. >> hi, my name is ray lincoln. >> for inmate ray lincoln, doing time at san quentin is much more emotionalue life story about being in here. you know what i'm talking about? ♪ i close my eyes and see the things ♪ ♪ that no one else can see ♪ and no matter how far apart we are ♪ ♪ your heart's in tune with me all around me ♪ ♪ i feel all the stress because i'm dealing with insecurity ♪ ♪ and i lay all my thoughts in the night i cry ♪ ♪ because i wonder where i went wrong ♪ ♪ and by the time they let me go ♪ ♪ i know that you will all be gone ♪ ♪ because i'm doing time >> free us. free us. free us. >> it's clear that san quentin, california's oldest prison, is decrepit and in serious need of an overhaul. after years of debate, state officials say they are planning a nearly quarter of a billion renovation of the death row facility. the plan has numerous critics who argue the expensive renovation is only a temporary solution and that the new facility would be at capacity within a year of opening. but with an appeals process that averages 20 years and about 30 inmates added yearly to a death ro

after lincoln was renominated, ray monday expanded the biographical account that appeared in his history of the administration for a smaller and less expensive publication, and that is the image you see before you. the life of abraham lincoln issued in paper wrappers, published in separate editions by the new york publishing house of derby and miller and the national union executive committee, the book consists of 136 pages including john savage's 50-page biography of andrew johnson. joseph barrett, the former editor of the cincinnati daily gazzette, and author of an 1860 cam pain biography, produced a work which included with slight modifications an earlier account of lincoln's life with a history of his presidency in the first months of 18964. the philadelphia publishing house of t.d. peterson and others before the national union party assembled in baltimore, written by the philadelphia journalist david braynard williamson, this biography was issue in the both paper and cloth editions. another biography that appeared before lincoln's nomination, was written by orville james victor, the

ray of light. they hoped might bring the long awaited revulsion against lincoln by the northern public. this is what the stevens types were waiting for. but the hard liners, davis' camp saw things differently. in their eyes, the republicans would get away with fraud and intimidation and they would get away with it because lincoln and the radical republicans held the majority of northerners in their sway. in other words, the wide-spread election corruption was a sign in the eyes of davis of lincoln's strength and his power, not his weakness. in the end, lincoln's victory did more to vindicate the hard liners than the confederate copperheads. for lincoln's victory the hard liners insisted would make the scales fall from the eyes of southerners who had naively held out hope that the yankees would treat with their foes. jefferson davis described to them what he took to be the yankees peace terms. we should submit to their yolk, acknowledge that we are criminals and appeal to their mercy for pardon. davis would brook no such peace. emma holmes put it this way with her acidpen, the presidenti