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their cases. >> single file line on this wall all the way down. >> when we travel to cleveland ohio shoot lock up extended stay, we met one inmate who didn't fit that mold. he was seg regrated. >> i have to be in a block by myself. >> why? >> i'm high profile. >> wolford. due to his high profile case and he has chronic problems adjusting to general population. >> because all the people i probably fought and the things i got into since i've been here. it's hard to place me. >> robert wolford's reputation at the jail dates back to six years earlier when he was here on a murder charge. he pled guilty to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter and sent to prison to serve a 26-year prison sentence. the victim was a homeless man.

>> i gave him some drugs. he said he would pay me back. i trusted him. he said he ain't paying me. we get into a fight. when i seen him reaching that's when i reached. i got the weapon and killed him. i shot him in the stomach and stabbed him seven times. i just went crazy on him. >> that had nothing to do with why he had been brought back to the jail shortly before we ro f arrived to shoot our series there. >> he's here on a high profile case concerning the murder of a young female years ago. >> the prosecutors office said he wrote them a letter concerning the disappearance of 16-year-old cleveland girl nine years earlier. >> i'm writing this letter because i killed a girl. we were seeing each other the same time she and her boyfriend

had been dating. i killed her with a rag. i'll tell you where i dug a hole and put her. >> investigators interviewed him in prison. he described the girl's murder in detail and told them he buried her body in the same vacant lot where he killed the homeless man. they brought him back to the jail and then they took him on a grim field trip. >> investigators had taken him to a lot where he supposedly told them he had buried the missing girl's body. they spent two days digging the up this entire area. it was a big story in the cleveland area because everyone thought the story of the missing girl was finally going to be solved. >> while the search grabbed local headlines in cleveland, it did not turn up the girl's body. authorities concluded that he set them up on an elaborate hoax. possibly as a seens of getting away from a conflict in prison. on the day we met robert wolford

and conducted our first interview with him, three months after he went to investigators he said he was the victim of a hoax. >> i didn't write that letter. >> who wrote the letter? >> another inmate. >> why? >> we were fighting, beefing. he said he was going to get me another case. he seen her on the tv. they got a program for missing kids come up missing. she's on there. he seen it on there and he went off the details. they digged in the area where my last victim was kill and. they want me to point out where i killed him. i said right here. they said she must be over here then. they dug the first half up. they didn't find nothing. they went six feet. they did it for 11 hours. they said are you sure that's where you had him. i was like yeah. >> we'll meet inmates as we travel throughout the jail. when he told me another inmate had written the letter it seemed

like a plausible situation. >> authorities say he had a motivation for changing his story and claiming he had nothing to do with the letter. they're unsuccessful search resulted in a new criminal charge for him. >> they say i obstructed the fbi's and cleveland police investigations. >> wolford was charged with obstruction of justice. he pled not guilty but would remain in jail until the case was resolved. if found guilty he could have several more years added to the 26 he's already serving. >> i got saying, if the glove don't fit, you must acquit. going to trial. that's o.j. >> i think we all know it's o.j. >> that's o.j. let's go to trial. >> while he denied any knowledge of what happened to the missing girl named amanda, he did say ta were friends prior to her disappearance. >> we knew each other since we were little kids. i used to talk to her all the

time. i used to hang at her house all the time. >> do you think she's alive? >> yes. >> she's alive? >> if she was dead they would have found her body. >> if there was something you could say to her family, what would you say? >> we all know she's still alive. we all just got to have hope and faith that she'll come home one day. that's it. >> that night when i actually researched the story, i learned that the authorities spent a great deal of time with him and obviously had gotten enough information that would warrant this dig in the lot. in fact, the prosecutors office says it sent team to visit robert in prison and spent many hours interviewing him and he gave a very detailed account of killing amanda and killing her in that lot. when approached robert with the information he decided he didn't want to talk about it anymore. >> one of people who decides

what lock up stories gets covered on extended stays and which ones don't, i let the crew i know i felt like we wouldn't be covering robert's story. there was too big of gap between what he was telling us and what authorities were saying. as so often happens it was another aspect to robert's story. >> coming up. >> robert had a brother in the jail named bobby. >> it's weird how [ bleep ] happens. >> we encounter not just one but two more wolford's in jail. later, the story of the missing girl named amanda makes national news and stuns millions. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country,

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troublemakers. >> you are refusing to do what you're supposed to do. >> i have my back to you. >> we go into prisons and jails across the country to try to find a cause and effect. producers start by asking the first question which is. >> what's the status? what are you charged with? >> what did you do to get in here? then they ask the more important meaningful question. >> what happened? >> donald cole man's answer was consign. >> me getting in trouble just being in and out of jail. i was working for the military making good money. i screwed it up because i wanted to make fast money selling dope and gang banging. now i'm in here. >> his store was not unlike many inmates but what happened to him two weeks into jail is a story. >> we met donald coleman when we responded to a fight call.

we got there. the staff was separating the various people. i approached coleman and the man who he was fighting. that man declined to be on camera. coleman was fine with it. >> we're just assessing him for injuries. >> they were telling the story they had been horseplaying. >> were they fighting or what? >> said they were horseplaying. >> it's not unusual for inmates to say they never fought. there's always repercussions for fighting in jail. everybody comes up with the same story. i fell off my bunk. i slipped in the shower. i was horseplaying with somebody. >> coleman was serving was six months for violating his probation on burglary and credit card fraud. he was due to be leased in ten days. >> initial story was they were not fighting. they were horseplaying. that didn't seem likely. there was a altercation going on

between these two. >> i tried to help him up. >> i slid and he tried to do it and his shoes gripped and he hit his head. >> take him over there and talk to the other guy. >> i let him go and brought the other inmate in. his story differed from the first inmate. >> you don't know what happened? >> no, sir. >> i don't know. >> i don't know nothing about anything. that's the standards response. >> the shirt got blood all over it. >> what happened? >> i have no idea. don't have a clue. >> both inmates written up for fi fighting and horseplaying. they'll be moved to segregation until they have their hearing. >> while coleman waiting in a holding cell, we asked the question we have asked so many times before. >> what happened? >> just goofing off.

>> then he just slipped and had this horrible gash in his head? >> pretty much. >> is that story you're going to stick to? >> yeah, because y'all got me on camera. >> what difference does it make, you're getting out in ten days. >> if i knew you weren't going to say anything, i'd say. >> ultimately the truth comes out. >> he called me a [ bleep ] and i split his head open. you have convicts and inmates. convicts mind their own business and do their time. you have inmates that want to run their mouth and make it difficult for everybody else to do their time. that's basically what happened. >> donald, you're so close to getting out. tell me how you're going to handle this. >> going to the disciplinary board and tell them he slipped and fell. he's going to say the same thing. can't prove nothing unless y'all say something.

>> what if they don't believe it? >> i'll be in the hole. it's 45 days in the hole. i leave in ten days. >> most fights do end with time in the hole. locked in the cell 23 hours a day with nothing to do is already hard but sometimes there's a higher price to pay. >> coleman is symbolic of so many inmates that we meet. he actually has a great shot. he's going to be getting out soon. he has a family and he has work on the outside that he can go back to, and yet he consciously engages in a fight that sets him up in a much worse situation. it could possibly get him outside charges which would give him a lengthier sentence in prison. >> that is if the jail or the other inmate files criminal charges and for coleman it was another nine and a half years of probation ahead of him. that possibility began to sink in.

>> if i get charged with assault i'm going to the pen for nine and a half years. even though it's an internal charge they can be jerks and make it an outside charge if dude shows up to court and i'm going to the pen for a fight. >> that's a big deal. >> yeah. that's a lot to lose. i feel stupid for doing it. >> what are you depressed? you look a little out of it. >> i'm really depressed. i'm going to the hole. i have to explain to my wife that i can't have no visitation or nothing because i punched something in the face and get yelled it and my kids will probably act a [ bleep ] for the next week and a half till i get home. it's a lot of unwanted stress that shouldn't have been caused. >> moments later the sergeant enters the holding cell to take coleman's state. he must choose the version he thinks is in his best interest. >> coleman, what's your side of the story? >> we were goofing off and he

took off and slid across the floor. i did it first and i fell and hit my head. when he did it his tennis shoes grip and when it did he fell face first into the cart that we put the towels and jump suits and hit the middle of his forehead and it cut him open. >> you weren't fighting? >> we weren't fighting or wrestling. it was no physical altercation at all. >> i believe they got in a fight. they probably had some words. these people are housed together. they are with each other every minute. they might have had words a couple of days ago and it turned into something today. they said they slipped and fell but their stories don't match up. >> where's coleman? >> donald discovers that horseplay in the county jail doesn't mean fun and games. and. >> don't mind my partner. we 20 cents short from a dollar.

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for some inmates the santarosa correction institute is the end of the line and the end of hope for a better life. >> it has the reputation of being one of the toughest, if not the toughest prison in all of florida. it's where other institutions send inmates that can't really get along in that institution. the majority of the population is on lockdown. >> being on lockdown means 23-hour day confinement in a one or two person cell. >> belly flops. >> when weather permits one hour of rec time can be spent out doors but enclosed in rec cages to prevent inmates from fighting. it was in this difficult environment that we met two inmates who forged a friendship based on laughter. a sound that was hard to come by

in santarosa. >> don't mind my partner. he's 20 cent short from a dollar. >> he's on written. he's on adhd attention deficit disorder. >> 24-year-old tavarus was serving time for robbery. and joseph was serving time for robbery and aggravated assault. >> the first time we encountered them was in the rec pens. our producer said you have to meet these guys. >> just have fun. >> it's too much chocolate in the system. >> i was walking up and down the different aisles of cages talking to people and meeting people at the very beginning. these two guys just stood out right away. they were funny and joking about the horrible glasses they had to wear from the doc. >> i call them gangster nerds.

it's for people just like my kind, you put them on. that's okay. that's all right. >> lee told us that after prison he intended to brand and market the glasses. >> this is a sneak preview. just a con sent of what i'm going to be dealing with and showing the world this is what it's going to be wearing around. i'm going to have them in black, brown, green, red, all tropical colors. >> he will call them chain gang louis. >> i came up with the night. >> be careful. >> they so unique. >> this is going to be my ceo. we going to come out with our own version of everything. we might want msnbc. >> that's what they call it. >> in order to do the first cast of these gangster nerds.

>> you got to put them on. >> just hold on. don't rush me. you have to be quiet. they want to see this in a quiet place. >> go ahead. >> it's commercial. that's how they look right there. just like that. do it like that there. i mean what's up? >> it's a sad environment. it's hard to make relationship but these two guys, i guess they were put in the cage next to each other and had some laughter which was really needed. >> look up his dc number. he's desperate for a pen pal. anybody, but a dead body write this young man. he's separate for a pen pal. my friend is very separate. >> they're banter seemed at a different level like they had been old friends. i think i asked the question to them. >> have you known each other since you before here or on the streets? >> i wish i never entered a conversation with this young man. >> he came through my commode

one time and i wondered who this was. just popped out of nowhere. i tried to flush him back down but turd sticks sometimes. >> joseph got a bright head on his shoulder. we might joke a lot and just pass time because sometimes people don't like to be miserable all their lives. we make each other laugh. >> that's my son. they ain't my friend. that is my child. i adopted that boy. i put him under my wing. >> i didn't come back here looking for no friends but that's one dude. >> silly [ bleep ]. >> joseph helped me out. we help each other. if i see he don't have soap, i'll break him a piece of mine. if i see he need stamps, i'll give him some of my stamps and it's vice versa.

everything that i do it comes from my heart. >> let's go there entrepreneur. >> i won't leave him in here for dead. he got 20 years. i got eight. i'm going to keep it 100 with him. 100 i'll be till i d-i-e. >> a view weeks later joseph was transferred leaving tavarus there. >> certainly there was some pain and sadness when they were separated. you don't have a lot. it's got to make the days easier when you find somebody that you bond with, that's really sometimes all you can have especially in santarosa because that was such a lockdown facility. >> i miss him. miss him a lock. real true friend.

>> has it been hard here without him? >> in life we all got to accept that we got to move on with things so you just cope with what you got in front you have and move. >> despite the loss of his friend and business partner, lee is not given up on his dream of one day celling chain gang louis. he already planned an expansion to modelled by his cell mate christopher walker. >> say hi. he blushing. >> what do you want to call those glasses? >> pretty boy swaggers. he turn like a chile pepper. he blushing. coming up. >> robert wolford is my brother from my dad's side. me and bobby have the same mom and dad. >> the saga of the wolford family. later, the spectacular story about what happened to the teenager girl robert wolford confessed to killing. -but they'. -yes. -are you...

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some 20,000 shiite men paraded through baghdad. three key towns have been captured by insurgents. john kerry is headed to that area. solo was arrested for assaulting her sister and nephew. she'll appear in court on monday. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. while shooting our extended stay series inside cuyahoga county correction center, we met robert wolford. the circumstances surrounded him he was brought back to the jail from prison that he written a letter to authorities saying he buried an kiy eied and killed a

girl. >> i didn't write that letter. >> when he denied writing the letter and telling authorities about the case we decided not to pursue the story any further but then he mentioned something unusual about his family. >> what's your brother's name? >> robert wolford. >> your brother? >> you have the same name as your brother. i got a brother named bobby wolford. >> why would all three you have have the same name? >> that's what my mom wanted. robby, bobby and robert. bobby wolford. i know if you met him yet. he's here too. >> he had a brother named bobby. that was intriguing. we went off to meet bobby. >> i know where you're going. >> 24-year-old bobby wolford was awaiting trial on charges of

aggravated robbery and burglary. >> my brother, we're related because we have the same father. >> bobby was housed in a different unit but they had chance encounter in one of the jail's common areas. >> i never seen robert a day in my life. i was getting mop water because i was on clean up and he just popped up out of nowhere and he's like you know you're my brother. i was like i heard i had a brother named robert. now i got to meet you. it was good to meet my brother but not a good place i met him in. we just said hi. i love you and we had to go back to our pods. not much of a meeting but it was something. >> bobby wolford was quite a bit different than his brother robert. >> yeah! >> he had a much more carefree

attitude. he was much more light hearted and much more of a jokester. >> bobby the white boy. give me some dap. you don't know how to do it. get up out of here. >> soon this new angle to the wolford story was about to expand any further because robby and bobby were not alone. >> they got my brother and my sister here. >> turns the out their sister andrea is also in the same jail. >> it's weird how [ bleep ] happens. >> robert wolford is my brother from my dad's side. we have the same dad but different moms. me and bobby have the same mom and dad. >> unlike her older brothers who had been in and out of jail over the years, this was 19-year-old andrea's first time in jail. >> there's times where you have your down days and other times where you are just like, we can't do nothing about it. >> she's never even gotten in trouble a day in her life.

she's never even been in the back of a cop car that i know of. >> andrea was facing very serious charges. several counts of child endangerment. it came about because her fiance harmed some children they were baby sitting, specifically, he's alleged to have struck two of the children with a cloth belt leaving bruises on their thighs and buttocks. a few weeks after we concluded our extended stay shoot in cleveland, andrea would be completely exonerated, found not guilty on all charges and released, but for now she was struggling to deal with the hardships of incarceration. >> i've cried about ten times since i've been here. a lot of fact due to missing the family. haven't been out there. i'm my grandmother's care giver. i haven't been there. >> andrea was different from both her brothers bobby and

robert. she was much more of an innocent. it was obvious that robert had done time. bobby had done time. andrea seemed like a fish out of water. just very much floating in this existence. >> you wake up for court and if they don't call you it's like it just got cancelled. in the end they can't keep you forever. >> just when we thought there could be no more odd twists to this story, we were wrong. it turns out that andrea's fiance was housed in the jail as well. >> my co-defendant's name was sheldon hickman. we've been dating year and a half. it's strong relationship between us. dwoen we don't plan on separating because of the case. >> he was facing child endangerment charges and he pled

not guilty. >> can you tell me what they said occurred? >> they said iwhopped the kid and put bruises on them which never happened. an drdrea was asleep. it makes me feel worse because she's sitting down here for no reason at all. >> later on sheldon would agree to plead guilty. he was sentenced to time already served and released. one of the new friends he made in his housing unit was none other than the future brother-in-law he never met. >> that's another one that you didn't see coming either. >> talk about bobby wolford. >> my little brother. i love him like family, like blood. he's a friend of my best friend and they knew each other since they were little kids. they brought us closer even quicker. >> when they first met if jail, bobby didn't even know who sheldon was.

>> i knew he was sheldon. i thought it was one of the funniest names i ever heard. it sounds like something you would call a turtle. >> this family saga was about to take yet another turn. andrea had grown up with bobby but it had been a long time since she had seen her half brother, robert. >> the last time i seen robert i was about seven years old. when i heard he had went to prison for murder, i couldn't really bring myself to believe it. at the same time they pretty much grew up like us, the drug life, getting trouble in school. running away from home. >> andrea hadn't seen her brother for many years. we carry around a camera to take id photos. what we decided with permission from the jail staff was to show andrea a picture of robert. >> you want to take a look? >> yes. >> okay.

this is robert. >> oh, my god. he looks just like us. >> you look alike. when i saw your booking photo i knew this was your brother. oh, honey. you okay? what's making you emotional? because you haven't seen him in so long? when we did show her the picture her emotional reaction was big. she was really upset. i comforted her in that situation because we're only human. it's hard when you stand in front of someone and they start breaking down over something and to just stand back, it is really hard to do that. we have to do it all the time. for some reason in that moment i just wanted to comfort her and let her know that people care and understand it's hard situation to be without your

family. >> it just hurts not being able to see him face-to-face and hang out and do something that a brother and sister would be together, have that family bond that families should have. >> here we have three siblings who although separated by units were suddenly under the same roof for the first time in a long time and andrea was yes, your honor yearning for a relationship with her brother. >> after so many years apart that family bond might not be so easily forged especially given andr andrea's relationship with sheldon. during the time in prison robert joined the white supremacy gang, the arian brotherhood. >> i don't believe i'm racist. i don't sit here call the black dude "n" word.

i believe we should all stick together as one kind. >> when robert learned of andrea's relationship he felt it would cause him big problems with his gang and he returned to prison. >> none of my feel members aren't supposed to be dealing with blacks and come to find out my sister got one. >> in the prison world that's a very big deal. that actually puts robert in a certain amount of jeopardy. >> now i got a lot of explaining to do when i get down to prison. coming up, robert wolford makes a decision. >> they wrote you up for fighting. tell me what happened. >> as if things couldn't get worse for donald coleman, when we saw him a few weeks later things had taken a horrible turn for him. creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs.

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inside the louisville metro departments of jail, donald coleman was within two weeks of going home. that's when he got into a fight with another inmate. though coleman said the injuries were due to horseplay. he told us something else. >> he called me a [ bleep ] and i split his head open. >> where's coleman? you coleman. come on. you got disciplinary hearing. >> the next morning coleman had a hearing with officer hail who would determine whether he could get time in segregation. >> this is being recorded for the record. state your name. >> donald coleman. >> may not was a work aids when he was in a physical altercation with inmate [ bleep ].

they wrote you up for fighting. i don't know if you were fighting or horseplaying. tell me what happened. >> i went in there and [ bleep ] tried to trip me off. we were goofing around. i hit the side of my head and hit my head. he had tennis shoes on and i had shower shoes on. he went into the cart and busted his head open. it's still horseplaying. i take responsibility for that. that's still considered hold time. i'm going to leave in ten days. i know what i did was wrong. i take sponlresponsibility for . >> i doubt if it was horseplay the way the other dude has a cut. they always say it was horseplay. >> the other inmate had his hearing a short time before. now it was time to hear officer hale's decision. >> i'm going to do the same thing i did to him with you.

i'm going to give you ten days. you'll be out before you serve the ten days. you only got eight days left. >> it didn't go the way i wanted to. they said something about moving me to a single cell. it's ten days for a fighting. i said it was horseplaying but i still got wrote up for fighting. >> could have been worse than that? >> yeah. i could have got an assault charge. it could have been an outside charge and carried a longer sentence than what i have now. >> it's rare that inmates or jail officials file critical char criminal charges. he was supposed to be released but he was still there when we returned. >> what's going on with you? >> i got an extra 60 days for the fight for assault three. i get out june 16th. no point in hiding it. they know. they ain't stupid. dude told any ways.

he signed a statement. he signed a statement to go back to the laundry. in other words, after he did his ten days they told him if he wanted his work aid he ended up pressing assault three. that's what i say about rats in jail. they're everywhere. >> the fight cost coleman another 60 days in jail. the 60 days cost him something else. >> as if things couldn't get worse. when we saw him a few weeks later things had taken a horrible turn for him. >> me and the wife are getting divorced because of me having to stay in here longer. i did it to myself. i can't blame nothing else. >> this is something we see all the time. loved ones on the outside can only sustain a relationship for so long. i'm sure it's very difficult to have a relationship with somebody who is incarcerated but when they continue to mess up while they're inside it only throws more strain on the family outside. >> now i done lost my family,

kids and everything just from coming in and out of jail. it's not worth it. being in here is not worth it. in the past three years i've destroyed everything that's took me 20 years to build. it's that fast. my wife told me i got the letters. it's not good. it says i want you to know how much you let me down. you could not even do the one thing i asked you to stay out of trouble and now you will be in there longer. now i'm sitting here alone with no electric, no money because the shop is in your name. thank you for not loving me. thank you for all the fake [ bleep ] and everything you ever said to me was a lie. i can't read the rest of it. she sent all my letters back. that's what i'm saying, yourp g you got kids and a family take care of them. i let her down by being in here instead of taking care of my family. coming up, robert wolford

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incarcerated at the cuyahoga county correctional center, robert wolford seemed to have plenty of problems. he already had a 26-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter for killing a man during a drug deal. now he was facing a new charge of obstruction of justice after he alleged hi told authorities that he killed and buried a local teenager girl who had gone missing nine years earlier. investigators dug up the lot they say wolford led them to and found nothing. they concluded he was just trying to get out of prison for a while in order to avoid a conflict with other inmates. >> a letter from my brother

robert. how are you doing in here? i hope you're doing good in here. i know it sucks being in here and you really never got the chance to bond with me. >> now wolford had become pen pals with his sister who was also in the jail. >> lock up came and interviewed me a couple of times. they showed me your picture and i broke down. i didn't know i would do that. for some reason it hit me hard when i seen your picture. >> rekindling his relationship with his sister might seem like good news but in prison he had become a member of the white supremacy gang and andrea was engaged to her co-defendant, sheldon hickman. >> we're family no matter what choices we make or no matter how many times we mess up. >> a white issue prem assist has a sister engaged to a black man. >> did you know?

>> i did not know. everybody has their own believes. i don't discriminate for it. he grew up differently than i did. >> i'm going to have hard decision to make when i get down there. >> down where? >> down in prison. i'm going to have to stop being an aryan or throw my family to the side. >> why do you have to stop? >> we're not allowed to have black in my family. if she's dating black then they ain't going to allow it. >> robert was now facing a big dilemma but there was this bond, this bond that was very present and very important to him. >> later robert did reach a decision. he wrote back to andrea to let her know what it was. >> i have to be what i am and do what i got to do, i will. it's hard decision to make but i'm going to do what's right for me. >> you willing to give up aryan brotherhood for your sister? >> yes.

>> what's that mean for you though? >> my family will be there for me more than they will. >> since inmate mail takes several days to process, robert gave us permission to convey his decision to andrea the next time we saw her. >> also lock up told me you were giving it up for me because of the circumstances of interracial dating and because you believe family is more important. i want to thank you for doing that for me. it touched me when they told me that. just know that i am very blessed to have you do that just for me and with the consequences of leaving the gang, i'll do my best to keep your protected. i love you and i will write you later. i do want to thank him for that. family does mean everything. with that i will come and visit him and be there for him since he ain't going to have the gang behind his back to be there for

him anymore. though the robert wolford story evolved from one of a false report about a long missing girl to choosing his blood family over his gang family, there was one chapter to be written. what ever did become of that 16-year-old girl named amanda. >> months after we left the cleveland jail we were filming in tulsa county jail and this huge story broke and this teenage girl who had been the focus of robert wolford's story at the beginning suddenly became international news. >> good evening. it came down to frantic 911 call. that was the start of it. soon after the world would learn three missing feared dead had been inside a cleveland ohio home for as long as a deck indica decade girl was free. >> this girl was amanda berry. the girl with two other girls

who were held captive for ten years and we were all just shocked. we were completely shocked. >> amanda berry alive with her family. a picture some never thought they would see. finally safe but only after a harrowing escape and call to 911. >> help me. i'm amanda berry. >> you need police, fire or ambulance? >> police. i'm here. i'm free now. >> dozens of friends and strangers gathered late last night cheering and crying. >> here is the thing about working on lock up. the real things that occur you wouldn't necessarily believe in fiction. when we heard the story that amanda berry and the two other girls were found alive, we were all in state of shock. we couldn't believe it. >> for amanda's family, gina's

family and michelle's family prayers have been answered. the nightmare is over. >> police arrested ariel castro and charged him with 977 counts including kidnapping, rape and attempted murder. he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center. the very jail in which we met robert wolford. castro was convicted and sentenced to life in a prison. one month later he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging.

due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >> what is it? what is it? >> a fight. >> when our crews go behind prison walls, we know always to expect the unexpected. we've seen bloody assaults. >> we got another cut up here, guys. >> inmate rage. >> we will not negotiate with terrorists! >> destruction in the cell