at wabash's youth unit.ans to pursue a college degree from prison and hopes to earn time off his sentence by holding down a job. >> really my biggest concern about being on this side is just getting in trouble. i hope that no one tries testing me, you know. because i used to be a very violent person. i'm not that person no more. i'll never want to revert to that. >> with good behavior, folsom may only have to serve 18 of his 36-year sentence. making his 18th birthday an even more significant milestone. >> a can of pop. a special occasion. you know. sometimes it's hard to keep hope. sometimes it's easy to fall into negativity especially in the juvenile block when there are so many kids that just don't care. it took getting 36 years to wake me up to realize that's not what i want to do that it's not a game no more. >>> coming up -- >> just hit a man while you're down. >> james stone is challenged by the new kid on the block. >>> and an unexpected twist in the lukuman aderibigbe escape investigation. y got it h

. >>> i hate wabash. they make sure you know you're in prison every day. >> who wants to be locked with another man for 19 hours a day? then three of the half hours that we come out is to go get the worst food you've ever ate in your life. i don't even know how they call it food. >> everyday, seeing people take for granted, we cherish right now. >> wabash valley correctional facility -- a maximum security prison on the western edge of indiana. the center piece of the rural town of carlisle. the inmate population of nearly 2,200 out numbers local residents 4-1. many of indiana's most violent offenders are sent here. >> the approximate breakdown for offenders that have committed serious offenses against a person -- which may be murder, voluntary manslaughter, battery, assault -- is approximately 35% to 40% of our offender population. >> the most violent of these offenders are housed in single person cells, 23 hours a day in the secured confinement unit. >> 1205. >> few however are more notorious than lenard

this is wabash, man. they do what they want to do.bey the rules here, you know, but sometimes they really want you to be compliant, you know, like puppets. don't do this, don't do that. do it like this, do it like that. [ bleep ] here, eat here, no, cant talk to that person, get off the door! all this [ bleep ] rules. i'm in jail for not [ bleep ] following the rules. >> wright says his attitude is the result of growing up in a tough new jersey neighborhood. >> either you sink or swim, you know what i mean? and i grew a hard exterior because i didn't want to be the victim, and over the course of time, that became a part of my character. >> and recently wright's character was put to the test. >> he came back from recreation one night and noticed that his tv had been missing, so obviously he knew someone had took it. so he was pretty upset about that, as anybody would be. >> this is the penitentiary. are you serious? people [ bleep ] kill for that, for real, for real. >> surveillance video from the unit shows another inmate standing out

. >> welcome to wabash. hope y'all could stay longer. >> with more than 2,000 inmates, the wabash valley correctional facility in southwestern indiana has a larger population and more acreage than the rest of the small town in which it's located. >> carlisle is a very small community, approximately 1,200 is their population. it's comprised of a school. it has a grocery store. it has a gas station, a couple of little restaurants, a dollar store and that's really about all that's in carlisle. >> while carlisle might be a remnant of a simpler time, inside the twin security fences of wabash is evidence of how some aspects of society have grown harder. >> we're seeing a lot more offenders coming in much younger than they were before and much more violent than in the past as well. correctional officers are the backbone of the facility. they're the ones dealing with the offenders on a daily basis. they are frontline. >> i've been hearing about the correction setting since i was 8 years old. i grew up around it. so

. >>> indiana's wabash valley correctional facility houses nearly 2200 inmates.ore than one-third of them are doing time for serious violent crimes. unless isolated in solitary confinement, the vast majority of inmates live in two-man cells. pairings are critical and avoiding a volatile mix of cell mates a constant challenge. >> we try to not put people doing life with people who are going home next year or blacks with whites or white supremist where with someone with a child molestation case just to resolve the conflict before it happens. >> but even with careful screening conflicts can still arise between cell mates. >> there is a guy in the infirmary with several injuries to his facial and head area. at this point he is saying he had a seizure. we will try to talk to him. he may have been assaulted with a hot pot. we're going to talk to him and see if he is willing to talk at all. >> the victim is curt its cash who is serving a 29-year sentence for burglary. >> cash? >> yeah. >> what's up with you, man? >> you can stay laid down if you want to? what happened?

but wabash also houses men doing time for far more serious crimes.en like jeremy blanchard. >> i have never been a drug abuser. i've never been a drunk. i knew what i done when i done it. i knew the heinous nature of what i done. i can still to this day remember nearly every blood spot that was in that house. i can remember the wallpaper, the way the bodies were laid. i can remember nearly everything that happened that night. >> blanchard has served a little more than one year of a 195-year sentence, but his facial tattoos will forever commemorate both his crime, triple murder, and the moniker the local media gave him, kokomo slayer. >> it's telling you that's what i've done. that's who i am. that's what i'm about. yes. >> blanchard tracked down his former girlfriend, jessica berg, her mother and her mother's boyfriend when they traveled to kokomo, indiana, to attend a funeral for jessica's grandmother. blanchard broke into the house they were staying in, hid inside until they came home and got ready for bed then stabbed all three to death with a but

houses not only the state's most violent offenders but a large population of the mentally ill, the wabash valley correctional facility. the challenges of running a maximum security prison are compounded by the increasing number of a new kind of prisoner. >> approximately 700 of the 2,200 offenders we have at this facility are diagnosed with a mental illness. i think these numbers are increasing throughout the country. increasing for everybody to deal with. >> superintendent craig hanks has been working at the prison since it opened in 1992. >> this is a multi-security level facility. it's a large facility. we're on over 500 acres of property. the perimeter is approximately a mile and a half around the facility. we have maximum security, medium security and minimum security offenders. what probably sets us apart is the different segregation units. >> offenders who assault staff or other inmates are moved to the secure housing unit, a prison within the prison, known as the shu. >> there have been discipline problems, they've been assaulted and they've had issues at other facilities. so they

. >> the first time i put on a stab vest was in indiana at wabash valley.t was definitely an uneasy feeling knowing i had to wear this to walk on to the unit an that the potential to be stabbed was higher here. it definitely makes you a little more on your toes and a lot more alert of your environment. >> we noticed that these vests said lock down. wile we're here we're going to slowly but surely change every stinkin' one of them. >> if i'm required to wear a stab vest i usually just make light of it. i joke around about how it adds ten pounds to me and the color don't go with my outfit. i make it into a joke. >> and a sense of humor goes a long way in breaking the ice with many of the inmates featured on lockup. >> coming up the one lockup crew member inmates love to rib. >> sometimes i'll hear people say stuff through their cell, hey fat boy. i have to look at myself, really? >> and later previously unseen clips from one of the more memorable inmates we ever met. choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number, and the l

. >> the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana houses a large number of inmates who are, ore considered, mentally ill at the time of their crimes. when "lockup" visited there, we met two such inmates. they killed after their own minds turned on them. and their murders took on dimensions that were not only shocking, they were unimaginable. >> i'm frank street jr., i'm 38 years old. i've been down since 1993 for shooting my mom. >> during our first day of shooting at wabash, our "lockup" crew met frank street, an inmate housed in the prison's residential treatment unit. at the time of the interview, street was experiencing involuntary tremors due to his medication. >> i started having delusions that the people were out there hurting me. and i have this video cassette tape of a party showing people hurting me. and i showed my parents. they said no, no, there ain't nothing to that. i said well you guys are crazy. i'm watching it. they was thinking sane, i was the crazy one. >> a short time later street's delusions got the better of him. >> i load up the 30-30 because i thought p

but shortly after we met jones, his time at wabash was up. >> the day william jones jr.eleased i was responsible for meeting the family at the front of the prison and driving with them to the back of the prison where william would be released. >> middle arm rest goes up if that makes it easier. >> thanks, guys. >> i was riding in the car with casey, who was william's brother and casey's girlfriend, and then their kids. they were really excited. i mean, the energy level was really high. >> me and my brother are pretty close. i'm just glad i get to pick him up and not have to leave him here. i've been up here like eight different times and had to leave him here. it was hard. >> meanwhile, "lockup" director of photography, brian kelly, is covering jones as he processed out of the prison. >> there you go. take your i.d. with you. have a good one. >> appreciate it. >> good luck. stay out of here. >> it was very typical of what we do on a release. the paperwork, the processing, making sure they get their money, changing out the clothes. and very interesting stuff. but one of t

on msn -- nsnbc, man, locked up wabash extended stay. msnbc, locked up wabash, extended stay. to the belly of the beast. >> we hear a lot of inmates describe prison as the belly of the beast. >> this place sucks, man. >> it's usually not used to describe prison kitchens. but that might be the most appropriate use of the phrase there is. >> our crews are always looking for ways to get these kind of iconic prison or jail shots, and the kitchen is a great place to get them, because i don't think anything really says incarceration more than seeing some bland food scooped on to an institutional tray by a 6'4" inmate covered in tattoos. and the funny thing about the food is, inmates always complain about it, but inevitably, they are always looking for ways to get more of it. >> this is so we don't starve later on. but if you want to see a real sack, look over there. show them what you got. >> but if you're going to do it, if you're going to take a chance at getting caught, do it in a big way. >> go big or go home. and since we can't go home -- >> this is how we do it here. >> most i

this happened last night on wabash street. police tell us that the woman was standing in her kitchen at the time and hit by the bullet in the shoulder. she was taken to the hospital and expected to recover. anthony: developing this morning a little girl is expected to be ok after she was lot of the raleigh townhome community. it is off buffalo road. the car rolled over the 3-year-old. the toddler was conscious and alert when officers arrived. she was taken to the hospital to be checked out. caitlin: also in wake county, we're trying to learn about a pedestrian hit by a car in night dale. this happened near hodge road and woodfield road. the highway patrol saying that the pedestrian was her, but no other details. anthony: this morning an accused killer's two children and a girlfriend from florida found safe here in north carolina. our affiliate in zero beach is saying edward dropped off lopez and their two kids in wade. that is in cumberland county. police are saying the kids are just 1 and 4 years old and they had to walk with

this happened late last night on wabash street near lawson street. police say the woman was standing in her kitchen at the time she was hit in the shoulder. she was taken to the hospital and expected to recover. anthony: developing this morning, a little girl expected to be okay after she was hit by a car. this happened in the parking lot of the raleigh town home community in the 3600 block of top of the pines court off buffalo road. raleigh police tell us that the car rolled over the three-year-old. the toddler was conscious and alert and took her to the hospital to get checked out. caitlin: also in wake county, we are learning more about a pedestrian who was hit by a car in knightdale. this happened at the intersection of hodge road and whitfield road. pedestrian was hurt but wouldn't give us any other details past that at this time. no word yet on if any charges had been filed. anthony: two children and the girlfriend of an accused killer from florida found safe here in north carolina. our affiliate says edward gunez dropped off maria lopez and th

. >> wabash "lockup: extended stay," and hell yeah, the stay is extended.0. that's five decades, man. i'm going to show you my cell, man. show you what's going on in my cell. show you all where i live, how i live. all right. wake up. that's my bed. it ain't that thick. you know what i mean? it's my window. this is my window. that's the gate teasing me with freedom. you see the cars running by, going places i can't go. trying to paint a picture for you so you can understand what i'm going through. >> i looked out the window a lot. >> a lot of inmates have the hopes and aspirations of going home. because of the nature of my crimes, the brutality, the heinous and gruesome events that occurred, i know that i'll never see the streets again. >> this right here, as pathetic as that is to say, this is my pillow. don't nobody touch it. doesn't nobody touch it. ain't nobody going to touch it. you know. i put my head on it. i -- i cradle it at night like it's another person. you know. because it's one of the things you wish you had. you know, do i want the company of

menagerie to match that of philip stroud, who was serving three life sentences for murder at the wabashy correctional facility in indiana. >> basically making origami figures. you've got the lion. you've got the swan. you've got the rabbit, little puppy, dinosaur, flower. my niece, she loves the little goldfish. this is my favorite one because it turns into like a kaleidoscope-type thing. the hardest one to make was probably the elephant because it got a lot of folds. i'm an artsy fartsy type of guy, i guess you could say. it's basically a way to spend my time, use my hands to make something that really means something that can bring a smile to somebody's face, instead of using -- using my time or using my hands to hurt somebody or to destroy something. i even sent some to nursing homes and stuff. the different animals remind me of when mom used to take us to the zoo or, you know, cartoons or stuff like that because in here, it's easy to grow cold. it's easy to become desensitized. and i was like that for a while. and i'm still trying to come out of that. so this is a part of me trying

. >> some of my buddies that patrol on the wabash river in vincennes, indiana, were on the river saidhere. >> mac calls troy and they set out on a fishing expedition they will never forget. >> all of a sudden, that first fish comes flying out of nowhere, passes between us, bounces off part of the poet. >> there's one! >> a single jumping fish is unusual, but it's not enough to shock troy or mac. but within seconds, dozens of fish start leaping out of the water in all directions. >> left side, right side, front, back, all the way across the river. they were just jumping everywhere around the boat. >> oh! there's one! up on my shoulder! >> the fish are so active that the guys have to protect their heads. and it's no picnic for the cameraman either. >> boom! >> hit the cameraman. nailed me right in the back. >> some of the fish weigh more than 20 pounds and they're propelled by powerful tails that can launch them up to six feet in the air. the fish are asian silver carp, also known as flying carp. and while their behavior looks bizarre, the jumping carp are actually responding to the boa

clair makes in the cap meant maumee he thinks is the river, but it exactly the wabash river, he doesn't know where he is. that the indians will scatter and run before he gets there to find them and kill them. when he is talking to his officers on the evening of the third, they are standing around a campfire warming their hands and the plan is the next a, we will get up early and we will march the next however many miles it is, it was actually 44 miles from where he thinks he was going to burn indian villages, and he thinks it is much closer, we will march, we will get things done. the indian army has come to meet him and they are lying in wait waitd a half miles away -- two point five miles away for the battle that they know is going to happen in the morning. men getorning when the up, suddenly all hell breaks loose. these people are sibley engulfed by an indian attack and they run across the river and run into the american encampment. eatingare still breakfast and wiping sleep from their eyes. the indians were doing what they were not supposed to be able to be doing. the leaders have f