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he recently appealed the prison's decision to sanction him for having a lighter in his possession due to a procedural error in the report. and he won. but the victory came too late. >> you want to know something? that after all this [ bleep ] happened, i beat the dr for the lighter, but i'm still stuck for kicking the door. i just found out yesterday. if i wouldn't have kicked the door, if that [ bleep ] would let me go out that day, i probably could see my family within a few more months. but now -- so i was thinking about that [ bleep ] last night. i was like, damn. but if i did a year clean, i could have tried to ask for permission so they could reinstate my visit, but since i caught the drs, now all that's out the window. i got a card, too, last night. i'll show it to you. see? it says "there's an angel watching over you." but it's in spanish, i'm just going to read.
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keep you safe and always light your way for you are someone very special who means more than words can say. >> and who's that from? >> moms. my moms ain't going to fail this kid never. everybody's going to disappear except your mother. >> it still will be months before roca moreno sees his mother again, but with a life sentence it will only be inside the walls of prison. >> think about it, you're going to die in prison. you can't even explain it, you know what i'm saying? and as days go by, your hopes just -- your hopes just fade away, too, with them.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ a cell search results in some heated words. >> later on we're going to fight? is that what you're saying? >> that's what we call a class a jackass. >> and -- >> we found what we need already. >> the discovery of a gang manifesto. >> boss is the brother of a strong struggle. >> an an older man takes charge of a young man with a violent past. >> he has his own mother and he has his own father. but right now he's more or less in my care. >> a new policy could push some
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inmates to the edge. >> a lot of guys in blue enjoy their cigarette and their cup of coffee and their honey bun. and if you take away one they're going to have a lot of bad days. >> and when we give our cameras to inmates to express their personal feelings in private, one confronts his own mortality. >> i wonder just how much time i've got left. by that i mean being here. by that i mean being in this world. ♪ everywhere we go ♪ everywhere we go ♪ people want to know ♪ people want to know ♪ that we are the mighty, mighty work force ♪ ♪ we are the mighty, mighty workforce ♪ ♪ we are the santa rosa work
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squad ♪ ♪ we are the santa rosa work squad ♪ >> every morning inmates at florida's santa rosa correctional institution march outside the gates of this maximum security institution. they are part of the secure labor squad, or rls. ♪ left, left, left right left >> it's kind of like the old chain gang but not to that level. it's actually their job assignment. >> today the squad will be working on the farm, a seven-acre plot of land adjacent to the prison. >> all the food we grow goes directly to feed the inmates. most of them, believe it or not, they do like to be out here work. some of them don't, it's more like a punishment to them. but most of the ones, they do like to be out here doing something. >> you never get used to the shackles, but it's something you learn to deal with. if you want to come out here and work, get the fresh air, it's what you've got to do. i put myself in this predicament. so i've got to suffer my
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consequences like a man. >> the inmates use tools that could easily turn into deadly weapons and lead to escape. so security measures are designed to prevent that in no uncertain terms. >> it's always very controlled. the officers are armed with shotguns and stay on the outskirts, 20 yards away from them. they're 12-gauge shotguns and they have buckshot in them. if they do breach that distance, they'll be told to stop. if they keep on going, we can use deadly force. >> all the inmates in the restricted labor squad have been in confinement for disciplinary violations but are now nearing release back to general population. one of them has recently come to the attention of officers knight and demerey. the prison security threat group coordinators. their job is to gather intelligence on gangs. acting on a tip, their target today is inmate alex everett. >> want to go down and want to
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see who this guy is. printed out some codes and some pictures notating his gang, in this case his "death before dishonor." we're going to go down, we're going to check the inmate out, we're going to search for his gang-related contraband, anything that evens supposed to have. being on the restricted labor squad, kind of concerned about the fact that maybe being on the outside he's able to bring in contraband. >> but when they arrive at the cell, knight and demerey discover the window is discovered, usually a sign inmates are flushing contraband. >> take the window down. take the window down. put that down and come here and cuff up. echo dorm 1115, 1-1-1-5 echo. >> step over here. >> pull them britches up, man. what do you think this is?
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>> you ain't got to dress like that either. turn around. back out. what you doing with them bobos on? >> i can't have bobos on? >> you got flip-flops? >> yeah. >> everett, serving ten years for home invasion robbery, and his cell mate joseph johnson, serving ten years for aggravated assault and armed robbery, will be placed in holding cells while their cell is inspected. everett says the search is of no concern. >> i ain't going to take it serious 'cause i know they putting up an act, trying to act tough, pull us out. i don't take it serious. because it ain't. whatever they find, they find.
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>> though everett's possible gang affiliation prompted the shakedown, johnson's possessions will be searched, as well. >> is there a particular reason we being targeted? >> targeted? >> yeah. >> i just reached in and picked your number out. that's it. >> that sound like a lie to me. >> you don't like that answer? >> sound like a lie to me. >> okay. concerned with bobos or sneakers when they come out, helps them get around. they want to fight. it's a whole lot easier for traction. sometimes it's an indication in the day room you'll see several come out in bobos that something's going to happen. >> you was lying to me. if i want to fight, i could come out in these and still fight. i don't need a particular type of shoes to fight. >> okay. >> i want to fight. >> that's right. >> i mean, taking my shoes is not going to stop me fighting. that's really not -- >> so what you're saying, later on we're going to fight, is that what you're saying? >> no. >> okay. >> that what we call a class-a jackass. coming up --
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this is a class b tool cage. basically, we have a shadow board in here that places the location of every tool in the kitchen. it makes inventory of the tools quick and a snap. you can tell what's missing. things like these can be weapons of opportunity at any moment. checking them out, you hold somebody responsible for them. we try to maintain order, and it
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gives a day-to-day routine thing. you would think that it becomes monotonous, but you always find yourself walking around checking locks, looking for tools. it's almost like a installed paranoia. you're never completely safe in prison on either side. i grew this facial hair on my face first off because inmates are not allowed to in florida department of corrections. and if ever i was to be taken hostage and swapped out with a uniform i would hope the snipers would know not to shoot me. >> at florida's santa rosa correctional institution, security threat group coordinators knight and demerey are assigned the task of gathering intelligence on known and suspected gang members. today they've targeted the cell of inmate alex everett. it doesn't take long until they
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find what they're looking for. >> here's some 410, 412, boss swagger, look like some blood code. b.o.s.s. boss carter records. they're trying to hide their gang stuff in rap music. >> right. >> boss, boss swagga enterprises. boss is the brothers of the strong struggle which is a designated security threat group in the state of florida. and it listed them the people's nation as a blood set. hey this guy is an insane gangsta disciple. he, this is something different, jimmy. an igd dark side. insane. this is something we need right there. we found out what we need already. ooh. >> what we're looking for. new sentence. >> ooh, this is a manifesto. this is their policies, their rules.
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and we have family respect. your involvement inside and how you're supposed to act. your hierarchy as you rise up. generically they call that information officer knight's reading knowledge. and if you're going to represent as any gang member you're supposed to be able to spout that knowledge. >> this is good. we'll have this guy documented as a insane gangsta disciple before the end of the day. >> while everett's gang manifesto is a significant find the officers also inspect the possessions of his cell mate, joseph johnson, where they find paperwork that's more puzzling than sinister. >> oh, let's see, how often have you fallen in love? do you believe in love at first sight? physically what do you look for in a man or a woman? how old were you when you first had sex? we're going to keep it. we'll dissect it. all right, that's good stuff. we got some information there.
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>> as the inspection continues, johnson makes it clear how he feels about the officers and their search. >> this dorm is notorious for just the smallest, pettiest stuff. they just nitpick at you for every little thing. they always tell you like, i'll throw them a curve ball. don't you just hate when your wife come home and just nag about any little thing? that's how i feel. ♪ >> for the inmates, nagging wives might soon pale in comparison to a major change coming to santa rosa. the florida department of corrections is due to implement a ban on smoking in the next few weeks. >> smoke blows up, that was in a movie. >> like in the movies. >> just do it again. >> you know what i mean?
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>> don't you think you'll get cancer from that? >> smoking by inmate population within the department of corrections brings on many expenses for medical due to their inmate smoking. and this was done to reduce the cost of incarcerating inmates. we do not anticipate this to be a major issue. is it going to be uncomfortable for inmates that have smoked for years? yes. >> i been smoking 30 years. >> have you ever tried to quit before? >> absolutely. >> and what happened? >> nothing. i kept right on smoking. i quit one time for about three hours. >> a lot of guys in blue here that enjoy their cigarette and their cup of coffee and their honey bun. and if you take away one, they're going to have a lot of bad days. >> you didn't pick that one up off the ground? you didn't pick that one up off the ground? how many have you picked up off the ground today? you don't know? >> when i come in the system, they used to give us two packs of cigarettes a day. i think a pack of tobacco was 25
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cents. now it's $5.60, i think it is. >> this is it. >> a lot of the times, me, i can't speak for other guys, i just speak for me, you know. i light up a cigarette when i don't want it. why? something to do. >> the smoking ban is one of the more significant changes that jack hill has seen over the past 30 years. he's serving a life sentence for a burglary and assault that took place in 1977, when he was 18 years old. since then he has been paroled three times. but each time hill gets out he finds himself back behind bars. >> the times i was out i tried to do one thing that you can't never do. i tried to make up for the years that i lost. still that 18-year-old kid. i'll never get that back. i'll never get that back.
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you know? i look at myself as a person who's made a lot of wrong choices. >> i think jack hill back in the day was a handful. whereas he's gotten older now, and he don't want to be messed with. he don't mess with nobody and don't want nobody messing with him. yeah, i think inmate hill now is just about doing his time. >> people outside, they've done completed college, has a family, done all that in life in those 30-year period. to me it's just nothing has changed. when i really think about how long it's been, i get kind of -- i'm like, wow. that's a long time. but how does the word go? c'est la vie? que some sera. keep on doing it. >> hill was recently
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reacquainted with sheldred bernie, a 35-year-old who transferred to santa rosa from another prison. the two men met 18 years earlier when bernie was first incarcerated. >> jack always been there for me. been like a big uncle. >> and here all we have is each other. we're family. we're family. as far as race, black, white, you know i got a natural life sentence. i got too much on my mind to worry about hating a whole race of people. if i'm going to hate, i'm going to hate one son of a bitch at a time, not a whole race. >> coming up. >> he lost a lot of blood. that's why they had to airlift him out. >> a young inmate with a violent past learns a few lessons from an old-timer. >> if he was my son, i'd tear his little butt up. >> and later -- >> we have shampoo. code for weed. conditioner is heroin. >> gang investigators discover the secret codes inside the confiscated manifesto. ♪
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officials at the santa rosa correctional institution in florida allowed us to give cameras to several inmates in order to let them record personal thoughts about prison life. among them are two of santa rosa's more seasoned inmates, who between them have spent decades in prison. >> as the years go by you get comfortable. i as comfortable as you're going to get, anyway. time has a way of running away from you. one day you start to see a gray hair. where'd that come from? then one day you look in the mirror and you'll be like, i've been here 20 years. 20 years. >> you will be rewarded for what you do in life. so when you do something good, something positive, expect to be rewards for that. but if you're doing negative, bad things in life, also it's
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expect that reward. but it's going to be bad things. do unto others as you would have them do unto you're and you're going to reap what you sow. >> now serving his fourth prison term, alvin mchellon understands the meaning of reap what you sow as well as anyone. he currently has a 12-year sentence for drug possession. even though on most days he's woken up at dawn and shackled at the ankles for his job on the restricted labor squad, mchellon says it's better than the alternative. >> my father told me never to be a stranger to work. it's just doing something to keep from just wasting away. you got to do something. you got to take care of your body before it can take care of you, you know. >> every shackle has two locks on it. one lock, and two locks. all the 1s are keyed the same and the 2s are keyed the same.
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so you have to have two sets of keys for each shackle. it's security. in case anyone gets a hold of one of our key chains. more than likely they're not going to get a hold of two. >> to the got to secure the chains sought lock won't go up and down on your foot. the most comfortable place for you to walk, or you're going to trip on them all day long. you have to secure them. with the shoestring. >> get your bags two at a time starting up front. ♪ >> at age 50, mchellon is one of the oldest inmates to work in the fields. his 20-year-old cell mate scott parker is one of the youngest. he's serving five years for armed robbery, burglary, and drug possession. >> i been in that cell for 14 months, you know what i'm saying? longer now.
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about 18 months. i get tired of being in that cell all the time. it was nice to come out. it's got its ups and downs. i was nervous coming to prison. first time, 19 years old. i wasn't scared but i was nervous. didn't know what to do, how to act. >> he's a young inmate, and it seems like he's still trying to find his way. he does act out a little bit on occasion to other inmates. he doesn't want to be bullied around. you know. being a little bit smaller guy he's trying to establish where he is, i guess, in the group. >> you don't expect to come to prison and not get tried. people are going to try you. they're going to test you. if you let them get away with it, you know what i'm saying, once they're going to feel they can always do it. you know. people do die. people do get stabbed. people do get raped. you got to carry yourself a certain way to get respect. >> parker's desire for respect is what landed him in confinement.
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he and three others brutally attacked another inmate. >> he lost a lot of blood, so that's why they had to airlift him out. he never did nothing to me at all. i had nothing against him. i had no right to do what i did. >> mchellon has dedicated himself to teaching parker a better way to do time. >> he's more or less like a son figure to me. but at the same time i know i'm not his father. he has his own mother and his own father, but right now he's more or less in my care. i'm concerned about him in the sense that he tends to get influenced by his friends, you know. i told him, i said you don't even have to go there, you know what i'm saying? >> while mchellon has become a surrogate father of sorts to parker, he says his multiple prison stays have cost him his relationship with his own children. >> right now i'm not in contact with any of them. i miss them all. you know, i really do. so if any influence comes from
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me to him, i want it to be something positive. i want it to be something good. and then that way, if anybody's around my kids, i want them to be given a positive influence, rather than some negative, and then i can't expect that if i don't first give it. >> among other things, mchellon is helping parker earn his g.e.d. >> why wasn't this right? >> listen, listen, this is what i'm trying to tell you. you're trying to find a number that will go into both of them equally. you couldn't find one. now you got to back it up. >> scott keeps saying that i can't do math. i said don't say can't. don't even put that in your vocabulary. i said you can. >> that one was easy. >> that's the difference of multiplication. >> yeah. multiplication. that one's easy but -- >> multiplication is even different from that. >> it helps me, makes me feel a lot better about myself being able to help somebody else out. >> a lot of things he says, my father has done told me -- i told you.
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and i'm like my dad says them all the time. and with him being so much older than me if he feels like he can help me he's going to give me his opinion. you know what i'm saying? whether or not i take that sometimes i don't want to hear it. you know what i'm saying? i don't want to hear it. >> and i'm not his father, so i can't tell him what to do. it's simply up to him whether he want to or not. so that's why i can't force that issue. now if he was my son, i'd tear his little butt up. coming up. >> in my gang, insane gangsta disciple, i hold the knowledge. >> alex everett faces the consequences of his actions. >> losing the manifesto, yes, probably going to get in trouble. it could be a beatdown. >> and later, jack hill faces a different sort of threat. >> don't know what that is but it's really scary.
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under investigation. and arizona prosecutors will question jodi arias again when her trial picks up on wednesday. last week arias answered over 150 written questions from jurors. the 32-year-old admits to killing her boyfriend in 2008 but says it was self-defense. that's it for the news. now back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. since the beginning it was written these sucker dudes sniffing ♪ ♪ no denying that ♪ i'm no longer talking level headed ♪ ♪ send the snitcher to the paramedics ♪ ♪ trying to tell me that the devil somewhere down in hell ♪ ♪ that's a lie because i seen him walking by my cell ♪ ♪ the [ bleep ] got to call the policeman we on a whole other level homee ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah >> joseph johnson, serving ten years for armed robbery, is not
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shy when it comes to expressing disdain for staff at florida's santa rosa correctional institution. >> that's what we call a class-a jackass. >> during a recent cell inspection aimed primarily at finding documents to link his cell mate to a gang, officers also found some interesting documents among johnson's possessions. >> how often have you fallen in love? do you believe in love at first sight? how old were you when you first had sex? >> you know, we write letters to our girls. sometimes, you know, we include different types of sex questionnaires to our girl. so that's pretty much what that was about. >> how many people have you sent it to? >> just one. just one. you trying to get me in trouble now, miss susan. >> but it was in the possessions of johnson's cell mate alex everett that the officers found what they were really looking for, a gang manifesto. everett has now been moved to a higher security housing unit. but he says the officers didn't
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get everything. o'. >> in my gang, insane gangsta disciple, i hold the knowledge. so that's why i had so much gang paraphernalia. i seen the gang unit come here due to the fact that i am a gang member. i blocked my window. i knew i was dirty. so i knew i only had just seconds. the things that i could reach for -- >> take the window down. >> -- i flushed it. but i'm not knowing that when i put the shield up, he seen what i was doing. >> take the window down. >> so i told my roommate, man, forget it, man, i'm going to go out there, if i'm dirty i'm dirty. >> our interview with inmate everett went very well. he's admitted to the fact that he's been insane gangsta disciple since he was 14 years old. however, he said it wasn't really about gangs. it was about unity. they delude themselves into thinking this is a huggy feely
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type of gang when it's not. >> the manifesto also included a key to the gang's secret codes. >> we have shampoo. that's code for weed. conditioner is heroin. we use these things to get in control of contraband. if it says that you used my shampoo in the shower and he signs it 0-31 then it's pretty basic that he's a blood and he's delivering something to the shower, marijuana, heroin, something. basically, you put a time on it. so i'll know what time to go look. >> everett's gang may exact punishment as a result of his losing the manifesto. >> losing the manifesto, yes, probably he's going to get in trouble. supposed to memorize it and lose it. it could be a beatdown. it could be loss of rank. it could be retaliation that could probably hold for a long time. >> everett's classification as a
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gang member has also cost him his spot on the restricted labor squad. >> squad! >> sir, yes, sir. >> read pi p ready. ♪ left snoe ♪ left ♪ left right ♪ right left >> this morning, the squad is headed somewhere other than the farm. >> we're in what's called the dog run, in between the two outer fences that surround the perimeter of the institution. we come in here once every week or two weeks. we come in here, get all the weeds out, any trash that might have blown in and rake everything to where there's no footprints in case an inmate does reach the first fence we can see footprints in the dog run. it's more security reason than anything but it also looks good. >> have you got a hoe? no weeds? you need to be hitting the dirt, softening it up. don't stand around. >> while some squad members appreciate the chance to be
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outdoors, others like philip nixon could do with less exposure to the elements. >> how did you get so sunburned? >> rls. we go out there and do work but there's no shade. you know, so we sit out there for the whole time, and get just like that. you know, sunscreen don't really help because there's no shade. you know, you're in straight sunlight for six hours. ain't really no way to get away from it. >> it's free labor. you going out there working in the field for nothing. it's free labor. it's like a slave plantation, basically. >> nixon is serving 15 years for third degree murder. marcus young has ten years for robbery and battery with a deadly weapon. but he's had plenty of trouble inside prison as well. >> marcus young has approximately 25 disciplinary reports in his history. disorderly conduct. theft.
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disobeying orders. fighting. possession of weapons. possession of narcotics. assault or an attempted assault on inmates. lewd and lascivious exhibition. telephone violations. several spoken threats. >> nixon has also seen his share of trouble. >> i came here for a ride, the whole dorm that i was in, it was a big ride, and they emergency transferred everybody to this unit. the officers kept on just bugging us about oh, you won't do this, you won't do that. y'all are scared. y'all are kids. and they just always messed with us. so everybody got tired of it and we just tore up the dorm. >> in confinement the men have little to do when they're not working on the labor squad. but young hopes his new book will open a door to his future. >> i just wanted -- one of the
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first books i ever read right here on the stock market. it's about investing. investing for the utterly confused. i started just doing things like that. and i don't think i never would have did that if i wasn't in a cell by myself and didn't have no distractions around me. >> while young hopes to improve his finances, alvin mchellon and scott parker hope their time in confinement will improve their vocabularies. >> coagulate. i don't even know what that means. look it up. >> he loves doing puzzles. we work on those together. they say two brains are better than one. so when both of us do the puzzle, we smash it. we do it real quick. >> 66. >> blank off shotgun. what did you say? >> sawed off shotgun. >> i can go for that. >> while mchellon and parker have developed a father and son type relationship, it may soon be coming to an end. mchellon expects that any day now he will be released from confinement and transferred to a
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general population unit. >> open population is you got a lot more privileges, a lot more room to move around and do things. you don't have so many restrictions against you then. i can go outside of the dorm and walk alone without having the chaperone and cuffs on me. i don't have to be supervised continually. >> the down side is leaving parker behind. >> i want him to go. at the same time i'm going to miss him. but i want him to go. you know what i'm saying? he needs to get out of here. like i said this is prison in prison. nobody wants to be here. coming up, cell mates mixon and young find themselves in hot water over a telephone call. >> i'm trying to just talk to my mom and they write you d.r.s for stuff like that. >> and a small lesion creates big anxiety for jack hill. >> saying it's probably skin cancer. so we'll see.
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santa rosa correctional institution, these police officers do not play. they will lock you up. they will gas you. they will strip you if you do not behave yourself. but that's their job. you know what i'm saying? i respect that. >> squad! >> sir, yes, sir. >> ready? march. stay behind the cart. >> outside the security fences at florida's santa rosa correctional institution it's the end of the work day for the restricted labor squad and time for the inmates to march back to their housing units. ♪ it's been a long day
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♪ two >> working on our list. >> three. >> talk about like mike tyson. >> one, two, three, four -- >> nothing negative? no talking about women. no talking about fighting. stand up. get back up. >> squad! >> sir, yes, sir. >> ready, march. >> left. left. left right. left right. right left. right left.
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>> sergeant, what was that -- what was that about? >> if the end of his chants he said one two knock them out. p they talk about fighting whatsoever they go to the ground. i don't allow that. >> two other members of the squad have also run into some new trouble. >> this is like the zoo animals do. they pace back and forth. two tigers. two lions pacing back and forth. in a cage like this, man. >> marcus young and philip mixon have just had another 15 days added to their time in confinement for violating the prison's telephone policies. >> how did you get the disciplinary? >> call forwarding. >> what's a call forwarding? what did you do? >> put another phone number on my number. call told them put this like this and whenever you call my number it went to his number and you know, they got us for that.
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>> so is that a way to call somebody who's not on your call list? is that what you're doing that? >> yeah. >> yes, ma'am. i'm trying to talk to my mom and they write you d.r.s for stuff like that. that don't make no sense. >> why isn't she on your approved call list? >> she don't have a phone. if you don't have a house phone, then you can't put -- you can't put cell phones on there. >> inmates have to send in a list of ten people on their call list, it has to be approved. that way we verify these people are not a threat to security. if they use a cell phone, a cell phone is mobile so that means the cell phone can talk to whoever they want to talk to. it's just a situation with security where there's certain measures we've got to follow. that is a sad fact about it today, cell phones are becoming more and more popular where people are not having home phones. so it does make it hard on the inmates. >> so was it worth it? >> to me it was because my mom, she was sick, you know what i'm saying? so i really wanted to talk to
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her. so the 15 days d.c., no matter what they did, it was well worth it. >> in addition to the extra time in confinement, young and mixon will also be separated. but those kinds of changes are routine to inmates like jack hill, who has spent much of the last 30 years in prison. >> it's life. it's life in prison. but you know, in prison people come, people go. you know, you don't miss them. you just remember. what can you say? take it as it comes. good with the bad. for every negative try to make it a positive. >> another change hill is about to experience is the prison's upcoming ban on smoking. >> personally me, i'm kind of looking forward to that. you know. take them out. get them out. i don't know if this is going to sound morbid or anything like that, but sometimes after losing so much of my family i start thinking about mortality in here. i would -- i really don't want to die in prison. okay?
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although it's a very real possibility that i may, because we're not guaranteed tomorrow. >> when we gave hill a camera to share personal feelings in his cell, we learned why mortality has been on his mind lately. >> see that right there? yeah. don't know what that is. it sure looks scary to me. got blood on the collar of my coat. on my bed sheet. washcloth. towel. we'll see. >> i got something popping up here on my face. think it's probably skin cancer. so we'll see. it's something new anyway, huh? >> a prison nurse has examined the lesion on hill's face and has made an appointment for him to see a doctor. >> you know my grandfather died of cancer and my grandmother died of cancer, you know. my aunt died of cancer.
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this is my workout every day. you know to know what's funny is the island that i'm from usually the girls, about 5 or 6, age 5 or 6 already start learning how to cook rice. so my sister, i told all my sisters i got them beat. y'all cooking like maybe ten cups at a time. i do 150 pounds. five-star meal right here. we might have cleaned this corn. same corn we cleaned.
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corn we picked. shucked, bagged. loaded up. >> good thing we did a good job on it. >> mm-hmm. >> despite the differences in both age and race, cell mates scott parker and alvin mchellon have come to think of each other more as family than friends. for the past few months, they have shared a small cell in the close management, or confinement unit at the santa rosa correctional institution. but mchellon may soon be leaving for the general population compound. the prison's internal classification team has recommended the transfer. but it must still be approved by a state classification officer. >> today is supposed to be the day ms. beasley comes through to let us know if we're going to the compound or not. you know, it can go either way. i know i did everything i'm supposed to do. i ain't been in no trouble. i've been keeping a clean record, keeping myself occupied and whatnot. i'm looking for it to go
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favorably, but if not i got to be ready for it. >> so how are you feeling about that? >> a little anxious, you know. but more or less like i prayed about it so i'm feeling pretty good about it. >> with close management i review them every six months to make a decision with their behavior. as to what level the next level they will go and whether they'll be released to open pop. it's all based on their behavior. and they're aware of what the rules are. and if they follow the rules, then they will get good news, and sometimes they won't get good news. inmate mchellon. >> yes, ma'am. >> i'm miss beasley with state classification. you're going to be released to open pop. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> yes! yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. that's what we're talking about right there. that's what we're talking about. it came out all right just like we was hoping. i'm going to the compound. that's what i wanted to hear. >> it must feel pretty good.
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>> oh, yeah. oh, yeah. after all this time not seeing them. i'm going back to open pop. next stop, home. freedom. >> i'm happy for him. hate to see him go, but i love to see him leave, you know what i'm saying? >> that's what's up. >> big al. i'm going to miss you, dog. my roommate, big al. man, going to the compound. be easy, dog. keep your head up. stay out of trouble. don't come back. do your time, relax. don't fall back. going to miss you dog, man, appreciate your help you know what i'm saying, looking out. hope to see you again one day, you know what i'm saying? alvin mchellon. in gainesville. a good dude, man. >> i wonder just how much time i have left.
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by that i don't mean being in here. by that i mean being in this world. i hope that i have enough time to spend some time with my brother, my sister, my daughter. i hope i have a chance to make amends. >> today jack hill is going to see the prison doctor concerning a lesion on his face that hill believes could be cancer. >> it's scary. it's scary. especially, you know, you start getting a little age on you, you start seeing things like this, i wonder where it's going to lead. this -- it's kind of scary. >> judging from the appearance of the thing and the timeline and everything, i -- and the location, i'm going to say that looks like a small basal cell carcinoma. it's a type of skin cancer usually found in the center part of the face.

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