just to survive. >> there are ways to make legitimate money at holman.s 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 of it. i'm having fu

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

>> you just came back out of lockup. >> that was nothing. >> culliver became warden at holman in 2002 when the prison was facing some serious problems. >> it was a violent facility. if you talked to some of the people in the community, probably a great number of times they saw an ambulance coming this way, they thought the ambulance was coming to the holman prison. that was the case then, but that's not necessarily the case now. >> but culliver knows all too well that at a maximum security prison like holman, violence can be reduced, but not eliminated. >> if you come in and you look meek and mild, then those guys who are seasoned and they've been here, they run games on you. they get you into debt. once you get into debt, if they don't solicit sex from you, then they solicit that they have your family members send them money. if that doesn't happen, then you get threatened with bodily harm. >> we met a number of predatory inmates at holman but few more memorable than steven parker, a self-proclaimed leader of a white supremacist gang. parker is serving life without parole for murderi

this is "lockup: holman, extended stay."

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.

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." prison is a lonely place for any inmate. relationships that existed on the outside are strained. >> if she wants to call it off, then tell me. let me know something. >> and the ones that blossom within the prison walls are often dangerous. >> i cannot stop these guys from coming after you. you know that regardless, someone is going to make a play for you. >> or they can be a one-sided obsession, leading to nothing but trouble. >> i don't know what you got in your head. let it go. [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> the holman correctional facility is home to close to 1,000 inmates. all of whom are categorized by their behavior. the best behaved are in the coveted honor dorm. inmates who behave badly are sent to the administrative segregation unit. >> segregation is an area we have roughly 200 inmates. and these -- all these inmates are individually celled and they're all here because they broke a rule, infraction, here in prison. >> human contact in segregation is extremely limited and interactio

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

he has spent most of his time at holman in the administrative segregation unit. >> he's an impulsive type of a guy. he's violent. he's in here for violence and apparently the time has not taught him any differently. >> can i be rehabilitated? yeah, i could be rehabilitated. if i could figure out how to get over the hatred. because i have a lot of hatred. i have a lot of hatred for people in general, for society. >> that includes warden culliver. >> he's a narcissist. he's super serious. he loves attention. he loves to micromanage [ bleep ]. and he loves to give everybody at his mercy a hard time. he's trying to be somebody. he's trying to define his identity off the demoralization and dehumanization of other people. trying to boost his own ego up. >> how would you describe steven parker? what kind of inmate is he? >> crazy. he's a nut. i mean, no more, no less. he's not a person that's very intelligent. >> culliver combats predatory behavior and other problems by knowing his inmates well and enforcing his rules. even the smaller ones, like being clean shaven. >> that's how you shave?

not eating another meal at holman. so they're going to send me closer to home if it's nothing but a graveyard. >> playing the devil's advocate, how is that going to help your mother? >> she has to have yard sales. she can't pay her light bill. but she's going to have to spend money to come see her son. >> when i heard that bobby had gone on a hunger strike, i wasn't surprised. it's not atypical for an inmate to do that. it's the only source of power they have, really, saying they're not going to seat. and when i talked to him about it, he seemed pretty resolute that he was going on a hunger strike not so much as a protest, but almost as though he wanted to kill himself. >> how long does it take to starve to death? 35, 40 days? they can have it. i gave them 22 years, 6 months. that's enough. start to feel like sisphysus. keep rolling that stone up the hill. knowing damn well it's going to roll back to the bottom. you reach the point where it's -- just not any heart to fight any more. >> six days after his hunger strike

night. >> by all appearances, tommy "cheese curl" tunstall, serving life for robbery, was one of holman'st 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. >

. >> at the holman correctional facility in alabama, the cats are even more abundant, but none of themnvited. >> at 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

most of it at the holman correctional facility in alabama and sometimes it seems to have been just assince he's heard the sound of his real name. >> they call me red top. they call me orangutan red. >> hey, redtop. >> is there one you prefer? >> none. i just answer to them all. i've learned to answer to them all over the years. >> stall began serving his sentence 28 years earlier, when he was 22 years old. >> back when i first came here there was a lot of violence. >> was it scary? were you scared a lot? >> scared to death. >> my first impression of lawrence stall was that he doesn't fit. he didn't fit in those surroundings. i think that's initially what brought us to him. he looked a little meek. the red hair. the glasses. he looked more like a college professor, versus an inmate. >> the social system in here is totally different. it's nothing like the free world. it's a totally different world, you know? i mean, it's like moving to japan and not knowing japanese, you know? it's the same thing. you know, you're lost. and that's how i'd be now if i got out. i'd be lost. >> due to a fa

and, of course, all the inmates started hooting and hollering everywhere she went at holman prison shereated a scene. >> holly was in ad seg because his various relationships with other inmates led to disruptions, but he's in stranger to troubling relationships. he's serving 25 years for murdering a man he considered to be his husband. >> he and his colleague were having a little valentine's ball. he comes in and i'm associating with another guy, just talking, and he just grabbed me and one thing led to another. he drug me outside started to beat on me. beating me, beating me, beating me, and beating me. i just -- i stabbed him. he fell, i stabbed him again. >> holly did not let prison end his love life. he told us he's had three prison husbands so far and the current one figured out a way for the couple to be close to one another in the crowded general population dorms. >> i'll tell you he would actually pay the guy that slept next to me, he would actually pay him to sleep in his bed. uh-huh, sure would, just to be beside me. ain't that something? >> the inmate holly considers his hus

. >> 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. quit acting like a [ bleep ] 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

alice holman, al jazeera. >> for more, check at aljazeera.com/sport. that's all at this time. >> thanks jo. >>> since 40 years ago, when americans first set foot on the moon, a way to make that happen. our technology deirdre tarek baseley explains. >> you are now moon base number 1. >> reporter: the idea of a manned base on the moon has been around for decades. and not just in the realm of science fiction. nasa's apollo missions gave technology a human information about the surface. but now scientists are again looking towards the moon and to mars. >> once you leave earth other o, you've cut off your support and supply line from earth. so you have to be resourceful. >> this honey comb like structure was built by a robotic 3d printer. scientists used dust, water, and a type of salt which turned it into a concrete. they say this could be done on the moon and could form building blocks of a future moon base. the teams using a robotic vehicle or a team of them, to squeeze in the mix would be faster, cheaper and safer than using astronauts to do the job. >>

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. >> holman has time to unload it. he fires it high and deep. he caught it for the touchdown! >> end of the game, the last chuck, gave central florida 32- 30 win and a share of the american athletic conference title. the knights got the ball back with 10 seconds left and let it fly. and it worked. your play of the day. >> everyone was in shock! >> women's gymnasts hoping to go to the olympics will get to compete in san jose. >> the u.s. olympic committee has announced the women's gymnastic trials will be held at s.a.p. center. it is set for july 2016 ahead of the games in rio de janeiro, brazil. san jose hosted trials for both men and women in 2012. but next time, the competitions are being separated to give the men's time to regroup before the olympics. they will be in june in st. louis. >>> 5:26. up, up and away. nasa's newest spacecraft finally getting off the ground florida. we have an update straight ahead. >> and a big accomplishment for a silicon valley automaker. >> i'm kiet do live in san jose, when the city shut down its largest encampment yesterday, a lot went down

. >> holman has time to unload it. he fires it high and deep. he caught it for the touchdown!end of the game, the last chuck, gave central florida 32- 30 win and a share of the american athletic conference title. the knights got the ball back with 10 seconds left and let it fly. and it worked. your play of the day. afternoon, when the raiderst the 49er 's a history of problems among f >>> the oakland coliseum is increasing security for sunday afternoon when the raiders host the 49ers. there's a history of problems among fans when the two teams meet. raiders officials say security measures include extra police, more undercover officers, and added private security. with the 9ers on the road at oakland levi's stadium is freed up for college football. the pac-12 championship game will be there tonight. oregon and arizona kick it off at 6:00. >>> 6:26 right now. starting in the new year, california residents of any immigration status will be able to legally get a driver's license. how scare mongers are trying to take advantage of the flood of requests. >> we're continuing to follow