the most violent inmates at indiana state prison are housed in solitary cells in the administrative segregation unitison within the prison. >> these offenders are the worst of the worst for indiana. conduct is what's put them over there. they did assaults. they brought drugs into the institution. they're troublemakers, the ones that go around stabbing people, extorting people, blackmailing people, they're the ones that end up over here in the administration segregation unit. >> inmates are confined to their cells for 23 hours per day, with only one hour allotted for exercise. built-up tensions can sometimes explode. >> it's aggressive, it's dangerous, it's violent. you can come out on the range one day and a guy may have had some bad news from home from his mother, and he could try to take it out on you. this is the jungle of indiana state prison. >> in this noisy, hostile environment, our producers spotted an older, white-haired man serenely walking the tier showing no fear for his safety. >> so what's new? are you doing all right? >> good. how are you doing? >> good. >> i'm a holy cross priest fro

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 were

. >> this is administrative segregation unit, this where the inmates come from, the gp yard wheneverhey are in trouble. >> clear. >> turn and face the wall. >> ever been in the hole before? >> no, sir. >> all right. >> we're all waiting by the bathrooms that are outside the yard. this guy comes strolling into the bathroom with a bloody pulp, like, bloody face. the officer came out of the office, whoa, what the hell? pressed the buzzer. took us all out in the yard, inspected us and here i am. i don't have a mark on me. how am i going to break somebody's jaw? i'm not even a violent person. i don't even know what to think really. now apparently they found something in my locker or laundry bag that ties me in with whatever happened? so in the office i didn't pick a fight. there ain't a mark on me on my face or my hands. >> ironically, carlton was on the receiving end of a fight similar to this one not so long ago. >> i am in the 3a gym because i got in a fight on the level one yard back in march and wasn't willing to give up who i got in the fight with. i got beat up pretty bad. so they

that's exactly where we met dennis hamilton, in the hole, solitary confinement in the administrative segregation unit at kern valley state prison. it was the second time his refusal to share a cell had landed him there. but his time in the hole was about to end. and he was scheduled to return to general population, where sharing a cell is mandatory. >> to me the cells are too small. i think the cell in itself breeds an environment for homosexuality. >> dennis hamilton was an unusual inmate. he just believed he didn't have to live with another man. i think he had a fear about living with another man. >> and to me it's like you don't even want these people in society, but you want me to feel safe inside a cell with this person. >> ironically other inmates might not feel safe around hamilton either. he's serving a life sentence for kidnapping, carjacking, robbery, and say salt with a deadly weapon. nine years in, he's only now decided to make his stand against taking a cell mate. >> there's no rule that says i have to take a cellie. two, i don't want to live with another man for the rest of my life. >>

when an inmate commits any crime inside corcoran, he is sent to the administrative segregation unit, or asu, until his case is heard. >> this is a pretty secure unit, everything is controlled as far as any kind of movement, incoming, outgoing, whatever. so canteen, walking to see a visitor. here everything is controlled. for meals, we bring them. there is a set program that we go by. >> how are you guys doing? all right? good, good. >> today our producers are granted access to a case being heard by the institutional classification committee. >> morning, morning. i am here today to review your asu placement, to determine if your housing is appropriate, and to ensure that due process has been available to them. >> inmate ed duane smith and his cellmate are charged with prison murder. >> i've been trying for the past month to get my 115 heard. >> did you not postpone to the d.a.? >> yes, but it says, according to -- >> do you have your request with you? >> no, but i did submit it. >> who did you submit it to? >> i sent it to captain fields, one to grimsley. >> this is what we can do, sm

since then, he has been in administrative segregation at wabash's segregation unit. >> while mcquay says his koran has helped him grow spiritually, the other books in his cell have helped him grow physically. >> this is what i call my weight bag where i every day i do me some curls, right? i do these. i do shrugs. what they call shrugs. do these. do back arms like this. like this. this is probably about -- probably about 55 or 60 pounds. >> mcquay has spent years trying to earn his way back to general population. but his history continues to haunt him. >> i basically engaged in what i considered an emotional response to being disrespected. >> i was warned when i came into this job regarding offender leonard mcquay. he is very smart, very, very clever. he can talk a great talk. >> though case worker beverly gilmore has raised serious questions about mcquay's trust worthiness, her goal is to give segregation inmates an opportunity to prove themselves. she recently made a controversial decision. after mcquay successfully completed a prison life skills program she gave him a job in his housi

unit for segregation. there's an administrative segregation there, as well as disciplinary segregation. >> although the confinementis only an eighth of a mile away, for security purposes, all inmates transferred there must be escorted by two officers and transported by van. >> 60 days is just the beginning of summer, so i'm going to be missing this summer, this year's, you know, pretty much, you know, the best couple of months out of this year. but that don't make no difference. i'll have to try to keep my nose clean and stay out for next time. >> he'll be back. >> hey, that's one good thing about prison. ain't nobody going nowhere. >> sometimes it's good to be by yourself. get you that alone time that you need. but on the other time, it's going to be boring, because i have nobody to talk to. this is it, though. >> going to be home for a while. >> what's your first impression? >> i've in the hole before, so it's different scenery, you know. still locked up doing time, you know? >> those 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 go

, officer cavagnolo's unit houses inmates meant to be segregated from the general population within feet of main line inmates. >> we have in this unit 2 1/2 tiers of administrativetion and the bottom half is a reception center. makes it really difficult for us. because inmates from the bottom half of the unit, they have access to a lot of the different parts of the institution. then our challenge we have in administrative segregation is the inmates make fish lines, tie a weight to it and they'll pass kites or they pass weapon stock or razor blades from these units down below. so it's a constant battle with just controlling contraband and keep an eye on these inmates, keep them in order. you never know what you're going to get in here. you have to be prepared. just last week we had an inmate slashed from the second tier reception center and we just came off of lockdown from that. yesterday we had an inmate cut his wrists coming off the fifth tier. like i said we're five tiers high and we do not have suicide bars in here. one of the inmates came out in handcuffs and we're in an altercation and fighting for our lives up there. there's no recovery from a fifth tier

he has been in administrative segregation at wabash's segregation unit. >> read the quran every day. >> the other books in his cell have helped him grow physically. >> this is what i call my weight bag where i every day i do me some curls, right? i do these. i do shrugs. what they call shrugs. do these. do back arms like this. like this. this is probably about -- probably about 55 or 60 pounds. >> mcquay has spent years trying to learn his way back to general population. but his history continues to haunt him. >> i basically engaged in what i considered an emotional response to being disrespected. >> i was warned when i came into this job regarding offender leonard mcquay. he is very smart, very, very clever. he can talk a great talk. >> those caseworker beverly gilmore has raised serious questions about mcquay's trust worthiness, her goal is to give segregation inmates an opportunity to prove themselves. she recently made a controversial decision. after mcquay successfully completed a prison life skills program she gave him a job in his housing unit. >> i did make him a sanitation w

he was transferred to administrative segregation in a custody control unit or ccu. >> welcome to theelly of the beast, man. i hate lockup. [ bleep ] back here, for real, for real. just make your time hard. all you do is this. when you're in ccu, you don't get really nothing but a bar of soap, some toothpaste, a pair of shower shoes. you're a really in survival mode back here. my hair [ bleep ], i ain't able to get a hair cut or a shave, [ bleep ] none of that. i've been back here just slumming it. this is the downside of prison. violence happens? you know. what do you expect? you throw a bunch of violent offenders together and you expect us not to clash? at the end of the day, you better pray you're the one left standing and not hurting. >> as they investigate the stolen tv, wright has petitioned to be placed back into his original housing unit. >> at this point, i don't know what's going to be allowed to happen with wright, i don't know if he'll be allowed to return to p-house because of all the animosity he caused himself that night because of his tv, so i'm sure we'll be evaluatin

. ♪ i pray to god i don't die for the wrong people ♪ >> administrative segregation, other wise known as ad seg is a uniterved for the worst of the worst offenders at san quentin. >> they need to be separated from the general population. >> ad seg inmates live in single man cells, are on lockdown for 23 hours a day and handcuffed and escorted by officers for all moves. >> san quentin [ bleep ] is my life. >> darrell samuels is being housed in the carson section housed in the carson section of ad seg for an assault on an officer. >> what's up? >> don't step on my foot. >> okay. okay. >> i was breaking in cars in the projects back in the day and i got caught when i was 9 years old. after that, it's just been jail from then. i kept going to group homes and kept running from group homes. ended up in wiley. >> not worried [ bleep ]. >> on a gun charge. went to county jail, got out for that, got another gun charge, got sentenced to the penitentiary. got out now. i have a violation. never had no positive influence. my influence was the streets. i thought that was positive. that's all i knew. i'm thinking that i

leaving only a few segregated army units which would also be a memory by the end of the administration. however, in the case of the fair employment practices commission, the president opposed renewal of this agency which was intended to prevent discrimination in defense employment. he justified his decision based on the belief that federal mandates would only hold back progress because they interfered with the voluntary cooperation between blacks and whites at the local and state levels. every elected official, he believed, should, quote, promote justice and equality through leadership and persuasion. unquote. according to ambrose, this reluctance to take a more aggressive stance on civil rights stemmed from the president's desire to win the votes of white southerners. other scholars echoed ambrose's conclusions. in the book, "the presidency of dwight d. eisenhower," chester paich jr. and elmo richardson splaped th explained that in addition to political concerns, eisenhower was also part of a culture so enured to segregation that he was blinded to the common place injustices that it f

unit. >> due to his behaviors in the past, we consider him to be a risk to our safety therefore he was placed on administrative segregation. >> trotter has spent many years in confinement reading and writing. he has found meaning in mary shelley's "frankenstein." >> i have watched the movie "frankenstein" and i read that one and i was like hey. i started to look at the monster differently. i was who is really the monster. to me this place is dr. frankenstein and we are the monsters. we are the belly of the beast. we're the outcast. we're the forgotten. in my spare time i like to write and i have been contemplating writing a book. i started out like this. frankenstein, the moment you created me, you condemned me, rejected me, crucified and despised me. abandoned me emotionally, unleashed the very held in me, often overlooked stepped upon crushed, no one stops to notice that my movements are poetic. my stride is determined. my love is unconditional. my spirit is free. although i'm a monster, there is a soul inside of me. >> i do not believe there is an employee in the indiana department of correction in any state facility t