. the challenges of running this kind of prison is compounded. >> approximately 700 of the 2200 offenders we have at this facility are diagnosed with a mental illness. i think these numbers are increasing throughout the country. increasing for everybody to deal with. >> superintendent crying hanks who has been working at the prison since it opened in 1992. >> this is a multiskert level facility, a large facility. we're on over 500 acres of property. the perimeter is approximately a mile and a half around the facility. maximum security, medium security and minimum security offenders. what sets us apart is the different segregation units. >> offenders who assault staff or other inmates are moved to the secure housing online it in. a prison within a prison?

they've had issued at other facilities so they send them here. designed to look and function like a maximum security prison in california, the shoe is composed of windowless concrete cells, measuring 7 x 12 feet. of the 288 inmates housed here, 179 have been diagnosed by psychiatric staff at mentally ill. >> i heard the horror stories of this place back when it first opened up. >> the sergeant is a veteran of the secure housing unit. >> out of sight out of mind. the outside world, out of sight out of mind. they probably don't want to know what goes on in here. >> the population of the shoe lives on 23-hour lockdown, leaving their cells only for showers and solitary recreation. >> some people will tell you that that -- we didn't design that unit for mental health

treatment. particularly the numbers that we have and going the way it's gone. >> although acute cases are referred to the psychiatric unit as a neighboring online it in the staff in the shoe deal with a variety of mental behaviors. >> there are those that are dangerous people that you have to be very cautious of when you interact with them. >> inmate douglas mccomb who is is serving time for burglary has spent three months in the secure housing unit at the wabash. >> since he's been inside the shoe he was on strip cell. when you see the offender come out of the cell wearing his underwear at the time he's on strip -- i think for resisting staff or trying to assault staff. so we've had trouble with him on about every place we put him so far. >> i can't get along with people too much. especially when they're evil. >> this officer has been working in the shoe since 1997.

>> an average day in the shoe can be pretty mundane. you have sick calls and so on and so forth. some days like today are a little more exciting. we had an offender who became belligerent in the shower. >> he started throwing toilet water on myself and several other staff members. >> i got it all to my face and down my back. >> he threatened to kill everybody out there. >> we put him on the wall first.

we have him face the wall and we want him facing the wall. we don't want him turning his head and getting mouthy. he's got to get spit on we want his nose against the wall. he can talk to the wall. >> face the wall, turn around, face the wall. turn around, face the wall. face the wall. >> stand still. >> your constantly dealing with a force trying to -- they can spit, three urine, spit blood, the whole nine yards. >> you can't be scared working in here or let something hike that determine how you're going to do your job. >> you get up in the morning and you're going to come in here and think that everything is okay. that's not always so. it's a good day and bad days.

>> i need to go in 11. >> 11 range, thank you. >> there are five psychologists assigned to the shoe. dr. mary ruth sim routinely checks on the inmates. >> i've been here for seven and a half years. what i do is different every single day. some days i do group. some days i do individual and some days it's crisis all day. >> did you want me to pick up a letter, what that meant for me? >> how you doing when he ask to be seen when somebody else thinks they need to be seen i will see what's wrong and see what can be done in the institution to help them cope. >> drugs, alcohol, the only way i can -- >> group therapy in the shoe is conducted with each inmate locked in a separate holding cell. dr. sims moderates this small group of self-mutilators.

>> in another world i'm a different person. i'm somebody totally different from myself. that's the only time i feel real or alive. feel like everybody is going to be okay. >> for me, it's being in control. my whole life i felt like i was in control. but then when i just had time when i do cut myself i'm in control of the situation. >> there are groups of people that self da-ininjure when they have so much pain and they don't know what to do and they feel like suicide or self-injury cuts their level of pain down so it's pain control. >> self-injury is it making yourself better? is it -- >> it's is survival tool that you developed. some people is a manipulation. they're not getting what they want and they self-injure and then everybody's attention is focused on them and people are more willing to do what they want because they self-ininjure.

>> it's like a baby crying and you give him the bottle or change his diaper. me, you give me something sharp to hurt myself with and then i'm done. >> we've had people break tvs and cut their throats with them. so we don't want to give people stuff that they're going to use to hurt themselves badly. >> to insure the inmates are not making weapons to harm themselves or others, the staffs routine searches. we're looking for contraband or prohibited property or weapons. everything can be utilized in this facility if it's a weapon if that's the mindset. >> no contraband was found in this inmate's cell as quickly as one cell is cleared contraband is passed using whatever tools they can find. they eyes messageless tied to

string and cast out like fishing lures. >> 24 hours without contact from any other humans and the last time i saw a tree? around here, it's been years. years. >> we have a great idea that we're going to cure everybody because that isn't true. sometimes the only goal that we have is to control the so we they don't hurt themselves and other people. >> next on "lockup" integrating the mentally will the regular population. oh...there you go. wooohooo....hahaahahaha! i'm gonna stand up to her! no you're not. i know.

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number of those diagnosed as mentally ill the only place they feel safe is the shoe. >> in population, sometimes mentally ill people get victimized. some mentally ill are perfect in the shoe. they do what they need to get in the shoe. >> one such action that gets inmates sent to the shoe is self-mutilation. >> that's about ten years ago, i cut from the ankle up to the hip bone done and then i cut across sideways and sort of it took about 12 hours to so sew me up. you got several layers before you get to the phone. you don't feel the pain. you don't know you're doing it. >>. carr is serving a eight-year sentence for robly and is taking anti-psychotic medication and under staff supervision he agreed to tell us his story. >> i was anti-sociable. i didn't want to be around nobody and i didn't want nobody around me. everything made me angry.

and i took it out on myself and then i would feel better. i would cut myself up every day, every day, every day. so i ended up in the shoe for hurting myself and then my time was up in the shoe and they put me into the general population and i'm going right down here all over again. >> after moving back and forth between the shoe and general population, joe eventually was diagnosed as bipolar and moved to the residential treatment yiern it in or rtu. through counseling and medication, the rtu's ultimate goal is to integrate these inmates to general population. this is one of the psychologists that works in the program. >> this is a three-phase system. the initial phase is for offenders who have been isolated from other offenders because they've been living in segregation. so generally in phase one, a person stays to themselves a lot. phase two, is where they are

really introduced to the rest of the unit. they ha they have chow together. have a lot more groups. we're getting them oriented to being more socially-involved. the final phase is three. the first step allows them to leave the unit all by themselves and then each successive step opens them up a little more to the general population so we're gradually moving them back into dealing with the general population. >> joe has spent a year in the rtu. >> the last six months i've been easing out there like two or three people at a time. that i hang around with. when i'm in recreation. >> when i'm on my medication it don't bother me but when i'm not on my medication i get paranoid. i am on about ten different kinds of medications. i don't know the names of them. i've been on them for the last year every day and i haven't

missed it. they don't let you miss it here. >> although joe is involved in queen going treatment -- they took me to surgery and cut me opened and -- >> the rtu offers constant counseling. >> my office is a jail cell. it's a prison that's been converted and it makes me more successful. >> what they got they don't believe in me at all. that's how i feel. >> today. is extremely agitated. with dr. profit's help he tries to find a solution that doesn't involve cutting himself. >> how is he going to manage how do you feel for the rest of the

evening? >> i'm all right. he put his hand on me and that's over with. >> you're going to go about this the right way? >> yeah. >> excellent. >> i think people will listen to that more than the more outrageous offense at getting that attention. doing things like self-injuring and those sorts of things. so i think you're going to be hurt more that way. i'm proud of you for making that decision, i really am. i think you're doing the right thing. i'll be here for another little while and if you need to holler at me, please do so, all right? >> i'll be all right. >> all right. if you do, you know where to find me, all right? >> all right. >> see you later. >> but even after marked progress, joe has doubts as to whether or not he can function on the outside. this is all i know right now. this here is my world because this is what -- two years ain't far away. i'm getting out in two years. >> if joe leaves prison from the

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we have two-vehicle patrol. seven towers which make up the exterior security. >> one of most effective tools for prison official comes to work on four legs. >> we also have a canine unit and drug detection. tobacco detection and some aggression-trained dogs also. we use them for patrol inside the facility. crowd control and situations in opened areas. >> they are called aggression dogs. and they live and train at the prison. >> what i need each one of you guys to do is i want one of you to get in front of each dog and keep go to three feet distance in front of the dogs and flail your arms and get in a high voice, high pitches with as high as you can and keep agitating the dogs. >> this training exercise helping the younger dogs build confidence as they imitate the behavior of the more mature dogs. >> we utilize the aggression dogs for protection of staff and

offenders. any chance of serious bodily injury or death and we utilize the dogs to protect them. we've never had to release the dog in our facility. but sometimes the mere presence with the dogs in the yard, a fight gets ready to break out and a dog is in the yard and theys are, they have violence. >> while the dogs are used to respond to a threat, prison gangs are the biggest danger to security. >> what people don't realize is that almost everything that happens in a prison setting has some sort of gang involvement. whether it is extortion or intimidation or traffic and narcotics. there's nothing that goes on that at least one gang member is not involved with. nothing. >> robbie marshall is in charge of monitoring the gang activity inside the prison. >> i believe we have about 455 confirmed or suspected security threat group members from 2000

and that's the one that we know about. right now our most radical group is our white supremacist group, specifically, the arian brotherhood. typically, an ins department that an assault has occurred in, most of the time you'll see the arian brotherhood behind that and it goes hand in hand with drug trafficking and extortion and intimidation. the arian brotherhood is very structured. they've got by laws, just like any other organization has. they brielieve in tex expansionf the white race. this is a confirmed arian brotherhood member. 13 counts of burglary and we was basically bigger rising veterinary clings for special k, pcp and stuff like that. >> since his incarceration in wabash valley, he has been involved in many fights with staff and other inmates. >> i wanted to get into a fight

with somebody. there's a problem that i had with one of his brothers or whatever. we could make it to where he's going to shake me down, you know? and i'm going to shake him down and there are people that are going to shake us down and our people are going to shake them down and we're going to go -- we can only fight to what we are and -- chris currently is in our transition unit and he also has the opportunity to go home with the next six months. so far he's been maintaining a decent conduct behavior. we're monitoring him and will continue to the day he goes home. >> even with the arian brotherhood as the may jeer threat in the institution, the gang rarely engages in racial violence. >> we don't have a lot of black on white or white on black conflict. it's usually white on white. whooirt supremacy organization also see they have a weaker individual among their race and they usually pursue them as an easy target as someone they can get money off of or have them

traffic their drugs for them or sometimes they just out and out assault them. >> you're looking at your own people like, all right, somebody is saying something. somebody's doing something to where they cause a divide among people. that's the time whenever we say, we need to resolve this. and here you strengthen yourself to where you can either even the playing field with people or you want to be the person that's at the top to where you could have more control over your environment. >> another security threat is a group called the gangster disciple. >> back in 1999, 2000, 2001, that was the most radical and dominant group we had was the gangster discipleless. and they were pretty much integral at the whole facility. >> 36-year-old inmate bobby lomax is a confirmed member of the gang. >> when i first came here i had no more than a year. first time going to prison on a

dope case. why did they send me to a level four security prison. i could have gone to a level one. i got there and some of my friends, big fight, gang fights, we stay on lockdown for a long time. i was in one state of mind. i didn't care. i didn't have much time, what could they do? it wasn't like. if you get charged with an outside weapon and they can get you this you mess around with staff, that's at ten years on your record. >> i didn't have any problems with mr. lomax for some time. he hadn't been radical recently. in his past he probably has been more vocal and disorderly and -- >> i moved away from all that because i did that and done that and been in lock. it and the been locked up make shure -- have their contro

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advised. while many prisoners at wabash have committed horrendous acts, both to others and to themselves, you're about to meet two men whose shocking crimes are simply beyond our description. we warn you again, what you're about to hear is extremely graphic. >> i believe that people coming into our system, i think, our are bringing their illness with them. i think that a lot of times they have no structure out in society to make sure they're taking medications and getting treatment. >> within the residential treatment unit at wabash valley are some of the most violent and disturbed inmates at the facility. once again, with the permission from the prison and mental health staff, as well as the inmates, our cameras return to the rtu where the prisoners tell us their chilling stories.

>> i'm frank street jr. i'm 38 years old. i have been down since 1993 for shooting my mom. i started having delusions that people were out there hurting me. so i came home and i loaded up my dad's 30/30 because i thought people were coming after me. my mom came running up and said, "frankie, frankie, what are you doing? what are you doing?" and she came charging after the gun and i shot her right in the head with the 30/30. >> inmate frank street was 26 years old when he killed his mother but it's what he did after that, that's most disturbing. >> i've become delusional. they say insane. i heard a voice that said, you got to eat some of her brains for her to become part of you. i wasn't a sane person who did that back then. you don't eat brains from somebody's body if you're sane. back then i was insane. and i -- i went to prison. i don't think i should have gone to prison. >> sometimes my feeling is that many courts are having to deal

with these people and don't know what to do with them and kind of throw up their hands and say, hey, i have nothing else to do but send this person to prison and we end up with them. >> frank is being treated in the residential treatment unit for advanced schizophrenia, regularly receiving medication for his illness. >> probably one of the biggest things that we're able to monitor here and what we watch here, is this person taking their medication? many times, as long as they're taking their medications and keeping their contacts with the mental health professionals, they can function and do pretty well. >> proliction and haldol and progentin. i need medication. until i die, i may need medication. >> frank also receives counseling to deal with his horrific crime. >> you know, i'm not as bad as i used to be. you know, i probably remember things. i have a track of mind. i'm not acting crazy or nothing. i'm not going crazy acting anymore, you know. so i just -- we all do the best

we can. i have gone through umpteen gazillion psychiatrists now. i can't talk about it now. years ago i couldn't. ♪ >> some inmates have a hard time finding mental balance. timothy anderson has been in and out of most institutions in the state. in the rtu, he has found some semblance of stability. >> how are you doing, boys? >> everybody's mentally ill here and they're all on medication. that helps me to sort of fit in. they think i'm silly, but they're silly too. everybody's silly. this is a place where you can get away with just about anything. sometimes a person gets in my face because i'm a little tall and i'm a little big, and i wish i was really big and strong for sure, you know. they say, man, you're nothing but a snitch and a juggler and i'm gonna kick your ass. i'm going to throw you over -- i said, grab ahold of me and see what happens.

i will just strangle your little puny ass. i'll just strangle you. that's all. that's what i'm in here for. that's all. >> anderson is being treated for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. >> this is tommy. i'm dick's mother. >> bipolar disorder, there are two poles. hypertension, you're really

hyperactive and you just want to stay up all night because you feel really good and then you start dipping. it could be five minutes and you go to another pole. >> $50 on the bag. >> you just -- you just -- i was like, man, i just wanna kill myself. this is ridiculous. and then oh, man, i'm glad i'm alive. but the lithium carbonate keeps you like this. >> our goal is to get people with mental illness out into general population, to have jobs, to go to school and to do everything that everybody else does here. so they're all throughout the facility. >> most of these guys are going to be returning to the streets. not everyone is sent to prison with a life sentence. and with that in mind, i think i would feel safer and feel better about these people going back to the streets with the kind of skills that we can provide them, instead of just opening the doors when their sentence is done and hoping the best. >> there are successful graduates of the rtu program. terry mahler has 35 years left on his sentence for his sex offense crime. he was not able to function in general population. >> i've been diagnosed with clinical depression and extreme stressful situations. i hear voices, noise-induced paranoia. anxiety attacks. sometimes when you get into a big crowd, you know, your mental illness seems to just explode. and it got to the point where i didn't want to live anymore. i just wanted to kill myself, you know, my mental illness was so bad. >> terry was transferred to the rtu, where he received treatment to help him cope with this

stressful environment. >> i was given some one-on-one therapy, and i was also put into group therapy. they got me into school. i was able to get my ged, which helped my self-esteem. >> terry now lives in general population. his cellmates also came from the

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serving time in the shu at wabash means being locked in a 7 by 12 foot cell 23 hours a day. >> these places can make a monster. you know, you can come to prison and you can halfway educate yourself on how you're going to stay out, get an education in life. or you can come in here and learn how to be a better criminal. a lot of people just -- just can't deal with isolation. >> oh, man, you read my eyes like -- >> in an attempt to help inmates come to terms with their crimes, one unique program uses literature. ♪ this particular group is discussing "macbeth," shakespeare's tragedy about a

general's murderous rise to power and eventual demise. >> i'm from the hood, you know, i'm from the hood. and since i came in contact with shakespeare, i see a lot of those parallels that correlate with urban life, you know, to urban lifehood, you know, the 21st century in comparison to the 1600s, the time shakespeare wrote the play. >> "macbeth" mirrors a life of tragedy but also brings about understanding because when you look into something and you see yourself, and you understand yourself, you understand the world. >> what is the relationship between "macbeth" and banquil? shakespeare doesn't fill in that gap. are they friends? does he feel some loyalty? does he feel some ambivalence? on the one hand, this is the prince and the father of the prince they have to get rid of. >> professor laura bates from indiana state university has been volunteering in prisons for more than 20 years. she founded a unique program

called "shakespeare in the shu." >> we chose "macbeth" as our main text for a lot of important reasons. the idea of looking at the choices that this character makes, someone who is in aristotle's terms a tragic hero. he's a noble man, an honorable man, a good man who made bad choices. >> i'm in prison for murder. um, i got 60 years for murder. but i'm the hero now. >> i will say for whiskey, to recruit these gutter tramps. they ain't trained and they are going against this valued general. what i'm saying is, that's risky, right? >> everything he's doing from the beginning to the end of this play is risky. once he decided to take that turn to go back, he got so much to lose, you know what i'm saying? so he's risking everything from that point on. yeah, he's taking risks. >> for every action, there's a

reaction. so i can relate to "macbeth" by the choices he made, you know, taking his punishment, no matter how much he tried to go in and around it to fix it, it just got worse and worse, you know. and that's what it's like with our cases. choices was mistakes and now we're paying for it. >> his mind still ain't fully focused on the deeds ahead and now he stumbles along making plans and that's why he makes mistakes. >> the inmates not only read and discuss shakespeare, they rewrite scenes in their own words. >> banquo, the songs on the radio, many men wish death upon me. blood in my eye, dog, and i can't see. i'm trying to be what i'm destined to be. and haters trying to take my life away. banquo within himself. that 50 cent song gives me the feeling something is not right for tonight's formal dinner.

i have been keeping it real from day one. mac, i'm on a trip. >> this program, being on the shu, is something that's really neat because i sat here 2 1/2 years and i have seen people mentally just collapse. >> all right. >> all right, birds. >> this place suffocates you, you know what i'm saying. they say it's built for you to come out one two of ways. you're going to be as hard and steel that you're engaged in or as soft as the grass that you walk on when you leave here. >> we are the only group that has a shakespeare program with a segregated housing unit component for starters. and the other special thing that we do is now link up the individuals in that unit who are rewriting shakespeare's play and linking them with these actors in level four. >> hey there, hackett! should we fear for our lives?

our instincts screams danger. why do you look on us with such anger? >> have i not reason for you to act on your own and not consult me is like treason. how dare you scheme and plot on affairs of witchery and death with the skills of mere mortals such as macbeth. >> it's a nice two-way collaboration. i think that's very important for the segregated population in particular, a chance that their voices are heard. that there's an audience awaiting what they are writing. the authors there have been very an audience awaiting what they're writing. the authors there have been very much aware that they want to speak to the general population through shakespeare's language. >> it's not a vacation. and time we dare not waste. [ applause ] >> this is the first time iras white, one of the writers of this play, has seen his work performed. >> when he was speaking, i knew everything -- i knew the words

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like many states, indiana has been hit by a growing number of people using and making methamphetamine. >> methamphetamine affects everyone, regardless of social status, regardless of crime. that seems to be a common bond between many of the people we have in our system. >> i got ten years for attempted manufacturing of methamphetamines. two armed robbery charges, two

forgery charges, grand theft auto charge. it's not really an excuse for going out and robbing somebody. but when you're high on that meth, it's hard to explain how you feel, and i don't know. it's hard to explain. it's easy for me to do crazy stuff when i'm high. >> wabash valley correctional facility has unveiled a new weapon against meth dealers and addicts in its system. a drug rehabilitation unit called c.l.i.f.f. the program had only been open for a few months when our cameras came to visit but was already operating at full capacity. >> clean life is freedom forever, is what the acronym really stands for. they have to really work to be involved in it. they have homework. they're on the go from about 5:00 in the morning until about 10:30, 11:00 at night with activities, groups, education. and what i like about it is the

individual that's here has to be here of their own accord. it's voluntary. they have to want to change and want to do something because it does require them to make a lot of effort. >> i just wrote to my mother, who is my best friend. she's the one that's been there for me more than anybody in the world. i love my mom a lot. and i just -- i'm thankful that i got a program like this now and hopefully i can get something out of this so i can show her that i -- that i can change. i'm sorry. because i don't want to do this no more. >> offenders come to the program from all over the system, and can receive a six-month sentence

reduction with full participation. >> i would like to see something like skilled trades. you know, like newcastle opened up a skill trades auto body. something you can go out here and make an honest living without going out there making $6 an hour, $6.50, and go back to the world thinking, well, i can't do this. you know, i'm beating myself up. i can't make ends meet. i'm just going to make one quick batch and be done with it, you know what i'm saying? i'm going to get on my feet and then i'll quit or whatever. and in reality we all know we can't do that. >> i'm most worried about being a convicted felon and going out there and having to rely on a temporary service making $6, $7 an hour and paying for house arrest, trying to establish my own residence. that's going to be a really tough thing, because when i leave here i've lost everything. >> eddie newlin is in prison for manufacturing methamphetamine. >> when i look back at where i came from, i was the lower life of society. even though i didn't think i harmed nobody or done nothing

wrong, running around sticking needles in my arms, leaving labs laying in the woods, not having no real cares about nobody but myself. if i go back out there and get on drugs, there's no way i'll make it. i know that. there's no ifs, ands or buts. but if i use this program to my advantage and i get some good foundation and i meet some decent people, sooner or later, something will catch a hold. i believe that, anyhow. >> we can give them the tools here to deal with their addiction, but when they get out they're still going to have to have a strong support system when they get out, or they'll relapse. they do need to have a family support system or some kind of support system to hold them accountable when they get out. >> with ten months left on his sentence left, josey turner will miss one of the biggest milestones in his life and have a really good reason to stay clean. >> my wife's due in two weeks. anytime. it could be any day they should be giving me a phone call and

letting me know whether it's born. so i'm pretty excited about that, you know. that's a big reason i want to stay clean, too. i've got somebody else to take care of now. it's not just me anymore. i can't be selfish. this is my first offense. i'm 21 years old. i ain't never been in trouble before in my life. i'm here. at least i'm in a program that can help me. i thank god for that every day. it's a blessing in disguise. i got a little girl on the way, and i don't want to get back out there using. you know, i'll end up dead or back here. >> you've got -- >> since the c.l.i.f.f. program has been operating less than one year, it's too early to tell how successful it will be, but so far the signs are promising. >> we started seeing a lot of success already with some of the guys that started when we first opened. we're already seeing a change in their behavior, seeing a change in their attitude. so that's a positive thing p >> i know it's crazy to say this, but i'm glad that i'm here because i didn't want something like that to happen. i didn't want my mom to go to my funeral. >> i can go through ten of these

programs and if i don't want it i ain't going to get it. i want it. >> meth is estimated to be about ten times more addictive than cocaine. in order to help combat the problem of overcrowded prisons, experts say there's a need for more programs like c.l.i.f.f. at other facilities. that's our report. thanks for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates. "lockup." >> get on the ground! put your hands behind your back! >> 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 is trained to help apprehend. >> i'm comfortable out on my lines. i got my horse, my guns. >> because 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.