you can't be in the security housing unit or administrative segregation. you can't be a reception center inmate. you can't be on noncontact status. you can't be a condemned inmate. you can't be life without parole. >> ron golden is serving a 22-year sentence for armed robbery and prison staff assaults. four years ago while at another prison, he married hope golden, a woman he'd known since he was a teenager. he's been at kern valley for just a few months. >> we were corresponding from '98 to 2001, and we became intimate with each other. she wanted to come see me. she knew me from the streets. it just blossomed into something beautiful. we fell in love with each other. >> good morning. >> do you have your i.d.? >> it's in there. >> this will be ron and hope's first family visit at kern valley and the first time they've seen each other in five months. >> the orange shirt can't go in because it's orange. >> okay. now i know, i won't do that. >> okay. and the rollers can't do in either. >> okay. >> i'll give you a bag to put all this stuff in. >> before we wer

that's why they've been placed in administrative segregation.ed inmates, they've assaulted staff. >> there are more than 900 correctional officers at san quentin state prison, nearly 200 of whom are women. officer mannix is one of them. >> hi, miss mannix. >> hey. >> i'll see what i can do and let them know that you're still here. >> okay. >> okay? >> all right. >> all right. >> being a correctional officer, i'm at work and that's full time when i'm there. when i'm home, i'm a full time mom. >> here, john, you want to help out? >> it's been 12, 13 years. and she's had a couple of minor incidents, but for the most part, you know, it's a job. >> i thought only guys were prison guards for the longest time. then i heard -- my mom said, yep, i'm working at san quentin. i'm like, really? i thought that was only a guy thing. >> i got to go upstairs and change. >> okay. >> all right. >> i'm proud of her. that's basically it. >> she does good at whatever she does. >> yeah. >> i respect what she does because it takes a strong woman to do that. >> not ever

. >> ad seg is just short for administrative segregation. like i said, in essence, it's a prison within a prison. >> yes! >> inmates housed in ad seg are not allowed contact visits and must remain in their cells 23 hours a day. when they are allowed out, they are handcuffed and escorted by an officer. >> they are in trouble. most of the time they're in gangs and violence, so for our safety as well as everybody else's safety, we just have them handcuffed behind their back and escort them everywhere they go. >> if you would have came yesterday, i just sent her a portrait i did of her, all red with hearts on it like valentines. she touched my heart. that's why i get weak. that's my son. i can't be with them for ten years. you know, that's hard. >> angel rodriguez has spent two months in administrative segregation. he's automatically placed there because he's labeled a validated gang member. >> that means that administration has labeled you as being a participant or an associate of those who are known as gang members. so if you're an associate i

it's administrative segregation. we know it came from downstairs, you fished it up here.broken down. that's a weapon. right here's a fish line, so if he's using this to -- they use this as a weight and they'll send this off the tier to the lower tiers, most likely, where they're allowed to have razor blades, stuff like that, and the inmate will attach a razor blade to this and they'll fish it in. as you can see, they've got a lot of line right here. they'll go all the way up the tier. they'll go up, they'll go down, they'll go side to side, and this is how they pass contraband right here, so, we'll definitely take this. they know exactly how some of us do our jobs, so if they're going to sit there and they're going to be loud or disrespectful while i walk down the tier, i may pay a visit to their cell and do a cell inspection and maybe find some contraband. they know when i go in, i'm not leaving until i find something. a lot of times, they tear up the side of their mattress, try to hide stuff, think we won't get dirty and go in there. >> these cell searches yield both co

. >> i told him point-blank, as far as i'm concerned, you're never going to get out of administrative segregation. due to your actions, what you've done, what you've said. your threats. no way. >> six years is an unusually long time for any inmate to be in jail, much less in segregation. daniela guzman has just completed her first night in jail, also in segregation. due to the high-profile nature of her case. >> it wasn't easy. you know, everybody knows i'm the new girl. they yell a lot. pound on the doors. really loudly. pretty bad. they're just trying to get in your head. can i take one of each? yeah? >> take whatever you want. >> i have 23 hours just to sit there. i only get one hour outside. this is my outside. i'm about to go in, in like two minutes, probably. >> guzman has been charged in the stabbing murder of a classmate, 17-year-old justice afoa. she says she has confessed her role in the murder to police. but that her brother, rafael tovar, actually did the stabbing. and now he, too, has been charged with murder. neither sibling knows the other has been charged with afoa's murder. but t

. >>> administrative segregation is home to roughly 200 inmates. confined to their cells 23 hours a day. these men often become defiant and desperate. when an inmate acts up in general population, he's moved to ad-seg. but when he acts up in ad-seg, the officers' only option is to periodically move the inmate from cell to cell. >> we're going to move him out. he's already hostile. we'll just use caution with him, okay? >> put your hands behind you. cuff up. >> stick your hands out. >> shower stall right now. >> jammy bell is temporarily housed in the shower stall until his new cell is cleaned and inspected. >> all that nasty -- somebody stop harassing me. our crew first met jammy bell a month earlier when he was outraged over unsanitary conditions in his cell. >> i can't breathe in here. my toilet is filled up with feces. >> today, he's moving to a new cell after an inmate threw urine and feces through the ventilation. >> do what you're supposed to do. let me see your hands. >> the department has a rule about profane language. so you got a guy that

this is for administrative segregation inmates and this is a due process issue where we bring them iname and cdc number, sir. >> matthew national, 245854. >> today's classification committee is warden ayres. >> you were at corcoran state prison, referred to our csr for transfer, csr approved and you were retained. you have done your shoe related time. therefore, the recommendation is to release you to the rcgp. okay. do you have any problems with being released? >> yes, i got a problem to gp because i'm not a gp. i dropped out. >> you in a gang? >> yes, i am affiliated with a gang, yes. >> you're a dropout of what? >> out of the woods. but right now, i'm just concerned about my housing, where i'm going to be housed. that's all i'm worried about right now. >> by releasing him today we can make him a1 status and that will give him the opportunity to parole today. so it doesn't matter where you're going to be housed. we can go ahead and release you and keep you here pending your parole. >> understand that, nasholm? >> yes. >> okay. so if we grant you a one-time for the time you've been i

>> at holman, 630 beds are dedicated to general population. 200 accommodate inmates in administrative segregationare set aside for death row inmates. >> you have anything from a property offender here all the way to self-proclaimed serial killers. >> because of a lot of difficult inmates or inmates that other camps can't contain, they will send them to us, and we take them, and we deal with them. >> you'll be out in 30 damn seconds. [ pounding ] >> people can get tied up. people can get shot up, you know. people can get stabbed up. >> wrong place, wrong time. you might get hurt. >> so it's up to you to maintain and weave. you know what i'm saying? if you can't weave, then you're gonna be another statistic. either you're gonna get messed up or locked up. >> when i was growing up in this area, we used to be literally scared to pass by the road because we would hear all these horror stories of, like, people getting killed. >> i've seen a guy, you know, get opened up. i've seen stabbings. i've pretty much seen it all. >> over the years, holman's reputation for violence has earned the facility a numbe

and what we did, we came up with administrative segregation unit and isolated the ones doing it. and after we did that, we pretty much stopped the assaults and everything else. we still have assaults over on these units up here in our disciplinary segregation unit but it's down about 85% in population. >> the men housed in ad seg are allowed one hour of recreation per day in an enclosed yard. the rest of the time they're confined to their cell. >> this is my la-z-boy, my chair, sitting in the cell for years and years and years. it will mess your back up. because of the steel beds. through the years people jump up and down on them so that makes them uneven and give you back problems for the rest of your life. >> convicted of murder and attempted murder as a teenager, jocco bailey was given a 40-year sentence. he has spent more than 11 years in ad seg. >> it's challenging being locked up. here in the a.s. unit because you have the opportunity to be still and decide what you want the rest of your life to look like. it's boring and it's cold and it's lonely. it's not a fun place to be

. >> house one is also known as administrative segregation, where inmates are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. >> all the worst management problems in the entire state system, they end up here. this is the end of the road for them. >> i was originally charged with contract murder and drug trafficking and gun charges. i joke about it sometimes and say the only thing they didn't get me for was sex offenses. >> even though spring creek houses the worst and most disturbed offenders in the state, outbreaks of violence in the prison are surprisingly rare. >> we have assaults but they're not as many as like the lower 48. you know, we have the same mindset and same type of criminals. here they'll work up and talk to you and we'll deal with issues and problems and we help them out as much as we can. >> prescott. >> yeah. >> do you have any more questions about transferring out tomorrow? >> no. >> i'm way outnumbered but i have a radio and, you know, i have good people working with me. you know, everybody here looks out for everybody else. >> for officer ed massey who came to spring creek f

like a bungee and shoot metal objects out at us if they're able to get ahold of it. >> administrative segregatione only area of folsom where officers are at risk. >> i've been on, you know, probably about two dozen cell extractions to where i've had people jump on my back when we're going in and trying to get them. nothing i haven't healed from, but you've just got to understand that there's always potential to be hurt in this job, and that's basically what you're getting paid for, to come in here and do that. a lot of times these inmates just don't get along with each other. you know, they didn't get along with people on the outside. that's why they're here. and you put them all in the same setting in a small cell, you have the ability to be volatile. >> for the inmates who demonstrate good behavior, there are areas of folsom prison that appear more like scenes outside the wall where inmates are able to learn things like landscaping, how to rebuild computer systems, study in the law library if they choose to appeal their sentence, learn about carpentry, or the most prized job among inmates is ma

he was reforming administrative segregation, which most of us recognize as solitary confinement, and he was about to re-engineer the parole system. tom saw the entrenched problems. but he never gave up. he saw what could and what should be. his philosophies and strategies were never about locking people up, but rather, everything tom did_really his whole life_was about striving to unlock humanity. it is a tragic, awful irony that an inmate put on parole directly from administrative segregation showed up at his door and killed him. but that is not what defines tom. part of tom's legacy is everything that was discussed at that convention. these were directors of correctional facilities, people who worked in worlds of barbed wire filled with violent criminals. yet the topics of discussion were things like “alternatives for mentally disordered offenders,” “giving up crime,” and “faith based programming.” in other words, it was about unlocking humanity. and it wasn't a coincidence. the theme of the convention was inspired by tom and was very much in his honor. the other part of tom's lega

there is administrative segregation. >> although the confinement unit is an eighth of a mile away forecurity purposes all inmates transferred there have to be escorted by two officers and transported by van. >> 60 days is the beginning of summer. i will be missing this summer this year's pretty much. the best couple of months out of the year. it don't make no difference. have to try to keep my nose clean and stay out for next time. >> he'll be back. [ bleep ]. it's one good thing about prison ain't nobody going nowhere. >> sometimes it's good to be by yourself to get you that alone time that you need. but on the other time will the -- but other times it will be boring because i don't have nobody to talk to. this is it, though. >> new home for a while. >> what's your first impression? >> i've been in the hole before. different scenery, you know, still locked up doing time. >> though carr and harper have come to depend on each other in prison they may be going their separate ways before long as well. >> i'm assigned transfer papers to go to a lower security prison. before they could ref

well, i was here for approximately two weeks and they came and put me on a "d," which is administrative segregation violent behavior. battery, my robbery cases, beating up staff. >> get the cable fixed. >> ain't no reason for me to get a [ bleep ] writeup. she's going to write it up and i'll rip it out. point blank, it's simple. i'm rip this whole [ bleep ] out. >> i call him youngster. that's his nickname. if you want me to call him josh, i'll go by josh but his name to me is youngster. i met his father years ago, his real dad. you know what i mean? years ago in prison. we got along pretty well. we wasn't real tight but we respected each other. i heard a lot about little josh, what he was doing and how he was getting in trouble and stuff. >> tell me about your relationship. how long have you known him? what's it been like? >> we got to talking and he's really just a lonely kid, you know what i mean? he wants to be -- play tough, but actually, he just wants to know someone cares about him. and he got to calling me dad, you know what i mean? i'm old enough -- i'm sorry about that, i'll old enough to

. >> gallop is housed in the administrative segregation unit. in order to minimize his contact with other inmates, he's in a single-man cell and even takes his recreation time alone. gallop is currently serving two years for the distribution of narcotics. he also has an open case for assault with a dangerous weapon, to which he has pled not guilty. but his reputation at suffolk county stems from a prior conviction for attacking another inmate during an earlier stay here. >> one day i was sitting down and i was like maybe i could take the mirror off. i started playing with it and i learned how to take it apart. i ran into another kid's cell and stabbed him. >> the inmate was stabbed 19 times. >> myself and the staff responded. as we entered the unit, we observed the cell door was wide open. and when we got down there, he was inside the cell and stabbing the inmate that was inside the cell with a manufactured weapon that he had made. there was blood on the walls, on the floor. all over both inmates. >> the victim survived the attack. >> i believe

he was housed in the prison's administration segregation unit. >> i had about five or six charges.main -- my most biggest charge is dealing with a teenager, which i was 16 and she was like 15, i believe. i ended up, know what i'm saying, just dealing with both of them, the mom and the daughter. came in 15 years, and i got 15 more. >> originally convicted of rape and theft, wilson earned his second 15-year sentence while behind bars after he brutally beat a corrections officer. >> ended up, cracked his ribs, his jaw. gave him early retirement. think i did something to his hips, too. broke his collarbone, too. to me it was no thing, it was prison. you don't come here and work here and think it's cake. no, he ain't die. he just won't be a correction officer no more. >> despite his attitude and violent behavior, some at holman are trying to help wilson turn his life around. >> i've known him several years. a long time. he's a young man with a lot of anger problems. he acts out through his anger. that's what we're trying to deal with now. >> i got a bad anger problem, know what i'm sayi

they are going to seven cell house, one of ksp's administrative segregation units.n here, they will be confined to a stark 8 x 10 foot cell.♪ >>> next on "lockup" -- >> a lot of these guys are not mentally stable. they need some type of psychiatric treatment, you know what i'm saying? >> serving time in the hole. >>> and later -- >> i took a knife and stabbed him with it three or four times until he was dead, and then i butchered him with it. >> a man who took drastic measures to get sent to ksp. anv. [ woman #2 ] to share a moment. [ woman #3 ] to travel the world without leaving home. [ male announcer ] whatever the reason. whatever the dish. make it delicious with swanson. >>> basically, we have inmates who have assaultive behavior. and those range from stabbings, throwing feces on staff, assaulting staff in many different ways. >> it's generally inmates who have that antisocial personality. they just don't want to adapt and be a part of an institution. their behavior just dictates we have no other choice based on their behavior to segregate them from the rest of

our "extended stay" series, we found gilbert exactly where we had left him, in ad seg, the administrative segregatedousing unit where inmates are locked down 23 hours a day. it houses holman's most violent and destructive offenders, and it is where bobby ray gilbert has spent almost all of his 27 years in prison. >> i've got life without parole, i have two life sentences, two 99-year sentences, a 40-year sentence, a 20-year sentence and a 10-year sentence. yeah, i have anger issues. [ laughter ] >> gilbert's many convictions include robbery, assault and two counts of murder, one of which was carried out against another inmate in prison. during our shoot, we would see his anger erupt again. [ bleep ] >> five minutes trying to do it the right way! i'm going to show you what i'm made of! >> but gilbert proved to be more than just a violent man. he also showed us a thoughtful, creative side. in the last interview we did with gilbert, he seemed resigned to his fate of spending the rest of his life most likely alone in a small cell. >> at this point, you just look back and realize that the best part of it

became girlfriends, but they have been unable to see each other since jennifer was sent to administrative segregationan assault charge. >> this girl claims something about we put the police on her for something. and she started running her mouth in dining hall. and we just let that ride. i went back to my dorm. and she ran up on me in my quad and punched me. i got scratches on my face and we fought. >> this is a picture of her when she was younger, as a feminine woman. this is her now as a little tomboy. >> this is the longest i've been away from her. it's hard. it's really hard. >> she gave me this for valentine's day. and i sleep with it every night. >> oh, i love her. that's my heart. >> i just miss her. i'm trying to stay close to the things that she gives me. >> we've got a really strong bond, you know? i mean, it ain't all about sex, you know what i'm saying? we just clicked from off the gate. >> i just read her letters all the time and talk to her mom and try to stay as close to her as i can. >> danica will be in prison for the next six to eight years on a robbery charge. jennifer has only eig

. >> an act of violence or drug use inside the prison will bring an inmate here to the administrative segregation unit or ad seg. it is valley state's prison within a prison. while ad seg houses those on temporary lockdown, the other side of the building known as the security housing unit or shu is for serious offenders who are considered a more permanent problem. >> i was set up. i was set up. that's what i was. inmates were afraid of me and they put a shank under my mattress. >> they think i'm a threat to the institution. >> inmates in the shu are kept in their cells almost 23 hours a day. they are allowed out for only three showers a week and ten hours in the recreation yard. life in ad seg or shu isn't just a more intense experience for the inmate. correctional officers like diane vasquez are under the pressure of dealing with a different brand of criminal. >> working here in ad seg shu is very challenging. you deal with a lot of physical abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse. it just depends on how much you let it affect you. you hear yelling. you hear cursing. you hear banging, kicking on th

. >> when we gave a camera to billy groves, he was in administrative segregation after his girlfriend was caught attempting to smuggle cell phones and tobacco to him. >> ma'am? stop. ma'am? stop. >> i look at the incident that just happened and i talked the person that i love to bring stuff in here. i ask myself, man, did i really love her? because if i did, why would i ask her to do that? was it selfish of me? when i was a kid i never thought i would wind up in a place like this. i was a pretty intelligent kid. i exceeded at school in academics, sports, academics, all of it. i guess my mother was poor. we didn't have much. we had love. >> we gave cameras to inmates on death row as well. 28-year-old ben richie was here for having shot and killed a police officer. >> this ain't no joke. they execute people here, and if you don't work on your case on death row they'll march your ass over there and strap you to that table and murder you. on death row our cells are a little bigger than population's, but i'd rather have one of them smaller cells. [ bleep ], i'd rather go home. >> richie re

he is in administrative segregation after a confrontation with an officer. for powell who's in jail on 14 felony charges, including assault and robbery to which he has pleat n has pled not guilty, conflicts are common. so much so, jail officials have difficulty housing him. >> because he's been in so many fights, it's hard to keep shuffling around and finding a spot where he can be in a dorm and have the same privileges as guys got in the dorm. due to his keep froms. it's kind of hard to find him a spot so he ends up mostly in single cells because it's easier to deal with his behavior that way. >> i have a reputation. when i first got here, i took initiative, beat up people, controlling floors, running floors, every time i've came back it gets worse and worse. >> he says his history of prior convictions all stems from a drive to be looked up and feared by his peers. >> this last time i came back, i have not been that person. but no matter how much i change, people accept me as the same person. >> powell hopes his good behavior in segregation could warrant an

mcmillen had requested to be put in administrative segregation. >> he had had an operation recently whenencountered him, and he was having i guess a lover's quarrel with his current boyfriend, and because he was afraid it might escalate into something violent, he had himself locked up. >> the person that i was with, we was on the verge of separating, but they didn't want to, and it got to the point where it started being threats made and -- >> kenyatta had indicated to us that he had been involved with a number of men at the prison romantically. he seemed to rely more and more on tommy as a big brother figure. >> i mean, he got to make his own decisions, but now before he do any of that he'll ask what i think about it. and i'll give my opinions. and when we sit down and agree upon it, it's going to be whether he want to deal with the dude or he don't. as simple as that. but as far as if he do get a relationship with anybody, then i know what type of individual he is, and he don't get in no trouble, he don't bother nobody then nobody ain't got no business putting their hands on him. i get

. >> under pelican bay's state of emergency, much of the mainline facility was moved to administrative segregationhere inmates are closely watched, their activities and movements severely restricted. >> inmates in here are handcuffed and walked everywhere in handcuffs. these inmates that you see on the yard right now are southern mexicans, and they align themselves with the prison gang called the eme. we don't let them mix the race to come to the yard out here. they go with their own race to the concrete yards. >> this is a camera that oversees the yard that i'm working on right now. within a millisecond, these guys will stab each other and they'll try to toss the weapon so the camera comes into good play. >> every door in inmate housing is operated from the upstairs control level. the officers up here control every aspect of inmate activity. only the downstairs officers have physical contact with the inmates. their colleagues upstairs are their eyes and ears and their protection. >> this is the l-88. it fires rubber rounds. it's an intimidating weapon. as you can see, it holds six rounds. it's re

he tweeted that the obama administration is standing at the -- in front of the schoolhouse door, a reference to george wallace and specifically called out. >> and segregation back if the '60s blocking blacks from going in the door. >> exactly. called out eric holder, attorney general eric holder. i'm not sure how he got him into it. he said it's pretty ironic for the president to be talking about education when the obama administration and a.g. holder are making a stand at the schoolhouse door. so i then tweeted did bobby jindal just equate the obama administration to george wallace and segregationists in the '60s? a follow-up tweet responding to whoever, he tried to explain and say well, they're trying to keep black and brown children in louisiana from getting an education. >> the irony also is that eric holder is married to the black woman that was the little girl george wallace blocked in the door. that just happens to be his wife. but you know, she talked, jimmy, about the following her twitter thread last night. congressman you'll's camp tweeted last night before even before the president spoke, the first release of obama speech reads like dictates fr

segregating the iranian problem with the nuclear issue. that was in 2005 inception and in an election construct was embraced by the administration all the waythrough -- if you look at the votes on the hill they were 99-0 so there was a large bipartisan consensus. the joint plan of action has created some divisions on that because right now the republican party at least in terms of the senate votes largely are skeptical of that. i can't say, there is nothing more permanent than continuity. i suspect that large segments, just like large segments and aspects of the bush of administrations iran policy were preserved by the obama administration, just sheer continuity i suspect and aspects of the obama clause that maybe were served by his successor with much more skepticism i would say simply because it's gone on for so long. >> hillel? >> yes, i guess i would say it's true that there is a kind of shift over time in the bush administration from a more restrictive demand with regard to iran's. [inaudible] and that has been carried forward in the obama administration. the thing that seems to me as i implied before is that the net result of that is