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>> i still miss my little buddy. i mean when you do your time with a cat for 15 years, you just -- you miss having them around. you know. but, yeah, i said i hope i get out of here so i can pick my little buddy back up. not a whole lot else i want to say except jinkster if you're out there and you're looking at the tv screen right now, it's me you little fella? you know what that means little fella. my little fur ball buddy. hopefully i'll get out there soon. you can show me what the free world's about.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. give me the respect and courtesy of a human being and not an animal and you will receive the same. he fights to be freed from 16 years of solitary assignment. boyhood friends struggle to father their kids from behind prison walls but one, cut off from visits with his son is on a razor's edge.
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>> i've been hurt a lot. i seek revenge for that. >> h achlail, all ye holy god's a convicted murder seeks for -- we have turned our cameras over to the inmates to share personal thoughts in the privacy of ourselves. >> wabash, lockup, extended stay. welcome to the belly of the beast. >> i hate wabash. they make sure you are in prison every day. >> who wants to be locked into a rom with another man for 19
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hours a day. >> the 3 1/2 hours we come out are to get the worst food you have ever ate in your life. i don't know how they call it food. >> every day, things people take for granted, we would cherish right now. >> wabash valley correctional facility, a maximum security prison on the edge of indiana, the center piece of the town of carlyle, the inmate position of 200. >> the approximate breakdown for offenders that have committed serious offenses against the person which may be murder, val untary manslaughter, assault, is probably 35%, 45% of our population. >> the most violent are housed in single person cells 23 hours a day in the confinement unit.
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few, however, are morneau torus than leonard mcquay, who has spent 16 years here. >> he still is escorted anywhere he goes, a two-man escort e will be cuffed behind his back. he don't get to rec with the other people. his activities are limited. it is all just by himself. that unit is designed for mcquay. that's when he stabbed a corrections officer to death. he stabbed him one time in the front chest area which actually broke a rib. he stabbed him with such force. he actually observed the second stab to the back according to the reports before the officer actually died.
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they said he told them he didn't know if he would make it or not and that mcquay was the one that stabbed him. >> at the time, he was serving 20 years for sexual battery and sentenced to an additional 60 years after being found guilty of murdering the officer. despite the eyewitness accounts, he still proclaims his innocence. >> it's been a long ride but it takes a lot to maintain my balance and my mental health. >> mcquay will soon reach a milestone. his time in confinement is about to surpass the years he spent free in outside world. >> you know how sometime you can be in an environment like this and a person begins to see you as a mad dog. like every chance you get, you just going to lose control or you are going to snap or
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on somebody. that's not me. >> periodically, mcquay files requests to be moved back to general population where he would have considerably more privileges. >> i still believe that leonard mcquay has an ulterior motive. >> the first person he needs to win over is administrative segregation case manager, beverly gilmore. >> we are notorizing what. we all get along with leonard. very likable. very charismatic. so friendly. but he is so overly friendly. it's so fake. it's not for real. >> since coming to wabash, mcquay has been involved in several incidents that have enforced his violent reputation. >> a few years ago, he was on rec bed. he asked for a basketball. when they handed the basketball, he came through the door, pushed
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his way through. began assaulting a couple staff members. and several staff respond add long with myself and -- there was about six of us to finally restrain him and get him down on the ground and get him in cuffs. >> sometime emotionalism can push you over the edge. sometime, you can regret after becoming so emotional, the things that you do. especially when you know that one action can result in a lifetime of misery. >> mcquay said he had a change after converting to islam. >> it's a reflection of a new person, a new man, a changed man. >> mcquay is not the only inmate who says he has gone through a spiritual transformation after coming to prison. marcus murray is a
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selfproclaimed gothi or priest of a little-known germanic religion. >> it is the pre-christian religion of northern europeans. >> hail all ye, holy gods. greater and ses lessor sons. hear me now, your son of -- >> it has proven popular among white inmates in prisons nationwide. murray says he discovered it shortly after coming to wabash, 11 years earlier. he is serving a 60-year sentence for beating another man to death and says asatru, the religion, which worships nordic god has helped him come to grips with the murder. his thor hammer pendant and prison tattoos are symbols of his faith. >> they're all norse, viking age
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is a large portion of asatru, study viking age history. >> the prison officials have begun to see it as something else. a front for white supremacist gangs. asatru members have been allowed to hold services that some prisons. but wabash has band gatherings. >> the gang members are using services to have gang meetings within the services itself. it has been disruptive at other facilities. >> murray denies any ties to white supremacist gangs and has decided to file a grievance to appeal the ban on asatru group meetings. >> it is not a gang. mentality. it hasn't stopped him from recruiting new members. his latest, william jones jr.
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>> he has been teaching me about what the hammer means, what the different gods and goddesses are. >> jones, who also denies being a white supremacist came to wabash three years ago at age 18. he was sentenced to six years for burglary. >> i was hanging out with the wrong people. i was strung out on drugs. and i broke into a house. took a tv and a bunch of other little items like a tattoo gun and took them and sold them for drugs. >> the house he robbed was his father's. >> when my dad called the police he said i strongly believe it was my son, junior. it killed him to do it. >> jones says he would look to rebuild a relationship with his father and will soon hatch the chance. he leaves prison on parole in one week. >> you are not enjoying the weather are you? why would you enjoy the weather? you get to enjoy that all when you go home. next week.
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next thursday. >> he wants to be influenced. he is still being molded as a man. you know he is still a kid. he is turning into somebody. >> delivering papers. >> that's just temporary. just until time to find a real job. >> just glad you have aspirations. >> what the hell does that mean? >> coming up -- >> i got $100 tattooed on my penis. >> two boyhood friend, find themselves at a crossroad. >> i am asking you, miss gilmore to open your heart. >> leonard mcquay tries to rehab his image. i treat him with respect. but i do not trust him. [ thinking ] wonder what other questionable choices i've made? i choose date number 2! whooo! [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego.
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>> i recognize i got a family
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out there that really need me. and spend a lot of time away from me. and say i have always been the best for them. matter of fact their lives probably would have been a lot better without me in it. >> the wabash correctional facility is isolated among miles of corn and soybean fields in indiana. some of the state's most violent inmates are housed here. and they have been known to hurt each other. james stone has been in prison for the past 25 years for attempted murder. and he has had more than a few scrapes in that time. while some inmates have been known to create knives out of toothbrushes or nearly anything else. several years ago when stone was at another prison he devised a new like weapon. >> the cheese graters was
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leather work gloves that i had that i took pads off welding gloves, the inside the welding gloves, i took the pad off of them. put varnish, dipped them in vanish. pad on top of the varnish, let it dry until it got good and tacky. drip back down into the varnish. went to the drill shop where the curly qs are, metal curly qs. dipped in a bunch of them. looked like a metal bush on top of the gloves. then let them dry for a men out. then i ran them through the top layer of the varnish in the can, keep them from breaking off. and let them dry on your hands while your hands stay balled up. once they dry, they last forever. every time you hit some one its like taking cheese through a cheese grater, not pretty. like making slaw. >> among the population of seasoned inmates like stone are
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two young sons. once boyhood friends on the outside they now rely on each other for survival on the inside. >> we met like a different, places we hang out when we was, what? >> 13, 14, maybe at the latest. maybe even 12. >> robbie macinelli is serving six years for armed robbery. and is no stranger to prison. >> i will be 23 in a couple dates. with parole violations, altogether i have came to prison five times. ain't none of it been for a long time. but if i keep coming eventually it is going to be. i don't want that. i really don't have nobody out there. i wish i had some place to go. i wish i could get on my feet and get a job and live life productively. i don't want to keep coming here. this ain't for me. for anything happened wrong with bro he is going to help me stay out. >> you hear me? you already know. >> unlike his boyhood friend in
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and out of prison five times, this is bradley napier's first time behind the walls. as juvenile, he was first placed on house arrest. now serving 15 years for burglary and criminal gang activity. >> when i heard my sentence, i was crying. at 18, getting 16 years, you know, it seemed like forever. seemed like, oh, man. i ain't never getting out, you know? we got a good relationship. we talk to each other crazy. smack each other around when nobody is looking. >> it is always real good afterward. >> though they are from the same hometown, their lives in prison would make it seem like they're from different sides of the tracks. >> his tv is a little older model. my tv is one of the flat screens they started selling. it's expensive.
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but it's just a bigger picture, you know what i mean. everything in here is ours, you know what i mean? it's not -- whatever is mine is his, whatever his is mine. that's the way we live. you know what i mean? >> thanks to support from his family, napier has more money to spend on commissary snacks. so once a week he load up for both himself and his macanalley. >> he eats half of everything. oh, man. he need to carry half of everything. robbie! robbie! [ bleep ] -- >> why would you just grab that? >> all the commissary goes in one box. we both eat out of it. he doesn't have a lot of things going for him that i have. so it is hard for him to stay on the right path. >> one thing he does have is an abundance of tattoos.
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>> i got these praying hands for my dad. my mom's name in the heart. honor thy mother. honor thy father. i got my south side done. my neighborhood where i am from. over here is money bags. naked girls. everybody likes naked girls and money. that's all clowns up there. and ain't too much meaning behind those. >> don't you have $100 bill. >> i do got a $100 bill tattoo. >> where is that? >> that's crazy, bro. >> i got $100 bill tattooed on my penis. >> oh. >> so what do you tell the girls about that, man? >> i mean, that's money to blow. >> the image on his body tells part of the stories. it's the pictures he keeps tucked in a photo album that
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tell the rest. >> how often do you look at it? >> every night. >> he hasn't seen his son in more than two years. he has had a contentious relationship with his son's mother. >> since i came become to prison, me and her got into it. since i came back to prison, i ain't seen him at all. 26 months ago. napier is also the father of a young boy. 2-year-old bradley jr. >> this is what he sent for my birthday. a little thing that came. he colored on and put stickers on. it's my life. my world. >> their relationships to their sons are also marked by a have/have not quality. unlike macanalley, napier enjoys regular visits with his child. >> i wouldn't be able to go through what he is going through. not seeing my son. >> there ain't no reasoning behind 26 months. >> that's just how it is. we're in two different places. >> while macanalley longs for a visit with his son, marcus
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murray has been playing father figure and teaching his asatru religious beliefs to william jones jr. jones is two days away from leaving prison on parole. murray says he hopes that the religion will help keep him from returning to prison. >> so when you are hanging out at the house and you realize you got bills to pay or something like that, and somebody comes over, and they offer you the opportunity for you to make a little bit of easy cash, you know, go rob something, things go bad, things break bad. people get involved. people that weren't supposed to be there come out with shot guns. you get killed. you end up being another justin, another heartbreak i have to deal with. >> right. >> i have been through this before. i have had friends of mine that i have taken under my wing. youngsters.
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that get out before i do. any way. and they get out there. they mess up. in fact, i lost a friend, sick years ago, justin got shot by a police officer in indianapolis. i feel lick i failed him. >> i promise you will i send you a card for every month you are out there. but if you come back, i will send a blanket party your way. >> i'm not coming back, bro. >> all right, thank you. >> coming up -- leonard mcquay gets a job and a chance to prove himself. >> now that was to the dislike of some of my supervisors. they thought that i had lost my mind. >> and later -- marcus murray lashes out when an asatru member says the wrong thing. >> you just made us look like a bunch of [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can't get back to sleep. it's an effective sleep medicine you don't take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep. do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing zolpidem, such as ambien.
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every day islamic prayers can be heard drifting from the cell of leonard mcquay at the wabash correctional facility in indiana. >> five times a day. it is mandatory for muslims, all over the world, five times a day. >> mcquay is serving 60 years for the murder of a corrections officer at another indiana state prison 16 years earlier. since then, he has been an administrative segregation at wabash's secured confinement
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unit. >> when he arrived. >> while mcquay says his koran has helped him grow spiritually, the other books in his cell have helped him grow physically. >> this is what i call my weight bag where every day i do me some curls right here. i do these. i do shrugs, what they call shrugs. do these. i do back arms like this. like this. it's probably about, about 55, 60 pounds. mcquay has spent years trying to earn his way back into general population. but his history as a violent offender continues to haunt him. >> i basically engaged in what i
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consider to be an emotional response to being disrespected. >> i was warned, when i came into this job, regarding offender leonard mcquay. leonard is very smart, very, very clever. he can talk a great talk. >> though caseworker beverly gilmore raised serious questions about mcquay's trustworthiness, her goal is to give segregation inmates an opportunity to prove themselves. so she recently made a controversial decision. after mcquay's successfully completed a prison life skills program, she gave him a job in the housing unit. >> i did make him a sanitation worker. now that was to the dislike of some of my supervisors. they thought that i had lost my mind. i would never, they say, let him get out of his cell. i said let's give him a chance
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i talked to leonard. i said one time you passing a scrap of paper, you will be without your job. we are watching him closer, at least this miss gilmore is, i have something to prove. i think he can do it. >> change is gauged by behavior. if you are actually changing, your behavior must change. and i believe my behavior has changed. >> mcquay hopes a positive job performance will help him win his transfer. and his fate will be determined at his next review which is less than a week away. >> the bottom line is, i am still somebody that deserves respect, and treated look a human being. if it is given to me, i will give it. treat me like a human being. give me respect and courtesy of a human being and not an animal. and you will receive the same. >> coming up -- an asatru follower speaks out of turn. >> i don't have nothing against -- >> then hears about it later. [ indiscernible ]
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i'm veronica de la cruz. a san diego police officer shot and killed an armed man at the movie theater. the officer went to the theater in response to a domestic violence call. >> lance armstrong is reportedly ready to come clean, planning to admit to doping during an interview with oprah winfrey this week. armstrong has spent 13 years strongly denying any suggestion of cheating. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. let's get you back to "lock up." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is adviced. isolated in rural southwestern indiana, the wabash correctional facility is more than 100 miles from a major urban center. it has plenty of reminders of
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urban problems behind its walls. >> wabash valley has approximately 43 different gangs and gang members. that doesn't reflect suspected members. they're all confirmed member. we have approximately some where between 200, 300 suspected gang members at this facility. >> most of the gangs are divided along racial lines. but the majority of gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs. the aryan brotherhood and saxon knights. prison officials suspect a growing religious group known as asatru may be a front. one of the asatru leaders at wabash denies that. >> there has never been anything in my study that says, one race is more dominant over another. one culture more dominant than another.
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or one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe our religion is fine. your religion is fine. >> guy radcliff, practicing asatru for several years here, says there is one group who is not welcome. >> if we find out that somebody in the asatru community was a child molester, he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it is a bylaw. you cannot be a sex offender. and be an asatru. >> ratcliff who used the group's name defended the fact that some members have swastikas tattooed on their body. >> the swastika was around a long time before adolf hitler come along. i don't have nothing against uncle adolf but he took something from my religion was a sun wheel and made it part of his party. it goes become to ancient civilizations.
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they had a swastika in persia way before national socialism came along. >> while radcliff defended asatru, his comments disturbed murray who let him know how much when he returned to his cell. >> you just made us look like a bunch of [ bleep ]. >> i tried to talk about this with you. i swear i did. sorry, marcus. i [ bleep ], bud. i'm sorry. i apologize. dammit. try not to get mad at me, man. >> hard not to, man. you just sank my boat. >> later, we told murray we recorded his exchange with radcliff. and asked him to explain it. >> i was a little mad at him. i mean, it -- he didn't mean, mean any harm. he just -- you know, ignorant of the conduction of leadership roles, you know, and i think now
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that he -- has seen, you know, that it upset me and knows that, it is not really how we do business, i think he has changed his point of view. >> murray hopes to also change the point of view of prison officials. he will soon have a hearing with administrators. to appeal their ban on group worship services among asatru members and to have it removed from the list of security threat groups. robbie macanalley faces a different challenge. he feels isolated from his young son, but from his boyhood friend who just happens to be his cellmate. >> my cellie, a great dude, been knowing him for years. and even before we came to prison. but i got my problems that i ain't seen my son in two years. and [ bleep ] he gets to tripping acting like he knows how i feel. and stressing if he don't see his son in a week.
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gets visits every week. everything possible to get in here he has got it. and i'm in here -- up. >> macanalley, wearing his frustration in prison ink. >> that says vengeance. i have had a lot of wrong done to me. i hurt a lot. i seek revenge. a lot of animosity built up when i go out. i am hoping i can let things go for my sake and son's sake. ain't worth it to come become to prison over. >> he points to another tattoo as the source of his frustration. >> the mother of my child. i'm kind of mad at her that she has not -- she has with held my son from me. >> that could be changing. a recent letter and her submission of a visitation request are indications she is planning to bring his son to see him. >> this ain't the first time she says she is going to come visit.
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let me be in his life. all of a sudden just falls off again. so i am not really going to get my hopes up. last time i seen him. he couldn't walk, couldn't talk. nothing. i can't wit to see him. >> he clings to the hope that the visit will take place. his cellmate, brad napier, is enjoying one of his regular visits with his two-year-old son, brad junior, and his son's mother, jessica corn. >> say, touchdown! >> touchdown! >> bradley talks about his dad. when we pull up, and he sees that guard tower, he is like, that's daddy's house. daddy's house. great, he sees the guard tower and razor wire and thinks of his dad. in another sense that is his dad's house. he is excited to see him. >> this type of one-on-one between an inmate and his child is rare in most maximum security prisons where visits typically take place a large common area choked with noise and distractions. but napier's session is in a private play room. part of the prison's fatherhood program.
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>> the fatherhood program is great, man. because i get to spend a lot more time with my son. i get to come in this visiting room. in this visiting room. everything is great. it is one-on-one. me and him running around here. playing ball. >> the monthly visits are carefully monitored by the program's coordinator, joshua cullens. >> they have a responsibility, what we are trying to teach them. even though they're in prison that doesn't give them a copout not to be a dad. >> oh, my gosh. >> you are okay. buddy, get up. >> come on. >> hit his head. let me kiss it. go tell daddy, kiss it. kiss it. >> no. you will be all right. >> say, you are beast mode. i'm beast mode. >> you're all right. >> daddy's beast mode. >> glad to see you, mr. napier. go ahead and have a seat.
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>> following each visit, napier goes through an interview. >> let's talk about bradley crying. >> i think when he starts crying, i say brady get up. you are fine. he is raised by a whole bunch of women. and little boys raised by a whole bunch of women get babied. i don't want my son to grow up getting babied all the time. i want him to have a little toughness about him. because the world is tough. you know what i mean. get up. you got to go on anyway. >> i understand where you are coming from. i want to give you a suggestion. it is okay for him to cry. it is okay for you to say that he is okay and then address the situation and move on. it kind of seemed that -- some of your patterns came from -- just, okay, quick fix, let's get him on to something else so he stops what he is doing. it okay to acknowledge why he is crying, find out why he is crying and move on from that. do you understand what i'm saying? appreciate you coming in. >> thank you. >> no problem. >> i like to hear insight on what people think about how i am
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as a father. i am going to give it some thought about it. but, i know how to be a father. i have done good with it, you know? >> coming up. >> man. >> william jones says good-bye to his monitor and hello to life on the outside. >> don't come back. >> leonard mcquay argues for a transfer out of confinement. >> give me a chance. necessary all i need.
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all the people forgot about me, man. acting lake i am dead. other people want to write me, man. shout out to you. i help you stay strong. you don't even know it. you know? >> as the predawn darkness hangs over indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, most of
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the 2,200 convicted felons housed here treat it as one more routine day of incarceration. but not william jones jr. today, after three years. he is going home. >> how do you feel today? >> nervous. i am happy to leave. but it sucks to have to leave people here. >> the one inmate he most hates to leave behind is his close friend and spiritual mentor marcus murray who is serving 60 years for murder. >> what's up, man? >> it's going to be hard, dude. >> you're going to miss me. >> i'm going to miss you, man. >> be cool, man. >> all right. >> while jones spends his final moments in prison, just outside the walls, his older brother casey and casey's family arrive to pick him up. >> me and my brother are pretty close.
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i am just glad i get to pick him up, not have to leave him here. i have been up here like eight different times. and it was hard. >> have a good one. >> you too. >> good luck. stay out of here. >> it feels different. i guess there is nothing like walking out of prison. i guess. >> all right. >> being in jail is not real cool. i don't like it. >> get in there. >> what's your name? >> jones. >> here are your clothes. >> thank you. >> did you get your property and we'll escort you out of here. >> releasing one from gate two. >> let's go.
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>> be right with you, man. >> come on, billy, run to me. >> don't come back. i don't want to see you anymore. >> i ain't coming back. >> one step at a time, sir. >> a little bit of normal. >> let me do the honors. >> man. >> cigarettes in the car. >> can't have them right now. >> take a picture. >> oh, man. finally. >> all right. >> everybody in. >> while jones savors his first moments of freedom, back inside wabash, convicted murderer leonard mcquay fights for a different kind of freedom. he has a review hearing with his
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case manager to determine if he is ready to be released back into general population from administrative segregation. the only world he has known for the past 16 years. >> you are going all the way out with it, ain't you? dog leash and all. >> the prospect of mcquay, the killer of a corrections officer, being released back into general population, naturally has some staff on edge. >> offender mcquay, he comes off as a very well-spoken, polite individual. that being said, he does have the conduct history with assault on staff. the murder charge of the staff member from the previous facility. so, even though he does come across as a polite individual, you always have to keep that in mind when you are dealing with him. >> they so evil.
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they so barbaric, putting all them chains on that guy like that. >> i do not trust him. i treat him with respect. but i do not trust him. >> the last time mcquay had a review his case manager beverly gilmore, she approved his request for a job. he hopes he can persuade her he is ready for general population. >> hello, mr. mcquay. how are you? >> i'm all right, mrs. g. how you be? i got my presentation for my review. >> mr. mcquay, what makes you a good candidate for release from administrative segregation into the offender general population? >> i have engaged in rehabilitation that has allowed me to take a retrospective look, not only at my past, violent behavior, and my new more humbled progressive behavior. and i believe that i have made some significant strides in my social relationship with staff.
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>> all right, leonard. you talk a mighty fine talk. however, how are we to be assured that you actually have soaked this in and believe it down into the bone marrow? >> i am asking you, miss gilmore, and asking the administration here to open your hearts and look at me as a human being who has made some terrible mistakes, who has come back from the grave. i am a new man. and the only way that this new man can shine is that you give me the opportunity. please, give me a chance. that's all i need. i won't let you down. >> i will summarize that in the statement. thank you. >> thank you. >> they got reason to be concerned because of prior incidents. you know, associated with me. and the only way that they can see that i am not only a changed
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man, but ready to do something different with my life, is to let me have an opportunity. i haven't had a chance, and that's what i am hoping for. >> coming up, marcus murray defends asatru. >> you have a salute like white supremacists do. >> no, sir. >> and a decision is handed down on leonard mcquay. ing. it's hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can't get back to sleep. it's an effective sleep medicine you don't take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep. do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing zolpidem, such as ambien. allergic reactions such as shortness of breath or swelling of your tongue or throat may occur and may be fatal. intermezzo should not be taken if you have taken another sleep medicine at bedtime
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>> this is my little boy around my birthday. that is the one my baby mama sent me. and the first picture was too. and here is day he was born.
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>> robbie mcnally has been in prison a little more than two year. in all that time he hasn't had a single visit with his 3-year-old son. recent contact with the child's mother had given him hope that a visit might be imminent. but now the child's mother represented in a tattoo on macinalley's arm changed her plans. >> she had been talking about for the past 2 1/2 months now, going to bring trey down there. going to bring trey down there. all of a sudden. this year, too busy. i think i will turn her into a clown. bro, i will turn her into a clown. >> he just talks. he loves that girl -- >> she ain't worth [ bleep ], she ain't worth [ bleep ]. >> later he revealed one possible reason why the mother of his child has not followed through on visits. he said it was an incident that happened shortly before he
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returned to prison. something he rarely talks about. >> it was a domestic battery. i haven't seen him since then which was -- yeah, the last time i seen him was the night that happened. >> he can only accept the consequences of his actions and do little to control developments with those left behind on the outside. today marcus murray is hoping to make the big change on the inside. >> how are you doing? >> he filed a grievance to have asatru removed from the threat groups or gangs. today security threat group coordinator, and superintendent have granted murray a hearing on the matter. >> if you were in a leadership position and you saw some one coming into your community or into your services with ill-will or intent to participate in security threat group activity what would your take on that be? >> i would tell them to go back from whence they came. there is no reason to bring ill will in, it is a sacred place.
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if one person is sick in the group, then we are all sick. if you are in the community you have a say-so. if it is anything controversial, it does get voted on. >> can you elaborate on that a little bit? >> let's say somebody had a new idea for how we salute each other. >> you say salute. you talk about greeting someone? >> like particular handshakes or something. like, as a fraternity. you know, people look to set themselves apart. >> you stated that you or your community have a greeting that you refer to as a salute. could you show me what that refers to? >> no, i never said that. >> no. no. >> you mean, like we say something, we say "hailsa," which means hello and good health. >> you weren't referring to a gesture? >> no, no. >> body language or anything lake that?
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>> like a lot of white supremacists do when they do hitler salute. >> no, sir. >> i have one major question here, what is your input on other races joining your community? >> we will discriminate against no one regardless of race, gender, sex, creed, nationality, origin, or of their religion. we won't discriminate from that. >> have you had a minority in the leadership role? >> no. >> if that opportunity arose, would that be allowed? >> yes it would. >> mr. hendricks do you have any more questions? >> no, not today. >> marcus do you have any questions for us? >> no, i don't. >> thank you very much. >> the final decision could still be weeks off. but the wait is over for leonard mcquay. prison officials have denied his request to be moved back to general population. >> it seems like he has everything in the world going for him. but when you really sit down and

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