed trucks assemble in their lines, and  begin the journey back to  prison. >> it's fun to break the law an dance with the devil, but when  you have to pay the fiddler, it isn't nothing nice. trust me, i'm living it, i'm  living it. >> coming up, inmates try to survive a military-style boot camp. >> i wouldn't wish this on my  worst enemy. from capital one,

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but you will see it often comes at a heavy price. >> it's all right. >> it's all right. >> all i do is double time. >> the boot camp program at elayn hunt is called impact. >> in my honest opinion, this is the best form of rehabilitation offered by the department of corrections. >> for every 100 inmates who complete the program, the state of louisiana says it saves more than $1 million. to qualify for impact, participants must be nonviolent offenders and free of pending felony charges. >> what motivated me to be in impact was i was trying to make a change in my life. i'm at hunt for possession of marijuana which is actually my second felony. i mean people used to tell me on the street that i was addicted to marijuana and i would be like, no, i just use it because i don't want to feel this pain or that pain. when the truth of it was is at first it may have started out as that reason, but after so long of using it, i truly became

addicted to it. after the first two possession charges i got, i never really got any help or tried to make any strides to change it. i really want to get over my addiction because i know all it does is harm my body and harm my mind mentally. >> impact staff feel the program can help trainees like goss overcome their dependency on drugs. >> you know, these guys can't drink. they can't smoke a joint occasionally. they can't work all week and decide i just want to pick up a six-pack of beer and drink it in my house. they don't have that opportunity anymore. >> not everyone is cut out for the rigorous requirements of impact. participating inmates must submit themselves entirely to their superiors or be expelled. >> i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. it's not no place for anybody to be -- i mean where you got to be told when you can eat, when you can go to the bathroom, when you got to shower, you got to be within arm's distance of another

man at all times so i mean it's just not a place that anybody would really want to be. >> we're not trying to punish you. we're not trying to enhance your penalties for coming to jail. we're trying to make it so that five years from now we run into you on the street and you're just a normal, working, tax paying citizen. >> daddy, daddy don't you cry. your little boy ain't gonna die. >> along with the discipline you're trying to instill that there's more to doing things than the road that they have chosen. they can educate themselves. they can get jobs. they can learn how to be better parents. we're giving them a sense of responsibility, you know. if you can do this the right way, it's going to pay off. you don't have to just sell drugs, you know, to feel important. >> i used to drive a cadillac. now i pack it on my back. impact life is not my style.

they got me looking like gomer pyle. >> one of the distinct features of the impact program is that it allows female inmates from a nearby women's correctional facility to participate alongside the men. >> louisiana correctional institute for women sits about a quarter mile to a half mile down the road from us. it's easy for us to get those females here and get them back to the women's prison at night. >> bravo company is one of the six impact platoons. among the inmates that make up bravo is female trainee teresa warren. 22 years old. my charges are access to vice fraud, identity fraud, computer fraud, and forgery. i was sentenced seven years. i did a plea bargain. i asked for impact. >> good morning bravo. >> teresa is the only female in bravo company and was recently appointed squad leader.

>> females are always struggling. they always put us in the front, always want us to lead. it's pressure on the females because we have to meet up to that standard. you know, when you're tired you have to dig deep and say i'm trying to go home. i have to do this. >> help themselves and each other. >> among the activities in impact's regime is a conflict resolution exercise called community group in which members of a platoon can openly confront each other and air their grievances. >> since you been the platoon leader, i feel like you only looking out for yourself. you're not worried about the platoon and i feel like being in this platoon you can't do that. >> you got to start talking and communicating with people instead of just giving them this attitude like you don't care what's going on with them. we're a family. we got to make it through this one way or another. >> it's teresa's turn in community group. >> you act like you so high on the pedestal, like you so much better than everybody.

you know, you got to realize that, you know, you be in the class. you the big show, you know. you running everything. that ain't cool, you know. a lot of people feel the same way i feel but they just might not feel like they can say it without repercussions coming back on them. i bit my tongue too long and i'm speaking it out. >> i never claimed to be perfect because if i was perfect, i wouldn't be here. every day i have to watch everything i do because they watch me because i'm the only female. i don't have a chance to go individually and talk to you all like you all can to each other. i don't think i'm better than everyone else. if i was, i wouldn't be here. i feel i put the platoon first. i do not try to stick anybody out. >> don't take it personal. i'm just saying how i feel. you know how i am. i speak my mind. >> at first i looked at it like, man, this girl, she's a brat, you know. but as i got to know you, you know, i'm not on that one-track mind no more. i'm looking from different views. keep doing what you're doing, you know.

you strive hard. i love you for it. bravo sister, i love you, keep doing what you're doing. she isn't big and broad as we is, but she's doing what she gots to do to hold us together. >> trainee warren is actually a good trainee as far as we're concerned. we all as a platoon, we like her. we like her because of the fact that she is a strong woman -- i'm not going to say young lady because she's actually a woman by the way she acts with everybody. we all have a deep respect for her. >> i feel she's one of the females that just kind of fallen by the wayside and is trying to find her way and now that she's in impact, you know, she's pulling her own weight. she's learning how to get along with others and as far as physical fitness, she's adjusting also. >> while some critics may question whether six months of military-style boot camp can change a criminal's ways, the prison says its research shows more than 62% of elayn hunt

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>> to just get in that ring and fight, you got to be a stone  warrior to fight, especially in prison fighting because i think it's more harder than professional fights. if i take this belt, if i win,  i'm the man. i mean, nobody has beat this ca for three to four years, and if i beat him, i'm the bag man on the compound. nobody tell me nothing. >> one way in which curtis draw inspiration is through his  family. >> i brought him in. >> two days before this fight,  curtis' mother, sister, and  niece traveled to elayn hunt to wish him their best. >> i try to come and visit him  every other weekend. in the beginning it was real hard because i knew i had to  leave him here, but now it's

getting better because i realize that it was just -- it was a mistake that he made, and it's just something that we're  learning to cope with. >> we're behind him, we're with him, and whatever it takes for  us to see him through this, the that's what we're going to do. and once he's released, then we'll be released. to me he's the heavy weight champion of the world. he's going to knock them out. >> curtis' teammate, 29-year-ol derrick rayborn has been boxing since he was a teenager. he's in prison for robbery and  isn't scheduled for release  until 2020. so his chances of fighting  professionally are all but lost he knows that they  often attend the fighting matches between prisons. >> hopefully the right people see my box and they like what they see and hopefully try to help me get out of this  situation i'm in. i'm here fighting for nothing. i'm not benefiting nothing from fighting up in here, so if  somebody likes the way i fight,

they're into promoting and  willing to help me fight, i'm willing to fight for free for two years. just get me out of jail. >> derrick's nickname is the  outlaw. he knows that winning his next fight is critical. >> i'm fighting the number one contender fight which if i win the next time i fight in september i get to fight for the belt, which is good. i'm going to win. because they haven't seen me in a while. i haven't fought this year. i fought last year, not this  year. everybody, they know i can  fight.c >> as members of hunt's boxing  team, derrick and curtis spar  with one another, but never  fight. >> we don't fight amongst the  same people we be locked up wit like, so it ain't that bad. >> coming up -- >> what are we going to do tonight? >> we're going to smash something. >> what are we going to do tonight? >> we're going to smash something. >> ya heard. >> derrick and curtis get their chance in the ring. ovider is dit

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it's fight day for the elayn hunt boxing team. only inmates who are well behaved and in good physical condition are allowed to fight. >> the boxers are screened by medical before they are cleared to box. you just can't get in there and start boxing. there are procedures in place before you can become a boxer. >> as they wait for the bus that will transport them to a rival prison, the inmates are anxious to show off their talents. >> we have everything that is needed to win. >> reporter: derek rayborn has been waiting a long time to get in the ring. >> outlaw. fast hands, fast feet. he will be mighty hard to beat with his endurance. the opponent will need life insurance. >> you're going to need it. >> tell them what i say, son. what are we going to do tonight? >> we're going to smash

something. >> what are we going to do tonight? >> we're going to smash something. >> there you heard it. >> who are you? >> i'm the outlaw. i'm going to bring it and bring it and bring the painful. >> i'm ready to beat somebody up. i mean, i ain't fight in a while so i'm ready. >> anticipating his own fight, inmate curtis merrells is more reserved. >> a guy is supposed to fight,  he is pretty good.s ain't nobody beat him yet. so i got my hands full. i've been training like a mad russian. i really think i have a good  chance of beating hill. >> when the bus arrives, hunt's 22-member boxing team sets out  for angola state prison. the site of tonight's title fights. due to filming restrictions  placed on our camera crew by prison officials, we are only  allowed to show inmates from elayn hunt. inmate derek rayborn is the  first to enter the ring.

>> let's give it up for derek rayborn. [ bell dinging ] the fights are limited to three, three-minute rounds. [ bell dinging ] >> put your hands together now. >> round one comes to an end an derek appears sluggish, raising doubts about his conditioning. the bell rings for round two. both fighters come out swinging as the second round of fighting comes to an end, derek and his opponent don't seem to notice the bell. [ bell dinging ]

with one round left, derek's opponent appears to have a  slight edge over him. this is the last round for dere to impress the judges. [ bell dinging ] >> put your hands together for these two fighters -- >> the final bell rings and the fighters return to their  corners, waiting for the judge's decision.

>> ladies and gentlemen, a split decision. we have a winner. the number one contender in the light heavyweight division, giv it up for angola's -- >> when they said the split decision, i knew he had it. i was like, oh, man, i knew he got it. they gonna give it to him 'cause he at home. >> it is now time for curtis  merrells to step into the ring. the stakes are high, not only  for bragging rights but a title belt. both fighters start off slow in round one. neither impressing the judges. in round two, curtis is aggressive and lands more punches.

in the final round, curtis starts to tire and his opponent gets some good hits in. and now ladies and gentlemen, by way of a plit decision, representing angola -- >> another split decision gives victory to the opponent,

although the night is disappointing for derek and curtis, other members of the elayn hunt boxing team are successful. >> when one lose, we all lose and when one wins, we all win. i feel like a winner. we brought home two belts. it motivated me. i got to get throughout and help them, too. i have to bring mine in, too. >> at least we can see things when we're leaving, we can see people out there. we can see things that a bunch of people want to see that ain't boxing. they stay here every day. they don't get to go nowhere. that's what i'm looking forward to. >> shortly after our cameras left, hurricane katrina destroyed much of the gulf coast region. the elayn hunt correctional center became home to many