he will most likely not leave holman until his 30-year sentence is complete. >> i have two daughters, look at it from that perspective. do i want these people around my family? no. but there again, some day, in this case robert tedder is going to walk out this door free. so you have to look at it from that side. he's going to go free. it may not be on parole, but he's going to eos his sentence in 2014, and he's coming out. and society is 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. i mean that's what keeps me stable. ♪ ♪ attendant: welcome back. man: thank you. it's not home. but with every well considered detail . . . it becomes one step closer. no wonder more people. . . choose delta than any other airline. no will you be a sound sleeper, or a mouth breather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicines alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe righ

. >> at the time of our visit, bobby gilbert had been at alabama's holman correctional facility for only four years. but he first landed in prison at the age of 18. he told us how a minor dispute over money led him to murder an acquaintance from his town. >> basically told me only way i could get my money would be over his dead body, you know. i was hot-headed then, so that's how i got it. >> how much money did he owe you? >> he owed me $36. and i paid $37 for the gun i killed him with. so, you know -- >> once behind bars, gilbert's violent temper led to numerous other crimes. including stabbing another inmate to death. this time for much less than $36. but gilbert made it clear to us, in prison, things aren't always as they seem. >> everybody wants to talk about, you know, i killed somebody over a carton of cigarette. you know it's not a carton of cigarettes. that may be the catalyst that leads to something, but, you know, for -- if somebody owes me a soda pop, or i owe them a soda pop and they come to me and say hey man i need to get that soda pop you owe me and i spit in their face an

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

. >> 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

if that metaphor were applied to alabama's holman correctional facility, inmate, robert's home, wouldt six feet long by three feet wide. >> this is home. bed to bed. right here. each one of these beds is like having a house in a subdivision out there on the street, only no walls, no doors, no privacy, so you just kind of ignore what's going on next door to you. >> after 20 years of incarceration, 17 served at holman, teter has developed an appreciation for simple routines. >> cup of coffee. first thing. cup of coffee and a cigarette. that's it. that's every morning. then, you know, comb your hair, get dressed, go outside. there is no such thing as a holiday here. there's no christmas. there's no tree. every day is the same. when you get up, it's the same people, the same thing, the same rat race, and there's no relaxation. >> at the time of our shoot he still had ten years left on a 30-year sentence for some very serious convictions. they include sodomy, public exposure and enticement of a child. >> robert was one of those inmates who was adamant he was falsely accused, falsely convic

as we learned when we visited the holman correctional facility in alabama.s we learned when the holman correctional facility in alabama. >> you want to be interviewed? put your clothes on. come on. >> steven parker is serving a life sentence for the murder of his stepmother. >> a lot of people, you know, they villainize me for that. i grew up with parents who didn't give a [ bleep ] about me. i'm not trying to excuse my behavior. you know what i mean? i take full responsibility. you know, i pled guilty. >> when we met him, he was serving his time in administrative segregation. because his desire for another tattoo nearly turned deadly. >> about six months ago, i cut a dude's throat down there in population. he was supposed to do some tattoos. i was going to get some swastikas tattooed on the side of my neck. he didn't want to run it. he didn't want to. i said, you just need to give me my money back. and he didn't want to do it. pulled out a box cutter, and he tried to run around. i cut the side of his throat. he went running away and tried to run behind an o

john holman has more from mexico city. >> reporter: that sound is gun fire. and these people were killed in what authorities say was a shootout between police and suspected gang members in michoacan state southwest mexico. by the time the police arrived about 40 people were dead. it's unsure exactly what happened but federal police say people were attacked by gunmen. >> translator: the shootout was prolonged for approximately three hours in about three different parts of the property. >> reporter: this area was controlled by the powerful new generation cartel. the government sent in a he 10,000 strong force to try and take back control. state authorities say those killed in the shootout could be from the cartel. as the authorities moved into the new generation cartel's territory. incidents like this will take place. but they try to switch the country's image as which violence and day-to-day activities are en engrained. >> that has definitely changed the nature of the threat and it should ultimately -- there will ultimately be a change in the gft's response. >

>> since our last visit to holman, warden culliver has left the prison. he was promoted to associate commissioner with the alabama department of corrections. but when we traveled to the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, we met sergeant sarah herman, who seemed to be cast from the same mold. >> you tearing up my property? one-way trip to charlie, dude, and you're never coming out. quiet. stop talking. you don't tell her what to do. close that new york mouth for a minute. jackson, i don't forget something. don't waste my time. we got time enough to find out how long you been here, okay? don't underestimate miss herman. >> like warden culliver, sergeant herman was known for being both tough, and compassionate. >> have you been drinking any water? come and get a cup and start drinking some water for me, okay? sometimes when you're sick like that and you're not hydrated, it messes with your mind. >> when sergeant herman would walk into a unit, it was almost as if, you know, a sergeant in the army or something was walking into a barracks. people reall

john hol holman has more from mexico city. >> that sound is gun fire and these people were killed in what authorities said was a shootout in michoacan southwestern mexico. by the time the conflict was over, 43 were dead, one of them a police officer. police were attacked by gunmen and returned fire in a ranch. this all in a region controlled by a powerful new generation cartel. they shot down an army helicopter and killed police. states authorities said those killed in the shootout could be from the cartel. as federal forces move into the new generation cartel's territory, analysts say it's inevitable that this type of confrontation is going to take place but that's still not picture the mexican government wants nationally or internationally of mexico as they try to shift the appearance of the government's situation. >> this is a continuation of a fight at least a decade ago. what we have seen is the gradual dismantling of large scale drug organizations and their replacement by spaller more local more are are gangs. definitely changed the nature of the threat and it should ultimately

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. >

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there is no understanding of why the death toll wos wass so was so high john holman, al jazeera mexico city. >> this is live video from dublin where vote-counting has just begun hugely significant vote there in ireland opinion poll suggest the vote could pass by as much as 2 to 1 and that could mean ireland is is is the first current to legalize same sex marriage via election. monitoring that for you. now hillary clinton has welcomed the publication of around 300 e-mails relating to the 2012 attack on the u.s. mission in benghazi. four people including the u.s. ambassador to libya died. clinton was secretary of state at the time and has been criticized for her handling of the attack. clinton says the e-mails don't change the understanding of anyone of the attack. >> i'm glad the e-mails have been released, i want people to see all of them and it is the fact that we have released all of them that have any government relationship whatsoever, in fact the statement state department had the vast majority of those anyway because they went to .g offerings vfertion.govaccounts. white house cor

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

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

john holman, al jazeera trotlaya. >> a mayoral candidate in mexico has been shot while campaigning. enrique was a member of the national regeneration group and a vigilante group that targeted drug cartels. >>> a woman in the united states has been reunited with her daughter after an eight year fight. they are now on their way back home to the u.s. >>> peru's president says a controversial mining project will go ahead affidavit weeks of protest. did call on mexican owned copper which is developing the tia maria mine in the south. people fear the mine will contaminate their crops and exhaust water supplies. three people have been killed since protests began in march. >>> u.s. presidential hopeful hillary clinton and her husband former president bill clinton have earned millions of dollars since last year. the couple have commanded 6 physical fees from their speeches, she also wrote a book about her time as secretary of state. >>> the film degrade is based on events in gaza in 2007. palestinians have a strong reputation, but often have to rely on foreign funding. charlie angela reports

. >> 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

john holman, al jazeera mexico city. >> at least two people have been killed and 30 wounded in grenade attacks in burundi's capital. since the president's decision to run for a third term in office. >>> homeless children in burundi have been caught up in fighting. haru mutasa visited a center. >> reporter: there is no tear gas, police or soldiers here. just food which is here. one less thing children in burundi's capital have to worry about. against burundi's president pierre nkurunziza. >> until the shooting stops we can't go out and look for food. sometimes the police find us and beat us. >> reporter: traumatized from hearing gun shots and tear gas on a daily basis. >> unfortunately, the children have to go out in the street, face harassment from security forces. so this is a situation that has to stop and the protection of the rights of children in a situation is exactly the same thing. everybody is responsible. >> reporter: it is not just children ton streets that are vulnerable. parents have been told don't let them come onto the streets by themselves. anything can happen. any gro

most of it at the holman correctional facility in alabama and sometimes it seems to have been just asong since he's heard the sound of his real name. >> they call me red top. >> hey, redtop. >> they call me redtop. they call me ringating red. >> 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? you know, you're lost. and that's how i'd be now if i got out. i'd be lost. >> due

john holman, al jazeera, trotlaya. >> rescuers in colombia have found six bodies from an unlicensed golde. it's been six days since the accident. water flooded the underground shaft alexander takes a look as why people are risking their lives at these unlicensed mines. >> workers have been working day and night with their families to find their colleagues. many different mines not just this one day in and day out and it hurts so much and god knows next day it can be me. >> reporter: for these men small scale mining is a way of living. most of these men first entered these shafts as children and through the years tried their luck in the work environment with virtually no safety procedures. in colombia operating on the fringes of the law or far outside of it workers are always taking major risks but they say incidents like these are just the way things are. more than 80% of the gold produced in the curch comes from small formal informal operations. >> translator: it is a hard and dangerous work but what other things do we do here? >> reporter: the colombian government has started a campaig

john holman, al jazeera trotlaya. >> the first of two oil rigs designed to drill in the arctic have arrivedattle. protestors and kayaks tried to block the rig as it entered the bay. >>> u.s. presidential hopeful hillary clinton and her husband former president bill clinton have earned almost $25 million from speeches the last year. disclosing the couples' incomes both clintons have demanded 6-figure fees since last year. b.b. king has died in his home known for breaking down racial barriers in music john hendren reports from chicago. >> the world of blues has lost its king. gone but not forgotten, b.b. king was a soloist and inspiration to fans. >> he brought an energy to his work that just kind of engulfed you, and even though you weren't interested in the music, he captured you. that is rare. >> reporter: with his fluttering fingers and resonant soulful voice. ♪ the thrill is gone ♪ ♪ >> b.b. king crafted an unmistakable sound. he began by playing on street corners near the plantation in the u.s. state of mississippi where he was born. ♪ hey everybody ♪ >> in a career that spanned half a

and, of course, all the inmates started hooting and hollering everywhere she went at holman prison shecene. >> 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 husband asked

john holman has more from mexico city. >> reporter: that sound is gunfire. and these people were killed in what authorities say was a shoot-out between police and gang members in south-west mexico. by the time the ambulances arrived 40 were kad. one was a police officer. it's un -- 40 were dead. one was a police officer. it's unclear what happened. federal police say one was attacked by gunfire. >> translation: the shoot-out was prolonged and sporadic for three hours, and three different parts of the property. >> this all in a region controlled by the powerful new generation cartel, who recently shot down an army helicopter and killed 15 police in an ambush. the government sent in a 10,000 strong force, state's authority saying those killed in the shoot-out could be from the cartel. >> as federal forces move into the territory, analysts say it's inevitable that this confrontation will take place. that is not the picture that the mexican government wants nationally or internationally of mexico as they tray to shift the image for one in which violence and orga

john holman reports from mexico city. >> that sound is gun fire and the people were killed in what authorities was a shoot-out between police and suspected gang members south-west of mexico. by the time the ambulances arrived, around 40 people were dead one of them was a police officer. >> it's unclear what happened. federal officials say the police were attacked by gunmen and returned fire in a running battle that ended at a ranch. >> the shoot-out was prolonged and sporadic for three hours in three different parts of the property. >> this all in a region controlled by a powerful new generation cartel shooting down an army helicopter and killing 15 police in an ambush. the government sent in a 10,000 strong force to take back control. those killed in the shoot-out could be from the cartel. as forces move into the cartel's territory, it's inevitable that the confrontation will take place. it's not the picture that the mexican government wants nationally or internationally of mexico as they shift the image for one in which violence and organised crime are deeply engrained >>> as the government

john holman reports from mexico city. >> that sound is gunfire, and the people are killed in what authorities say was a shoot-out between police and gang members in south-west mexico. by the time the ambulances arrived around 40 people were dead. one was a police officer. it's still unclear what happened, but federal officials say the police were attacked by gunmen and returned fire from a running battle that ended. >> the shat out was three hours three different parts of the property. >> this all in a region controlled in a powerful new generation cartel. >> they shut down app army helicopter. the government sent in a 10,000 more force sending back control. state authorities said those killed in the shoot-out could be from the cartel. >> as they move into the cartel it was inevitable that the confrontation would take place. it's not the picture that the government wants nationally or internationally as they shift the image from one in which violence and organised crime is deeply ingrained. >> the government arrested leaders of many organizations, smaller outfits emerged to take their place.

. >> there was an unusual phenomenon in 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 would immediately put into lock up and they had to go through certain programs in order to get out of lock up. >> the violation is known as rule 38. the prison's warden developed a no nonsense approach to dealing with it. >> if you get caught with a 38, no questions asked, we are locking you up. we will sort it out later, but you go to lock up. that's item. the first offense is 90 days. the fourth time it's a year. >> it happened a lot for some reason. it was getting to the point where particularly in the lockdown facility we would walk down the and all you see are hands going. it gets unnerving after a while. i attribute it to the fact that there were a lot of very why you think men locked up with long sentences and this was one way they decided to manifest their sexuality. >> if there is a female that excites me sexually, i take a liking to them, right?

john holman has more from mexico city. >> reporter: that sound is gunfire. and these people were killed in what authorities say was a shoot-out between police and suspected gang members in south-west mexico. by the time the ambulances arrived, around 40 were dead. one was a police officer. it's unclear what happened. federal police say one was police were attacked by gunfire. >> translation: the shoot-out was prolonged and sporadic for three hours, and on three different parts of the property. >> this all in a region controlled by the powerful new generation cartel, who recently shot down an army helicopter and killed 15 police in an ambush. the government sent in a 10,000 strong force, state's authority strong force, state's authority saying those killed in the shoot-out could be from the cartel. >> as federal forces move into the territory, analysts say it's inevitable that this confrontation will take place. that is not the picture that the mexican government wants nationally or internationally of mexico as they tray to shift the country's image for one i

plus our photographers, our producers who were there, peter arnette, bernie shah john holman.erally risking their lives. i was at the pentagon reporting on what was going on. >> you had just started. >> i started on may 8th 1980 and saddam hussein invaded kuwait a few months later. so tv was a whole new world. and at that time you remember anderson the whole world literally was watching cnn, because we were the only 24/7 cable network. we were the only one reporting live from baghdad. it was really an amazing story that we were covering. and as i said it really put cnn on the map. >> it's also incredible how a seemingly ordinary day, i mean not that there's any ordinary day, but everything can change in a matter of seconds. a story just comes out of nowhere, sometimes. a us airways jet down in the hudson river, a well-known person michael jackson, dying. something happens somewhere in the world, and the whole network kicks into high gear. >> that's really what i love about cnn. i'm sure you love it too. that we have incredible news gathering capabilities. obviously, here in th

one of our board members, christine holman denhart has convened a group of academia as well as technical experts and representatives from the eu and the german government to come together and discuss the ethics of this every couple of months moving forward because this is going to have big implications. >> i want to -- just -- when i drive down the street. and this has never happened to me, by the way. but you think about it. you're in a situation where there is no good option. somebody is going to get hurt no matter what you do, and you make a split-second decision. there is no policy behind that decision, but it amounts to i'm going to kill that person, not that person. or i'm going to risk that person's life to protect my own life. you don't make a policy -- there's no global policy about that. but when you replace my mind with a computer, you have to have a policy about that. and you have to -- and it's called code. and it amounts to a policy-level decision on the part of the programming to kill "x" person instead of "y" person. and i'm just -- you know, what are the ethics of that?