probably assumed he was the most prominent member of government to announce his retirement today. thanks to john paul stevens, he was wrong. congressman bart stupak made himself famous for almost derailing health care reform. he announced he would not be running for reelection this year. >> last night and early this morning, i informed democratic leaders and key supporters that i would not seek reelection to congress. now it's time to spend a little more time with my wife laurie who we've been married for 36 years and whose love and commitment has sustained me through the years. with our son ken and his family and my extended family and friends. >> according to the washington post, mr. stupak made the financial decision at the final four in indianapolis last weekend. congressman stupak served nine terms representi ining michigan upper peninsula.

and he's given democrats a good chance of holding on to his seat. >> i think we've tilted this district. i've seen the republican field and obviously i'm not impressed. >> stupak says threatening calls made to him had no impact on his decision. he also does not attribute his retirement decision to being named in the ethics and tax complaints about his former status as an apparently subsidized resident at the c street house in washington, d.c. i was skeptical based on his false assertion that it would allow federal funding for abortions. i believe the congressman was both wrong and disingenuous in that crusade. that said he is a public servant who is a respected and popular man in his district and among his colleagues for good reason. i personally and all the staff here at this show that has been so hard on him really do wish congressman stupak all the best in his retirement. that does it for us tonight, we will see you again on monday. at that point, we'll be back in

new york. and the people of bowie, maryland, will have tarred and feathered me for mispronouncing the name of their town. we hope you have a great weekend. good night. they were once shrouded in secrecy behind the iron curtains. >> we knew we were walking where lots of people were dying. >> the prisoners stood against the row. but now for the first time, a lockup crew travels to eastern europe and goes behind the wall of six maximum security prisons. >> there was a moment there where, wait a second, it's a little different.

>> it's one of europe's oldest cities with a history scarred by war. it was invaded not once, but twice. even today, its ministry of defense building stands in ruins from nato bombings in 1999. this is belgrade, capital city of serbia. it's serbia's largest and most infamous prison.

>> my parents are from belgrade, so it was a bit emotional going to a prison in serbia than other prisons around the world. it has an ominous reputation for serbs. where inmates went in and you'd never see them again. >> opened its doors in 1950. it's housed the late president. many were still there when he was incarcerated here in 2001. while awaiting trial for corruption and war crimes. today, it houses some of the nation's most dangerous criminals, including the assassin of a former serbian prime minister. >> translator: they've committed all kinds of criminal offenses, basically every criminal offense on the books, organized crimes, war crimes, and other serious criminal offenses, such as

homicide. >> like american prisons, cz faces the problems of overcrowding. the serbians incarcerated much smaller portion of citizens. 1 out of nearly every 700 versus 1 out of every 130 in the united states. >> at the moment, a total of 1,200 inmates are being held here, which is 2 1/2 times more than the capacity. >> while some parts of c.z. have been modernized, the execution chamber is behind closed doors. >> we went down probably three or four stories underground to an area best described -- kind of like a scene out of "alien." >> they literally have puddles of water on the ground and they have boards that are slightly elevated and you kind of do a balancing act across these boards, but down this old

corridor. and then you just come upon an open room with a wall. >> we are currently in a room where executions used to be carried out. prisoners on death row stood by the wall, the firing squad stood here. >> translator: they had a squad of ten executioners, some of whom had loaded weapons while others did not. the execution squad fired at the inmate, traces of wooden planks that were used to prevent bullets from ricochetting are still visible on the wall. the prisoner on death row spent his last days and hours in these rooms here. >> i've been inside a lot of prisons and certainly been to death row and other areas that have kind of a heavy, heavy feel to them. but i've never been in an environment like this where, you know, you just were overpowered

with a sense of death. you know, we knew we were walking into a place where lots of people have died. >> today, the death penalty is outlawed in serbia, and the final execution in this chamber occurred in 1989. back aboveground, our crew discovered sights that compared to american prisons were once familiar and foreign. >> the first thing that jumped out at me and the crew was the fact that all the inmates seemed to be wearing personal clothes. no prison-issued uniforms whatsoever. that was a little jarring. the staff kind of going along the lines of the militaristic style, they were all in very distinct uniforms. staff members would encounter each other, stop, salute, and shake hands, each and every time. there was this military formality about how they greeted each other throughout the day.

>> one of the things that stood out to me in this facility was all the inmates that smoke. it's everywhere. everybody's smoking. most prisons in the u.s. having very tight designated smoking areas or eliminating tobacco altogether. seeing eight guys, you know, next to each other all smoking at the same time and filming them in this environment. that was a little tough sometimes. >> the yards in an american prison are very active. you go out there and you see a lot of guys lifting weights, playing all sorts of games. the yard at c.z. was a shocking contrast. it almost looked like a tenement building area. it was a concrete square block area and all the guys can do out there is play soccer. that's basically their recreation, their yard.

>> but when it comes to contraband, we could've been in any u.s. prison. >> translator: the biggest problem we are dealing with are drugs. and inmates bringing in cell phones. >> translator: we are about to witness a routine search of detention cells. two teams of security officers are conducting the search. one is directly involved in searching cells and the other team so-called intervention team provides backup. officers quickly discover what appears to be a pair of shanks. a cause for alarm in american prisons, but apparently not a big concern here. while such incidents are rare, it does not mean they could not happen. many of them use them to cut things such as food. >> a lot of these guys have food that are brought in from visitors. so they use it to cut up vegetables and meats they have. so it wasn't a big deal.

>> but when it comes to security, the rules are unbendable. >> the warden had a background in military. he was actually high-ranking member of the special forces. he carried himself like a military man. and i was very surprised when i asked the warden what their inmate on staff stats were. >> translator: in the six years that i have been the warden here, we have not had any such cases. it might seem improbable to you, but we did not have any such cases. i put a lot of stress on the prison staff treating the inmates decently and the inmates strictly observing house rules. if anything happens, it's sporadic. we really do not have many problems here. >> i remember my first day when i came here. it for me like horror movie. but now it's okay. >> we met one english-speaking inmate who agreed the staff does what it can to make life

tolerable. serving six months for a white collar crime, he asked to remain anonymous. >> we are small country. we are not regional country like america or like england. and this condition for our country is okay. it could be better, but it's okay. this prison experience, i'm going to be another man. i'm going to be looking about freedom in another way. to appreciate freedom, to appreciate to walk in the park, to drink coke, to see birds, sky, freedom is freedom. that's all. >> while c.z.'s urban setting and concrete surroundings make some long for simple pleasures, our crew headed deeper into serbia and found a prison that except for the razor wire was almost a natural paradise. [ vrrroooooomm! ]

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38 miles southeast of belgrade, serbia, is the town of pozarevac. in the middle of this rural farming community is another serbian prison. out of the nation's 28 penal institutions, this correctional facility houses the greatest number of high security inmates. some 1,500 in all. it would also prove to be one of the most unique prisons ever profiled on lockup. >> translator: we have inmates who have committed some of the worst crimes and have received the longest and most severe punishments. these include inmates that are perceived to be a threat to inmates and security personnel alike. >> it was built for 800 inmates. but now houses more than 1,300. the inmates considered the most

dangerous of all are housed in this unit. it is called seventh block. >> translator: there are other housing units here. they call this building a prison within a prison. >> vladimir is serving four years for theft. he will says he is housed here because of conflicts with other inmates. >> translator: well, i had some problems when i was in general population since there are a lot of bad people here. there are a lot of what we call rats. if i had stayed there, i could have ended up with six more months in prison. nowadays, if you break somebody's nose or jaw, they immediately give you more time in prison without any discussion. >> but it's outside of seventh block in the general population area that the uniqueness of zabala is most obvious. >> you walk out into this courtyard that was beautiful. they had this very large fountain. and i was a little shocked, turned my head and saw peacocks. the further we got on to the

prison grounds, everywhere you look there were birds. >> then you look a little closer and you see flowers. beautiful flowers in bloom. and gardening. inmates planting other plants. laundry hanging out. and it is almost soothing when you walk through there. >> chickens, peacocks, all these birds that you would never think would be living here. how are they here? >> translator: we breed those. they aren't wild birds. >> tuesday it have a positive effect on the prison? >> yes, of course. >> how about for the staff? >> translator: on them too. animals in nature in general are pleasant to look at. >> peacocks are one thing. later on the tour we were blown away by what we saw next. >> we went to see their yard where the guys exercise. and at first i saw weights. i'm used to seeing that in every prison. then there is this beautiful pool.

this olympic size pool that the inmates swim in. >> have you been in any other pools in prison? >> yes. >> do they all have pools? >> no. >> you would never see this in an american prison. it is too easy for an inmate to drown another inmate or hurt a staff member. you're not going to see it. i was stunned by that. >> the unusual sights here that apparently have only just begun. >> we were on our way up front and i noticed the long line of inmates. they all had their bags. i asked the guy what's going to here? they explained that some of these guys have the privilege and the right to go home for the weekend. >> the doors open, out they go. they went right out into a parking lot. either family members, friends were picking them up in cars, they were getting into cabs and taking off with their weekend passes. >> the men are all trusted to come back on their own. according to the prison, it is only rarely one doesn't come

back. but of all the surprises our crew discovered, it was their second encounter with seventh block inmate vladimir that proved the most surprising of all. he was on his way to a conjugal visit with his wife. >> it's a private visit between me and her and nobody else. we can spend three hours together. >> just a few of the american prisons profiled on lockup allowed these visits. usually overnight stays between well behaved inmates and their spouses. what made this visit so unusual, however, was that alexandra is not only vladimir's wife but his partner in crime. she is currently incarcerated at a serbian women's prison and was transported here for the visit. >> it's a nice privilege for somebody locked up. >> it's not a privilege.

it is their right. the right of every prisoner who has a spouse. >> well, i feel good about it but i also have cold feet. it is hard to explain. i sometime wonder if she even wants to see me again. i don't know. it is hard to put into words but i'm happy about it. >> finally, vladimir and alexandra are reunited. though this was like no prison we've ever seen, the warden claims the unusual atmosphere here is effective. >> translator: it was a conscious decision. the area you see didn't exist before. we renovated it. as for the park, we built all that to make the serving of sentences easier. i must say that we haven't had any major problems so far. there is only sporadic violence but no large scale problems no,

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located nearly 75 miles to the southwest of warsaw lies poland's third largest city, lodz. this is the nation's newest facility. built in 2003, it holds 619 inmates with some of the most dangerous in poland. >> you walk through those gates. you're surrounded by everything, the latest, greatest, high-tech security. pretty amazing actually. most high-tech facility i've ever been in. they were very proud of it. very proud of the technology. >> even our crew was subjected to the prison's stringent

security measures. scott is our audio technician. like all visitors, he must first pass through a state-of-the-art x-ray scanning machine used to prevent smuggling. >> translator: this tea vice is used on persons visiting dangerous inmates and inmates that were before incarceration exposed to drugs. it is very accurate but also very safe. it detects organic and nonorganic objects hidden on a person and inside the person, money, cell phones, drugs, in the air, the body, in natural cavities. we had an incident where a woman was trying to smuggle something in her tampon which she had inserted inside. >> in a prison that house what's are considered some of poland's most dangerous criminals, technology is only one part of the security equation. >> translator: two inmates, members of organized crime, were

communicating illegally with inmates in other areas themselves refused to leave the areas. our negotiations did not succeed. that's why we made the decision to bring in an intervention unit. >> we knew before we arrived on the actual scene that it was a drill. simply a drill. but at the moment that we walked up, it was so life-like and real that we thought, wait a second. did they happen to stumble on a real situation on their way to the drill? >> they were in character. they were doing exactly as they were trained to do. and the officers that were playing the part of the inmates were not making it easy on any of these guys.

they were going full board to try to get these guys to mess up. >> it's also no coincidence that the inmates portrayed in this drill were supposed to be organized crime offenders. since the fall of communism in 1989, poland has seen a sharp uptake in organized crime and its members are filling polish prisons. officials say this man is the leader of an organized crime syndicate. he is serving four years for multiple offenses including the commission of murder. >> translator: the three people, just three people commit the crime together, they are called an organized crime, a criminal group, and they get sentenced as a criminal group. >> how many people died in your case? how many people were murdered in your case? >> one. >> how was this person murdered? >> the person was suffocated, strangulation. >> do you consider yourself a

dangerous person? >> i don't consider myself to be a dangerous person. i'm a normal person. if someone gets on my nerves, people's stupidity gets on my nerves the most, i cannot stand people's stupidity. i get upset. if something is funny, i laugh. like any normal person. i have will feelings like any person. >> he just had a certain charisma about hum. and a lot of inmates have been cut off from society for a long period of time. they're in a personal communications skills aren't that great. his were amazing. but he didn't want to get too detailed about his crime or his background in organized crime. so he kind of spoke in metaphorical responses. often quoting well known philosophers, great literary authors, which for me was a little unusual in dealing with an inmate. >> maybe i will say this. one time in the 16th century

there was a polish philosopher and he said this. the law in poland is like a spider's web. a big fly will get through but a small one will get stuck. i came to a conclusion that you have to find strength within yourself. >> and he would soon show us that strength was one thing he didn't lack. >> we were able to come back about a half-hour, 45 minutes later. and they opened up the security door and he is in there in sunglasses, a full like workout suit. he has his water bottles all together. the guy is ripped. i mean, he is big. a big guy. and he makes it out, well, this is just a cell workout. this is nothing. this is all i can do right here. >> i was a little shocked by his workout outfit. again, i'm used to seeing guys in the little prison issued

shorts. and he was decked out in this professional looking fitness gear. so i kind of made a joke with him. and i said you're going to get a lot of letters from female american television viewers. lockup viewers. which just delighted him. >> but he was clear about the one american woman who interested him the most. >> she's one of the stars of his favorite tv show. >> translator: wilma flintstone is my ideal woman. >> is fred the ideal man? >> translator: no, no, fred is cool but a little infantile. >> coming up, a 13th century castle in the czech republic houses an infamous lifer. >> i was sentenced to life in prison for committing five murders. good job, keep going !

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here's what's happening. rescue teams back underground in west virginia trying to locate four missing coal miners. now that toxic gases have been vented out of that mine. 89-year-old supreme court justice john paul stevens will be retiring this summer. stevens has served seven administrations and is known as one of the more liberal members on the court. and bart stupak says he will not run for reelection after nearly 18 years in congress. now back to "lockup." 100 mile east of prague are the more avian islands. considered the green heart of the nation interesting highland consist of small villages like this. population 420.

an almost equal number of men live right next door in this medieval castle. the prison. >> filming here was extremely difficult in the sense that everywhere you turn, there is a beautiful shop and you want to stop and you want to, oh, there's another one. let's stop, set up, get another shot. we didn't have that kind of time. we had other elements in the story to capture and different people we wanted to talk to. but you could spend all day, two days, three days, just shooting these beautiful, incredible architecture type shots. >> the nation's oldest prison, it was billed in the mid 13th century to protect the land

holdings of a local bishop. it was first used as a prison in the 14th century. today, it is a maximum security institution that houses the czech republic's most notorious criminals. it has been called the czech alcatraz. >> translator: that's just because of the type of convicts that we have here in this prison. that means convicts in maximum security and those serving life sentences. as of today, we counted 163 convicts are here for murder. 87 are for assault and robbery. 20 for rape. 37 for theft. they are house in the cells holding between eight and 18 convicts. the one sentenced for life are housed individually. >> in the u.s. there are currently more than 140,000 inmates serving life sentences. in the czech republic, where the death penalty was banned in 1990, there are only 35 lifers. this man is one of the most infamous. >> translator: i was sentenced to life in prison for committing five murders. >> he was a notorious criminal. his case was very notorious. to me, he was actually a very pleasant person to deal with. very polite.

very calm. mild mannered. he was actually just a very affable guy. >> he led a small gang that robbed and killed at least four men and one woman over a three-year span. >> translator: it actually started when i got into a certain gang of friends with whom i had common interests, as far as weapons and drinking alcohol and having parties. for things like that, of course, you need money. and of course as a young kid, i didn't feel like working. but on the other hand, i wanted to have money. >> how many people you the personally murder, auto? >> myself personally, i actually killed three people. but i participated in all five of the murders. >> he buried one of the victims in his own backyard. in the movie, it looks real easy. you just hit the guy. he fall down and he is eliminated, you know? he is knocked out so he is out of the way, you know, but in

reality, it is different. the guy started to fight back. then it turned into a knife fight. then it turned into a murder. i know that people say and write things about me. zw that i'm a cold-blooded murderer but there is no such thing as a cold-blooded murderer because every time when you decide to take someone else's life, it is such a mental strain on you. it is so much stress. it is so hard on your nerves. there is no way to describe it. >> he escaped execution because of the nation's decision to abolish the death penalty. instead, he will spend nearly every hour of every day confined to a cell. life for some of the general population inmates offers a little more diversity. as our crew soon discovered. >> we were actually filming in another area of the prison.

and we heard some music. it took us over, and there was a heavy metal rock band in a little room rehearsing and playing. and i think that was one of the elements that the staff thought was good for the inmates. to spend time blowing off steam. >> though it's an common sight, we visited american prisons with band rooms as well but one aspect provided the most striking difference of all. >> the eastern european prisons, it was predominantly caucasian inmates. whereas in american prisons, there are a variety of ethnicities, a lot of tensions exist between the ethnicities. >> but only one group here stands out as a minority. they're called roma. a minority that has taken root throughout eastern european nations. they're known as gypsies with the reputation of being con artists and thieves. pavel is roma and has been here for ten and a half years for

multiple robberies and theft. >> we don't have any rights here. there are skin heads here. fascists. we are attacked by them all the time and the government of the czech republic doesn't do anything about it. we don't have any rights here as far as we roma are concerned. i'm afraid of getting out because i don't know how things will go with me. >> according to him, he grew up as a gypsy, learning how to rob and be a thief and that's all he ever knew. that's basically, he was in and out of prison a number of times. >> when we met him, he was only weeks away from his release date. and his prospects did not look good. >> i don't know. i just don't know what's going to happen to me. my parents have died. my grandmother and grandpa, i don't have anyone. i'm an orphan. i'm 42 years old. i don't know where i will go. i don't know because here in the czech republic, there is a lot of racism because i am roma.

i am afraid of coming back here and i don't know what i'm going to do. >> next on "lockup: world tour." >> there are probably over 1,000 people that have been tortured and executed at this prison. >> the prison in warsaw, poland. located in the heart of the nation, warsaw is the capital and largest city in poland. it is known as the phoenix city. because of a history of rising from the ashes of war and oppression over the course of centuries. s playing some video game online, jenny's video-chatting with a friend, and i'm downloading a huge presentation. and while that's happening, we'll enjoy some family time. [ computer beeps ] that was good. what can you do with 4g? [ male announcer ] experience 4g from sprint. it's more than a wireless network. deaf, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilities, it's a wireless revolution. access www.sprintrelay.com.

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located in the heart of the nation, warsaw is the capital and largest city in poland. it is known as the phoenix city. because of a history of rising from the ashes of war and oppression over the course of centuries. in one busy downtown street is a flash point of warsaw's volatile

past. the prison. >> you've been to over 20 american prisons. they're usually located in remote areas far from cities for security reasons. so we're on these busy warsaw streets and we turn and these massive blue doors open up and we enter into this facility. and when we were inside and i was standing on prison grounds, i would look up and see apartment buildings surrounding us, businesses. >> the prison was built in 1904. it used to be called the place of no return. between world war ii and the fall of communism in 1989, it housed a countless number. freedom fighters, many of whom were tortured and killed in mass executions. the monument on the prison wall

honors the victims. >> there are probably over 1,000 people who had been tortured and executed at this prison during the various regimes. there were annul of staff members who made comments to me who said they had seen ghosts there, they had felt ghosts there, that there is a weight of what has transpired at that particular prison. >> today the prison houses inmates because of their crimes instead of their beliefs. it is a maximum security prison with more than 900 inmates, including some of the most notorious in poland. but officials claim they rarely have disruptions. that might be because the prison's special response team is always prepared for the worst. >> we were told ahead of time that they were going to have a demonstration for us from their special response team so we set up for it and we were prepared. when it actually started, they

did it with such intensity and authenticity that i was taken aback. i heard gun fire. they were screaming their commands. it was a very authentic presentation for us. >> the prison has one other effective method of maintaining control. behind these walls are some of the most dangerous and violent prisoners in poland. they are segregated in this high security housing unit. >> translator: this is a pavilion for dangerous inmates. this is a jail inside a jail. >> n stands for the polish word for dangerous. ours was the first television crew ever allowed inside. >> upon entering the facility,

what i noted most was the fact that i could not see any inmates. in american prisons, there is always some kind of window. even in the super maxes. they have these little peep holes the officers will look in before they opened up. that struck me as highly unusual. >> as you opened the door, there were bars. it was a two-tiered system that i hadn't seen before. the security door unlocked and then you have to unlock the bars themselves. >> the solid outer doors are to prevent inmates from communicating with one another. they rarely leave their cells. and even their meals are brought to them. but we found that the cells in n block different from most high security american cells in two especially significant ways. in american prisons, cameras are generally placed only in common areas. here they are actually inside each cell. likewise, there is one area here that offers the kind of privacy that we had never seen in the

states. >> let me show you the bathroom. this is the standard bathroom for n unit. >> in an american prison, all the toilets are out in the open. in this prison, people could actually walk into their bathroom and shut a door and have privacy. >> that's the law. >> one n block inmate, 24-year-old, agreed to speak with us. he is serving a life sentence for murder and says his problems began after borrowing money from a friend to buy drugs. >> translator: i did not have money to pay my debt. he said he would help me to pay my debt but i have to go somewhere with him. i was stupid enough to pay my debt this way. >> the two men attempted to burglarize a home. >> translator: my job was to search the house and not to hurt anyone. nobody was supposed to beat this

man. we were supposed to search the house and it just happened. and a man is dead. the prosecution claims that i participated. that i must have hit the man as well. i was in a different section of the house. i at any time even know this man was being beaten. >> he told me that he had been suffering from depression when he first became incarcerated and he had a young child. and he had already lost two years with that young child and he was uncertain whether or not he would ever have a relationship with his own child. >> i asked myself all the time, why can't i hold my son in my arms? because my visits don't allow that. and my son tells me, daddy, remove the bars. and he tried to get his head through. i can't hold him. i can't cuddle with him in my arms. >> outside n block are the general population housing units. >> one thing that i noticed that stood out was the number of inmates that were in these cells. they were almost like small

tomorrows. sometime they would have four or five or six people in one area. >> they all had a much more homey atmosphere. there were a lot of personal effects. they had home made crochet blankets on the beds. >> like their american counterparts, the correctional officers frequently search cells for contraband like weapons or drugs. though the drug-sniffing dog brought in to help caught our crew by surprise. >> i'm preparing myself to see a german shepherd, rottweilers, the types of dogs that we see in american prison that's we aren't allowed to go near. in come this happy little cocker spaniel right out of a disney movie. >> that was the drug dog. not intimidating at all. a lap dog. it was so excited. it just went into that cell and did its job. the handler was so excited. working together as a team. >> the rapport that the officer

had with this dog was almost like somebody with a pet. after the search was completed, the officer then started playing with it. putting the ball in the mouth and spinning it around. this dog was just all floppy eared and happy. >> translator: at the beginning when we got the dog, she was finding more. now there are less discoveries because inmates are more careful. >> he has been especially careful. >> get packing. >> after serving one year here for theft, we were there on the day of his release. >> translator: well, i lost 12 months, you can say. 12 months doesn't seem like a lot but it is a lot because this time has been very stressful. i feel amazing but i don't quite

feel the freedom. i think when i'm far away from here, that's when i will be certain that i am free. >> he actually walked outside, stepped outside. he was set into freedom. he walked on to this busy street in warsaw and then just disappeared in the crowd. if you had just seen him walking out the door, nobody would even think he was an inmate just released from prison. >> coming up next -- >> i have a daughter here because i have no one on the outside to take care of her. >> a women's prison with an unusual approach to rehabilitation. ar frontal crash safety rating. that's peace of mind for every size family. chevy... may the best car win.

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once known nor artisan glass workers, this is now hole to the largest women's prison.

named after the townhouses 600 women. only 8% of them are convicted of violent crimes. that puts 34-year-old eraina in an even smaller minority. >> i was sentenced for two murders. >> she is in the 12th year of a 21-year sentence for her role in the killings. >> translator: i was just at the wrong place at the wrong time when -- it's very difficult, you know. >> who shot these two people? >> translator: well, in the verdict, it's written that i did, so that's the end of the story. but because i'm going to get out some day, i have to come to terms with it. so that i'll be able to connect to some kind of a future. >> she is still years away from her release but is preparing for it now. she works for the prison maintenance department doing

everything from mowing lawns to painting furniture. but her passion lies elsewhere. >> you can't really write some of the things that we experience in these prisons. you can't script them. because here you have a person that has been convicted of a double murder but what she does as part of her time and part of her therapy is she puts on puppet shows for children. children's theater. >> these puppet shows are for the children here in the area, in the kindergartens. we go to the schools so we can make someone happy with them. >> comparing this freedom prison to american prisons, there was a different vibe there, i would have to say. i would attribute that to the warden. she was pretty focused on reintegrating these women back into society and she had

different means of doing that. >> in fact, the prison director recited a long list of rehabilitative programs. more than we have ever encountered in any prison ever profiled on "lockup." >> we have a family school right inside the prison. they learn the basics of home making, how to cook, there is gardening, exercise, music programs. >> but arguably the motor innovative program of all is the establishment of a mother-child living unit. this special unit allows inmates with clean behavior records to live full-time with their babies between 1 and 3 years old. it holds up to 15 mothers and 20 children and is the only one of its kind in the czech republic. >> i have a daughter here because i have no one on the outside to take care of her. i think the best thing for vanessa is to be with her mommy. >> this woman is serving two