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an infamous inmate is booked into jail. >> i was not going back. i promise you that. jimmy was not turning himself in. >> james steven maxwell, he would be considered somewhat of a legend around here. >> i've taken down heavies oaf the years. >> but now consequences well beyond what a judge can give him. >> that's the next jimmy maxwell. >> it's hard to explain a wasted life. he really felt like he's meant for more. i love you very much, brendan, and i'm very sorry that i wasn't there for you. >> now "lockup" tells the story of a criminal legend, the family he left behind, and the devastating consequences of his decisions.

living in the heart of tornado alley, residents of tulsa, oklahoma, know tos a be braced and ready for a destructive force of nature. it's also that way inside the walls of a half million square foot structure on the edge of downtown, the david l. moss criminal justice center, better known as the tulsa county jail. >> another day in paradise. >> most of the 1,800 men and women incarcerated here have only been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. but newly arrived james maxwell is an exception. he's not only a convict, but is as familiar to staff and inmates here as the turbulent storms that precede most any twister. >> james steven maxwell, he

could be considered somewhat of a legend around here. some of the inmays may look up to him. they give him a lot of respect. he really upholds what they're going to call the outlaw dance with law enforcement. >> jimmy maxwell. jimmy's a legend in the department of corrections of oklahoma. he's a tough guy. he wouldn't want to be messed with, for sure. good guy. good heart. but if you cross him, he's going to be strong. >> that man is 74-2 in the boxing ring in the penitentiary behind the fence. >> 74-2? >> 74-2 is his record. >> maxwell has spent most of his adult life behind bars, did not earn his reputation solely through fighting. >> he's got a history of getting out of lockup, escaping from several facilities in the state of oklahoma. during that time, he got a heck of a reputation of not being able to be held. >> and just 14 hours earlier, he fled an oklahoma state prison 60

miles outside of tulsa. he was apprehended on the outskirts of town and suffered a black eye and a shoulder injury in the process. >> due to his being an escape risk, we will be using handcuffs, leg irons, and a chain around his belly with a box and a padlock. >> we're going to have him black boxed. this is a system, actually it was invented by inmates in prison who have learned how to compromise the handcuffs. what it does is covers the key holes. that good for you? more slack? >> a little bit more. >> he might be a high escape risk. that's no problem. he's not going to get out of our facility. there's no way he's going anywhere. >> maxwell will remain at tulsa county until he is tried for the escape attempt. >> i knew what the consequences could have been when i did it. they were worth it to me. i almost got away with it.

i wasn't out very long. i got away for about a day. i'm just waiting for it to be foggy and i took off. >> maxwell has a total of ten convictions over the past 30 years. several of them for violent crimes like assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. at the time of his escape he was serving 25 years for the possession of drugs with intent to sell, and assault and battery on a police officer. due to a span of good behavior and the amount of time left on his sentence, maxwell had been transferred to a minimum security prison just three weeks before he decided to make a run for it. >> i went over a fence and caught my pant leg and face-planted into the ground and knocked my shoulder out of the socket. i ran for a mile and a half with my arm over my shoulder, keep it from flopping around, it was dislocated. i did not know what i was going to do. i was not going back. i promise you that. jimmy was not turning himself in.

so i just laid down and just thought out how my arm goes together, and i had to lean forward and hook my hand and stretch it and just pray that it went back in, and it did. so when it slid back in, i was a very happy man. >> according to police reports, maxwell made it to the tulsa home of his stepdaughter, stephanie starr. but a police officer was staking out the location by the time maxwell, starr, and another friend left in the friend's truck. >> next thing you know he's like, what in the hell is behind us? i look and there's about 30 cops, feds. i'm just so mad and so upset that this happened like this. because this was probably the only chance what i'd ever have. finally, when i got out of the truck, you know, i'm not complying very well. i just turned around and took off. they shot me with a bean bag and then they tased me with the taser and then they set the dog on me. when it was all said and done, you know, i'm like, i mean --

i'm like, man, you guys -- i don't know how you done it but you guys are good, i got to give you that. if i'd have made it this time, i was just wanting to be somebody else. just be a citizen. i figured that if i stole a few years now, as much time as possible, who knows. if i could go out and live a citizen's life, get one more chance at it, that if i did get caught later on down the line, i would have still been able to look back on my life and see that i had a little bit of life to live, that i'd lived a little bit of life. that was my plan. not much of a plan, obviously, but if they wouldn't have caught me at that moment in time, who knows, i might have been living in l.a. you know what i mean? with blond hair. you know. >> coming up -- >> who knows how many people have been here drawing on the cell, not knowing what's coming next. not knowing where their life is

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housing units, there's wooden doors. a lot of people, why wooden doors? if you've never been inside of a cell and heard the metal on metal shut of a door, you don't understand. it's a mental thing. we have carpet on the floor. in the day room. we have tables that are movable. we have chairs that they can pick up and move and sweep under and take them to the room and put them at their desks. they have porcelain toilets, porcelain sinks. and we did that for a reason. if you affect the mindset, you change the behavior. this facility was not built for the inmates. this facility was built for the officers who have to work there. it's their day that's affected by the mood of the inmates, not the inmates. >> thank you. >> while tulsa county took strides to make general housing units more liveable, its one-person segregation cells

offer the bare minimum in accommodations. inmates in these cells have been cited for disciplinary problems or are high-security risks. having recently escaped from prison, jimmy maxwell is one of them. >> how are you spending your time up here? >> planning my next move. no, i'm just kidding. >> with ten felony convictions and a criminal record spanning 30 years, maxwell has seen the insides of plenty of cells. but in this one, the prior occupant did what he could to make it feel like home. >> it's not a big screen. you're probably used to bigger at home. but in a cell it's not too bad. we have a stereo underneath, got us some pretty good speakers. this is what almost any cell is going to look like when you get throwed into it. it's going to look like this, it's going to smell like this it's going to be hot like this, it's going to be closed in and boxed in like this. and you're going to see stuff on the walls like this, some guy is marking down each and every day that he has left. he marks it down from 1350 to 1325. then i imagine he pulled chains there and went to the penitentiary.

who knows how many people's been in here drawing on this cell, how many people's been in here just bored to tears. how many people have been here not knowing what's coming next. not knowing where their life is going. here's days in the county jail, days in seg. it's days upon days in this little old crappy cell. this is just the county jail. you go past this, there is no end. it's just a gray concrete prison. we don't mark the days on the wall, we mark sets of pushups and things like that. because the days are ridiculous. you don't mark down days, you mark off years at a time. >> maxwell had marked off half of his 25-year sentence. his escape is likely to add several more years back. but now, as he awaits a court hearing on the matter, his time at the tulsa county jail is made even more painful by the years another inmate might be facing. his son is in a cell just down the hall, and his future looks dim. >> my son is brandon maxwell. he's 19. >> i'm charged with second

degree murder. theft of motor vehicles and leaving the scene of a fatality. i never meant to hurt nobody in my life. i'm more of the type of person to help that person before i would ever hurt them. >> though brandon maxwell entered a not guilty plea, he speaks openly about the horrifying event that led to his second degree murder charge. he says he was high on meth when he stole a van. according to police reports, the owner, a 45-year-old wife and mother, rushed out of her house to stop him and was run over in the process. >> when it happened, i didn't know i killed anybody. getting in the van, backing up, taking off.

i remember going over a curb. that's what i thought it was i hit. i'm terribly sorry. terribly sorry. if i could go back, i would. i would take it all back. i can't. think about how her family is never going to get to see her. thinking about how she'll never get to see her family. so if i have to go do life in prison, it makes the kind of easier to think about what i'm going through. >> the person that died in that -- and their families, i pray for y'all, and i'm so sorry. and he is too. and he is too. he is a good kid. and he's got a lot of potential. and just seeing that go down the tubes like this, it's hard for me. it's hard for me. i haven't accepted the fact he's going to be a convict just like me. i'm not ready to accept that. i just knew his life was -- i just didn't want him to have to suffer the things -- the life -- you know, i didn't want him to have to be sitting here like i am at this age. you know, it's hard to explain a wasted life.

how you feel about it if you really -- it you don't -- if you really -- if you really felt like he was meant for more. i just hope for better. i just hope that he would have a good life. >> what would you say to your son right now? >> i'll tell him that i love you very much, brandon. and i'm very sorry. that i wasn't there for you. that i didn't lead a normal life. that i didn't raise you like a normal dad. and that you're not in college right now. i would just tell him i love him and i'm sorry for my failings. not his. >> coming up, jimmy maxwell discusses the sort of thing that made him an inmate legend. >> so i broke his legs, his arms, his collarbone, his fingers and everything else with a ball bat out in the yard out there. crippled him for life. more than 30,000 men and women are booked into the tulsa

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more than 30,000 men and women are booked into the tulsa county jail every year. most leave within hours. but on any given day, there are about 1,800 who reside here until their cases are resolved in court. many have prior stays at body the jail and in prison. few though have been as well known in the inmate population as jimmy maxwell. >> there are four or five names in the prison system you hear of. it's folklore. jimmy maxwell's one of them. he's a fighter, a good fighter.

i don't ever remember of hearing him losing a fight. jimmy's no-nonsense. we all dealt dope in prison. business is business. if you didn't have his money, you would get socked in the jaw, or ball bat took to your head. >> he's notorious. that's all i can say. >> i've taken down a few heavies over the years. i haven't got a lot of tolerance for not paying me when i want -- when i'm supposed to be paid. >> it's the living in there. dope, cigarettes. that's just -- that's the -- that's the dollar in there. that's how we survive. >> but even in prison, maxwell says he did better than just survive. >> bought my wife a set of boobs from my drug dealing activities. that was a mistake, by the way. you don't want to do that while you're in prison. kids. >> maxwell says his violence was steeped in a moral code.

>> i don't pick on people. i try to stand for what i believe is right. it's just like the time that i ran into a guy that raped my wife's best friend. so i broke his legs, his arms and his collarbone and his fingers and everything else with a ball bat on the yard out there, you know. and crippled him for life. and i knew damn well he was regretting ever putting a hand -- forcing that girl to do whatever he forced her to do. but you know what? it's what he had coming. and i'll stand by that. i'll just stand by that. >> were you charged with that? >> nope. not until now, probably. but i'm thinking that the statute of limitations has got to be up by now. >> maxwell isn't laughing, however, when it comes to his 19-year-old brandon. whose troubles are getting worse. he was just given a ten-year prison sentence for violating

his probation on a drug charge. but he also faces life in prison if he's found guilty in his upcoming trial of second degree murder. according to police, he ran over a woman whose van he was attempting to steal. now seemingly following in his father's footsteps, brandon has just been moved into the segregation unit for fighting. it's not the first time he's had problems here. >> brandon has gotten into a number of disciplinary issues, problems. he's been put in seg a number of times for assault and possession of contraband. >> that's not a shame of mine. i have to protect myself. i'm not a violent person at all, though. but i know how to survive. >> and word of the son of jimmy maxwell is already beginning to spread. >> his son brandon is just as cool as he is. >> that's going to be the next jimmy maxwell. >> jimmy maxwell says he has not seen his son in the last three years since brandon was 16. >> he's about a quarter mile down the hallway.

oddly enough, i feel a little closer to him. he's right down the street. >> want to see my dad, you know. i probably won't ever get to see him again. i might go to prison for a long time. and he -- he's going to go to prison for a long time and they're not going to let us be around each other. >> for now, the only way jimmy can see brandon is through a newspaper clipping about his current troubles. >> i don't actually have any other pictures of him, to be honest. that's the only picture of have of him right now. a mugshot. and it's not a very good mug shot, either. this is very sad. that's his picture that he come in on. and i can see his eyes. i can see that red rim, and i can see that they're very sorrowful. >> sergeant collette supervises the segregation unit which currently houses both jimmy and brandon in different sections. he checks in with the inmates regularly and knows jimmy from prior stays here.

>> unfortunately you've got to stay in there for a while. >> i'm aware of that. i cleaned up the house because i knew i was going to be in here for a while. you noticed? >> he asked me if we could move his son next to him in the same unit. and i said, unfortunately not, we can't. we have to keep that separate. family members and co-defendants we have to keep those separated. he understood. he asked me to talk to his son. his son was heading down the same road he was. >> he's in all this trouble, he's going to be facing some time. he doesn't really know how to deal with this yet. i don't believe he's doing well right now because he's struggling with his identity. my dad's son, i'm a convict, how am i going to live? have i got to live up to his reputation? have i got to make my own reputation? he's going through a lot of stuff right now. >> as parents, you want your kids to always do better than you did. maybe i can get him turned. go the other way. i don't know. my old adage, free your mind,

your ass will follow. maybe i can get him to go along with that program. >> you do pretty good. you do better than most. i know that already. >> well, i try to. >> maxwell has come to see prison as a long tunnel and says he prays someday brandon will reach the other end. >> he's got to put one foot in front of the other. he's got to just keep on going. and to the end of that tunnel. and not make it worse. because it's too easy to do. and if he gets caught up in trying to live a prison life, then he's going to be subject to all the stuff that happens when you do that. happened to me. i wouldn't know what i'm talking about if it didn't happen to me. >> coming up -- >> i'm here right now for traffic city warrants. i haven't paid any of them. kept forgetting. like $19,000 worth or something like that. >> tulsa county plays host to another member of the maxwell clan.

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unlike many other large correctional facilities, the tulsa county jail was designed as a single-story structure with double-tiered cells. >> when we were designing this facility, we went to many facilities around the country.

the elevated or the multi-storied buildings were cumbersome and hard to maneuver and it separated the employees from each other. >> because the jail doesn't rise several stories high, it has a large footprint. roughly the same size as ten football fields. among its unique features are long, steadily ascending hallways that connect various housing units. >> the longest hallway is quarter mile long in our facility. as you go up, it's elevated. >> each corresponds with a housing unit, so if there's a problem, staff would immediately know which unit to alert. >> because it's long, and going up. it helps us to see. we can have a visual on the inmates all the way down the hallway. >> the hallway has been traversed numerous times by inmates, including jimmy maxwell and his son, brandon maxwell. now a third member of the family will walk it as well. jimmy's stepdaughter, stephanie starr, had already been charged and released on bond for aiding jimmy in his recent escape

attempt. she pled not guilty and was awaiting trial when another problem brought her back to jail -- unpaid tickets already >> i'm here right now for my traffic and city warrants. i haven't paid any of them. kept forgetting. and, like, $19,000 worth or something like that. since 1996. >> but if starr is found guilty for aiding in jimmy's escape, she could face prison time. >> oh, yeah, the big escape. my family is my family. i love them to death. i'm of the mind i ain't never going to turn my back on any -- whatever, you know what i mean? i'd do it again, you know what i mean? in a heartbeat. >> jimmy maxwell is unaware that his stepdaughter is now housed in the jail's female unit. in the meantime, he's freshened up his cell by cleaning off the graffiti. and has found that an old friend

from prison, will flowers, is in the segregation cell across the hall. maxwell has been trying to teach flowers sign language but with mixed results. >> x, y, z. >> man, it's been 30 years since i have done sign language. i'm a little slow at it. i probably suck at it. >> he's killing me. i got to tell you, he's killing me. >> you slow down. >> you are killing me. >> flowers is currently charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. he's pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. but it was while serving time in prison that he got to know maxwell. the two can spend time together one hour per day. when they and other segregation inmates are released into an enclosed rec area. >> it's -- i want to say nice. i mean, it's not like the park, i guarantee you.

but it's nice to be out here, it's nice to have fresh air, it's nice to be out of the little old box of a cell. >> maxwell is still recovering from his shoulder injury he suffered during his escape. >> son of a gun. that was the wrong thing to do. >> so for now, he'll have to settle for being a spectator during rec time. >> this is just like being all dressed up and nowhere to go. you know what i mean? i can't even throw the damn ball. >> jacob smith is more than 20 years younger than maxwell, but is already familiar with the legendary oklahoma inmate. >> i've been in here for 14 months. and just in that 14 months i've heard a lot of stories. a lot of stories about jimmy maxwell. everybody knows who jimmy maxwell is. in here in the system, you hear stories about people who were

bad asses and build up a reputation for themselves. jimmy maxwell is one of those people. everybody knows stories about jimmy. some of the things that jimmy did on the yard, you know. the -- the people that jimmy represented. he's -- i guess in a way you can say he's kind of a legend throughout the penal system. >> at this stage of your life is that a good thing? >> it's a bad thing in the sense that i -- i mean, it's a good thing if you're going to spend the rest of your life in prison and going to be here and this is going to be your home and this is where you're going to reside. but this is not what i really wanted to do with my life. i'm going to be honest with you, even having -- even having, you know what i mean, the reputation and people knowing, i'd give it all up just to be a good father. >> have you talked to your boy? >> no. i'm starting to wonder -- they're probably not -- it's probably not going to happen.

>> i had an opportunity to meet brandon back when he first came here. and i never seen a kid so full of life. so full of joy when he talked about his dad. i think he's -- he really looks up to his dad. >> thanks for saying that, man. >> absolutely. >> i think i needed to hear that. >> absolutely. >> i haven't really heard that before. >> brandon maxwell has been released from segregation and returned to a general population unit. as usual, it doesn't take long to meet others acquainted with his father, like david childers. >> his dad was a real good friend of mine. i met him in prison when i was 17. acts just like his dad. >> childers has a unique perspective when it comes to brandon following in his father's footsteps.

>> i understand it. my first cell partner was my father. >> man, wow. >> i talked to my dad about it. and it hurts the father. to see his son follow in his footsteps. >> this is a poem that the minister gave me that kind of touches me in a way that i really don't like, if you want to know the truth. the title of it's "walk a little plainer, daddy." walk a little plainer said a little boy frail. i'm following in your footsteps and i don't want to fail. sometimes your steps are very plain, sometimes they are hard to see, so walk a little plainer, daddy, for you are leading me. someday when i'm grown up -- someday when i'm grown up you are like i want to be, then i'll have a little boy who will want to follow me. and i would want to lead him right and help him to be true, so walk a little plainer, daddy, for we must follow you. that's what you're supposed to do.

you're supposed to walk a path that your child can follow and be proud of and have a life and his child is supposed to be able to follow him from following you. he's following me, all right. but he's following me right to prison. and that's not -- that does not give my heart any joy. it does not give me any peace. i didn't walk very good for him. >> coming up -- >> what were you thinking? don't you think -- >> what do you mean what was i thinking? >> don't you think you're getting a little too old to be jumping through and stuff? >> jimmy maxwell gets a visit from another of his children. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™,

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the 1,800 men and women inside the walls of the tulsa county jail are all at turning points in their lives. some await trial. while others serve short sentences for a variety of crimes. others are waiting for a jury to hand down a verdict or a judge to issue a sentence. as he approaches age 50, jimmy maxwell might be in the midst of a midlife crisis, re-evaluating what his reputation as one of oklahoma's most notorious inmates has done for him and to his family. >> am i feeling desperate now? yes, i am. i have spent so much time trying to get out of the mentality of accepting my life in prison that now i find myself having to try to get into the mentality of accepting it. and it's a fight. i'm fighting it every step of the way. >> maxwell was about midway through a 25-year sentence for drug possession and assaulting a police officer when he escaped from prison. he's now at tulsa county jail until a judge decides how many more years might be added to that sentence. meanwhile his 19-year-old son

brandon awaits trial for second degree murder. >> i know that when he was in school and when he started having problems, it had a lot to do with me. not being there. >> i felt separated from my father. i rebelled. know what i mean? i made wrong choices. >> didn't help that i'm as well known as i am. and they tell stories, know what i mean. and he gets this picture in his mind of his badass dad. >> maxwell's stepdaughter stephanie starr is in the jail as well. she was recently arrested for her failure to pay about $19,000 in traffic fines. she also faces charges of aiding her father's escape. >> you're getting released. >> i am? >> yes. >> but today he's returning home. frnd has posted bond for her. >> he bonded me out? >> somebody posted it.

aiding maxwell, her freedom could be short-lived. >> sign, third line down where it says inmate signature. for your property. behave and don't come back anymore. >> you say that to me all the time. yes. yes, i'm going to behave. >> jimmy maxwell has seen a modest improvement in his life. he's been moved to a new cell and it's a little roomier than his old one. >> my buddy will's next door. now we can talk and we can pass stuff back and forth pretty easy without having much fuss or muss. >> passing items between cells involves a technique known to many jails as fishing. tulsa county inmates call it cadillacing. >> you got a newspaper over there? >> i got a puzzle, bro. >> inmates tie objects to string and send them back and forth under cell doors. >> he made some burritos last night and sent a couple of them. they was bomb.

>> through the door? >> under the door, yeah. burrito comes in a plastic bag like this, okay? he made me two of them. squashed them down, slid them underneath the door. hooked them on his string. i was looking. tied on, brought them over here. you can bring them back to life once you get them out from under the door. they was delicious. >> yeah, i had to smash the hell out of them. you know what -- >> i put them all back in shape. >> huh? >> i put them all back in shape. >> did you really? i was thinking i was ruining the damn thing. >> you've got to give me the recipe, okay? >> huh? >> give me the recipe. >> maxwell tries to keep his spirits up, but brandon's trial for second degree murder weigh heavily on him. he recently asked jail officials to allow him a brief visit with brandon. but as a segregation inmate and escapee, maxwell is considered a security risk. >> there's a real possibility that as bad as i don't want to think about it, we may never see each other again. >> mountains a week, however, maxwell is allowed to see other members of his family.

his youngest daughter echo along with her mother, mary jo cravat, have just arrived at the jail for a visit. mary jo and jimmy are divorced, but maintain a friendship. they are here to get questions answered about the recent escape attempt. >> he thought it was an opportunity for a -- probably cost him the rest of his life. >> who are you here to see? >> james maxwell. >> visitation to j-2, i need james maxwell for a visit, please. james maxwell. all right. go ahead. j-2. >> i'm thinking it's so stupid. i just can't understand his thought process. he's a grown man. i guess he knows what he's doing. or he thinks he does. anyway. >> he's a knucklehead. always has been. >> while mary jo visits brandon, echo goes to see her father. these visitations have been the routine since she was a little girl. >> i'm kind of used to it, just him not being there, having to see him behind glass, having to go through security to be able to see him. my dad's been in here a long time. i hate it for him.

you don't to want see anybody that you love locked up . but he wouldn't know how to act if he was out here anyway. my brother being locked up now bothers me a little more. just because he's my little brother. it's hard to know what i would say to my father, because i wouldn't want to hurt his feelings, but it's his fault. it's his fault that my little brother is here. >> hey, sweetie. >> hey. >> what are you doing? oh, you look so beautiful. >> thank you. you look handsome yourself. >> you're my daughter, you have to say that. >> what were you thinking? don't you think you're -- >> what do you mean what i was thinking? >> don't you think you're a little too old to be jumping fences and stuff? >> sweetie, i broke my shoulder in the process. i mean, i'm obviously getting too old to be jumping fences.

but -- i'm just so tired of doing time. you know that. i wanted to be out there with you guys. you know. i just wanted to be free. you know that. i mean, you know me. i'm just tired of it. i'm tired of being locked up, i'm tired of being in jail and prison. i don't know what else to say. i get discouraged and things don't work as fast as i want them to, or i got more time than i expected or -- i don't know. i just don't want to be an old man getting out and miss everything again with everybody again, you know what i mean? i mean, i'm upset, don't get me wrong, that i got caught. i wanted to be at the lake this summer.

you know what i mean? i wanted to be visiting you all with blond hair. but i'm -- i might be able to get a chance to see brandon. and being able to do that, i mean, being here for him, being able to, you know -- being able to say some things for him that nobody else is going to say. i mean, to me, it's almost a fair trade. >> probably happened for some kind of reason, you know? >> yeah, i should have never got caught that fast. that would have never happened if it wouldn't have been divine intervention, i'm telling you right now. >> something's up with that, huh? >> i don't know what's going on. i don't know how come things are happening the way they're happening. for the life of me, i can't figure out how i got caught that fast. we all grow. we grow up. know what i mean? coming up -- jimmy maxwell

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we're going to go get jimmy maxwell. >> for security reasons, tulsa county jail detention officers never alert high-risk inmates like jimmy maxwell as to when or why they're leaving their cells. >> he'll be cuffed up in a black box and be escorted down by us. >> where are we going? you going to take me out? >> yeah, we're going to take you out. >> take me out for burgers and fries? field trip. >> oh! hey, boy! hey. >> it's good to see you, son. it's going to be all right. you know that, right?

>> yeah. >> it is, i promise you. >> jimmy and his 19-year-old son brandon have not seen each other in three years. while jimmy says his legendary status as one of oklahoma's most feared inmates served him well in prison, it's cost him the ability to properly guide his son. but only now, with brandon facing prison himself, can jimmy offer some advice. >> no matter how it goes you're going to have time to do. >> i know. >> don't let this define you. don't let prison define you. there is people that are just -- if there is any light at the end of the tunnel, it's so, so, so small that they just make prison their world and their home. i did that. you get caught in to living in penitentiary. this is my home. this is where i live. when you stop caring. one day i was looking through my

photo album and i have photos of you and echo, and i flipped through there, and flipped through there, and as you got older, and you got older, and it was almost teenagers. i just realized that -- how much i'd let you down. and i mean, i spent all this time in here, trying to be -- look out for other people and look out for mine, and look out for, you know, fit in here, and penitentiary, penitentiary, penitentiary. you know. and it was -- you know, i realized that it was you guys that needed me the most. and i let you down. and you know, man, i'm a dumbass. and i've learned through the years, and the years that we wasted apart that there is a light, no matter how dim it may seem. it's hard to stay in the tunnel

and watch for that light and go for that light. it's much easier to not give a [ bleep ]. i'm going to tell you this right now. i know you. and i can see the water in your eyes even when you're smiling, and i know how much pain and how much anguish you're going through right now. i don't want to see your whole life gone. if you get 20, 25, whatever, i'm going to call that a blessing. if you get lucky like that, then you need to walk this walk, and walk straight out that door and not come back like this. over and over again. >> i don't want to get caught up in that neither. and that's not my plan. it never has been my plan. you know what i mean? yeah, we all get discouraged and we all do things. we're human. man, we get discouraged. but we got to pull ourselves out of it. like you're saying, keep our eyes on that tunnel, on that light.

>> as far as the escape stuff, maybe that's just not what i was meant to do. god or whoever did not see fit for me to get away. i am not upset with being caught. i mean -- well, that's not exactly true. i am a little upset about being caught. but to be honest, i'm glad i'm here for you right now. >> everything does happen for a reason. and it's obvious right now sitting where we're at that this all happened for a reason. we both needed this. i can't express to you how much we both needed this. >> as the visit draws to a close, the father and son have a final chance to be like other fathers and sons. >> you put a little weight on since the last time i saw you. >> yeah, a little bit. >> that's ripples right there, bud. >> yeah, yeah. >> i think our time is about up, son. i love you, son. >> i love you, too. >> it's going to be okay. >> love you. >> i love you, too, son.

>> weren't expecting that, were you? >> no, i wasn't. >> god dang it.

i hope it's not the last time i see him. i'm ready. >> are you ready? >> yeah. don't grab my wrists like that! what is wrong with you? >> an inmate's troubled past leads to angry outbursts inside the jail. >> if i'm to the point i'm mad at you here in my face, we're going to have a problem. >> i put him in segregation from the moment he got here because of his combative nature and the way he was acting.

>> another inmate ar