like holman. warden grantt culliver embodies them. he's authoritative. >> you know that. >> dynamic and tough. >> you are not going to win an academy award. >> he shows compassion for the inmates he oversees, many of whom will never get out. but when violence explodes at holman, his zero tolerance policy is in full effect. >> lock down. we are under a lockdown. >>> 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

this is "lockup: holman, extended stay." >>> of the nearly 1,000 inmates at holman state prison, several hundred are segregated for breaking rules on the inside. for inmates with violent crimes and no parole dates in sight, their minds require distractions to stay sane. >> never a dull moment. >> whether it be the friend next door or the relative hundreds of miles away. >> i want him closer to home. >> and when these comforts are taken from them, the results can be explosive. administrative segregation, or ad seg, is where holman's most volatile inmates are kept in 23 hour a day solitary confinement. for 19 of his 43 years, bobby ray gilbert has known no other home. >> it affects a person, it does. i would be lying to say it didn't. your thought patterns change, of what you think about changes. back then, i daydream about the whole getting out, having a family, picket fence. you know, the daydreams to get out and do it right this time, you know? and now you daydream about how you can blow this whole prison up and kill everybody in it. just feel like, man, if i could just do society a fav

this is "lockup: holman extended stay." >>> holman is more than 170 men who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution. >> my role is the execution. >> roughly 360 more are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. >> but there are times when i wake up and think about dying in prison. and that's a bitter pill to swallow. >> all are living with the inevitable. >> i watched a lot of people die here, you know. at holman, nobody leaves. >> but their only chance of getting out of prison will be inside a coffin. for inmates serving lengthy sentences, one day merges into the next, weeks into months, months into years. and a lifetime slips away. the challenge for these men is to find meaning in their lives and not surrender to hopelessness and despair. ♪ baby butterfly ♪ while your hands are dying ♪ and you spread your wings before it's time ♪ ♪ baby butterfly ♪ to survive ♪ only 17 ♪ yeah ♪ when she lost her life >> this musical duo spends every hour either writing, rehearsing or performing and music for them has become a life line. ♪ baby butterfly >> i like that.

the best behaved are housed in holman's coveted honor dorm. but inmates who behave badly are sent to the administrative segregation unit. >> segregation is an area where we house roughly 200 inmates, and all these inmates are individually celled and they are all here because they broke a rule infraction here in prison. >> human contact in segregation is extremely limited. and interaction with others is at a minimum. this deprivation can take its toll on an inmate both physically and mentally. >> you've got a lot of inmates back there that have been in single cells for a long time. and they, of course, build up hostilities. it's a highly explosive area. >> i did not do what they said i did. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> another typical day in ad seg. that's part of it. >> these officers work here and on a daily basis they deal with these inmates and you build up a relationship with these inmates. some are good and some are not so good. >> most people said when i started, i wouldn't make it. three days until i had a point to prove and i proved it

this is "lockup: holman extended stay." for the officers and staff working at holman, the biggest challenge is dealing with difficult inmates. >> you ain't got no business [ bleep ] with my -- >> took my mail and -- >> that's the part of it. [ bleep ]. i don't have any problem. ask any officer that walked by here. i don't know [ bleep ] with nobody. >> and with a steady decline in staff, the pressure is on the new recruits. >> i don't even want to think about failing because it's not an option for me. i'm going to pass. i feel like if i did fail, i'm letting a lot of people down. not just myself. >>> welcome to the gates of hell. >> charge him double for an armband. okay? hey, and then whoever that armband belonged to, he need to get charged, too. >> in roughly four months of shooting inside holman, warden grantt culliver has shown many sides. >> warden's office. culliver. can i take a message? >> he'll call you back. yes, ma'am. >> you take messages, warden? >> yes, ma'am. we do it all. >> he's firm. >> get your shirt on l

this is "lockup: holman extended stay." >> the holman correctional facility is a maximum security prison, where the officers are outnumbered ten to one. in an environment that sometimes breeds violence, inmates are constantly making weapons for protection. >> well, i've had knives, i keep knives. i've always heard it's better to be caught with one than without one in prison. >> and the officers must do whatever they can to curb future attacks. >> you don't need to see nothing, so keep your head down. >> not gonna tell you no more. >> this is a security level five facility in alabama. it goes from security level one to security level six. >> last year, we had what we consider like four major incidents happen. and that would have been a stabbing type of a situation, where it was very serious, life-threatening. and over the last four or five years, we've averaged 3 1/2 to 4 those types of events each year. for this type of facility, that's very good. >> and in this type of facility, many of the inmates are armed to the teeth. >> they seem to always think that everyone needs a weapon. they w

kwame holman has our report. >> holman: the candidates largely were focused on the ten states that vote on super tuesday. but mitt romney took time to swing through bellevue, washington, hoping to secure a win in tomorrow's caucuses there. >> there are going to be a bunch of states that are going to make their mind up in the next couple of days, but you guys are first, and your voice is going to be heard. ( applause ) it will just make a big difference, so please make sure and go to the caucus site, and get your friends to do the same thing. >> holman: ron paul also was in washington, speaking in spokane. >> you know, things have been going very well. we keep coming back to washington because we expect to do real well here. ( cheers and applause ) >> holman: from the pacific northwest, romney headed to ohio, a critical super tuesday prize, where rick santorum held a small lead in a new poll. santorum appealed for support today in chillicothe. >> you have a chance to make a statement that we want someone who is a conservative in their heart, in their soul, in their mind; someone who's no

and to kwame holman for what's on the "newshour" online. kwame?an: for science thursday, hari sreeenivasan spoke with nature photographer joel sartore. he's taking portraits of roughly 6,000 species of captive animals, many of which are endangered. he's about a third of the way through his project. and what would be the impact on small businesses if taxes are raised on the wealthy? paul solman examines that on his making sense page. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. >> suarez: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm ray suarez. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see yoonline and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public

here's kwame holman. >> holman: the february jobs report pushed wall street up today, but not by much. the dow jones industrial average gained 14 points to close at 12,922. the nasdaq rose nearly 18 points to close at 2,988. for the week, the dow fell half a percent; the nasdaq rose half a percent. greece's creditors formally agreed today to the biggest debt write-down in history. the government said nearly 84% of its private sector creditors agreed to accept new greek bonds worth less than half the old ones. the finance minister called it "an exceptional success," but banking officials in germany and elsewhere said greece's troubles are far from over. >> i think there will not be an immediate default of greece but there surely is the possibility that we will be back in this situation in six months' time because there are a lot of questions to be answered. greece has to become competitive again. they have to execute the austerity measures. so it is a long way to the economic recovery of greece. >> holman: the deal with private creditors was a key condition for greece to receive a new

well, i just come here from work one day, and they were missing, and which is one good thing about holman, they talk about everything. i knew it was just a matter of time to find out who had gotten them. >> moore and the inmate alleged to have stolen his shoes work together in the prison laundry. >> so i just started making my plans how i was going to deal with it from then. it took me about four days. >> what took you four days? >> to get a knife and decide where i was going to get him at. >> moore says he decided to attack the inmate in a hallway near the laundry. >> population has no accidents back there. just a few guys and that one officer. >> it was kind of surprising how calm and pragmatic he was in telling us the story about the stabbing incident. >> i'm not proud of it, but i'm not ashamed of it. that's what i feel like i had to do and i did it. >> had you tried talking to him before you stabbed him, or -- >> no, it doesn't work. >> it doesn't work? >> doesn't work like that. >> moore went on to explain when his shoes first came up missing the inmate he later attacked claimed to

and had been at the center of numerous conflicts at holman.h his violent behavior had tapered off he had just been assigned to anger management after a disciplinary write-up for arguing with another inmate. >> how many disciplinaries. >> 57. >> how did that happen? >> it's a [ bleep ] jungle. it's a jungle. it's been a jungle my whole 11 years. i'm saying so people say, you can't blame other people for what you're doing. i blame other people for your actions because that's a damn lie. you got to blame other people. you got to blame other people because you can do the best you can to try to avoid other people and people will do stupid stuff. there's a certain way a person has to live in prison. prison made me the man i am. right now. >> how about your response to those stupid things? >> but it all depends on what they do. >> no, you can never blame other people for your behavior. you don't think there is anything wrong with the way you behave or the way you handle stress and anger? you're in the wrong class because you first have to say, yes, i

are invited. >> at holman they're just wildcats who the inmates connect with and start feeding evenrives the staff crazy. >> i'm going to catch every one of you cats. >> there was a sergeant this charge, sergeant english, whose job it was to try to deal with these feral cats and get them outside the prison. the cats became his nemesis, particularly fluffy. >> there's fluffy. i think you're going to have a little trouble with that one. it's personal between him and her, you know what i'm saying, so it's animal wit against human man wit. >> i have been trying to catch fluffy for six months. i haven't caught her yet. >> the inmates love the cats and the cats trust the inmates, and it was just a neat story to see the officers trying to get the cats and the inmates trying to protect the cats, and it just proved to be a really cool story. >> fluffy has had another kitten. >> fluffy seemed to be perpetually breeding more and more kittens. >> she's going to get him up and run with him. she's good to go with him. she's gone. >> there's no telling where she's carried him to. >> can you get he

indeed we are a part in contributing to that when we started to work on forty european union's holman's report on the arctic i was appointed to steve advisor to europe with her german and u.k. . and we plan from the very beginning that you are in for room to be not only cross country across party but also across issue platform where on a holistic basis our engagement our interests and our contributions to the arctic are to be discussed and from the very first meeting on that you are the forum has also functioned as a rich builder of getting together actors from europe and the arctic in brussels it goes from politics science business and the region just to make sure that the knowledge the expertise and the interests of those there were groups are present in the political debate so this is so so we we are looking forward to having a european coherent pian arctic strategy very indeed indeed i hope that the european commission which is preparing documents towards the end of summer under the danish chairmanship of the u. is coming back into the european union's parliaments a report on the ar

kwame holman reports on where the g.o.p. candidates are, and what they're saying. >> reporter: for mitt romney today was about staying focused on one of tomorrow's biggest prizes: ohio. and on president obama and the economy. >> this is a failed presidency. he's a nice guy. but he's over his head. >> reporter: romney did not mention his republican opponents by name but in canton, ohio, he said his background stands out. >> i understand why jobs come and why they go. other people in this race have debated about the economy. they've read about the economy. they've talked about it in sub committee meetings, but i've actually been in it. >> reporter: late polling has romney coming back in ohio to take a 34-31% lead over former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. the survey put former house speaker newt gingrich and texas congressman ron paul far behind. but at a town hall near dayton santorum urged ohio voters not to be swayed by those numbers. >> don't listen to the polls. don't listen to all the media hype and all the things a

newshour correspondent kwame holman has our report. >> reporter: at times the president took a tongue in cheek approach to his challengers on their big day. >> today is super tuesday. i wonder if you might weigh in on some of our potential republican opponents. mitt romney has criticized you on iran and said hope is not a foreign policy. he also said that you are america's most feckless president since carter. what would you like to say to mr. romney? >> good luck tonight. (laughing) >> no, really. >> really. >> reporter: but mr. obama turned serious on republicans demands for military action against iran's nuclear program. he said they're beating the drums of war but don't understand the costs. >> this is not a game. there's nothing casual about it. you know, when i see some of these folks who have a lot of bluferter and a lot of big talk but when you actually ask them specifically what they would do, it turns out they repeat the things that we've been doing over the last three years. if some of these folks think that it's time to launch a war, they should say so. they should explain

. >> at the holman correctional facility in alabama we met inmate kenny wilson.gregation unit. >> they got the right one. >> i had five or six charges my most biggest charge is dealing with a teenager which i was 16, she was like 15 i believe. i ended up you know what i'm saying, the mom and the daughter, came in 15 years, done 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 i gave him early retirement. cracked his ribs jaw broke his collar bone, too. to me it was no thing. >> do you regret what happened? >> he didn't die, he won't be a correction officer no more. >> despite his attitude and behavior, some are trying to help wilson turn his life around. >> i've known ken several years i have a history with him. he is a young man, acts out through anger. that is what we're trying to deal with now. >> that ain't no problem. i'm angry because i'm not with my family. i'm angry because the way they treat you, the things they do to you. it ain't

newshour congressional correspondent kwame holman has our report. >> reporter: thousands of afghans celebrated their new year today at an ancient festival marking the first day of spring. but by western calendars there's been little for afghans or americans to celebrate in 2012. in washington marine general john allen, commanding nato and u.s. forces in afghanistan, acknowledged as much at a house armed services committee hearing. >> i wish i could tell you that this war was simple and that progress could easily be measured but that's not the way of counterinsurgencies. they are fraught with both successes and setbacks which can exist in the same space and in the same time. but each must be seen in the larger context of the overall campaign. and i believe the campaign is on track. >> reporter: allen conceded there had been setbacks. the burning of korans at a u.s. base that set off violent protests and killings. and now the massacre of afghan civilians alleged by an american soldier. the general called the incidents tragic but said the mission remains intact. the current u.s. plan calls for a

"newshour" correspondent kwame holman reports on the day's events, in the run-up to super tuesday. >> reporter: mitt romney started his campaign day in energy-rich north dakota hammering president obama over the surging price of gasoline. >> he should be hanging his head and taking a little bit of the blame for what's going on today. >> reporter: gas prices have pushed their way onto the campaign agenda, rising 45 cents a gallon since the first of the year. but in a blog post today, the white house again highlighted figures showing u.s. reliance on oil imports falling in each of the three years of the obama presidency. back in fargo, romney argued it would be down even more, if not for the president's policies, including his veto of a plan to speed up the keystone oil pipeline project. >> when someone says do you want to bring in a pipeline that's going to create tens of thousands of jobs to bring oil in from canada how in the world can you say no? but he did. this is a president that does not understand energy. he is the problem not the solution. >> reporter: the president counterpun