. >> this is a lockdown unit. we deal with several different types of inmates back here.profile inmates. we have psych inmates. we have disciplinary. it is usual ly an inmate in the news recently because of their charges. >> rosanna dimauro's case garnered enough local media coverage to be considered high profile. >> when you're in here, you are helpless. you can't fend for yourself or get a roll of toilet paper when you need it. anything you want done, you have to ask to be done for you. >> dimauro is allowed out of her cell only one hour per day. >> this is the hour we get to schedule our outside visits, and this is the hour we get to shower. >> it's also a chance to socialize with other inmates on the unit who are out at the same time. >> i braid her hair, i do her eyebrows. the stuff she couldn't do on her own. >> i feel good. i feel alive because i have human contact. >> dimauro has been on this unit since she was arrested seven months earlier for allegedly playing a role in a sadistic murder that made headlines in tampa. reports say the victim was beaten, stabbed an

those who pose the greatest threat to other inmates and staff are segregated in house one, the lockdown unit. >> basically, minimum rights. minimum, they're in their cells for 23 hours a day. >> on the day we wanted to interview him, house one inmate antonio robertson was in an especially foul mood. >> [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> calm down. >> every one of you [ bleep ], [ bleep ], i'm going to start with, you guyed are [ bleep ]. we need more. what do you want to know? >> robertson, serving a 60-year sentence for murder has spent most of the last two years in house one. >> why are you in here? >> in house one. it's a long story. i been being assault sod i assault people back. i refuse to let myself be assaulted and not fight back. >> robertson not only fights with other inmates. he fights with staff as well. >> i was disrespected. i decided to make the guys do a cell extraction. >> days before our interview, the prison's correctional emergency response team had to forcibly remove robertson from his cell for refusing to follow orders. these cell extractions are videotaped by the pris

alejandro had numerous violent outbursts in and out of prison, he spends most of his time in the lockdown unitsof pnm. most recently, he's been put on disciplinary segregation for possession of dangerous contraband. >> which one was that? >> shank. >> yeah. >> it was a little piece of plastic about three or four inches long, sharpened at one end, with no handle, no nothing. what are you going to do with it? >> we have to shake down your house and make sure you don't have anything in there. >> as a rule, you shake down whatever cell you go live in. on a major shakedown, they find something in my cell, they write me up, so now i'm stuck here another five years. >> what was found? >> allegedly a shank. a piece about this big. i laugh at that. you know what i mean? what am i going to do? piss someone off with that? if someone was coming at me like that, i laugh at them. yeah, i'm going to feel it, but it is nothing that can damage you. it is nothing to worry about. i would be more scared about a fist in the face than with that. >> today alejandro finds out if he completed his segregation time. >> h

a lockdown unit located on the east side of d cell house. >> what's this memo i see back here about a that he had put out on -- >> that was part of the reason why -- that's part of the reason why we sent him over there. >> just his activity and his influence over the population, being a leader within the stg group is enough reason to keep him over there. just at that. because he can call shots and make things happen and stand back in the shadows. >> the thing i don't understand is they put me in ad seg thinking i ordered a hit on somebody. but how does that save that person? if i'm in ad seg, he's still going to get hit. if i had the authority to do that, which i don't. but my past haunts me. and it's bloody. >> coming up -- >> as far as the extortion, i think he's lying. >> nick compton's story comes under fire. and later -- >> you miss your mother? >> yes. >> we check in on one of the most memorable inmates to ever appear on "lockup." and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why hp built a new kind of server. one that's 80% smaller. uses 89% less energy. and costs 7

so both peppe and the other inmate have been sent to segregation, the 23-hour lockdown unit, for a period>> no one to play anything with, cards, checkers. anything, you know? isolation is not a nice place to be. they let you out for a shower, recreation a few times a week, and that's it. otherwise everything comes right to the cell. your meals are delivered here. caseworker comes by. nurse comes by. everything is delivered here. it's pretty dull. >> peppe's time in segregation might be even more stressful. he and the mother of his 16-month-old twins are having problems. >> me and my girlfriend, the babies mother, are not getting along right now. whatever she decides, she decides and i'll walk away from her. i would like to grow them up and everything, but if it's not meant to be with her, it's not meant to be with her. >> but peppe still has some hope for the future. >> i have had quite a life. really quite a life. i want to enjoy whatever life i have left, and i hope to return back to society, never do any more crime and just be at peace with the world. >> ace, hearts. >> now you re-ente

the unit was put on lockdown. that's our report. thanks for watching.ere are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates. "lockup." >> turn around, man. face the wall. >> would i kill someone? if i had to. >> you got seven layers of skin you got to go through before you get to the bone. >> there's nothing that goes on that at least one gang member is not involved with. nothing. >> the outside world probably don't want to know what goes on in here. >> these places can make a monster. it's a

lockdown by tonight. kelley is here. great. >> yeah. >> yeah, that's what she said! >> but in this uniton soon discovers that even minor infractions, like using a mirror to look down the hall, won't be tolerated. >> come on! >> are you serious? why would you take it away? >> you're using it for a purpose it is not intended for. >> it's not even a real mirror. dude. you can't even see anything. would it be a ticket, too? >> it could be. >> that's an awfully tight ship you're running. >> i run a tight ship. >> are you serious? you'd take my mirror? that would never -- that's crazy! >> okay. >> jessica styx has also been transferred out of "g" dorm. >> love you, too. >> and away from the first woman with whom she's had an intimate physical relationship. melissa molina, also known as daddy. >> when they see two people being happy, they want to just ruin it. so somebody told us on and they moved her out. >> i was finally settled and i was comfortable and i was really upset that they took me away from her. you know? >> but styx wasn't gone long before molina reverted to her old ways. >> she g

lockdown. leaving their cells only for showers and solitary recreation. >> some people will tell you that segregation unit is not the place for people with mental illness because we didn't design that particular unit for treatment. particularly for mental health treatment. we just didn't anticipate us having the numbers we have and going the way it's gone. >> although acute cases are referred to the psychiatric unit at a neighboring correctional institution, the staff in the shu deal with a variety of mental behaviors. >> there are those that are dangerous people, that you have to be very cautious of when you interact with them. >> inmate douglas mccombs, who is serving time for burglary, has spent three months in the security housing unit at wabash. >> since he's been inside the shu, he's been in a stripped cell. when you see a offender come out of the cell, and all he's wearing is his underwear, at that time he was on strip cell. we had trouble with him on about every range we put him on so far. >> say, i got a mental disorder, or they say i do. they say i got a mental disorder. they say schizophrenic d

lockdown, we're allowed to talk to one inmate about the toll the restrictions are making. >> i haven't been able to visit with my sister or mother because of this thing that happened in the separate housing unit. with two other inmates, it had nothing to do with me. it's not right. it's a nuisance. it's annoying because i don't behave in a way that merits my suspension of privileges, visits, or do a lot of other guys for that matter but yet we're being punished collectively. two weeks ago, they came and took away our nail clippers. we weren't allowed access except for on sunday night. if we needed to cut our nails, the corrections officer would give them to us and then take them back. we never had them in our cells. then they took them with no explanation whatsoever, and this is the result. i just wonder if it's sanitary. now, if i am acting out and creating problems, then i earned this, but it's not my problem because something is happening somewhere else. i didn't do anything to anybody and nobody did anything to me. >> after hours of searching, they find the first clue that gang violence may be imminent at the level 5 facility. >> chosen now o great god, those who must be killed and taken