penalty while his girlfriend awaits trial in the women's wing of the jail. >> when dennis told me he needed my help, i was like oh, no, no, no way. >> [bleep]. >> before i knock all of your fronts out. >> narrator: a newly arrived female inmate. and a surprise raid causes problems for another inmate. >> when the sort team comes in, everybody is going down. ♪ . >> narrator: on the banks of the

ohio river, louisville kentucky has been ranked one of the ten safest large cities in america. but downtown is a two-block reminder that not all is well. every year, about 45,000 men and women are booked into the louisville corrections department or jail. most have only been charged with their crimes. and are here awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. those stays can range from months to years. and during that time, some will find themselves with new troubles. >> we have some intel from two various sources. we're trying to catch something and then link it back to certain inmates and try to link where it's coming in. we have some ideas, so what we've got now, i've activated the shift team of sort. we're going to go in and get in their paths and try to search

the inmates and search the dorm and hopefully get some of the dope out of there today. >> search them, go back in, search the dorm. anybody causes us any problems, we cuff them up, we put them in one of the holding cells. we'll deal with them later. >> all right. >> any questions about what we're doing? >> go. >> absolutely no talking, gentlemen. put your hands on the wall. >> narrator: the dorm is evacuated and the inmates are frisked for contraband before they're moved to holding cells. and then the sort team conducts a thorough search of the dorm.

45 minutes later, the search doesn't turn up marijuana. but one officer has found something that doesn't belong. >> it looks like we've got some matches. and there's the -- matter of fact, there's a striker off the back of the match packet. so a couple matches in plastic. this constitutes dangerous contraband because you can make fire out of them. he'll most likely get a write up and be moved out of the dorm to a single cell. >> let's go. back to your dorms. >> narrator: while most of the inmates return to the dorm, aaron bie rurks rly is rerouted staff for some questions. the match heads were found on his bunk. >> i have extremely bad luck when the sort team comes in. aaron byerly is going down. >> he'll talk to the officer in the morning. you just tell him your side of the story again.

and then we'll decide if you're going to a single cell or allowing you to stay in the dorm, okay? >> all right. >> narrator: byerly will soon have a hearing to determine whether he will go to segregation where he will lose most of his privileges and be locked in a cell 23 hours a day. but it will not be his first time there. >> all of my writings are for smoking, fighting, promoting contraband. if you get put in the hole while you're here and you're in prison, you're going to the hole. >> narrator: and prison is where byerly is headed. he was sentenced for repeat convictions of drug trafficking. >> i headed up here because i was working for my father and the money was getting a little bit tight and i liked the better things in life. so i started trafficking in the field and things like that just to make some extra money on the side.

i didn't do too well because look where i am at? >> narrator: byerly has accepted his fate. >> this is the worst time that you could do. this is the hardest time. it don't get no worse than this. it is nonstop stress. it is nonstop problems, it's nonstop headaches. this is nonstop horriblety. i don't know if know if that's a word, but it's horrible here.nm serve short sentences in the jail. but if they break the rules at home, it's back to jail as mary logan has just discovered. >> you're just upset because they take me off of h.i.p. and i didn't do nothing wrong to be taken off of h. implt p. i.p. . >> why did they take you off? >> because i blew a .4.

>> what's your name? >> mary logan. >> mary logan, when you first got put on h.i.p., one of the rules and stipulations was no alcohol, right? zero tolerance. >> don't be upset. we'll work with you. it will work out. all right? okay? >> tell us if you need us. >> thank you. >> narrator: lodan was released to the incarceration program. >> incarceration is incarceration is incarceration. and people need to follow the rules. absolutely no alcohol. no drugs. >> seems like every time i'm trying to do the right thing to do better, it's -- a rock just falls right in front of me and i can't go no further. it's like i'm stuck right there. >> lowden is moved to a fresh

arrest dorm. a special housing unit for women newly booked into the jail. she will remain until a judge decides whether to return her to home incarceration or make her serve the rest of her sentence in jail. but lowden seems determined to make an impression. >> that's my bunk. >> yeah, it's mine now. you snooz, you lose. there ain't no bunk assignments in jail. get that right. >> hey, come back out here. >> do they own bunks around here? >> come back outside. >> i'm good. >> come on, come on. >> excuse me? excuse me? >> i said i'm sick and i've got to be on the bottom bunk. >> okay, that's final. but i didn't think the jail, nobody owns no bunks around here. >> we thought she was calm enough after talking to her to put her in first arrest dorm.

obviously, that doesn't happen. a lot of times, they'll act out on purpose to get to a single cell because they don't want to be with other people. in this case, i think that's her deal. >> we'll try it again later. >> narrator: coming up. >> all of these bitches have a [bleep] problem with me, i'll go to every rip. >> narrator: mary lowden dekreesd decreases her chances of getting home. and -- >> a decomposing body with a bunch of fragrance. you can't cover up that smell. >> an inmate that hit close to home for one officer. >> first thing i wanted to do was take justice into my own hands. but i decided against that. ck f. employees are being forced to do more with less. and the need for capable leaders is greater than ever.

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>> narrator: the louisville met troe department corrections jail books an average of 20 minmats day. the reactions to being in jail run an equally wide gamut. >> all of these bitches in this [bleep] have a problem with me, i'll go to every r.i.p. and i don't give a [bleep]. >> mary lowden serving time for a theft conviction has just returned to the jail for violating home incarceration rules after she tested positive for alcohol. >> ain't nobody on drugs. this is sobriety right here. >> narrator: officers removed her from a dorm due to disruptive behavior. >> excuse me? excuse me? >> narrator: but, now, even in the single person cell, she's gotten into a conflict with a neighbor. >> just do the damn thing [bleep]. let's do it then.

[bleep] i'll knock all of your fronts out. >> sit down now. >> i will knock all of your fronts out. knock you down a size. you don't feed knob right here. all you do is treat people like dogs in here. treat them like dogs. >> are you done so i can explain? >> yes, ma'am, i'm done. >> okay. chow time -- >> for now i am. >> i'm not going to talk if you're going to keep talking over me. you can just sit in here and scream and yell all you want. i'm trying to explain it to you. we just came on shift. chow is on the floor. >> i'm upset because that guy said i wasn't going to be in here long. mr. shepherd -- >> listen, i can't do whap what happened on the first shift or the other shifts. >> exactly. so all you can do is keep me in this [bleep] until monday, can't you? >> right. >> and that's what you're going to do, right? >> right. >> i have nothing else to say.

>> are you going to stop yelling? >> yes. >> okay. >> yes. >> all right. and then that's all we need. >> so i stay in this room right here, don't get out, get nothing. >> you get an hour out a day. but i'm going to tell you right now, if you continue all of this yelling and screaming, you're not coming out. that's all going to be on you. if you want to come out, you need to behave. >> okay. >> all right. usually, if you can talk calm to them and just keep talking, and i'm very monotone when i talk to them, and i just keep repeating the same thing, it eventually gets through their chaotic behavior. >> narrator: lowden's future is uncertain. it will be up to a judge to decide if she can return to home incarceration or serve her 6-12-month-sentence in jail. uncertainty marks the lives of most inmates here. but the stakes for dennis hall are considerably higher. he's already served 14 years for sexual assault. now, he's charged with murder.

>> i killed an innocent man. i can't believe i did it. but i guess anybody can be a killer. >> how did this man die? >> strangulation. >> narrator: hall admits to murdering one of his roommates. the death penalty still looms over him. >> i'm thinking about them saying mr. hall, we sentence you to death. i don't know. maybe i deserved to die, too. >> narrator: the murder occurred in this small house on the out skirts of the city. hall says he was high on drugs when he and bishop got into a fight. after strangling bishop, hall then tried to cover up the crime. >> the next day is when i took him to the basement.

he was wrapped up in the plastic. you couldn't see his regular body. all you could see was plastic. >> narrator: hall had help in concealing the body. it came from a third roommate, his girlfriend, heather barringer. >> when dennis told me he needed my help, i was like no, no, no way, uh-huh. i don't think so. and then he was begging me, basically. he said i can't do this by myself. i'm going to go to prison for a long time. i need you to help. he was begging me. >> i was in shock. i have never in my life been in a situation like this. i never went back in the basement again. >> for two weeks, bishop's body lay decomposing in the basement. >> and we got air fresheners and

put it all through the house. believe me, our house smelled like decomposing body with a bunch of fragrance because you can't cover that smell. >> barri nrknger later told a fd about the murder and he tipped off police. she admits to her role in the crime and also has a plea deal to tampering evidence and possession of forged documents. barringer and hall admit to stealing disability and social security checks to fund drug addictions. >> that one act, it took five minutes, took my whole life. >> narrator: but they are not the only ones at louisville metro whose lives have been profoundly altered by the murder of bishop. >> first thing i wanted to do was take justice into my own hands, but i've decided against that. >> bishop's brother is one of

the jail's correctional officers. >> there were times that my brother and i were all that we had. so we were pretty close. i don't remember a time without my brother. >> narrator: officer bishop is assigned sections of the jail where he does not come in contact. >> it's a good thing because if he were to be walking out in the hallway, you never know what would happen. i couldn't say for sure what would happen. >> narrator: coming up -- >> i didn't want anybody to say they're sorry. i know the only reason that they're sorry is they were sorry for getting caught. >> narrator: officer bishop faces his brother's killer in court. >> why are you doing that? >> to keep it from getting infected. >> an inmate's self abusive behavior taxes jail staff. chic. or best-ever meatloaf. go to campbellskitchen.com for recipes, plus a valuable coupon.

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and it's hard for me to believe that that wasn't yours. especially it was wrapped up and underneath a cup in the corner of your bunk? >> i can tell you the same thing, you're not going to believe me, you know. i could tell you my side of the story and what you're going to do is what you're going to do. >>. >> just because of previous offenses, i'm automatically guilty? >> you know what, i'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. what i'm going to do, i'm going to take two weeks of your gym and you're going to serve that. >> so i can't go to the gym or nothing like that? >> you can't go to the gym for two weeks. all right? >> all right. >> i'm thinking it went pretty well. but the gym, yeah, i'm kind of mad about that. but i guess i can't go for two weeks. he could have done it for a lot longer than that. so it was fair.

>> confiscating contraband from inmates has always been a challenge for the jail. now, there's a more dire problem. one that seems to grow every day. >> you know, probably a full 25 to 30 percent of our inmate population has some type of mental illness. we do a pretty good job of stabilize i stabilizi stabilizing our mentally ill folks once we get them here. we get them back on their medications. we take care of their health care needs. they go back to the street and don't have access to their medications or they quit taking it. they decomp senensate and we're going back through that cycle all over again in a very short time.

>> narrator: many of his actions require staff culmination. in the four months he's been here, he's had more than 40 incidents of self abusive behavior. now, he has cut himself again. >> we've been through this a couple times. you get pressed out, what happens? >> he's beat his head before, he's cut himself before. it's usually just self harm. it's never really against somebody else. it's just against himself. me and him have a real good rapport. just by talking to him, i can actually deescalate the situation. >> so what's going on now? >> i'm ready to go. i'm going down, so that's why i'm pressed out. >> you take your time already? what did you take? >> five years. >> narrator: coleman was recently sentenced to five years in prison on charges of robbery and assault. >> prison is not as bad as jail. trust me on that one.

i'm not saying it's going to be married life, but, you know, it's a lot better than jail. >> where are you cut at? >> why are you doing that? >> just to keep it from getting infected. >> are you going to keep on cutting? >> why are you going to keep on cutting? >> because i am. >> what's going to make you stop? >> until i die. i'm basically going to go the hard way. i cross my neck. i ain't bleeding. >> the last thing i want you to do is hurt yourself anymore than you already have. >> because coleman threatened his own life, he's transferred to an observation cell and placed on suicide watch. meanwhile, officer earnest searches coleman's cell. >> that looks like he ripped his

arm band and got the sharp corner on it. looks like that's what he's been using to potentially hurt himself. >> coleman will exchange his jail yuniform for a suicide smock. it will be the only thing covering his body until he is taken off suicide watch. >> it's green, it's really thick, it's not that warm. these are the ones that you cannot cut yourself with them. this is just something to cover up with. more or less, to make sure that they don't hurt themselves anymore. >> it does take a lot 06 manpower and a lot of time out of our day. it's not just one officer having to do with this, it's multiple officers and having to do paperwork.

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♪ >> metro corrections. the time is approximately 17: 45 hours. i've activated for antonio coleman. he's on five north. >> antonio coleman had recently been put on suicide watch at the metro department of corrections jail. now, the special operations response team, or s.o.r.t., has been sent to remove him from his cell due to a disturbance. >> 10-4, come on. coleman has flooded his cell. his excessive beating on the door was placing him in danger. hitting his head on the wall, he

threatened the officer on the walk saying he was going to hit him. >> face the rear of your cell and go down to your knees. down to your knees. cross your ankles, place your hands on top of your head. >> narrator: coleman is placed into an emergency restraint chair. he will be bound at the legs, wrist and waist.

>> we can clean the water up and things like that. we can put up with somebody kicking on the door here and there. but when they're self abusive or damaging to property, those are red flags for us where we really have to address them and can't allow them to continue to be self abusive. he was placed in the chair for that reason. >> narrator: after his wound is treated by medical personnel, coleman is fitted with head gear to prevent further injury. >> and he'll be in that for a min muimum of two hours. they'll assess him after two hours and give him an opportunity to go back in the cell and hopefully, he's had time to calm down from that. right now, we're going to go over there and talk to him. he's been in the chair now for about half an hour, 45 minutes. >> what's up, antonio? what was you hitting your head on the wall in there in your cell? why don't you tell me about that? >> um, yeah, my daughter, she's got fluid and all. so i just lost it.

>> so that is why you got upset and was hitting your head on the wall and flooded and everything? >> yep. >> you've got about another 45 minutes or so. >> i'm done. my head hurt. >> well, no wonder your head hurts, you was beating it on the wall. that didn't solve nothing, did it? >> nope. >> you beating your head on the wall is part of what got you in here. you know, you could be in your cell, you could be upset but you wouldn't be restrained like this. so, i mean, it's up to you to get all of this passed. your attitude and your behavior, everything is going to dictate what we do, all right? all right. >> this last one, can i have some water? my mouth is drier than a [bleep]. >> i'll have them get you some water in a few minutes. >> appreciate that. thank you. >> you ain't met no one until you met me. >> narrator: when mary lowden was first transferred, she was a challenge for officers, as well. >> bitch, julet's do the damn

thing. >> but, today, now housed in a women's dorm, lowden says she has a new perspective. >> i'm just lovely today. this is a transformation. >> how did that happen? >> oh, well, i took some time and some thauime and some thoug and processed. i figured that wasn't the place i was supposed to be. i've got the gift of gab. i'd rather be involved with the population. as long as we get everything clean, we'll get through. our tv is not on yet until we mop. mops, scrub down our showers, get our sinks -- see how pearly? see how them sinks are shining? man, they were glistening over there. >> life in the dorm is -- it's not that bad. if you pretty much get along with everybody, it goes very well. everything is swell. >> today was commissary day and we've got all the good treats in the world.

we've got the sticky balls, we've got the fritos. we are loving it. this is -- okay, if i get another elbow to the head, i'm going to start throwing bowls, okay. >> narrator: over the last year and a half, lowden has been in and out of louisville met row 11 times. all of her offenses were routed in an addiction to pain pills! that was my downfall. i let it control my life. to me, it ain't that i lost everything. it's that i gave it up. first i gave my home up and then my car up and eventually, i gave my kids up. the drugs took over my life. i want to get a good job, stay clean and sober, definitely. get my kids, get home and live happily ever after after that, you know? >> narrator: a happily-ever after ending is not likely for hall. these days, he does little more

than ponder his sentence and his co-defendant. >> reunite us with our children and our family, lord, in the name of jesus. halleluiah. whew, praise god. give me a hug. >> narrator: and even though the couple is only living about 500 feet away from each other, their lives couldn't be further apart. >> i cry now and then. i get heather on my mind and i'll get one of her letters out and read it. i gaze out of the window and look up at the moon. i play the waiting game and pray you'll be here soon. heather, little snnokums, she's a hard one to describe. i've never had so much love pointing to me. >> dennis actually drew this wunls. like a motorcycle wing. he calls me snookums.

>> when i first met him, he had just got off work. he had cutoff shorts to hi knees and a wife beater and he was filthy and he looked kind of crazy but sexy. >> narrator: but theirs is not a normal love story. hall admits to murdering their room mat, jeff bishop, whose brother, chad bishop, is a correctional officer here at louisville. barringer admits helping hall move the body and covering up the crime. both of them also cashed bishop's disability and social security checks to fund their drug habilitates. >> heather don't belong here. she only knew about it. i told her to testify against me and told her to turn over state's evidence. i said go ahead and testify if you have to.

that's what she may be doing. >> and if she testifies against you? >> i still love her. there's nothing that can take my love from her. that's one thing i do have going for me. nobody can take that love. >> narrator: coming up. >> ready to go forward on the final sentencing? >> narrator: dennis hall faces the judge and the brother of his victim. >> does the court scare you sometimes? >> narrator: mental health staff tried to breakthrough to antonio coleman. i'm like...yeah, ok...... little did i know that one week later i wasn't smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these stop taking chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of depression or other mental health problems,

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>> doing all right? >> narrator: the louisville metro department of corrections jail grapples with a problem that plagues jails nationwide. an ever-increasing population of mentally ill inmates that require medical attention more than other inmates. >> it's actually becoming a national epidemic. we deal with a population that often times, are not compliant with treatment. and typically, this situation, not compliant with treatment can result in criminal behavior. you have some that can become aggressive. it's directly related to the symptoms of mental illness. >> narrator: while not classified as mentally ill, he's recently placed in a restraint chair after hitting his head against the wall and threatening suicide. >> are you thinking about hurting yourself now? >> no, sir. >> okay. do you want to hurt anybody

else? >> no, sir. >> don't want to hurt yourself? >> narrator: jail psychiatrist, dr. david easley thinks coleman's recent sentencing to five years in state prison for robbery and assault is a contributing factor to this latest incident. >> okay. does the court scare you sometimes? >> sometime. >> is that why you got so upset was after court last week? >> yeah. >> and what was upsetting you? what were you worried about? >> because i ain't never been down there and i didn't know what it's like and what it's going to be. >> so next time you go to court, you won't be so scared because you know? is that what you mean? >> yeah. because i already know what's going on. so i'll be straight. >> and i believe you will. when you're in new territory, it can be scary. but whence you've been there before, you're not so scared. does that make sense? >> yeah. >> i can feel that way, too. >> yeah. >> so you want to get your clothes back? >> yes. >> do you want to get a jump suit and go back to level ii?

>> yesz. >> all right, that's what we'll do. do you need anything else? >> no, i don't need anything. >> all right. okay. thanks a lot. >> narrator: staff are hopeful that coleman has calmed down. but mary lowden has had a setback. >> now i'm back in here. man -- where i first started. >> first started. >> hi, ms. kelly. ms. kelly? >> narrator: she has been sent to segregation for 15 days after an officer found her with cash and a lighter. >> when he told me that i was going to get 15 days in here, i mean, i -- i was ready to just clock out, which means i was ready to upper cut him. you know? i felt like upper cutting the man, you know what i'm saying? and i'm glad i didn't. i had my little out burst or anything, but, yeah, i felt very, very angry. >> lowden's solitary segregation cell is significantly different from the dorm she left behind. >> you're stuck in this little

room with nobody in here. your day drags. it drags and drags. it seems like you're in here even longer. one day is two or three days. you don't get to use no phones or nothing. you barely get to see the tv. i am in a good spot where i can see the tv a little bit. this right here is only open because we're about to eat. once we get done eating, the slot goes back up. it's no fun at all. >> i take things for granted in my life. i take a lot of things for granted in my life. the important things is the things, you know, i always slip up on. so i'm going to try to work on that. so i don't keep oncoming back here. >> aaron byerly has a history of coming back to jail. he's doing his best to stay in shape since his gym privileges were suspended after he was

caught with contraband. >> i'm doing a limited amount of exercise. you can't do no card owe in here unless you want the be looking retarded. >> narrator: working out is one e one way by erkerly deals with monotony of jail. >> my dreams take me to completely different places. i'm always on the streets when i'm dreaming. i'm never locked up. it takes me out of this environment for good. a good six, seven, eight hours. >> narrator: dennis hall has just made a deal for a far-more significant break. >> mr. hall, raise your right hand for me? do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> narrator: he's been here for two years facing a potential death sentence but has just reached a plea agreement to spare his life.

>> at this point in time, mr. hall would like to withdraw his plea of not guilty. >> instead, he will serve 40 years in prison. >> i may die there. 40 years is a long time. it's basically a lifetime. >> step over there on the wall. place your hands on the wall. >> hall's co-defendant, heather barringer has also reached a plea agreement. the most seerriousness of her charges has been dropped. >> i was sentenced for physical evidence and possession of a forged document. that's all. just those two things. it's ten years at 20 percent which is two years. >> because barringer has been there for two years, she could serve an additional 10 months in prison. >> as long as i don't do anything wrong, my life will go back to being normal. >> narrator: barringer's new

normal will be one without hall. >> i miss him. i wished all of this wouldn't have happened. i never planned for this to be a part of my life. i still have feelings for him. but i'm going to try for the rest of my life to worry about me. >> we can remember the good times because we can't be together no more. just remember each other. i never had no one love me like heather. she's my hope. i love her. i always will. >> narrator: coming up, dennis hall goes back to court again. but this time, to hear from the brother of his victim. >> i had a lot of sleepless nights. >> i'm wrestling with the decision on whether or not to allow the state to take its course or for me to do the job myself. n common. they have teachers...

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>> narrator: unlike prison where sentence d inmates arrive from jails all over the state, jail inmates come from a much smaller region. they often know each other or staff from the streets. dennis hall has an especially uneasy acquaintance with officer chad bishop. hall murdered his brother. and, today, must appear in court for his formal sentencing. >> you are on the record in the case of dennis m. hall. ready to go forward on the final sentencing? >> judge, we are. we had passed this case briefly to allow the victim's family the opportunity to be present for final sentencing. folks, i'm happy to hear from whoever would like to be heard. i will tell you that the only rule is that you have to address me personally. it's your chance to talk about

mr. hall but that you're going to address me and not speak to him directly. it's hard, but that's the way it's got to be. okay? anybody have anything they want to tell me before i impose sentence? >> narrator: chad bishop has been preparing for this day and has a statement ready for the judge. >> he doesn't realize this, but by his sentencing today, you're ak chul l actually setting me free. i've had a lot of sleepless nights. wrestling with the decision on whether or not to allow the state to take its course or for me to do the job myself, to be honest. but i have more than myself to think about. so i'll allow justice and the state to run its course and do my job for me. and it won't be quick. and it won't be pain res.

it's going to be over a very long period of time where every day, he gets to die just a little bit more. and i work the prison system and i work in metro corrections. and no matter what anyone says, those that are incarcerated for a long period of time, they do die a little bit every day. they don't get the same things that we in the free world do. it's not going to bring my brother back. it's not going to repair the damage that was done. i don't want anybody to say that they're sorry. i know the only reason that they were sorry, they were sorry for getting caught. it's a military thing. i bought some victory cigars not long ago. i'll be smoking one this evening. and i have a very special one that cost me $22 that i'm saving for the day when i get the phone call from one of the

institutions and they tell me that he's finally dead. well, our family is going to be getting together that very evening, and i'm not kidding. and we're going to be throwing a dennis-hall-is-dead-and-he's-in- hell party. i'd like to thank you for your time. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> i was actually hoping to look dennis hall right in the eyes. and i wanted him to know that i meant every word that i said. let there be no mistake. when men talk, usually we look each other in the eyes. so i wanted to look him in the eyes and let him know how i actually felt. and when the judge told me that i had to address the court, that took a little bit of the satisfaction out of being able to express myself.

but i took my best shot because that's the last time he and i are going to see each other or be in the same room together again. >> mr. hall, i don't know what happens once you go behind that door, i think you do. you've been to the penitentiary. i agree that it's a wholly unpleasant place to be. my hope for you, and it is for everybody in your situation, is that you take advantage of whatever opportunities are there for you. and that, at some point, you develop a sense of empathy for what you've done to these people. not just to mr. bishop, but to his family. and the curse of that is that you will feel the horror of that. but the blessing of that is that that will allow you to change. good luck with what happens next. thank you all.

>> announcer: due tomatter, vie discretion is advised. >> i call him the don because he walks around like he owns the unit. >> i've been a burglar, basically, all of my life. and banks were my favorite place because banks have money. >> narrator: an old-school bank robber