. >> every weekday morning, just after sunrise, a group of inmates at the elayn hunt correctional center in louisiana, prepares for a grueling day of farming the fields adjacent to the prison. >> we have 63 acres of vegetable gardens that we grow vegetables on, anything from squash, tomatoes, mustard greens, collard greens. >> supervised by armed officers on horseback and earning 2 cents an hour for their labor, the inmates harvest more than a million pounds of crop per year, all of it used at the prison. but this particular work detail forces staff to be especially vigilant. >> knowing that they have tools that they could easily use as weapons, and they've done it before, it makes you watch your back and keeps you on your toes. you never know what could happen. you could take one of the best guys and he decides that he doesn't like you and wants to take you out. >> when you get it like this, the razor blade there. i learned that, sharpening the knives on the floors. >> joel baker has three life sentences and a nickname. it's white trash. >> judge gave me my name. it's kind of ironic. up