>> the victim, pat ellerman, spent two weeks at a local hospital before returning to hospital.is attacker, michael ray stafford, was found guilty of the stabbing at a disciplinary hearing and received extra time in the prison segregation unit. but no criminal charges were filed against him because ellerman refused to cooperate with the investigators. we caught up with ellerman on the day he returned to general population. >> after pat recovered from his injuries and we saw him back out on the yard, again, one of the first comments he made was about his shoes. >> see the blood on my shoes? that's why i stopped fighting, because i seen blood on my shoes. >> it's indicative of prison life. >>> prison haste a way of forcing convicts of meeting personal needs. the challenge is just as big for women as it is for men. when we arrived at the tennessee prison for women, we found that meeting personal needs had led to a dilemma for mary beth. >> they done wrote me up. >> what? >> what for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. they're trying to say i ha

going to start today with mike ellerman, mike is a senior fellow for missile-defense and astute for international studies area he has spent some time at allen hamilton and spent time working on cooperative threatreduction programs and i would be remiss if i didn't add he has written several excellent pieces for arms control today. i would encourage you to look at. and his full bio is available in your program . then we move on to suzanne dimaggio, suzanne is a senior fellow at the new america vision, he has years of experience working on diplomatic initiatives on a range of issues including non-percolation and international security with countries like north korea. she's at the society and she is most recently in pyongyang in february and she has been with the north koreans this past month to open dialogue. i will turn it over to mike to get the discussion started. >> great, thank you chelsea and thank you to the arms control association for the opportunity to speak here today. i'm going to try to keep my comments as brief as possible and kelsey has agreed to kick me if i go over my time. it woul