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give me a wheelchair. >> some type of self inflict ed. >> one leaves his sellcell a bl mess. >> mainly for my defense. >> one of the biggest screw ups
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in the united states is sitting right here looking at you. >> i lost my whole family passed away. >> i am like an outcast. scum of the earth here. >> and a younger inmate looks forward to sitting the streets. >> thank god it is over. there are more than 110,000 men and women doing time in the florida state prison system. up to 56 state prisons for men, one is considered the end of the
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line. the place male inmates go when others can't handle them. located in florida a panel. >> predominantly in here, you have two emotions, anger and fear. if you go out there acting like an [ bleep ] you will get treated like an [ bleep ]. if you step out of line, you will get put back in line. >> except for a few brief periods, jack hill has been in florida prisons since 1977. he has been in santa rosa for the past year. >> it will do one of two things this is not physical, it is all mental. it will either break you down, you will be filled with hate, anger, the other way, is you try to just stay focused and after a while, it becomes a way of habit. you don't think about it. you see a bad situation, you steer away from it, you know?
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>> hill is one of the more 2800 inmates housed at santa rose a those considered to be be worst of the worst, assigned to the close management. >> they are more assaultive and disruptive than the normal inmates in the state. the close management prove an inability to live in open space. disabeying orders from staff, and unreceptiveness to the process as a whole. >> more than a third of the prison population, they all live under the most restrictive conditions, some handle it better than others. >> medical emergency on the unit required krexz staff to respond
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in hazmat suits. moments early, inmate discovered bleeding heavily in his cell apparently from self inflicted wounds. the inmate, now being escorted to medical is armando doctor. doctor has been known to cut himself when under stress. >> we did a 10:00 security
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check. 10:15, 10:20, we heard commotion. i stood in to investigate. the found inmate doctor, he cut in two places, refused to come out. he was bleeding. they had to come out in hazmat suits to cuff him and bring him to medical. >> be still. let her do what she needs to do. >> i am not doing nothing just already done enough. >> the cutting incident was not his first. he had a hearing for masturbating in front of a
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female officer. >> i had a feeling he was going to do this. this is his thing. this is what he does. >> he is noted for doing things like this. acting out by cutting himself if something doesn't go right for him. inmate doctor is rooted in reality. what you saw, very weak voice, i think it is just manufactured to gain attention and to try to send him to a different environment. such as our inpatient facilities. >> while doctor received a dr for his masature bation issue, he didn't for the cutting incident. >> clean his cell up, send them back down. >> i wanted to what he used to
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cut himself with. if it is still in the stall, sometimes, they take their batteries, sharpen them, excellent razor, enough handle left to slice as will. i will check the walk way. >> that is a lot of blood. williams, serving a five-year sense for possession of cocaine, works as a custodian. >> i volunteer, i get ten days a month, four months of year of game time. i am in for 18 months, vione and a half left. i go home.
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a room with blood, there is harm, i have to protect myself, not let any of it get on me. that is why i have this suit, and the gloves, and whatever else i need. if i want my game time. cleaning the blood. it is a lot. this was the first one i ever did with that much blood. i guess, i will be more experienceod it next time. >> cell is decontaminated, all the bodily fluids. he had to have iv fluids, he will remain with medical staff throughout the day, and with us,
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the cell is ready for him to come back. >> another emergency at doctor's sell. >> he did it again. >> and that is made out of metal. >> a cell search.
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weekend ♪ ♪ it may be enough to keep me out of the gutter. give me a hundred grand, better hope i die before i get a chance to spend it, baby ♪ ♪ if i had a hundred grand ♪ lord, might go off the deep end and go blow it all this weekend ♪ night school. t.r.f. appreciate that. >> at the santa rosa correctional institution. less so for those who have spent decades on the inside. >> to be honest with you, probably looking at one of the biggest screw ups in the united states sitting here looking at you.
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i have been incarcerated since i was 18. when i was 18, i did a burglary, received a life sentence for it. >> he was convicted of burglary and assault, although he received a life sentence, he has been eligible for parole three times. >> i have been on parole, violated, i am back. let me say something about parole, quick. i have heard people say this a lot of times. man, you get parole, what are you doing back? how do you come back? how did you mess up? when you are on parole, you live under a more strict environment than you do in prison. you get a traffic ticket on the street, say you run a stop sign, you will pay your ticket, go on about your way. that is not going to happen to me. me, they will send me back to prison. you live with a threat over your
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head constantly it. say lot of pressure. hill lives with less pressure than one third of the inmates, he is housed in a general population, more freedom of movement and privileges. see that it, that is nectar of the gods in here. can't get beer, but you can drink coffee. >> borrowing coffee from a neighbor is more difficult if not impossible for the 1,100 inmates in the close management unit. >> step over here, one at a time. >> they are in confinement for violence or other serious rule violations. they are subject to frequent cell inspections for weapons, drugs, or contra band. >> we will conduct a routine cell search up here in wing one. every shift has a shake down a
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certain amount of inmates every day. we will go in there, have them cuff up. submit to restraints, place them in the shower, and go through their belongings in their cell. the security. we are going in there, pick a number that is random. keeps them off their toes, if we were go to go and start searching from cell one all the way down, the others would know, get rid of our contra band. doing it at random. this one, this isn't right. feel this one. open that one.
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>> what do you have there? that is a home made cuff key. a homemade cuff key. this can get somebody killed this. is why we do our shake downs and do them at random f they knew we were coming, we never would have found it. they would have flushed it. this is very serious. >> key discovered in the cell mates of lionel boldin. it was in bowden's deordrant container. he is serving a 21-year sentence for armed robbery. he has been a close inmate, after having been cut with a
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shank. >> it fit if there and it turned. you want to explain this. why you have a homemade cuff key in your property? >> nothing to explain. you found it in my property. i can't explain it. >> why did you make it? >> in kags i need it. >> for what? >> i don't know, you know some things happen had at certain times, might need it. i might -- >> you are going to escape with it? is that what you are going to do that? >> why would i want to escape? >> i will have you write a statement out. we need to house him alone. immediately. go put him on heightened security.
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>> later, he explains he made the key from a battery. >> how do you get the dimensions right. >> have you ever held a cuff key. >> how much is a cuff key good for? $25. >> get all of his prrth packed up. we will ship him, he will be placed on single sell over there. >> sometimes a risk has to be taken. i knew the consequences. i have to accept it. >> i place you on heightened security, move you out of the dorm. appreciate your honesty. make any other comments?
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>> turn around, cuff up. back out. kneel down. black box. that is a skufl device, to cover the key hole, and prevent him from tampering with the block. >> you are understanding, this is every time you leave your cell. >> there is other way, they have handcuff keys, we don't want that to happen. >> coming up, lionel answers to
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authorities. >> i am a man, i consider myself a woman. >> an inmate, he is treated it as a male inmate.
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>> come on. >> like all prisons, the santa rosa correctional institution in florida has strict codes of conduct for inmates. >> the staff keeps close reigns on the population, if you continue to allow little vilayings g what this population, we have to manage it this way. >> most are serving time for violent crimes of rape and murders. >> they are so by the rules
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here, if you do anything outside of that, this is where you end up. in confinement with nothing. >> tell me about your hair. >> this is a t-shirt, it is illegal. i am not supposed to be wearing this, really. >> jurez has been at santa rosa three months. >> for violation for prostitution. >> he began turning tricks at 12. arrested eight times for prostitution. >> when you first catch you, it is a misdemeanor, upgrade it to a felony. that is what happened. if i get caught again for prosecution, it will be a five-year sentence.
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>> you go back. >> i can't help it. if someone gave me a million dollars, and said, i don't have to do it any more. i would upgrade, and keep doing what i do. >> i am addicted to it. >> one time he was booked into a county jail as a female. >> i know i am a man, i consider myself a woman. my name on the streetos taylor. i was taken off the street then and there, i plan to get the surgery done, if i ever make enough to do it. >> it makes no difference here. >> he was sent to a mail male
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inmate. >> williams finds santa rosa especially hard to deal with. >> a lot of negativity, with me being homosexual, i a am -- i he never been through this much crap. he was why would anyone right that? >> i don't know t could have been anything. >> the williams believes he was
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to determine which one has vawilliams only has one more pe peek -- week. i want to see my friends and family it is hard. i want to go crazy.
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prisons can be dirty places, blood, feces and urine are part of life. the task of cleaning that falls on 18 inmates that work in the laundry. among those, michael philips, i getgot fights, it is a level 6 facility. >> some of the worst laundry comes from the -->> it is a place you don't want to be. >> the most hazardous laundry is washed separately. >> the yellow bags, come in, what we do, usual ly don't open
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them. the blood and stuff from cutters, and susuede. armando doctor, contributed to the latest load of yellow bags. two days later, cut again. >> it appears he has a self inflicted injury to his left arm. came up on the cell. >> this is probably the fifth time we have had to deal with him this way it is getting to be
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a monthly thing. >> did you declare a psychological emergency. >> yes. fear of my life. >> it seems like you should be in fear of your well-being. >> they say doctor has altern
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ior motives. >> what he is doing, is not related to his mental health n my opinion he is trying to get out o of he arrest warrant. >> it is a new cut on his left side. i don't know what he is trying to get out of it. >> before doctor has to be
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brought back to his is cell, had its to be. >> they should have known that from the git. this time, officers retreated the after the clean up, they remove all of doctor's possessions from his cell. to prevent a cutting in, we have to take it step by step. he will be given bag back his
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>> nothing changes here. every day is just like yesterday, tomorrow will be the same as today. about the only thing that changes here is the faces. after a while, the faces begin to be the same. that is one of the things about doing time. nothing changes. jack hill finds working out to be the best remedy to the menotny of his life in florida. >> part of the routine, we will walk laps on the track, some guys get into the basketball. me, i get into dips and pull-ups, push ups, everybody
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has their way of getting rid of tension and aggravation, this is your stress relief here. >> hill spent the last 35 years in prison. not long after his conviction for bugulary and assault, he was participating in a work release program. he escaped. i met a girl. she said, i love you, i don't want you to leave. okay, let's go. we didn't come back that was my big escape. wasn't it? i got caught that night down the road. crash dummy. >> a year later, back on work release. met another girl, hit the road again. from that point on, until they got me it was rock and roll. i was on the run for almost a
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year. first, went to texas. left texas, went to vegas, went to california. left california, come back to texas. left texas, come back to florida. left florida, back to california. s.w.a.t. team got me. >> hill's scapes are from another florida prison. nobody has ever escaped from santa rose a escape was one of the first thing that is entered the mind when they discovered the handcuff key. >> mainly for my --
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>> i have had possession of a weapon, dr, possession of a handcuff key. several disrespect dr's. fight drs. i spent about four of them confined. >> boddin was already in the close management unit when he was caught with the cuff key. now he must face the i.c.t., who can change his status to level two to level 1, the highest security level in the entire prison. >> you are currently a level 2,
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your officer is recommending upgrade to 1. >> what were you planning to do with the handcuff key? >> 15 to 25 dollars. >> do you understand the seriousness of the consequence? >> yes, sir. >> anything else on that? >> step out. >> boddin will wait outside. it only takes moments for the classification team to reach a decision. >> the institutional classification team we are going to recommend upgrade to close management 1. this recommendation they have the the final decision. we are approving a two-year visitation suspension.
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anything else you would like to tell us? >> no. >> upgrade to level one, that means his movements will be m e more. >> since i have been here, it has been a constant struggle. he is one of the more extreme cases we have death with, with the constant cutting, and misbehavior. >> doctor' arms have only begun to heal. >> i was aggravated. angry, i couldn't think of anything else. >> i have done it periodically
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off and on over the years, when i felt, you know, a situation got too tough. i couldn't deal with it. i might have retaliated physically. so, i took the physical retaliation out on myself. >> doctor said his squinting is as a result of being poked in the eye. >> it was checked. unfounded. he was wanting to be moved out of the dormitory. he was using those to try to dictate where he could live. doctor has been injuring himself since childhood. >> growing up in foster care, i felt they had done me wrong,
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taking me away from my family. i had a lot of people that tried to take care of me. my main program, i never opened up. at times when i try, sometimes always say, i wouldn't try to be part of the family. >> since the latest cutting incident, he moved back to his cell. the prison does want issue them for self. >> he los angeles has been doing good. >> a disciplinary hearing, in
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which he was given level 1 for mas terthe baiting in public. doctor still denies doing so. >> i am
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aside from a few failed attempts at parole, and a few escapes from prison release programs, jack hill has spent the majority of his adult life behind bars, tarnished by many losses. my father, my great grandfather, my sister, i lost a brother, i lost my mother. prity much my whole family passed away since i have been here. >> i used to take mail and letters for granted. visitations for granted. now i don't have neither. his late father's advice keeps him going. i think of what my dad told me. don't never give up. you know, i think of the fact that my mother passed away while
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i was in here, and my goal is to win my case, and have eos meets expiration of sentence, paid in full. and lay it on the grave and tell her, i have done it. i am home. >> hill will have another chance when he becomes eligible for parole again in the future. for williams, who has spent seven months here for felony prosecution, the time is now. >> today is my day, the sentence, i am getting ready to go home. trying to contain it right now. >> vuslept? >> no. they will stay with him until he
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boards a bus for home. >> how does it feel walking out of here? >> like heaven. ready for my freedom. >> $50. when you get on the bus. count it out for you. you will receive it on the bus. williams is given state issued civilian clothing t probably won't compare to the outfit he was first arrested n. >> hot shorts. and a pair of snow boots and a leather jacket and a nice bra. that was it. >> what do you happening of your new clothes? >> i guess i like them. >> will you bewaring that on the street? >> not at all. i would not bewaring this on the
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the street. i have clothes at home. these are going to the trash and burned as soon as possible. within minutes they are outside the confines of santa rose a. >> we are out of here. >> thank god it is over. >> never appreciate the small things in life like trees and grass. until you get out of places like this. >> at the bus station, williams makes a phone call to his sister. he has big plans for his first night over. >> i am in pencat the bus stati. >> a fresh pack of newport,
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1,000. i need a fresh blade to cut my legs and i need my lashes, put up on facebook. let them know, the [ bleep ] is back for her crown. >> all aboard.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. keep going now! if you got your hands in your pocket, you're wrong! if you got your hands in your jacket, you're wrong. >> the prison takes on a military-style feel both for the inmates -- >> don't come back in these blues. >> -- and the officers. >> do you know how your structure is set up? >> yeah.

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