. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. am i evil? yes, i am. >> one inmate walks a fine line between heaven and hell. after a decade in confinement -- >> just strips the humanity away from you. >> one of indiana's most infamous inmates moves to general population. >> i couldn't believe it, with his reputation that he has. >> serving 100 years for a heinous crime, another inmate

discovers a unique way to make amends. >> i believe i've changed to the good. >> i'm not in the jungle. be careful what i'm saying? >> that's my favorite rapper. he's the future. >> and a would-be rapper pace the price for attacking an officer. >> i learned not to touch the police. they will touch you back. welcome to wabash. hope y'all can stay longer. >> with more than 2,000 inmates, the wabash facility has more population and acreage than the

rest of the small town in which it's located. >> carlisle is a very small community. approximately 1200 is their population. it's cop primprised of a school. has a grocery store. has a gas station, a couple little restaurants, a dollar store, and that's about all there is in carlisle. >> while carlisle might be a remnant of a similar time, inside the security fences of wabash, there's evidence of how some aspects of society have grown harder. >> we're seeing more inmates come in younger than before and more violent. correction officers are the backbone of a facility. they are front line. >> i've been hearing about the correction setting since i was 8 years old. i grew up around it. so, coming in here was actually easy for me. i knew what to expect.

i've heard all the war stories. >> officer jarod mcmillan has been on the front lines of wabash. the war stories have come from his mother and father, both of whom are on wabash correction staff. >> it's the kind of environment you wouldn't want anyone in. wouldn't want my daughter here. she's not meant for this. he's a little tougher and my wife is real tough. >> the younger officer mcmillan was recently put to the test. as he was escorting one inmate to his cell in the confinement inmate, another inmate unleashed a vial attack. >> he stuck his arm out, a bottle full of feces and urine, flinging all over me. all over my pants, on the corner of my mouth, it was actually in my mouth. hi to wait for someone to come and do the proper paperwork so he could be prosecuted and then

i went up to wash. they don't make enough soap. they did a blood draw. i received a phone call and everything is okay. >> there is an average of 15 assaults on staff. dp demetrius burke recently add to that staff. >> i reacted and the altercation turned physical. i was on my way to religious service. told me to tie my shoe. told me to uncover my pants, soy kind of got irritated and i'm like, i'm just going to religious service. >> burke's victim, officer james manuel, has a different account. >> he was acteding very arrogant

and wouldn't let you speak to him. i told him basically, i'm not arguing with you and told him to go back to the housing unit. >> see how they do me? >> an sergeant who overheard the exchange cuffed him and ordered him back to his cell. >> before i could get him secured, he turned around and punched me. >> i hit him in his face. while i'm doing it, i'm thinking in my mind, i jess messed up, you know what i'm saying? >> he hit me a couple times with the handcuffs since he had one side loose. >> we were on the other side of g-house." we started walking toward it when we heard it. in the process, turned around and hit officer manuel two, three times. we came over, put the offender down, cuffed him and escorted him to seg. >> i had to get stitches on the

side of my mouth, inside my mouth and cuts to my forehead and nose. >> burke is charged with assault on officer and physically resisting because it took three or four staff members to restraint him. >> as a result, burke was transferred from population to cuss told control unit while officials determine what sanction he will receive. at a minimum it will include a move to secured confinement, where they are housed in single cell, window less, for 23 hours a day. few people know how difficult life in confinement is than christopher trotter. after ten years he's been released to transitional housing united on his way back to general population. >> known him for 12, 13 years. when i heard he was going to open pop, i couldn't believe it

with his reputation he has, i didn't think they would let him out. >> oh, man, this -- this is what i do all day long. drink ice water. it's been ten years since i had a cup of ice water. i was like, dang, i never knew water tasted so good, but it does. just ice water. and these are the little things we take for granted. >> trotter, whose name is infamous in the indiana prison system, will now be around other inmates and staff without handcuffs and shackles for the first time in ten years. he originally came to prison nearly three decades earlier on a four-year sentence for theft, but then trotter received 142 years as a result of being one of the instigators at another prison.

he's spent 16 years in confinement but says the last ten nearly broke him. >> that was some of the most torture yous time i did in my life back there. it took everything i had. dehumanizing me, demoralizing me and institutionalizing me. it just strips the humanity away from you. oh, man. i guess it's a good thing i can't get emotional. it goes to show you that i'm not dead inside. i still feel. coming up -- >> i've always been told f you're not serving good, you're serving the devil. >> serving time for a devilish act of arson.

like those at many other maximum security prisons, hundreds of inmates at indiana's wabash valley correctional facility seek to make a statement about themselves through tattoos. some might use their ink to keep other inmates at a distance, to advertise their gang affiliation or the heinous act that brought them here. 37-year-old bill abbott got two of his more prominent tattoos prior to coming to wabash. little did he know how ironic they would become. >> my horns. >> why? what did you do bad? >> it was my way of life at the time. not no evil or devil worshipping or nothing like that. i've always been told by all the christian family that i've known that if you're not serving god, you're serving the devil.

i thought, that's going to be hard to do. if i can get them covered up with a halo, i would. but i don't think that will work. >> can you show me what's on your forearms? it says, am i evil? yes, i am. it's the name of a song by metallica. they've been one of my favorite groups since i can remember. >> abbott has been in and out of prison since he was 18. >> a lot of thefts. possession of stolen property, receiving stolen properties. if it wasn't bolted down, you can't bolt it down, i'd buy it or sell it. >> but this time, abbott is at wabash for a more serious crime. he's serving 40 years for arson. he's convicted of burning down his hometo historic catholic church, built in 1924. it happened in the predawn hours

of easter morning. >> you have these tattoos, including horns on your head and "am i evil, yes, i am" on your forearms and then you get pulled in for burning down the church. >> yeah, which didn't help any at all. >> abbott saububles began the night before in a bar. >> i was pretty lit up. i ening across two other individuals i hadn't seen for quite a few years and decided we was going to do some criminal mischief, i should say. and we decided to break into the church. >> why in the world would you think of a church to break into? >> that was the alcohol talking and acting mostly. >> what did you take from there. they have tennis shoes for basketball and stuff like that. there was a couple of pairs of shoes and i had actually threw them in a bag. >> abbott says he left before his friends and didn't know the church had burned down until

hours later. >> everything was still standing when i left. the next morning, my niece and my nephew and brother-in-law came in and told me to turn on the tv. i turned on the tv and every channel i flipped it on showed the catholic church on fire. >> fingerprints on a bottle of church wine led the police to abbo abbott. despite his claims of innocence, abbott says he took the plea deal to avoid testifying against his friends and being labeled a snitch. >> going to prison having a snitch name is like having a child molestation name. you just don't have it. they don't last long here. i wouldn't want to have the name snitch. i can't do it. >> abbott's not alone in his claim that he is serving time only because he didn't want to snitch on someone else.

demetrius burkes admitted to being in the car in a drive-by shooting. but he says he wasn't the trigger man. >> there's no award you get for not snitching. but at the same time, the guy who did it, he got to live with it every day. i'm not completely innocent. i've done plenty of things in my life that would eventually lead me here or dead, you know what i mean? i believe god is punishing me now for everything that i did, in fact, do. so i'm just taking this time to learn from all the mistakes and right all those wrongs. >> burks is serving a 55-year sentence for the murder of a south african immigrant. >> he wanted to come to america to provide for his family and he came to america and got killed. he was definitely an innocent bystander. it wasn't meant for him. it was just a bunch of guys riding around high and drunk just doing stuff that don't even matter at all. and now that night turned into

this life. >> and the life burks lives in wabash has recently gotten considerably more uncomfortable. he has been placed in the custody control unit for assaulting an officer and will likely soon transfer to the even more restrictive secured confinement unit. but burks still has a dream -- ♪ for the people i don't know who the future be ♪ ♪ you can google me >> he plans to someday get out of prison and seek fame and fortune as a rapper known as young meech, da future. ♪ ♪ bir me with his name ♪ people say tired of dudes acting like zack and slater ♪ >> if burks had a fan club in the control unit, james greenburg might very well be its president. >> meech, that's my favorite rapper.

he's the future. ♪ hands up like i'm reaching for my heavens ♪ ♪ one false move then i'm reaching for my weapon ♪ ♪ just being in the presence of demetrius is a blessing ♪ >> as far as anybody in the industry, i don't see anybody on his level. maybe lil' wayne, drake, kanye west. but not many people can hang with meech. ♪ >> what's your nickname? >> white boy. because i'm mixed and i'm the lightest person from my neighborhood. my dad is black and mexican. my mom is white. >> greenberg was friend with burkes. they found a knife in his mattress. >> i must be a violent offender,

as y'all say. you know how people ride with guns on the streets, that's why i have my knife. you never know what's going to happen. i can't say you need one. but it wouldn't hurt to have some on standby. >> he is serving 15 years for dealing narcotics and resisting police. but up until his arrest, greenberg found drug dealing afforded him luxuries, such as his grille. >> i went to the dentist in st. louis, paid $1,100 and got eight teeth. >> was it worth it? >> to me, yeah. >> why did you want to spend that kind of money on your teeth? >> i was getting money. so i figured i had to reward myself for getting all this money. >> had he invested that money in brakes for his car, greenberg might have avoided his latest arrest. >> as far as me getting caught, my brakes was messed up on my car and the police seen me riding through a light and i had to, like, skid. it was like that.

and the police hit their lights. i knew i had a warrant so i took them on a high-speed. catch me if you can, i'm the gingerbread man. i ended up getting out of the car and running. i was trying to jump a fence but it was too high for me to clear. so i superman'd it. some of my pants got caught on it. that's when the dog came up. i said, hey, i ain't going nowhere. hurry up and get me off this fence, though, because my pants was all stuck on it. he was lucky -- they wouldn't have been able to get me, though. i'd still be out there. >> did you have those baggy pants that were like sagging in the crotch? >> well, yeah. yeah. it was baggy. >> money bags. [ bleep ] money bag! [ bleep ]! >> what's happening with y'all? >> like his friend burks, greenberg is also an aspiring rapper. >> when he says lasagna, i say baloney. >> during outdoor recreation

which confinement inmates must take in individual enclosures, burkes and greenberg pursue the dream they left behind on the street. for one hour addai behind the walls of wabash, they become young meech and white boy. ♪ ♪ from consequences repercussions ♪ ♪ [ bleep ] >> we got to start that over. we got to rhyme that one. coming up -- >> see that? >> after a decade of confinement, christopher trotter tries to fit in. >> hey, man, feel that. >> and later -- >> most of us men never sewed before when he came into this unit. most of us probably never sewed a button before. >> one inmate's patchwork road to redemption. eping ]

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y'all see them? i'm done. i'm done. see that? yeah. >> that some pretty boy guns? >> come on, man. >> feel that. >> oh, come on! >> ahh! >> what is that? >> sharing a meal with others is something christopher trotter hasn't experienced in about a decade. one of indiana's most infamous inmates and known for violent behavior, he's now back in general population at the wabash valley correctional facility after ten years in solitary confinement. >> how long is ten years? i don't think i could have did it. that's a long time. >> and to still that the mind that he has, he's really strong, headstrong. >> most people probably done went crazy back there. wouldn't know how to handle it.

i know i wouldn't. >> he did what he had to do. he came of it a better man, stronger, i think. >> any time you go through adversity, it either make you or break you. you learn from the situations that you go through. i believe that we all are going to be better men in here if we just, you know, take the chance to, hey, don't make the same mistakes we made the first time. >> back in his cell, trotter writes poetry to something else he missed out on. >> after ten years of isolation, i'm meeting you for the first time. >> the night sky, his confinement cell had no window. >> and your beauty is blissful. you never say a word and i find the silence peaceful. just being in your presence is a joy to my heart. people take things for granted, you know?

and this is a window. i would never think a window would make a big difference, but it does, a window. you know, and like i said, i call a lady tonight and she mooned me the other night, you know? the first time seeing the moon in ten years. i was like, wait, you know, that was cool, seeing her backside. and then she smiled at me and i was like -- it was a twinkle in her eyes and i seen the stars. and i was like, whoa, you know? it was peaceful. peaceful. >> the simple pleasures trotter has gained are about to be taken away from demetrius burkes. >> just another day in paradise right here. 204 ccu, a.k.a., hell. >> burkes is currently in the ccu, the custody control unit. but prison officials have decided to give him 15 months in

the secured confinement unit for attacking a corrections officer. he will live in the same type of single-man, windowless cell for ten years that trotter did for the last ten years. >> i've learned not to touch the police because they will touch you back. >> the transfer could come any day. but burkes might have even bigger problems. >> the case will also go to the prosecutor for their consideration of charges to be filed on the outside against burkes. >> if the prosecutor pursues the case and burkes is found guilty, he could get another six years added to his current 55-year sentence for murder. >> what i have behind these walls, it is what it is. it's messed up, but it's prison life. coming up -- >> i cry myself to sleep a lot just thinking about it, because he's still my baby. >> demetrius burkes gets a

welcome visit from home and another visit that could change his life for the worse. and later -- christopher trotter undergoes a different kind of change. >> so you want me to cut all your hair off? >> well, yeah. @ñ

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inmate-made weapons are a constant concern to officers at indiana's wabash valley correctional facility. with so much effort focused on keeping weapons out of the prison, it might come as a surprise that in one housing unit, scissors are given to inmates nearly every day. >> how are you doing? >> may i get a pair of scissors? >> certainly can. certainly can. how's the sewing project going? >> pretty good. i got it about halfway done. >> that's good. that's what we want to hear. >> thank you, sir. >> keep up the good work, you hear? >> all right. one of the main things we do in our unit, which is kind of unique, is we have taken up quilting. most of us men never sewed before when we came into this unit. you know, most of us probably never sewed a button. we always had someone to do that. i never had a thought sometime in the future i would like to be sewing somewhere, no, i didn't.

>> mitch swallows lives in a special housing unit where inmates overcome their criminal pasts through classes that focus on morals and life skills. >> we have many that have come into our program. i found that sewing was a great way to relieve tension, to gain understanding and respect. so, it's helped a lot of people. >> it lets you be so creative. you know, it is just really a cool thing. this is what i call one of the starburst quilts. i've been working on it. the next step is, i'll put a straight line on here and square it up. then we'll put the borders on it and the back and the batting. and we've got a quilt. >> swallows was an unlikely candidate for quilting. when he landed in prison 27 years earlier. >> i was convicted of two attempted murders, four criminal confinements, a rape and criminal deviant conduct. i ended up with a 100-year sentence. i never really got involved in community service projects or stuff like that.

it just starts transforming the way you act, the way you think. i think it's opened my eyes a lot to compassion, more to helping those around me. >> all quilts made by the inmates are donated to various organizations in the community. >> this is our main project. and this is for the homeless, for battered women's shelters, for flood victims. a couple of years ago, we had a major flood in this area. people were staying in gymnasiums and stuff. we sent quilts there. this is our quilt that we normally do. >> other quilts are donated to a special group of indiana families. >> along with our main focus is also our military project. every serviceman or woman who has lost their life serving in iraq or afghanistan, we have done a personalized quilt for and the army national guard has come and picked those quilts up and they deliver them to the families. it makes you feel like you're a part of something greater than yourself. i think i've switched from being "it's all about mitch" to

realizing that there's a lot more out there and i left a lot of damage in my wake that i need to fix. i've been working trying to do that. >> mr. swallows, outstanding. that's all i can say about him. he's been down a long time. no anger, nothing, just doing what he's supposed to be doing. >> there you go. >> thank you, mitch. have a good night. >> appreciate it. >> see you first thing in the morning. >> all right. >> as you can see, they're really children's scissors. but we do thousands of quilts with them. last year, we did over 1,000 quilts. the year before, 916. we made some great quilts. and to the gentlemen's credit, they do it with these. it's unbelievable. >> still at the end of the day, even children's scissors are safely secured. >> 12 scissors clear.

>> did you put them back in the drawer? >> i put them right here. they're going upstairs. they have to be in the control pod before we change shifts. >> the prison is not taking any risks with demetrius burks either. he will soon be transferred to the secured confinement unit to start a 15-month stay for assaulting a corrections officer. he has lost virtually every privilege he had. but he is allowed monthly visits. >> i'm fixing to go see my mamma. i don't know y'all. i ain't even going to lie. >> his mother, maria burks, and stepfather, tony conner, have come to see him today. >> good morning. visits are extremely important to me and to him because he needs to know that someone is there for him. everybody can't make it up here. but i send messages and lots of love. lots of love. nobody's forgetting about him. he has family and we love him. >> although the visitors center is a short walk away, security

is stepped up for confinement inmates. burks is shackled, escorted by two officers and driven to visitation. the visit will be noncontact, meaning he'll be separated from his family by a pane of glass. >> i get to see my baby, i don't even care. i'm a mamma's boy. it don't even matter. at the same time, it would be better. unfortunately it's got to be through the glass, though. it is what it is. >> i need to see him. i need to make sure that he's okay. when i come to see him, i make him stand up, turn around, let me see your body, let me check you out, make sure you're eating well. he's going to say, mom, i'm okay, don't worry. but mom's going to worry anyway. i need to see for myself. i have to come here so i can see him to make sure he's okay. >> fire door. >> i cry myself to sleep a lot just thinking about it. because he's still my baby.

hey, baby. >> how you doing? what's happening? what's up with y'all? >> how you doing? >> huh? >> how you doing? >> i'm fine. >> okay. >> white boy specifically said, tell momma meech i said what's up? >> okay. >> what's up, dog? how are you feeling? >> chilling, man, chilling. >> you looking good. look fit and strong. >> stand up. let me look at you. stand up, turn around. let me see. make you sure you all right. okay. >> burkes has not seen his mother since he assaulted officer manuel, but he told her about the incident over the phone. >> when will you be able to sign up for school again? >> probably after all this is said and done and whatnot. >> after this is settled? >> yeah. >> okay. because you know we want you to get back in your classes and make sure you concentrate on that. >> you just have to keep your head on. keep your head on. you'll be all right. >> yeah.

>> i want him to stay positive, stay focused, go to school, learn all you can, get all the education you can get so you can get out of here and be a different man because he's a good person, he's a very good person. >> all right, baby, we've got to get out of here. >> momma, don't cry. >> what? shut up! >> you know how your momma is. she's got to cry. >> okay. we're going to go. >> i love y'all. >> i love you. >> remember what i said, son, take care of yourself, okay. >> all right. >> all right. >> so, tell me what the hardest part of it is. >> what we just saw. >> you all right, babe? >> walking away, seeing her leave, because my mom -- emotions, my mom can cry at the drop of a hat. i just hate seeing her cry. it's a blessing because there's a lot of guys where people don't come see them at all. i'm blessed to have such a

loving and caring family. it's always good to see anybody outside of these walls really. coming up -- >> she had all kinds of picture that is i've done for her. jesus pictures, all kinds of religious pictures i like to do. >> one inmate doesn't let burning down a church get in the way of his christian-themed art. and childhood memories prove not enough to keep demetrius burks out of serious trouble. >> the neighborhood i'm from is right on the same street as the prison. i don't understand why it couldn't have been like a sign like, don't go here.

at a wabash valley correctional facility in indiana, inmates often find comfort in the simplest of

pleasures. bill abbott finds it in caffeine. >> taster's choice. i'm a coffee drinker. as long as i have five or six shots of coffee a day, i'm usually pretty good. that's my choice of drug. i don't know what i'd do if i didn't have coffee. that's what gets me to drawing. this is pretty much what i do all day long. i draw a lot on cards and sell them, draw anything that maybe somebody specifically might want, a portrait of somebody in their family, they buy all the material and i do it. i get paid that way. i had to put my name on the wall. that way it looks a little bit more presentable. >> abbott also uses his art to connect with his mother. >> makes her day when i send her like a "thinking of you" card. she has all kinds of pictures that i've done for her, jesus pictures, pictures of jesus, all kinds of religious pictures i like to do. >> she's religious? >> yeah, christian. >> as though his devil horn

tattoos aren't ironic enough for a christian-themed artist, abbott is also serving 40 years for stealing from and burning down a historic catholic church in his hometown. and while he claims he didn't do it, he does admit that he stole some shoes from the church before the fire started. >> there's definitely something mentally wrong with me when it comes to, like, klepto, like, taking little things, probably wouldn't think much about it. some people wouldn't understand why certain people take certain items, i guess. i wouldn't be able to explain it. the psychology part wouldn't add up with me. >> but even in prison, abbott still has a certain appreciation for shoes. >> i shine my shoes usually for appearance to make myself look more presentable. you know what i mean, it's not really that nice to walk around looking scruffy looking. i'm done with that one.

usually i do this right before they open the door at lunchtime to go to chow. i usually put a little bit of heat on them, just heat the ends of them up real good. the hotter you get the leather, the better the shine because whenever you put the wax on, it just soaks it right into that leather and puts the finishing touch right on it. if we do this on an everyday basis, you'll get them to look like that. >> christopher trotter has decided it's time to spiff up his physical appearance as well. but he's not focused on his shoes. he began growing his dreadlocks shortly before he entered solitary confinement ten years earlier. >> these are my jesus locks, you know? and they symbolize my struggle being buried alive on the shu.

>> now finally released to general population, he's decided to say good-bye to them. >> so, you want me to cut all your hair off? >> yeah. >> bald like mine? >> huh? >> you want it bald like mine? >> yeah, yeah -- >> just a little bit longer? >> yeah. see how it works out. you feel me? >> it's going to be hard, but they served their purpose. it sustained me and now it's time to move on. >> okay, i'm going to start. >> remember what i told you. it's kind of cruddy, right? >> as long as it don't have any creepy, crawly things. >> i don't know what might be up in there. i ain't washed it in about a month, so i'm not going to tell you what's in it. >> you've been letting your hair grow for 11 years? >> yeah, being back there on that shu. i always told myself, whatever came first, if i get off the shu or i get out of prison, whichever comes first. >> that is serious stuff. first time you've seen it like

that, huh? >> yeah. it feel good. it feel good without it. it feel good without it. my lock's represented a strug. it wasn't just to have locks because everybody's got locks, you know? i don't have no mixed emotions. i'm looking forward to the next chapter in my life. >> okay. how do you like that? >> looks like i'm about 15 now. it is weird because i ain't seen myself in a long time because this is how i used to look before i had my -- before i grew my dreads. it's been a great day. it's been a great day. every day is a good day for me now, though. every day is a good day for me now.

now that i'm out of that shu, now that i'm out of that shu, every day's a good day for me now. and i'm not taking it for granted. >> while trotter recently completed a decade in the stark solitary existence that comes with life in the secured confinement unit, demetrius burkes has only just begun his 15-month stay there. >> another day, another dollar. >> it is the consequence he will pay for assaulting a corrections officer. but it was the murder of an innocent man that brought him to prison. >> when you're out there living that life, you're really not thinking about the consequences until they occur. >> but burkes had a regular reminder of the consequences of crime. he grew up in the shadow of indiana state prison, home of the state's death row. >> the neighborhood i'm from is right on the same street as the prison. you know, and it's like i always seen it. i don't understand why it

couldn't have been like a sign like, don't go here, you know what i mean? coming up -- >> it brought me to tears. my heart wept with pride as i opened each fold of that quilt. >> the mother of a slain soldier expresses gratitude. and -- >> demetrius? >> yes, sir. >> all right. this is -- i'm tom hanks. i'm a detective with the indiana state police. this is going to be your copy. >> demetrius burks gets more bad news. da(????

♪ 27 years ago when mitch swallows first walked into prison to begin serving 100 years for attempted murder and rape, there were many things he couldn't foresee. chief among those was that he would learn to quilt. and that quilting would change his life. >> i believe that i've changed

to the good. i think it it shown within the level of trust that i have amongst staff. it's a terrible thing that i did done. it's something that, you know, i've worked on hard in order to know that i'm not going to repeat. it's something i've got to live with and feel regret for. >> but now his quilts bring comfort to others. and swallows learned just how much comfort when the mother of a young indiana soldier who died in the iraq war wrote him a letter. >> it says, dear man of the wabash valley correctional program, how very honored to receive the quilt you made in honor of our son. i want you to know that i was having a very sad day the day i received your lovely quilt. i felt as if the world was moving on and people would soon forget the bravery and sacrifice my son had may on may 14th. i was sure they would forget the kid with the big smile, the soldier who bravely stood his watch, the son who i was so proud of. and then your quilt arrived.

it brought me to tears. my heart wept with pride as i opened each fold of that quilt. i want you to know you made this old momma look up that day and thank god for wonderful people such as yourselves 37. you know, a lot of us are here because we messed up our freedoms, you know, and for people are over there fighting for those and we're able to support them in this manner right here, to me it's pretty awesome to be part of something like that. >> it's too early to tell if demetrius burks will have such a revelation. but six years into a 55-year sentence for murder, burks has a history of testing authority. >> burks has a lengthy conduct history for drugs intimidation, threatening, tobacco. >> but he went too far when he assaulted officer james manuel. >> before i could get security, he turned around and punched me. >> i hit him in his face. >> and then he hit me a couple more times with the handcuffs,

since he had one hanging loose on the other arm. >> while i was doing it i was thinking in my mind, i just messed up, you know what i'm saying? >> the assault landed burks in confinement for 15 months. but the fallout continues. today investigator frank littlejohn and detective tom hanks of the indiana state police department are about to pay him a visit. >> well, i'm here to serve a warrant for a class "d" felony battery resulting on bodily injury on an offender down here. >> if burks is found guilty of these new charges, he could have another three to six years added to his sentence. >> sometimes for whatever reason maybe because of how many years they're doing, maybe they think the prosecutor won't pick it up, which we have no control over, whether the prosecutor files charge or not. we've already made arrangements and we've got burkes out waiting for us and mr. hanks can read him the warrant. >> he'll get a copy. then i have my copy here and i will read him the warrant verbatim. then he's released back to the

custody of the facility. demetrius? >> yes, sir. >> all right. this is -- i'm tom hanks. i'm a detective with the indiana state police. this is going to be your copy. i'm going to give to it this officer. i'm going to read this to you. state arrest warrant, the state of indiana, authorized the warrant on demetrius burks, no social wabash correctional facility, wabash, indiana, social security number listed. count one, battery, resulting in bodily injury, class "d" felony. if the court sets this matter for the initial hearing by video conferencing with wabash correctional facility, the warrant does not expire. >> that's a "d" felony, sir. >> it's going to be count one, battery resulting in bodily injury, class "d" felony, correct. okay? >> yes, sir. >> all right. thank you.

>> he got an initial hearing i think video conferencing that will be conducted with the courts. it will be done here. at that time he'll probably request a public defender, he'll be assigned an attorney to represent him. they'll start negotiations with the prosecutor. see if they can work something out in a plea agreement. if not, it will eventually go to trial. >> so, how do you feel about getting these outside charges? >> no comment. i want to speak to my public defender. >> he seemed a little surprised. i don't really understand that because with the injuries that he inflicted upon the officer, he should have expected that something was going to happen.

due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. just trip over something? >> i don't remember, man. >> you don't remember. somebody help you fall? >> prison staff suspect an inmate is covering up his own brutal beating. >> i don't like using the same broom that everybody else uses. because then i'm just bringing their funk into my cell. >> two cell mates share deeply