what's the possible consequence that could happen behind this, you know? and a lot of people don't think about that, man. a lot of people don't ponder the outcome of what they doing. they just do it until they realize, damn, man, this consequence is too harsh, what i just did. the reward don't outpay the risk. and before you know it, you're paying with your life, man. i'm paying with my life. i've got 50 years, man? you know, that's a life. i'm 27. 50 plus 27. 77 years old, are you serious? come on, man. that's life.

due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> you just trip over something? >> i don't remember. >> you don't remember? did somebody help you fall? a prison inmate is covering up his own brutal beating. >> i don't like you using the same one that everyone is using because you bring that funk into my cell. >> two cell mates share.

>> i go by a dumpster and i wonder. i wonder is that one of my daughter's last resting places. >> ♪ everybody locked up. plucked from death row an inmate tries to make a difference. >> note amazing grace. >> at the end of the day life is about choices. all of this stuff is an illusion. indiana's wabash valley correctional facility houses

nearly 2,200 inmates. more than one-third of them are doing time for serious violent crimes. unless isolated in solitary confinement, the vast majority of inmates live in two-man cells. pairings are critical, and avoiding a volatile mix of cellmates a constant challenge. >> we try to not put people doing life with people who are going home next year or blacks with whites or white supremist where with someone with a child molestation case just to resolve the conflict before it happens. >> but even with careful screening, conflicts can still arise between cellmates. >> it was reported we had an assault. there's a guy in the infirmary who's received several injuries to his facial and head area, and at this point he's saying he just had a seizure. so at this point we're going to go over and try to talk to him. i think we discovered he may have been assaulted with a hot pot.

we're going to talk to him and see if he is willing to talk at all. >> the victim is curt its cash who is serving a 29-year sentence for burglary. >> cash? >> yeah. >> what's up with you, man? >> you can stay laid down if you want to? what happened to you, bud? >> fell. >> where? >> in my cell. >> did you get dizzy? >> yeah. >> did you have a seizure? >> i don't remember. >> have you fell like this before? >> no. >> do you have a medical condition that would make you fall? >> no. >> you just trip over something? >> i don't remember. >> you don't remember? did somebody help you fall? >> no. >> no? is it safe to assume that probably something more than you falling happened that you just don't want to talk about? >> i don't -- >> who do you live with? >> woods. >> woods? >> yeah. >> what's his first name? >> i don't know? >> how long have you guys lived together?

>> probably eight months. >> eight months. and you think you're safe going back to the same cell you was in? >> yeah. >> you don't think you'll fall again? >> no. >> you think for whatever reason you fell for this time is over with and you won't fall more? >> should be. >> you understand where i'm coming from. we've got to protect you. >> yeah, i understand. >> you don't want to talk about what happened? >> trying to get medical attention. >> i will get you nixed up. they have done x-raies right? >> he reported he fell in his cell, which is typical in prison instead of these guys wanting to snip on anybody they'll say they fell or had a seizure or hit their head playing basketball. these look like substantial injuries. it looks like his jaw is broken or his orbital is fractured. staff think that something was done with a hot pot. there was a hot pot inside cell

that was broke. the cellmate is in cuffs. we'll go over to him and see what he's got to say. >> the cellmate is dana woods, serving 70 years for aggravated battery and criminal confinement. >> apparently there was a little incident in the cell and we want to talk to you about. >> the man fell. >> substantial injuries for just falling. >> i'm sure the man had epileptic seizures and they found him on the floor. >> there was a lot of blood -- a lot of blood in the cell. >> right. he had a good gash on his head. >> how did the hot pot get broke? >> the hot pot? >> it was in the cell. >> we were fixing a hot pot before and it had been in the trash the whole time. >> i can tell you i've been here 15 years and nobody just had a fall that looked like that. >> he fell on the bed. >> i'm not going to tell you what he told me just like i

wouldn't tell anybody else what you told me if you were beat up. that kind of puts people's lives in danger. i'm not going to start doing that now. he might have told me he fell and might have said you beat the [ bleep ] out of him. >> that didn't happen. >> you are running around here assaulting people, and i'm convinced you did this. it's not a simple fall. but you're not going to man up and tell me why it happened? >> the man sprayed blood all over the place. >> that's not the truth at all and we both know it. so -- i'll -- i'll make different housing arrangements for you if you don't want to actually tell me what was going on. he's maintaining the story that nothing happened, that he didn't do anything, the guy fell. so at this point, you know, we'll go in and i'm going to

look at the cell and see what it looks like. >> while violence between cellmates is always a possibility in prison, for philip and curtis, living together has had the opposite effect. >> is that that diabetic peanut butter? >> it has no taste to it. >> put the cookie on the peanut butter. >> i have to get rid of this stomach. >> all right. >> dear heavenly father, lord, we thank you for this meal. >> old curt. curt is a good brother, man. he's a gentle giant. he brought a lot of balance into my life. we have been cellies for almost two years. >> stroud never imagined he'd have a cellmate. he used to be housed on indiana's death row, living alone in a cell awaiting execution. >> i'm in prison for three counts of murder, three counts

of robbery, and two counts of dealing in cocaine. i spent three years on death row. went on a robbery. half a million-dollar score. it was a residence, a safe. three people -- three innocent people end up losing their life when they didn't have to. they didn't deserve to. >> stroud's victims were contractors working at the home stroud and his accomplices robbed. stroud ordered the men tied up and shot each in the head with a pistol. >> when i first walked on death row, the thing that hit me first was the silence. the absolute silence.

walking on there was the type of silence that takes you in, the type of silence that's listening to you, watching your every move to see how you're going to respond to it. i came on the unit 23 years old, trying to project courage, confidence, and strength, but on the inside, i was upset. i was confused and i was afraid. the thing i remember the most was the cold concrete floor underneath my bare feet. and it just sitting on the edge of that bunk, man, and i just broke down and started crying and crying for all the people that i hurt, crying for justice, crying for my mother. you know what i mean? and during those three years,

seven men, you know, were executed. they lost their lives. >> a change in indiana's capital punishment laws saved stroud from joining them. his sentence was commuted to three life terms without the possibility of parole. but stroud's salvation did not immediately make him a better inmate. >> i was the thug of them all. my pa said i was the chief among all sinners. i was the bully's bully. i could make things move how i wanted to make them move. that was just a gift that i had. >> that all changed when he found himself sharing a cell with mcgrown who's serving 40 years for armed robbery and criminal confinement. >> when i first came over he was rough around the edges. me being a mel low-type guy, i'm low key, god came through me to help straighten him out a little bit. >> starting to thin out on the top. >> that's my sunroof. >> your convertible. >> bald-headed brothers is in. women like bald-headed dudes. >> he's changed a whole lot.

i'm proud that god used me to work with him after his reputation around the prison and on the street. >> i'm just thankful that i can be used, you know, and i got a brother like that that has brought so much balance to my life. >> just as he credits mcgrown with helping him become a better man, stroud says he's determined to pay it forward. he spends his free time tutoring other inmates like keno austin who's trying to earn his ged. >> what is the answer? >> the front. >> no. >> the opposite of left is -- >> i'm tripping. >> don't get [ indiscernible ] no. >> we just here trying to offer critical thinking skills, you know, conflict resolution, ways to settle disputes without resorting to violence, just use the platform and the credibility that we do from our past lives to try to effect positive change on these youngsters' lives in here and on the streets.

you doing good, man. man, you catch on quick. >> for real. >> for real. coming up, two cellmates with two unthinkable crimes. and later -- >> what have you seen so far? >> surveillance footage provides a new view as investigators try to figure out what happened to curtis cash, whether his cellmate should bear the blame. sometimes what we suffer from is bigger than we think ... like the flu. with aches, fever and chills- the flu's a really big deal. so why treat it like it's a little cold?

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at indiana's wabash valley correctional facility most of the inmates live in two-man cells, and like any two people sharing close quarters, cleanliness is vital. >> why are you sweeping with your hands? >> i don't like using the same broom everybody uses because

then i'm just bringing their funk into my cell. >> when do you think we're doing spring cleaning? >> it's not going to be today. i'm already cleaning the floor. >> i was just asking. >> i will make time for it sometime over the weekend. >> sunday. just do it sunday. >> all right. >> cellmates for a year, these two might have different priorities, but they share the stigma of having separately committed unthinkable crimes. >> from day one i've known that the things that i've done even among criminals was way, way off it, you know, the end of the deep end. when i was younger, i was a very, very bad person. something was broken.

and i just -- i didn't think like other kids my age did. >> trowbridge was 14 years old the day he was brought to prison. he was high on inhalents. his victim was a 69-year-old female neighbor working in the backyard of her trailer home. >> i see that her front door is open and me being the person that i was, that clicked. okay. go get some money. and that was my intent when i went up in there. and she came in and she actually scared me when she came in because i didn't know that she came in. and i attacked her, and i sexually assaulted her, and i killed her.

and i robbed her. and i left. the poor woman didn't stand a chance. >> prosecutors determined that trowbridge not only strangled his victim but sexually assaulted her after her death. he was sentenced to 77 years for robbery, murder, and abuse of a corpse. he has already served 15 and with good behavior could be out of prison by age 50. he currently lives in wabash's protective custody unit which houses inmates whose lives could be at risk in general population due to the nature of their crimes. trowbridge's cellmate, joshua bean, shares the same unusual pairing of convictions, murder and abuse of a corpse. he's serving 68 years.

the victim was his ex-girlfriend, heather norris. >> it was a toxic relationship. it was love/hate, and i still very much love her. >> throughout the couple's three-year relationship, heather had told her family that bean was physically abusive, and even though bean faced a pending trial on domestic abuse charges at the time of heather's murder, he says he wasn't abusive. >> the whole thing was predicated on a lie, and the lie is that we had a violent relationship. i'm not saying i'm without fault. but as far as what happened with her death, worst case, voluntary manslaughter. best case, self-defense. >> bean insists the come had an argument and heather came at him with a knife.

>> i tried to pry the knife out of her hand, and even still after i had the knife, she continued to come forward. that kind of caught me off guard. and in the heat of the moment, i reacted. i stabbed her in the side right here. >> but according to court records, bean had confessed to a friend that he stabbed heather several times and slit her throat. no one knows for sure because her body was never recovered. >> i decided to try to do something with the body. i thought, well, cremation. but at the time i didn't know the specifics behind it. so i made an attempt to burn her body. a botched attempt. i ended up buying a chain saw. that's what people can't get past.

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at indiana's wabash valley correctional far the m-house cellblock has been put on shutdown until investigators can

determine the cause of cash's severe facial injuries. both cash and his cellmate woods claim that cash simply fell. but internal investigator frank little john suspects a cover-up. >> the suspect probably told the victim don't tell on me. tell them you fell. >> littlejohn suspects that woods might have used the hot pot to assault his cellmate. >> the hot pot was down in the trash. >> littlejohn's next step is to investigate the cell itself. >> it looks like -- obviously you can see a little blood here. it looks like he tried to clean the blood up actually before the staff arrived. there's blood on the bedding, some of the back window. so it was probably a little struggle. it looks like he's already packed his property, so he knew. that's pretty typical. they pack their stuff up so the

officers don't get things mixed up. he is ready to go to segregation. he knew he would be going. >> little john also checked cell house surveillance footage. while there is no coverage inside the cell, he wants to rule out the possibility of another assailant entering the cell. >> what have you seen? >> nobody goes up or comes out. >> nobody has been in or out between breakfast or lunch. >> you see the officers are at the cell. this is offender cash. he's the offender with the injuries. this is the cellmate coming out. >> the video doesn't show anything as far as the assault taking place. it shows that nobody entered or exited the cell other than the two and they didn't come out for breakfast or for lunch. whatever happened inside the cell. >> woods was taken to the

custody control unit where he will be locked into a single-person cell 23 hours day pending the results of the investigation. >> go ahead and strip down. socks and everything. everything. put that on. >> they put us in a room. they don't give us no manual to teach us how to live in a box with another man. it's really hard. it's really hard, man. especially when they have a seizures and get hurt in their cells, you get blamed for it. coming up, joshua bean faces new troubles following a shakedown. >> you are presenting positive for methamphetamine. >> and later his victim's mother talk about the brutality of her daughter's murder. >> i have nightmares of heather's last moments were calling out for me to help her. ♪

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here is what is happening. a san diego police officer was shot and wounded. the officer went to the theater in response to a domestic violence call. vice president biden will meet with any of the families of the newtown gun tragedy. >> snow, strong winds and freezing temperatures are gr gripping north dakota right now. now, back to the program. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. it's where to be.

it's where to be. locked up. yeah. the steps you don't want to follow because life without parole is a hard pill to swallow. tomorrow isn't promised because today isn't finished. i can feel the tension when there's drama in the building. there's nowhere for you to run, nowhere for you to hide. i suggest you stay away from here and follow god. this ain't the place you want to be because prison life is hard. locked up. locked up, everybody locked up. this ain't the place you want to be because prison life is hard. locked up, locked up, everybody locked up. this ain't the place you want to be because prison life is hard. make different choices than the ones i made. stay free. keep it real. peace. >> though phillip stroud will never live life beyond the perimeter fences of indiana's wabash correctional facility, he has found other means of

liberation. ♪ >> music to me is more important than food or water or than anything. it makes me free. it just makes me free, you know. ♪ >> stroud leads the prison choir. they perform during sunday church services and at special events, and his cellmate curtis mcgrown has been a constant source of help and inspiration. >> you have your choice and you should have made a change. there's nowhere for you to run. nowhere left to hide. i suggest you stay away from here and followed to go. i know it's hard out on them streets, but prison life is harder. >> that is one of the best ones

i have heard him sing right there. >> he raps a lot and sings a lot. he will be waking me up at 3:00 to write a rap for church or a letter. i look at myself as a mentor toward him, you know. >> what position am i playing in the choir? >> doo-doo-doo-doo. >> i can't doo-doo-doo. >> you like you can. >> that's then. that's stereo typing. >> these gone. >> that's all right. it will be gone. >> mm-hmm. ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me ♪ >> once facing life on death row stroud is serving three life sentences without the possibility of parole for murder.

>> i'm using my street credibility, my music to influence them in a different direction because i'm mindful that it is a lot of people who do look toward me. ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me ♪ >> it's been 11 years since the triple murder that brought stroud to prison. for the past several years he has a clean conduct record and is committed to becoming a new man, one other than the one who wreaked havoc on the streets. >> if you had something that that i wanted, whether it was your girlfriend, your car, your money, your territory, whatever, if i wanted that, i was coming to get that. if you tried to come get it from me, then i was coming to get you. if i was coming to see you, it was over with. usually i would probably be the last person that you would see,

you know. i was the nuclear option. [ music playing ] >> at the end of the day, life is about choices. all of this stuff is an illusion, the life i led on the streets, the dope dealing, the gang banging, the getting drunk and getting high. if you really want to keep it real, you've got to make better choices than the ones you made. it can lead you down one of three paths, death, a life in prison, or an empty existence on the streets. >> one-man band for our first go-around. >> while stroud uses music to

escape the restraints of prison, many others turn to drugs. and despite the efforts of staff, drugs are smuggled into the prison. traffic and abuse pose security problems. security officers conduct surprise shakedowns to find drugs. inmates are also required to give urine samples. today's target is the protective custody unit. >> two-man teams. bring them out and set them down. >> 504. >> remember, these guys are all in protective custody, so a little space between them. >> opposite end. >> among those to to be searched and tested are two of wabash's more high-profile inmates, joshua bean and dustin trowbridge.

>> open 504. >> shortly after bean and trowbridge are allowed back this their cell, corrections officers return to administer the drug tests. >> we test for eight different drugs, morphine, oxy, meth, pcp, cocaine, amphetamines, meth amphetamine, and marijuana. >> bean. >> the containers are designed with a drug detection patch that provides immediate results. all right. bean, right? i have you showing positive for methamphetamine. that's what you're testing for. you want it sent to the lab. >> send it to the lab. there's no way. >> if an inmate tests positive, he can request a second test

from an outside lab. bean is confident it is because of a prescription drug he's allowed to take. >> i'm on wellbutrin. >> getting narcotics or anything like that back here is next to impossible, so, you know, i don't have a doubt when it goes to the lab, i'll be all right. >> for bean, a positive drug test could result in a transfer out of the protective custody unit where the high-profile nature of his crime, the murder of his ex-girlfriend and destroying her corpse could make him a target among other inmates. >> i haven't been anywhere, in the county or prison, where i hadn't run into someone who knew who i was or seen this stuff, the news on the case. it follows you everywhere. i tested positive for pot maybe a year or two ago and they took me to a disciplinary unit in g-house.

i was over there for a half hour and had four or five people say, look, if you don't get out of here, we're just going to straight stab you. coming up, investigators reach conclusions on both curtis cash and bean. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much. i appreciate it. i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. your money needs an ally.

it's been nearly a week since wabash valley inmate dana woods has been accused of brutally beating his cellmate. curtis cash suffered a broken jaw and a bloody face. since then woods has been on a 23-hour lockdown in the custody control unit as internal affairs completed his investigation.

>> it appeared on the scene when we arrived that cash had been assaulted by woods with a hot spot. he sustained lacerations to his face, multiple bruising to his neck and all over his body where it appeared to us that he had been kicked. >> but both cellmates are sticking to the same story, that cash's injuries were the result of falling down in the cell. >> because of the lack of cooperation from the alleged assailant and the alleged victim, we did not file any external or internal charges on mr. woods or mr. cash. >> both of these guys have a lot of years left in prison. so it's normal for the victim not to want to talk. he's not going to want to be labeled as a snitch. that will further the probability of being assaulted in the future. he is maintaining the story that he fell.

>> woods was released from the custody control unit and returned to general population. but he's been given a new cell assignment in a new housing unit. >> you've got to get along in here. you've got to. >> yeah. we get along good. >> have you seen cash since the altercation? >> no. he's on the other side of the prison. >> did you guys leave on good terms? >> of course. >> over in the protective custody unit, joshua bean has received word on his ongoing investigation. after testing positive for meth am get mean during a recent shakedown, bean requested an outside lab conduct its own test. the results came back negative backing up bean's claims. i take wellbutrin. pretty much anyone who takes wellbutrin in here tests positive for methamphetamines. thanks. >> you're welcome. >> that's what i figured it would be from the beginning. i knew i wasn't doing anything. >> open your mouth.

thank you. >> although the drug creates problems whenever he's tested, according to bean it's become his lifeline. he says he needs the medication to cope with the anxiety and stress of being incarcerated for the murder of his girlfriend. >> and, you know, just when i think i have a grip on it, these wounds are scar tissue. i thought it was healed, but it just opens back up all over again. and you know i'm -- sometimes partially in tears, sometimes i just want to hit the off switch when i don't have one. there's no on and off to a lot of this kind of stuff. it happens when it happens, you know, and i east just got to deal with it. >> on the eve of his 30th birthday, bean's cellmate dustin trowbridge has spent nearly half of his life in prison for murdering and assaulting a 69-year-old woman. he, too, attempts to make peace with the past.

>> i didn't used to like myself. i had a lot of hatred toward myself for a long time. on the back of my arms it says "freak of nature." you know, i started seeing things completely different. i started understanding things different too. and i changed, you know. i don't want to say it's because i found god or anything like that because truthfully that all came afterward. that didn't come until years after i figured out what a piece of grab i really used to be. coming up -- >> i can never ask you to forgive me. >> they reach out to the women they not only murdered but whose bodies they desecrated. >> i never wanted anything other than your love.

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more than 2,000 inmates are housed behind the walls of the wabash valley correctional facility. but housing assignments are temporary as cellmates shroud and mcgrown have just found out they were moved from their larger corner cell to a smaller one on the other side of the unit. ing i inging >> why did they move you out of the corner area? >> did you see the dude in that cell now? >> he's a little bit bigger. i think he needs that cell more

than we did. >> you think they moved you out of that cell because there was a bigger guy moving in? >> i think it was a handicapped cell. we're both kind of small. i'm bigger than him, but the guy bigger than me needed that cell more than me. inging they looked like they was in a matchbox when we moved in here. >> but for stroud the only thing that changed is the view. >> to me it's all prison. you know, that's how i look at it. whether the cell was ten times this size or half this size, i might have been in worse situations. i just look at it like we are still in prison and can't go home. the only environment is this environment right here, you know what i mean. i got a nice view. i got a view they look out of now, and it really -- it really

-- >> step over here so you can see. >> to any young person or anybody who thinks that coming to prison is cool or whatever -- come here. that's what i got to look at for the rest of my life. those wires. that might be the closest that i ever get to freedom. it's close, but it's far away. that's what lockup is. that is what my extended stay is like. that's for real. that's real life. it's not high like in the movies. it ain't none of that, man. this is my bed. when i look out the window, that's what i see. >> dustin trowbridge keeps a unique record of the cells he's occupied over the last 15 years. >> i wrote down where i was every birthday that i had since i been in here. 15th was in the drunk tank in the county jail. 16th was in the cell above me. 17th was over here on the right side.

18th was on the right side. >> trowbridge has decided to mark his 30th birthday by writing a letter to the elderly woman he robbed, murdered, and sexually assaulted. >> i can never ask you to forgive me for the horrible things i did to you. i can't find it in me to forgive myself. i am sorry. i'm sorry i stole your sense of security when i snuck in your home. i'm sorry i stole your sense of accomplishment and endeavors. i'm sorry i stole your dignity. i'm sorry i stole you from your loved ones when i very cowardly took the very life god gave you. there's really no words that can express how sorry i am. to those who knew and loved [ bleep ], i'm sorry. i will not ask for forgiveness either.

every day for over half my life not a moment has gone by when i didn't hang my head in guilt and shame. that's it. >> why did you feel the need to write that? >> well, i think it was -- this was as much for myself as it was for anybody else's sake. i -- this is probably going to sound kind of silly, but i really didn't -- couldn't comprehend death until someone i knew -- until i had experienced that loss. and it -- it kind of put things in a completely different perspective when my grandma died. >> trowbridge's cellmate, joshua bean, also wrote a letter to his victim, heather, his former girlfriend, whom he stabbed to death. i can't push these emotions to

the darkest most solitaire place in my mind anymore. i've suppressed so much. now your parents think i abused and beat you on multiple occasions, and now your friends think i controlled you and forced do you be with me. i'm so far from abusive sometimes i find it hard to believe how i wound up where i am. i never wanted anything other than your love, babe. i never would have hurt you. yet you are dead and i might as well be. >> but debby norris, heather's mother says that bean is a liar. >> i know that heather was beaten by him at least four times, four times that were pretty bad. one time she ended up going to the hospital after a beating. two of those beatings she pressed charges, and he was arrested on one charge, and the other charge was pending when he killed her. >> debby norris did not allow

her daughter to die in vain. after heather's death she led the effort that resulted in the passing of heather's law, which made domestic violence education a requirement in indiana high schools. >> i'm trying to educate the young people on what a healthy relationship is and the signs that they need to look for and what do and that there's people out there that care and that there's resources for them to turn to. when you're in abusive relationship and you decide to go back, you're going to hear the words "i'm sorry," "i've changed," "i'll never do it again," i love you," and you do end up going back, and i believe that's what heather did. >> i mean she loved me. i know she did. when she -- when she was --

after she got me, i had stabbed her right here, she lie down and i heard her in my arms and before she died, she said, i love you, and those were her last words. >> during his sentencing one of the things that he did say was heathers last words were that i love you, josh. i will never believe that. i have nightmares that heather's last moments was calling out for me to help her because she had done that so many times before. i don't see where this would have been any different. >> one fact that is indisputable is that bean attempted to get away with murdering heather by dismembering her body with a chain saw and placing the parts in trash dumpsters throughout indianapolis.