i'm ready to go. >>> this is the electric chair, which is maintained by the kentucky state penitentiary order to complete executions by electrocution. it was originally built somewhere in the 1900s. >> over the past century, kentucky's most notorious criminals have spent their final days at the castle. 163 have died by electrocution here. the most recent execution in the chair occurred in 1997. >> on one date in 1929, there were seven inmates executed in one night, utilizing this chair and facility. >> kentucky state penitentiary has the only death-row facility in the state. today, there are nearly 40 men whose cells are a stone's throw from the execution chamber. one of them is randy haight. >> this is no way to spend your life. one thing about being in prison and being on death row, especially, because there's so much idle time, is you've got a lot of time to examine yourself, think about the things that you've done, think about the opportunities you had in life and squandered them. >> haight ended up here after he escaped from another jail and robbed and killed two people. >> the jur

. >> we have never heard a more extreme account of gassing as the one described by kentucky state penitentiarye johnson. >> i asked everybody on the wall to [ bleep ] in a bucket. send it down to me. and i would take, two, three, light bulbs, put it in some toilet paper, step on it, break it in some little fragments, so when i throw it on them, they wipe it, it will cut into them and get in their blood. and i was standing there with a big old bucket of it and throw it in their face. they would just go nuts. and so the corrections finally made a law that made it a felony. and then that's when i stopped. >>> coming up on "lockup: raw." the most violent confrontations behind bars. cell extractions. >>> some of the most dangerous confrontations in prison happen when correctional officers are forced to extract an inmate from his cell. extractions are carried out by specially trained teams of correctional officers according to exact guidelines. >> i'm officer allen. i'm the number three man for the team. i'm responsible for controlling the inmate's left arm. i will use the least amount of force nece

a deal's a deal. >> back at kentucky state penitentiary, randy haight made it clear.r to face death as holton. but he's ready for it, nonetheless. >> i'm extremely sad for what i've done. it hurts me knowing that i went to the level that i went. and if there was any way possible for me to be healed or correct it, believe me, it would be done. it's an impossible situation not only for me but for everybody involved, you know? and i'm not saying that to get out of an execution or -- because like i said, i'm ready. if you want to kill me, let's go. i'm ready to go. but i think that i have something i can offer somebody. and i don't think it's really time for me to die. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> follow "lockup" producers and crews as they go behind the walls of america's prisons and jails with scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >> unlike prison, all inmates are convicted, most jail inmates are only charged with crimes and waiting trial with resolution of their cases. both prisons and jails deal with a common problem, gangs.

as a group of inmates at kentucky state penitentiary explain to us. >> i fear none of these guys out here. >> more than one i fear the worse is my clique. it's not a clique, my friends i hang with, these 10, 15 people. i probably fear them the most. i know who they are. the rest of these guys, i don't fear none of them. i hope they watch this, so they all know, the ones that don't can all know. they probably do anyway. >> the only thing i fear is them. >> just because i don't fear them doesn't mean they can't take me out of them, though, you don't have to fear a man to get killed or hurt by them. >> in here, especially, he'll sneak up on you with a knife, a rock, a choke. whatever they want to do, they fear you. >> he's more dangerous than a stone cold killer because he's scared. he put himself in a situation where he's in a corner. >> that's his only way out. >> no group of inmates feels no cornered than sex offenders. rapists and child molesters are the pariahs of the prison yard. >> as far as i'm concerned they can die. when they get around me and they start talking and they think

when we met matthew campbell, he was serving 12 years for armed robbery and assault at kentucky state penitentiary. but his troubles began much earlier. >> the first time i went to jail was 15 years old, i burned the elementary school down. it was pretty much downhill from here. >> as an openly gay man, campbell's time behind bars has had its challenges. >> being gay in prison is really hard. i mean, it's hard enough to do time in here. but the fact that everybody knows that you are gay, it is constant pressure for sex. you have a lot of people here that -- now that they're in prison, they resort to what they have to as far as sex. i have to say there's very few people here that are gay on the streets and gay in here as well. there's a lot of people that say they don't mess around. but then when they get you by themselves, it's like hey, man, what's up? >> one of the things that struck me about matthew is how comfortable he was in his own skin. i mean, here's an openly gay inmate in a southern prison, and he didn't have any problems with it. but when we went out to the yard to try and get b-roll o

." >> at kentucky state penitentiary, some inmates can apprentice in an auto body shop. at rikers island jail, a bakery churns out nearly 90,000 loaves of bread per week while teaching inmates how to bake in many of the prison profiled on "lockup" inmates have opportunities to learn skills that can help them find work on the outside. but all too many spend their time honing skills more suitable to mayhem and murder. >> i stabbed an inmate 12 times. >> i took a knife and i stabbed him with it three or four times, until he was dead. then i butchered him with it. >> you find a piece of metal or something, file it down on the concrete. it ain't got to be sharp. just has to have a point. put your hand on it, do what you need to do. >> lockup crews are regularly exposed to the tools of a deadly trad trade. >> in every prison we film in, there's always a shank museum, a place where the authorities display all the weapons that are confiscated by staff. ♪ homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted down plastic. they're truly ingenious, but they're deadly as

." >> at kentucky state penitentiary, some inmates can apprentice in an auto body shop.rns out nearly 90,000 loaves of bread per w