the road ends at brushy mountain. and there's -- there's nowhere else to go. >> when i first come up, my heart was beating hard. you could see the windows open. you could hear the people yelling and screaming in here. i'm looking at it like, "what have i got myself into now?" >> this ain't no playground. there's killers here, have been for years. always will be. >> the most violent of brushy mountain's inmates are housed in the prison's maximum security unit. >> we'll take anyone from any other facilities. there are times when another institution needs to transfer an inmate that maybe caused a problem. brushy is known as the end of the line. if you come here, you stay here. >> inmates in the max unit are locked up 23 hours a day with just one hour of yard time. there is no physical contact with other offenders. only designated workers or rock men are allowed outside their cells at other times. >> we work seven days a week. you come out, you feed, you clean whatever needs to be cleaned. you know what i mean? i've had t

today, inmates considered escape risks are transferred from other prisons to brushy mountain.f those inmates is michael king, a veteran of the 1990 gulf war, he returned home to find his life shattered. >> i was in the army and stationed in iraq and my wife and daughter were murdered while i was over there. i came back and i tracked down the guy that killed them, and i interrogated and found out he was the one that killed them, and killed him. i had just come from a war zone and my head was pretty screwed up, my whole world had just crashed in before me. i was over there, i was thinking maybe i would die, and to have her and my daughter die was just it totally screwed me up. and i guess i went a little bit ballistic, you know? a little bit insane. >> we first met michael king when he was in yard doing exercise, and by yard, i mean he was in a confined cage. he was doing a kind of a strange thing for an inmate. he was doing yoga. you see all of these other guys lifting weights, trying to build themselves up and he was doing a deliberate exercise, yoga. we found out his yoga pla

. >>> at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee, we met an inmate who knows somethings serving a 90-year sentence for armed robbery and attempted murder. >> been in here so long, sometimes it seems like i was born in here. >> how long have you been here? >> i've been -- in prison, all together, 18 years. came in when he was 18, got out when i was 24. now i'm 36, going on 37. >> along with working out, there's one other way that lautenschlager copes. ♪ i was 18 years old ♪ when they sent me to prison ♪ far away from my home in east tennessee ♪ ♪ still see the tears my darling was crying ♪ ♪ as she whispered i love you said she'd wait for me ♪ >> when i first come to prison, i had a girlfriend and she was telling me how she was going to wait on me and all this. and things change. and i'm still in here. and she's gone. ♪ it's been 18 long years in this old cold prison ♪ sometimes i think it's been so long ♪ ♪ i lost the girl that i love to the arms of a stranger ♪ ♪ the only home i know is surrounded by stone ♪ >> a sense of freedom, you know. it frees my mind. i'm not th

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it was mostly in brushy area.injuries reported and the firefighters eventually got control of the blaze yesterday. as i mentioned, california usualliy sees stuff like that. it's raining in california this morning, probably the worst weather in the nation this morning. shifting out of san francisco over the top of sacramento. late this afternoon, we also see strong thunderstorms, maybe an isolated tornado or two. western portions of kansas, oklahoma and northwest section ises of texas. so your forecast today, another dry day, everywhere, east of the mississippi river. we'll watch severe storms possible late today, and i was mentioning how dry it is. georgia, the drought continues to get worse, and no rain in sight. just more beautiful weather down there in atlanta. you want the beautiful weather, but of course we don't want our lawns to be brown all summer. you're watching "morning joe." we're brewed by starbucks. hi, i just switched jobs, and i want to roll over my old 401(k) into a fidelity ira. man: okay, no pro