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>> he has his own plaur and his own father but he is in my care. >> a lot of guys in blue here that enjoy a cigarette and cup of coffee and honey bun. >> when we give our cameras to inmates to express their personal feel installation private, one confronts his own mortality. >> i wonder just how much time i have left. by that i mean being here. >>. ♪ everywhere we go ♪ people want to know
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♪ that we are the mighty mighty work force ♪ ♪ we are the santa rosa work force ♪ they are part of the restricted labor squad or rls. >> it's kind of like the old chain gang, but not to that loaf. it's actually their job assignment. >> today the squad will be working on the farm. >> all the food we grow goes directly to feed the inmates. most of them to be out here working. >> you never get used to the shackles, but it's something you
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learn to deal with. >> i put myself in this predicament, so i have got to suffer the consequences like a man. >> the inmates use tools that could turn into deadly weapons and lead to escape. security measures are designed to prevent that in no uncertain terms. >> the, all of a sudden, are armed with shotguns. they are 12 gauge and they have buckshot in them. if they keep on going, we can use deadly force. >> all the inmate in the restricted labor squad have been in confinement for disciplinary violations. one of them has recently come to the attention of officers knight and demore a. acting on a tip, their target
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todayst inmate alex everett. >> he has printed out some code, some picture notating his gang, in this case death before dishonor. i want to search for gang-related contraband and things he is not supposed to have. being on the restricted labor quad squad is concerning. >> when they riesh at the cell, the window is covered. >> take the window down. >> take the window down. >> echo dorm 11150.
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>> back over here. step over there. >> pull them britches up. what do you think this is? >> you ain't going to dress hike that either. >> turn around. back out. what you doing with bow bows on. >> you can't have bow bows? >> flip-flops. >> everett serving ten years for home invasion robbery. and johnson serving for aggravated assault and armed robbery. everett says the search of is of no concern. >> i know that they put pc up an act. it ain't me. 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. >> any reason we are being targeted? >> i picked your number out. >>. i want them bow goes. concerned with them. helps them get around, they want to fight. easier for traction. in day room you see them come out in bow goes, smk is going to happen. >> i could still fight. i don't need a particular type of shoe to fight. taking my shoes isn't going to to stop me from fighting. >> later on we are going to fight, is that what you are saying? >> no.
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>> okay. >> we call a class in jackass. >> coming up. >> this is good. we will have this guy documented as an insane guy before the end of the day. >> they find out what they are looking for. inmates face a major policy change. >> this is it. >> ok, why's that? no hidden fees, from the bank where no branches equals great rates. woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't even live near the water. what you don't know about flood insurance may shock you -- including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $129 a year.
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every moment. we 2r50i maintain order. it gives a day-to-day routine thing. you would think it becomes monotonous but you always find yourself looking for tools. it's like an installed paranoia. you are never completely safe in prison on either side. i grew this facial hair on my face because inmate aren't allowed to. if ever i was taken hostage, i would hope snipers would not shoot me. >> at florida santa rosa correctional institution, knight and demory look for gang
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members. it doesn't take long until they find what they are looking for. >> here are some 410, 412 swagger. looks like some blood code. b-o-s-s-. they are trying to hide gang stuff in rap music. boss is the brothers of the strong struggle, a designated security threat group in the state of florida. listed as a blood set. already this is something different, jimmy. an igd dark side. insane. that's something we need right there. we found what we need already.
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>> this is a manifesto. their policies, their rules. we have family respect. your involvement inside and how you are supposed to act. your hierarchy as you rise up. >> they call that information knight is reading knowledge. if you are going to represent as any gang remember, you are supposed to be able to spout that knowledge. >> we will have this guy documented as an insane gangster disciple before the end of the day. >> the officers inspector the possessions of his cellmate where they find paperwork more sinister. >> how often have you fallen in love. do you believe in love another first site. how old were you when you first
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had sex. we will keep. . that's good stuff. we have got information there. >> as the inspection continues, johnson makes it clear how he feels about the officers and their search. >> you are dealing with the toys. they nitpick at you about any little thing. i always tell them like i -- don't you hate when your wife come home and nag about any little thing? >> for the inmates, nagging wives might soon pale in comparison to a change coming. the department of florida corrections is going to issue a ban on smoking in the next few
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weeks. >> you don't think you will get cancer from that? >> smoking by inmate population brings on many expenses due to inmates smoking. this was done to reduce the cost of incarcerated inmates. is it going to be uncomfortable for inmates that have smoked for years? yes. >> i have been smoking 30 years. >> have you ever tried quit? >> absolutely. >> what happened? >> nothing. i quit one time for about three hours. >> a lot of guys in blue enjoy a cigarette and cup of coffee and their honey bun. if you take away one there are going to be bad days. >> 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.
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i think a pack of tobacco was 25 cents. now it's $5.60. a lot of the times -- i can't speak for other guys, i just inspect for me. i late up a cigarette when i don't want it. why? something to do. >> the smoking ban is one of the more significant changes that jab hill has seen over the past 30 years. he is serving a life sentence forbu forbergry and assault that took place in 1977. each time he gets out he finds himself back behind bars. >> the times i was out, i tried to do one thing you can't never do. i tried to make up for the years that i lost. still that 18-year-old kid.
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i will never get that fwak. i will never get that back, you know. i look at myself as a person who has made a lot of wrong choices. >> i think jack hill back in the day was a handful. where as he has gotten older he don't want to be messing. he don't mess with anybody and don't want anybody messing with him. >> people outside have completed college, had a family, done all that in this 30 year period. for me nothing has changed. when i think about how long it's been, i am kind of wow, you know, that's a long time. how does the word go? c'est la vie? que sera? keep on doing it. >> he was recently reacquainted
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with a man transferred from another prison. they met 18 years ago when first incars rated. >> like a big honky. >> here all we have is each other. we are family. >> we are family. >> as far as race, black, white, i got a life sentence. i got too much on my mind to worry about hating a whole race of people. if i am going to hate, i am going to hate one son of a bitch at a time. >> a young inmate with a violent past learns a few lessons from an old-timer. >> and later. >> we have shampoo, code for weed. conditioner is heroin. >> gang investigators.
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. officials at the santa rosa correctional inns taugs in florida allowed us to give cameras to several inmates to let them record personal thoughts prison life. among them are two of santa rosa's more seasoned inmates who have spent tech aides in prison. >> as the years go by, time has a way of running away from you. one day you look in the mirror and start seeing gray hair. where did that come from? one day you look up and you have aged 20 years. >> if you do something good and positive, you get good rewards.
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but if you do negative, bad things in life, your reward is going to be bad things. the bible tell us, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. you will reap what you sew. >> alvin mckellen understands the meaning of reap what you sew as well as anyone. he is doing a 12 years sentence for drug possession. even though most days he has woken up at dawn to be shackled for his restricted labor job. he says it's better than the all tern tough. >> my father told me never to be a stranger to work. this is doing something to keep from wasting away. >> you got to take care of your body so it can take care of you.
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>> every shackle has two locks on it. you have two sets of keys. it's security, in case they get a hold of one of our key chains. they probably won't get ahold of two. >> you will trip on them all day long. you have to secure them. >> get your bags, two at a time, starting up front. >> at age 50, mckellen is one of the oldest inmates to work in the fields. his 20-year-old cellmate scott parker is one of the youngest. he is serving five years for
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armed robbery and drug possession. >> i am tired of being in the cell all the time. it's 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 is a young inmate. hes to act out on occasion. being a smaller guy he is trying to establish, i guess where he is in the group. >> people are going to test you. if you let them get away with it, they will feel they can always do it. p.m. do die, people do get stabbed, people do get raped.
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>> parker's desire for respect randed him in confinement. he and others attacked an inmate. >> he never did nothing to me at all. i had nothing against him. >> mckellen has dedicated himself to teaching parker a better way to do time. >> he is more or less like a son figure to me. but at the same time i know i am not his father. he has his own mother and his own father. right now he is more or less in my care. i am concerned about him, in the sense that he tends to get influencedpy his friends. i told him you don't even have to go this. >> while he has become a sur gas father of sorts to parker, he says his multiple prison stays has cost him his relationship with his own children. >> i am not in contact with any
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of them. i miss them all. if any influence comes from me to him, i want it to be something positive. i want it to be something good. if anybody is around my dids, i want them giving a positive influence rather than negative. i can't expect that if i don't first give it. >> he is helping parker earn his ged. >> why wasn't this right? >> you are trying to find a number that can go into both of them equally. you cant find one. now you have got to back it up. scott keeps saying i can't do math. i say, don't say can't. don't put that in your vocabulary. >> that was easy. makes me feel a lot better about myself being able to help somebody sells out. >> a lot of things he says, my
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father has done told me. with him being so much older than me, he is going to give me his opinion. sometimes i don't want to hear it. >> i am not his father, so i can't tell him. it's simply up to him whether he want to the or know. if he was my son, i would tear his little butt up. >> coming up. >> in my gang, i hold the knowledge. >> alex faces the consequences of his actions. >> losing the manifesto, yes probably he will get this trouble. >> later, jack hill faces a different sort of threat. >> i don't know what that is. ju. we're helping protect his. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow.
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there. one arrest has been made. enhanced screening for ebola began saturday at new york's kennedy airport. they took pictures and asked questions of passengers arriving from affected countries. since the beginning they were written the niche no dough mying. i am no longer talking lover here. a snip of snitcher to the permit. but that's a lot because i just seen a walk. blue eyes. the mother [ bleep ]. we have a whole other level.
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>> serving ten years for armed robbery is not shy when it comes to expressing disdain for staff. >> that's what we call a class in jackass. >> during a recent cell inspection officers found interesting documents in johnson's possessions. >> how often do you fall in love. how old were you when you first had sex. >> he would write letters to our girls sometimes, we include different questions to our girl. that's what it was about. >> how many people have you sent it to? >> just one. you are trying to get me in trouble now. >> it was in the possession of his cellmate that the officers found what they were looking for, a gang manifesto.
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he has been moved. he said the officers didn't get anything. >> in my gang, i hold the knowledge. so that why i have so much gang paraphernalia. due to the fact aim gamer. i blocked my window. i knew i was dirty. the things that i could reach for. >> take the window down. >> i flushed. when it put the shield up, he seen what i was doing. >> take the window down. >> i told my roommate, forget it, man. if i'm dirt, i am dirt. >> our interview went well. he admitted to the fact that he has an insane gang ter disciple since he was 14 years old.
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they delude themselves into thinking this is a huggy, feely type of gang, when it's not. >> the manifester to included a key to the gang's secret code. shampoo is code, weed. conditioner is heroin. it says use my shampoo in the shower, and he signs it 031 it's basic that he is a blood and delivering something to the shower. they put a time, so i know what time to go look. >> everett's gang may punish him for losing the manifest ter. >> he is supposed to memorize it and lose it. it could be a beatdown, it would be loss of rank, it would be retaliation that would hold for
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a long time. >> everett's classification as a gang member has cost him his spot on the restricted labor. >> left right, right left. >> this morning the squad is headed somewhere other than the farm. >> we are in what's called the dog run between the two outer fences that surround the perimeter of the institution. we come in here and get all the weeds out, any trash that might have blown in and rake everything to where there is no footprints. it's more security reason than anything, but it also looks good. >> you got a hoe? >> you need to be getting the dirt, soften it up. don't stand around.
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>> some squad members appreciate the chance to be outdoors. others, like philip nixon could do with less expour ur. >> we go out where there is no shade. we sit out there the whole time and get just like that. sunscreen don't really help, because there is no shade. you are in straight sunlight for six hours. ain't really no way to get away from it. >> it's free labor. you working in the field for nothing. it's like a slave plantation, basically. >> nikts onis serving 15 years for third degree murder. marcus young has ten years for robbery and battery with a deadly weapon. >> marcus young has approximately 25 disminimumary
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reports in his history. disorderly conduct, theft, disobeying orders, fighting, possession of weapons, possession of narcotics, lewd and lascivious exhibition, telephone violations, several spoken threats. >> nixon has seen his share of trouble. >> i can't even go for a raid. the whole dorm i was in, it was a big ride. they emergency transferred everybody to this unit. the officers kept on bugging us about you won't do this, you y'all are scared, y'all are kids. everybody got tired of it and weer to up the dorm. >> in confinement, the men have little to do when they are not working on the labor squad. young hopes his new book will
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open the door to his future. >> one of the first books i ever read right here, on the stock market. about investment. i started doing things like that. i don't know what i did if i was in a cell by myself. >> while young hopes to improve his finances. they hope their confinement will improve their video cab laers. >> he loves doing puzzles. we work on those together. they say two brains are better than one. when both of us do the puzzle, we to it real dwik. >> 66. >> blake over. shotgun. >> sawed-off shotgun. >> while they have developed a father/son relationship, it may
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soon come to an end. mckellen may be released to an open population unit. >> open population, you got a lot more privilege, a lot more room to move around and do things. you don't have so many restrictions. you can go outside the dorm and walk without having shackles and cuffs on me. >> the downside is leaving parker behind. >> i want him to go. same time i am going to miss him. i rim to go. this is a prison in prison. nobody want to be here. >> coming up, cell makes nixon and young find themselves in shot water over a telephone call. >> i am trying to talk talk to my mom. >> a small leagues creates big anxiety for jack hill. >> it's probably skin cancer.
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>> santa rosa, institution, police officers do in the play. they will lock you up. they will gas you. they will ship you if you do not behave yourself. that's their job. i respect that. >> stay behind the car. >> outside the security fences of florida's santa rosa correctional institution it's the end of the workday for the restricted labor squad. >> it's. a long day, working.
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about? >> in the end of his pant he said one, two knock them out. i don't allow fighting in the cadence calling. >> two other members of the squad have run into new trouble. >> they pace back and forth. two tigers and two lions pacing back and forth in a cage like this, marcus young and philip nixon have had time added to their confinement. >> how did you get on disciplinary. >> call forwarding. >> what did you do? >> put another phone number on my number to call and tell them put this like this. whenever you call my number it went to his number, you know, they got us for that. >> is that a way to call
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somebody not on your call his? >>, yes, ma'am. i was trying to talk to my monday. >> why isn't she on your approved call list? >> she don't sherihave a phone. you can't put cell phones on there. >> sending a list of ten people on their list. it has to be approved. that way we verify these people are a nonthreat to security. a cell phone is mobile and can be handed off to whoever they want to talk to. it's a situation with security. there are certain measures we have to follow. the sad fact about it, cell phones are becoming more and more popular where people aren't having home phones. >> was it worth it? >> to me it was, because my mom, she was sick. i really wanted to talk to her.
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15 days, no matter what they did, it was well worth it. >> mad to the extra time in confinement, young and nixon will be separated. jack hill has spent much of the last 30 years m partners. >> that's life in prison. >> people come, people go. you don't miss them, you just remember them. >> walk in your cell. take it as it comes, good with the bad. >> negative twb tray to make it a positive. >> the prison's upcoming ban on smoking. >> me, i'm kind of looking forward to that. i know 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 really don't want to die in
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prison, although it's a real possibility that i may. >> 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? i don't know what that is. it scared me. blood on the corner of my coat, on the bedsheet, washcloth, towel. we'll see. >> i got something popping up here on my face. i think it's probably skin cancer so we will see. it's something to do anyway, you know. >> the prison nurse has examined the leagues and has made an appointment for him to see a doctor. >> my grand father died of cancer. my grandmother died of cancer.
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here. by that i mean being in this world. i hope i have enough time to experience being human, my family, 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 the lesion on his face that he believes could be cancer. >> it's scary. you get a little age on you and start seeing things like that, it's kind of scary. >> judging from the appearance of the thing and the timeline and everything, and the location, i am going to say that looks like a small basal cell carcinoma. it's a type of skin cancer usually found in the central part of the face.
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ultraviolet light from the sun is the chief offender there. mr. hill has a chart that, despite the number of years he has been in the system, it's probably no more than half an inch thick. which tells me he is more likely to minimize and ignore something of import than he is to come in and complain about something trivial. this is early enough we are not going to have any problems. we will take care of it now. will it come back? this is the result of many years in the sun. there is a whole lot more that saw the sun than that one spot. come back if you have any suspicious thoughts or questions. >> it makes you think. it was a wake-up call. >> this is a learning experience for jack. he will know what to look for, even more than he did before.
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he will know significance of these lesions. egg cat he can catch it earlier rather than later. >> we will get you set up with a determine noll gist and get this taken care of. >> thank you very much. that went good. i was very concerned, you know, by the way it was doing. i knew it wasn't normal. i did the right thing, we caught it in time, which is always good. i feel a lot better about that. >> it's time to go. i want top say adios. we will see you later and good night.
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>> stay in your cell! >> make sure your lockers are unlocked! >> a massive search for contraband turns up the heat on two inmates. >> i think they think we're getting high. >> a convict prompts an evacuation when he floods his housing unit. >> it was done accidentally when i was cleaning the feces out of the sprinkler. >> a serial bank robber recounts his criminal exploits. >> you've got yourself and somebody tries to stop you,
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