and since then, trotter has done his share to maintain his image of that. >> trotter has maintained that he was defending another inmate from abusive staff. >> some of them were stabbed but some of them were beat up. some of them went to the court and overexaggerated their wounds. >> the judge in trotter's case saw nothing to laugh about. >> i was found guilty of one count of attempted murder, one battery, four counts of criminal defilement and one count of rioting. and i was sentenced to 142 years. and was like, wow. most violence is spontaneous. that's what that was. it was spontaneous. one incident led to something else led to something else led to something else but it is never the solution. >> trotter has now been in prison for 26 years 73 due to his role in the riot and other disciplinary problems, he has spent 16 of those years in the securitied confinement unit. >> due to his behaviors in the past, trafficking, extortions, intimidations we consider him to be a risk to our safety. therefore he was placed on administrative segregation. >> trotter has spent many years in confinement

few people know more about how difficult life in confinement is than christopher trotter.fter ten consecutive years there, he has been released to a transitional housing unit on his way back to general population. >> probably known him for 12, 13 years. when i heard he was going to open pop, i couldn't believe it with his reputation that he has. i didn't think they would let him out. >> oh, man. this is what i do all day long, drink ice water. it's been ten years since i had a cup of ice water. i was like, dang, i never knew that water tasted so good. but it does, just ice water. and these are the little things we take for granted. >> trotter, whose name is infamous in the indiana state prison system, will now be around other inmates and staff without handcuffs and shackles for the first time in ten years. he originally came to prison nearly three decades earlier on a four-year sentence for theft. but then trotter received 142 years as a result of being one of the instigators of a major riot at another prison. he has spent a total of 16 years in confinement but says these

jennie trotter: sometimes you just practice some relaxations whether it's, you know, listening to music or exercising together. there's some great slow moving, deep breathing exercise that say, you know as a rule, or having family meetings because there's so much going on to talk about who's doing what. for some families, the concept of family meetings, or even just time together, may be difficult to achieve. the family unit is din in very different terms these days. we have single parent families, we have parents where both parents have to work in order just to make ends meet. catherine parrish: i see many children who are latchkey children, who get very little one-on-one time with their mom or dad, who have nintendo, sega, four pairs of sneakers. spending time with your mother or father is probably the most precious gift you can give your children. not so much the quantity but the quality of that time, and that that child recognizes that as a special time for him to share with his mom or his dad or both, or whomever the caregiver is. as children get older, the value of time together,

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hunger cliff, check out our reporter's great piece on msnbc.com, fantastic companion photos from john trotter >>> a congressman that is fighting the food stamp cuts and people on the front line of the hunger battle will join me next, stick around. >>> we are back, and joining me now, the director of the coalition against hunger, all you can eat, how hungry is america? and congressman jim mcgovern, a democrat from massachusetts, a member of the house agriculture committee co-chair house hunger caucus. joe i want to start with you, $5 billion in cuts happen on friday. that money goes away. now, it is an $80 billion a year program more or less. that is a little more than 5%, but how big a deal is this, really? >> this is the biggest of deals. you know, just in new york city alone these cuts will wipe out 76 million meals from people who need it the most. already, we know that a family -- they have their benefits. their food stamps. it will last until about the third week without the cuts. you know, before the week that they decided to do this, it is for thanksgiving, for hanukkah. it makes absol

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