just to survive. >> there are ways to make legitimate money at holman.s make license plates and are paid 30 cents an hour. prisoners can spend their hard-earned cash on food items in holman's sandwich stores. >> i buy candy, cokes, zoo zoos, wham whams, honeybuns. i crave honey buns. i buy honey buns. >> we have our jumbo honey buns, we got the blueberry and we got the butterhorn. >> i can't buy no wine. i can't buy no kind of alcohol, nothing like that. >> armen power received a life sentence for auto theft after threatening to kill his trial judge. >> i told him to kiss my [ bleep ] i ain't going to take that, i'm going to kill him. and i jumped for him. and they jumped me. police got me walking me upstairs laughing at me. saying, i ain't never seen nobody short as i am jump a judge. they thought it was funny. i didn't think it was funny. >> power, who has worked at the tag plant since 1983, tries to stay optimistic, in spite of his circumstances. >> you're in prison. you might as well make the best of it. so that's what i'm doing. i'm making the best

kwame holman has the story. >> holman: in honor of earth day, we look at seattle's new bullitt centerhe building boasts the world's first six- story composting toilet system. learn more about the project from our partners at kcts 9 and earthfix on our homepage. and author erica brown says, in preparing for death, shouldn't your survivors inherit more than just your finances? she advises creating an ethical will tpass along wisdom and life lessons to younger generations. find that story on our health page. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on tuesday, we'll examine how cuts to federal spending are slowing down the airline industry. i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your p

here's kwame holman. >> holman: police in canada say they've broken up a plot to derail a passenger train. they announced today two men have been arrested and charged with planning a terror attack. the suspects live in toronto and montreal, but are not canadian citizens. they allegedly had direction and guidance from al-qaeda, but the plot still was in the planning phase. >> while the r.c.m.p. believed that the accused had the capacity and intent to carry out these criminal acts, there was no imminent threat to the general public, rail employees, train passengers or infrastructure. >> holman: authorities said the plot had no connection to the boston bombings. so far, there's no sign of the poison ricin at the home of a mississippi man accused of sending tainted letters to president obama and a u.s. senator. paul kevin curtis has denied involvement with the suspicious mailings. at a hearing today, an f.b.i. agent testified a search found no ricin, or materials used to make it. a defense lawyer suggested curtis might have been framed. the death toll from six days of heavy fighting in and ar

he will most likely not leave holman until his 30-year sentence is complete. >> i have two daughters.e at it from that perspective. do i want these people around my family? no. but there again, some day in this case robert teter is going to walk out this door free. so you have to look at it from that side. he's going to go free. he's going to eos his sentence in 2014 and he's coming out. and society's going to have to accept that. >> see you later. >>> coming up -- >> i'm making a birdhouse right now. >> two inmates seek a creative respite. from hell. >> art is my sanity and my salvation. that's what keeps me stable. well, he showed up in a van. [ women ] oh-awww. [ voices in background ] [ female announcer ] swapportunity. the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a delicious 90 calorie yoplait light. ♪ sorry... about your date, the details of your date. [ female announcer ] just one swap a day helps keep the calories away. yoplait. it is so good. >>> the majority of the maximum security inmates we meet might describe prison as hell, but at indiana state prison, we encounter

. >> about halfway through ten weeks of filming for our "extended stay" series at holman correctional facility in alabama, our crew experienced that reality firsthand. they had just finished a routine interview with an inmate in his cell. it was a little after 12:00 noon. >> there was a phone call, and one of our producers went back to get this phone call. and if it wasn't for that, we would have been gone, we would have been out to lunch. as we're standing there waiting for our producer to finish with their phone call, these officers run by. so obviously, i turn on the camera, press record and roll with them. >> suddenly all these officers ran by me and we heard all this commotion and i saw an inmate who was wearing white covered in blood. brian, our cameraman, and i both started filming immediately and realized that a stabbing had taken place. it was such a chaotic scene that i was trying to keep track of what everybody was doing. some of the officers were trying to rescue the stabbing victim. other officers were going after the assailant. >> i got a knife. >> the funny part about t

here's kwame holman. >> holman: the u.s. imposed financial sanctions and visa bans today on 18 russians accused of human rights abuses. the treasury department made their names public under the new "magnitsky act." it's named for russian lawyer sergei magnitsky. he accused police officials of embezzling state funds, and died in prison, allegedly after being beaten. at the white house today, spokesman jay carney said most of those blacklisted are linked to the case. >> we will use the tools in the magnitsky act and other available legal authorities to ensure that persons responsible for the maltreatment and death of mr. magnitsky are barred from traveling to the united states and doing business here. >> holman: in turn, russian president vlaldimir putin vowed to retaliate by imposing similar sanctions on americans. in iraq, a pair of bombs at a mosque killed at least 11 people and wounded 30 more. the attacks happened in the town of kanaan, about 50 miles northeast of baghdad. police said the bombs went off in quick successio

here's kwame holman. >> holman: tensions grew again today on the korean peninsula with reports the north has loaded two medium-range missiles onto mobile launchers. south korean media said they were hidden on the east coast. meanwhile, south korea deployed two warships armed with missile defense systems. we have a report from john irvine of "independent television news." >> reporter: it's a rare sight. thlegeary spy plane, the u- 2. it may be an icon of the cold war but here it's no relic. ironically, it's still operational in the one place where that war persists. three of them fly out of this u.s. base near seoul. they can get into and out of hostile air space within minutes. north korea's just 50 miles from here and this is a u-2 returning from a surveillance mission. the aircraft that was the trip wire for the 1962 cuban missile crisis is now monitoring the north korean missile crisis. the north koreans are maintaining the familiar aggressive posture. today they released more pictures of kim jong un trying to look like a commander-in- chief. at one point, he picks up a handgun himsel

night. >> by all appearances, tommy "cheese curl" tunstall, serving life for robbery, was one of holman's popular inmates. >> tommy was an interesting inmate to interview, actually, because he seemed very calm and confident. quietly confident. >> bring your ass on. [ bleep ]. >> more often than not, when we would start interviewing tommy, inmates would start yelling things at him. >> you've got to tell me what the deal is with you. everybody -- you could run for president in here. >> i guess i get along with everybody. >> but tunstall chooses to spend much of his time with just one man, kenyatta mcmillen, who is serving life without parole for murder. >> i love cheese because he always been there for me, no matter what, and he ain't never changed or turned his back on me on nothing. >> mcmillen and tunstall had been friends for about three years when we met them at holman. >> it done got to the point to where it's like if i'm thinking about something, before i can get it out, he can say it. and it's vice versa. >> do you identify as gay? >> do me -- do i do? yes. >> you're gay? >> yes. >>

correctional facility in alabama. >> there was an unusual phenomenon at holman prison. they had a big problem with public masturbation. they were dealing with the problem as best they can. if a person got caught, they were immediately put into lockup and they had to go through certain programs in order to get out of lockup. >> the violation is known as rule 38. and the prison's warden had developed a no-nonsense approach to dealing with it. >> my rule is, if you get caught with a 38, there's no questions asked. we're locking you up. we'll sort it out later, but for the time being, you're going to lockup. that's just automatic. okay? the first offense is 90 days, second time i double it, third time it goes to 270, the fourth time it's a year. >> but it happened a lot for some reason there. it was getting to the point where, particularly in the lockdown facility, you'd walk down the tier and all you'd see are hands going. it gets pretty unnerving after a while. i attribute it to the fact that there were a tremendous amount of very young men locked up there, with very long

. >> during our "extended stay" shoot at the holman correctional facility in alabama, we were filming interviews in the administrative segregation unit when a loud disturbance occurred. >> they put me in a cell! where it comes down to my [ bleep ] bed. it comes down on my bed, man. i can can't [ bleep ] sleep. >> inmate jamie bell is in a rage because his toilet is overflowing. he blames the inmate in the cell above him of creating the problem by interfering with the plumbing. >> [ bleep ]. >> jamie bell. listen. >> i'm trying to handle this. >> the confrontation becomes so heated that warden grant culliver gets involved. >> if you would shut [ bleep ] up, then nobody would be so [ bleep ] off at your ass. you're acting like a child. >> listen. >> we just moved him in. >> the inmate above bell's cell is serving life. his name is andrew alexander. >> there was no proof that this guy above him had done anything. but while we were filming i glanced up and i saw andrew alexander staring at me through his window. and i kind of asked him with my mouth, did you do this? and he just had the m

. >> at the holman correctional facility in alabama, the cats are even more abundant, but none of themt holman, they're just wild cats who the inmates connect with and start feeding, even though it drives the staff crazy. >> i'm going to catch him. 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 wit, 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's having another kitten. >> fluffy seemed to be perpetually breeding more and more kittens. >> she's going to get him

"newshour" congressional correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> this bill protects honest

chris holman is ceo of the michigan business network, a statewide business news website and broadcastompany. he is the immediate past chairman of the board of trustees for the nsba. great to see you both. >> good morning. thanks for having us. >> i appreciate you giving us insight into what happened at that meeting. so, mike, let me start with you. what are some of the biggest issue your company and people in your industry and your area of the world are facing and how did the president react to them? >> one of the major things we seem to continually be faced with is the never ending list of regulations that keep coming out of the national labor relations board and the office of economic equal opportunity commission and osha and epa and everyone else just seem to consistently be trying to pile new regulations on small businesses. some of the other proposals coming out that we were anxious to get a chance to talk about, there's so much communication right now about the new immigration reform and, of course, some of our members are concerned with patent reform, businesses have new produc

and for full disclosure, kenna is the niece of nbc producer allison holman. inspired many of us here as well. she has openly used her cute factor to outraise the grownups in her family also. >>> when we come back, a walk to end hunger in the south bay. >>> finally tonight, hundreds of people gathered in san jose today to try to end hunger one step at a time. >> communities all over the bay area hosted hunger walks aimed at raising awareness and money. >> about 2,000 walkers today all throughout the bay area, coming together to walk to raise issues and to raise funds to support programs all over this community and around the world. >> despite rebounds in the local economy, food banks report the need for food assistance still very high here and where we live. local food banks say the money they get from the walks is helping them keep food on the shelves. >>> and one more warning. it's going to be hot tomorrow. >> it is going to be hot. record heat across the bay area tomorrow. i wouldn't be surprised if you look at every city breaking a record across the bay to

outside, from apple, no less, came in to clean up the mess allegedly made by the former ceo, mike holmanat least that's what the party line was. at the behest of hedge fund manager bill ackman who had basically taken over the company. the daring, some would say arrogance of ron johnson and his backer created a polarizing set of expectations that led to total failure and then collapse and then the comeuppance, johnson getting fired yesterday only to be replaced by his allegedly disgraced predecessor. that's all history. what matters right now is that there is a land grab of retail sales as i genuinely believe that jcpenney could go away, and johnson's buffoonery has opened the floodgates for every other retailer. how do we play? dismiss the notion that jcpenney is worth buying. not worth the risk, the retail is the hardest business in the world to attempt to turn around. the biggest winner so far is macy's and i think a huge chunk of what is left in jcpenney sales will still go the way of that chain. especially if penny loses its lawsuit against macy's over the right to sell martha stewar

newshour correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this congress? >> if you put it that way, jonathan, maybe i should just pack up and go home. golly. >> reporter: president obama joked and jabbed in the white house briefing room as he pressed the point that he's no lame duck and that he'll keep pushing his priority. >> we understand that we're in a divided government right now. republicans control the house of representatives. in the senate this habit of requiring 60 votes for even the most modest piece of legislation has gummed up the works there. despite that, i'm actually confident that there are a range of things we'll be able to get done. >> reporter: for instance he said he believes congress will approve sweeping immigration reform. and he insisted he hasn't given up on closing the prison at guantanamo, cuba, as he vowed to do in his first presidential campaign. >> i think it is critical for us to understand that guantanamo is not necessary to keep america safe. it is expensive. it is inefficient. it hurt

"newshour" congressional correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> reporter: the president's plan arrived at the capitol this morning, bearing a price tag of $3.8 trillion for the coming fiscal year. and the chief executive made his pitch, in the white house rose garden. >> if we want to keep rebuilding our economy on a stronger, more stable foundation, then we've got to get smarter about our priorities as a nation. that's what the budget i'm sending to congress today represents. >> reporter: the blueprint aims to reduce the deficit by another $1.8 trillion over ten years. that's on top of $2.5 trillion in reductions agreed to at the end of last year. the cuts in this new budget also replace most of sequestration-- those across-the-board spending reductions that already have begun taking effect. to make it all possible, the president would raise $580 billion in new revenue from higher taxes on the wealthy. and, he anticipated republican objections. >> if anyone thinks i'll finish the job of deficit reduction on the backs of middle-class families, or through spending cuts alon

"newshour" congressional correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> this bill protects honest, gun-loving, law-abiding citizens more than any piece of legislation we've had in the last two to three decades. and i think that people who've read the bill know that. >> reporter: west virginia democrat joe manchin made a final, impassioned plea with his senate colleagues to support expanded background checks to would-be gun buyers at gun shows and online. >> i understand that some of our colleagues believe that supporting this piece of legislation is risky politics. i think there's a time in our life that's a defining time in public service. a time when you have the ability to stand when you know the facts are on your side and walk into the lion's den, and look that lion in the eye, and tell that lion, "listen, not today, not today." >> reporter: the proposal on background checks was put forward by manchin and pennsylvania republican pat toomey. it headlined a list of nine amendments to a broader gun control measure, being voted on today. they included provisions offered by democra

kwame holman bins our lti- part look at today's evolving story. >> reporter: 19-year-old dzokhar tsarnaev escaped the early morning gun battle in suburban boston that killed his 26-year- old brother tamarlen. that set into motion an unprecedented manhunt as a small army of local, state and federal officers fanned out through boston and its suburbs. the city was brought to a near standstill. more than one million people were urged to shelter in their homes. schools and mass transit were closed; amtrak service was shut down into the city. massachusetts governor deval patrick spoke at 8:00 am. >> there is a massive manhunt under way. a lot of law enforcement involved in that. to assist that we have suspended all service on the m.b.t.a., our public transit service, and this will continue until we think it's safe to open all or some of that. we're asking people to shelter in place-- in other words to stay indoors with their doors locked and notto open the door for anyo other than a properly identified law enforcement officer. and that applies here in watertown where we are right now. also camb

newshour correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage of the day after. orter: the morning sun filtered across an empty boylston street today, littered with the remnants of yesterday's marathon and the double bombings that brought it all to an end. >> it kind of looks like a war zone. it's all cordoned off over here where they have a crime scene and so it's pretty shocking to know that there's some kind of a terrorist act occurred here and there are bombs right by the finish line that i had just run across. >> reporter: with a new day came new revelations and new perspective on the bombings. this runner wearing a head camera captured the moment the first bomb exploded as she near it had finish line. (screams) >> get out of the stands! >> reporter: more amateur video from a spectator showed the second blast and the ensuing chaos in the bleachers lining the street. at a briefing this morning, federal, state, and local authorities said all such videos and photographs are vital to their investigation and they asked bystanders to submit whatever they have. >> hundreds, if not thousands, of p

steve holman. he met them at his home in foster city.they offer to sell them and 8 k- 47 rifle at a thousand rounds of ammunition, among other things. you can see what officers found a gun in his three year old child dead wrong. more weapons and other parts of the home. he has been booked into the san mateo county jail. >> for alleged gang members were convicted yesterday on three counts of murder for 2009 shooting in car chase in berkeley. police say they were involved in the shooting that left this man 25 year-old charles davis dead. the shooting led to a high-speed chase with police that killed two other innocent bystanders. the men face life in prison without parole. there will be sentenced in july. >> to bay area a careless accused of tying up babies pleaded not guilty. they're being charged with felony child abuse at their day care center livermore. investigator said the woman tied up the arms and legs of babies and put blankets over their faces. bail for the wood was lowered to $300,000 each. >> police are looking for a car that m