response to being disrespected. >> i was warned when i came into this job regarding offender leonard mcquay. he is very smart, very, very clever. he can talk a great talk. >> those caseworker beverly gilmore has raised serious questions about mcquay's trust worthiness, her goal is to give segregation inmates an opportunity to prove themselves. she recently made a controversial decision. after mcquay successfully completed a prison life skills program she gave him a job in his housing unit. >> i did make him a sanitation worker. that was to the dislike of some of my supervisors. they thought i lost my mind. i would never let him out of his cell. i said let's give him a chance. i talked to leonard i say one time and you pass a scrap of paper to an offender you will be without your job and we are watching him more closely -- this ms. gilmore is. i have something to prove. i think he can do it. >> change is gauged by behavior. if you are actually changing, your behavior must change and i believe my behavior has changed. >> mcquay hopes that a positive job performance will win him his trai trans

speaking foreign language ] >>> every day islamic prayers can be heard drifting from the cell of leonard mcquay at the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana. >> five times a day it's mandatory for muslims all over the world five times a day. >> mcquay is serving 60 years for the murder of a corrections officer at another indiana state prison 16 years earlier. since then, he's been in administrative segregation at wabash's secured confinement unit. >> the holy koran, read this every day. >> mcquay says his koran has helped him grow spiritually, other books in his cell have helped him grow physically. >> this is what i call my weight bag where i every day i do me some curls, right? i do these. i do shrugs. what they call shrugs. what they call shrugs. do these. back arms like this. like this. this is probably about -- probably about 55 or 60 pounds. >> mcquay has spent years trying to learn his way back to general population. but his history as a violent offender continues to haunt him. >> i basically engaged in what i considered an emotional response to being disrespected. >> i was warn