>> he's easily one of the most volatile inmates to ever appear on "lockup." but now is it possible he's discovered true love? >> we've been together four years. it's just something that happened. >> this man ranks as one of the most talked about inmates featured on "lockup." >> look at his eyes. >> they're tattooed. >> they're what? >> but now he's out of prison and his tattooed eyeballs continue to fascinate. >> [ bleep ] punk, sit here and [ bleep ] over. you want to think [ bleep ] it's funny funny about some [ bleep ] face. >> another inmate attempts to harness the rage he felt behind bars to build a new career inside the ropes. and for one young woman, life after "lockup" means coming to terms with the devastating childhood memory of witnessing her father murder her mother. >> and i was saying, "please, don't kill mom," and she was laying in the hallway and blood was coming out of her mouth. >> and now for the first time, she will watch the video of her father's final hours before his execution. ♪ >>> most of the inmates featured on "lockup" dream of the

now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter viewer discretion is advised. >>> during a lockupended stay shoot our production team spends months inside a single prison or jail. they interview close to a hundred inmates and staff in that period. everyone has a story and some of the inmates are unforgettable. it is surprising to run into one of them a few years later in another facility. >> hello, everybody it's me the stone. i guess you people probably seen me once before in michigan city. now i'm down here at wabash. >> few inmates have ever made more of a lasting impression on us than james stone. we first met him in michigan city, indiana, during our extended stay shoot at indiana state prison. >> say hi to the public out there jinxster. >> he was known for his constant companion jinxster the cat he was allowed to adopt through a special prison program. >> trying to make a swimming pool in here. >> he was also known for his offbeat sense of humor. >> it's a bird, it's a plane now it's the biobucket man. to the bat cave. >> three years later, when we returned to indiana to sho

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 sentences. and this was just one way they decided to manifest their sexuality. >> if there's a female that excite me sexually, you know what i'm saying, you know, i tend to expose myself to them if i take a liking to them, right. >> why? >> because it's the only way to get se

"lockup: raw." over the years, lockup crews have ventured inside some of america's most dangerous maximum security prisons. and they have all encountered one absolute certainty. >> we film in extreme environments. most people would never want to step inside a maximum security prison, yet we send our crews inside some of the most dangerous facilities in america. >> [ bleep ] >> yeah, i love pain! >> you can't let your guard down. you have to keep your eyes open in the back of your head. the hairs are constantly up on the back of your neck. because they're violent places, and violence can and does break out at any time. >> [ bleep ]. >> our cameras have been there to capture these dramatic life-and-death conflicts. now we take an even closer look at them. through the experiences of our field crews and their raw encounters with violence behind bars. california state prison, corcoran, home to hundreds of the state's most violent and infamous offenders. host of "lockup" crews in 2000 and 2005. >> right b

think you like lockup. you don't like lockup? why you keep coming back? if that guy steps on your toes a little bit, that's not what my intent is, but i need to give it to you straight. your mouth. you're going to have to learn how to control that. if you're ever going to make it. we deal with people. that's what we do. it takes a hell of a person to deal with people that no other citizens want to be bothered with, to be able to walk among these people day in and day out, give instructions, tell them what to do, manage them without creating problems. >>> next on "lockup: extended stay" -- >> move it. lock him up. >> violence erupts in holman. and for warden culliver, that means no holds barred. >> i want the whole housing unit locked down. we are under a lockdown. honey nut cheerios ok then off to iceland! car insurance companies say they'll save you by switching, you'd have like, a ton of dollars. but how are they saving you those dollars? a lot of companies might answer "um" or, "no comment." then there's esurance. born online, raised by technology, and

lockup crews have found that at other prisons too.ifornia san quentin is one of the oldest prisons we visited. >> approximately 1985 brand new correctional officer here at san quentin. i was working graveyard in a section called donner. >> this officer is a member of san quentin's investigative services unit an elite team of co's who track gang activity and other threats to the institution. >> one night my partner and i were working graveyard. i was sitting with my back to a file cabinet just like this. it was a row of pad locks on the top handle. my partner and i were talking, all of a sudden the locks started rattling back and forth together clacking. he looked at it i looked at it. see i'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. we both ran out of the office and we had no explanation as to what that was. we asked some other officers and they said that you know the unit is probably haunted. so never can tell. there's no explanation for it. no earthquake the inmates weren't complaining in the unit about the ground moving. no wild

lockup: raw. >>> you're in a jail. there's no greater punishment in the world. >> crack heads, dope feends, rapists, murderers. >> you're all treated guilty until proven otherwise. >> lockup has spent time in three of america's busiest and largest jails, l.a. county, miami-dade and new york's riker's island. they represent a cross section of life across the country. each one has its own unique set of challenges. >> lockdown, lockdown. >> be on point. >> lockdown, lockdown. >> can't let your guards down for nobody. >> it's not the place to be. >> this is as close to a living hell as i think i ever want to come. >> step back behind the red line. >> everyone, bend over. >> if you like this type of thing, this is the place for you. >> i am not in there. >> for the uninitial nated or the unincarcerated, there is sometimes confusion between prison and jail. prison is only for convicted felons. jails also house convicts, but only those awaiting transfer to prison or certain short term sentences, usually less than a year. >> l

the first time we met her, she was in lockup. was being taken out to have an interview and our cameraman brian started to follow her and i watched his facial expression change because holly would do these exaggerated mannerisms which she thought were a woman and her hips were swaying back and forth as she talked down the tier. and, of course, all the inmates started hooting and hollering everywhere she went at holman prison she created 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.

now, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >>> it's a grinding wheel. everything here is a rut, a circle. it's a death trap inside. it will wear you down. >> they're the inmates who may never know freedom again. >> i've got some criminal tendencies. >> there have been times that i got into a fight over certain things. >> they're the inmates with nothing left to lose.ç >> i've seen a lot of guys snap. any given day they can snap. >> having feces or urine thrown on you, spit blood semen. anything you can think of has happened in here. >> like a tomb. a concrete tomb. >> these are the inmates who serve hard time. >> these are not the good guys. >> what's my role here? i'm an [ bleep ]. >> it's fun to break the law and dance with the devil, but when you got to pay the fiddler, there ain't nothing nice. >> in prison, the term "hard time" can mean many different things. it could be an inmate who will never see freedom again. or an inmate who is doing solitary confinement for years at a time. our crews have seen numerous examples of what it's like to do hard t

"lockup: raw." >> shot the man three times, right? >> and we beat him to death. >> i hold him in a choke hold. >> i shot him. >> i took the towel and strangled him. they opened the door and i tried to throw him off the tier. >> murder is a respected crime in here by a lot of these inmates. >> kill or be killed. >> human beings are the most dangerous animal on earth there is. >> he ran upstairs, i fired. >> [ bleep ] happens. >> one of the most intense things our "lockup" field crew encounters when they go inside a maximum security prison is conducting interviews with murderers, sitting five, six feet away from a very violent offender. but more often than not, they leave those conversations feeling like they just talked to somebody who's a normal, everyday guy. >> when our crew went behind the 40-foot walls of indiana state prison, they had ample opportunity to meet killers among the 2,000 inmates that are incarcerated there. >> the number one charge at this facility is murder. approximately 70% of the offenders housed here are housed

>> originally done these in lockup, man, didn't have nothing to work with.i got me some pretty good pencils. oil pencils right. this is a big part of my life in here. drawing, playing guitar, all that little stuff right there, man. >> the shakedown has produced both weapons and drugs. the intense environment has also prompted the accused in the honor dorm stabbing to make a statement. >> man was trying to extort some money out of me. >> extort some money out of you? >> right. >> how were they trying to extort money out of you? >> well, mcneill told me, he said, i'll tell you what, he said, you don't have three bugles and a bag of coffee by this morning, he said, i'm going to beat your ass down that hallway. then he said on store day, i'm going to beat your ass and take your whole bag from you, even if i have to wait till then. that's not the first time this happened, you know? the only way i'd ever do anything like that is when my back is just all the way against the wall. that's the way it was. it would be one thing, if he was just talking about jumping on

now the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >> on the ground. >> we're going to run military style. strict. >> before any inmate sees the inside of a prison, he's most likely first seen the inside a jail. >> i'm just sitting in a room. i don't know if it's night or daylight. >> and nothing about jail is for the feint of heart. for some, jail is the ultimate limbo between freedom and a life behind bars. or even worse. >> i've accepted the fact that a potential outcome of trial could be a death sentence. >> and for better or worse, time in jail changes everyone. >> i'm afraid of how long he's already been in jail and that it would change him. i hope it doesn't change his heart. >> there are distinct differences between america's prisons, and jails. prison is for inmates convicted serving sentences. while some jail inmates are also serving sentences, the majority are not convicted, but are being held awaiting trial for the resolution of the charges for which they were arrested. there is another difference that has made jails a rich source of stories for "lockup." >> unlike a prison wh

now back to "lockup." >>> what i'm doing right now is re-dyeing this saddle.econditioning it, refurbishing it. i cleaned it, restripped it of all the old finish on it. and i put new dye on it. dyeing it black. in here it takes me four months. to do a saddle. i will be 70 in a couple months. i'll be in 24 years this june, doing life without. i got a violent crime. this is my sanity here. you know, getting up here, working. you can get your mind off of what prison is and just relax. i just enjoy doing this. it's therapeutic for me. >> donald pippin meets with dr. holbrook for the last time before he's released from holman. >> hey. mr. pippin, how are you doing today? good to see you. >> i wrote my aunt. she wrote back and said i had a place so i'm going to stay with her. >> that's a for sure thing? >> yeah, that's a for sure thing. you can call her. i told you last time i would probably go to the halfway house but i ain't going to no halfway house. it's one thing to be able to go somewhere and be comfortable where you're at and another thing to be forced to be s

"lockup raw." to their victims, they were the epitome of terror. >> i throw my hooks and snapped his neck. you can feel it right against here. pop. >> the face of their nightmares. >> he was crying, begging for me to stop. >> started sawing away, tried to cut his head off. >> they have robbed, murdered, and kidnapped. >> i used to kidnap college kids and hold them for ransom. >> when they told the jury, all rise, i thought that was my opportunity and stabbed him in the chest. >> now, five of the most notorious inmates to ever appear on "lockup" -- >> i'm trigger happy -- >> reveal insights into their shocking brands of predatory behavior. >> i enjoy hurting people. >>> at the top of every "lockup" episode, we run a warning for viewers about the subject matter. that warning is relevant to what we're about to show you. we put together a collection of some of the most disturbing and dangerous inmates in "lockup" history. viewer discretion is definitely advised. >> inside america's maximum security pri

>> i'm so glad when they let me out of this lockup. i'm going to give him the best life he can imagine. >> coming up -- marcus pleads with the warden to be let out of ad seg. >> please, i learned my lesson. >> i ain't convinced right now though. direct rates side by side to find you a great deal, even if it's not with us. [ ding ] oh, that's helpful! well, our company does that, too. actually, we invented that. it's like a sauna in here. helping you save, even if it's not with us -- now, that's progressive! call or click today. no mas pantalones! >>> inmates have only one hour of rec time a day which means few opportunities to communicate with one another. so they invent ingenious ways to have conversations with their friends. allen clark has recently been transferred to holman and hasn't formed any friendships with the inmates there but he does have a relationship with someone on the outside. >> 15 years i didn't have anybody to come see me or write me or anything like this. and then came [ bleep ]. she is, she is a darling, you know?

i never seen him on "lockup" until after he started working here.eeing him in there, compared to here, aggressive. he's aggressive now, but in a great way. anytime you get someone who wants to come to work and wants to work, my god. >> and still, reminders of prison sometimes show up unexpectedly. >> this prison bus from the department of corrections came in. me being my nosy self, i had to look. right here, names and numbers of people being transferred out. it wasn't too long ago i was on one of these buses. i wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize my liberties that i have now. uh-uh. life is great. right now, i can hear the wind blowing in to the trees behind us. ain't no trees in no prison yards i've ever been in. life is great. >> i'm really excited. >> roy's brother ray was just as hopeful when he left prison. during our extended stay shoot at the lyman correctional facility we followed him to the small trailer home where he was going to restart his life. >> yeah, this is nice. >> i love it. >> come on in. all right. this is a castle to me.

now, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >> i get mad sometimes, man. i get angry. >> the emotional toll here is like water torture. every day it's like a drip, drip, drip. >> always somebody bugging out, always somebody causing trouble in the cell house. >> i'm not an angel. i can tell you that. >> [ bleep ]. >> it really wears on you after a while. you got to get away from it. >> go home [ bleep ] >>> i really like birds. they're pretty neat. >> "lockup" crews have met hundreds of inmates facing long-term sentences. for some like dale veers at iowa state penitentiary, that means the chance to pick up a new skill or two. >> you start out with a block. then cut it down. and then i keep grinding and shaping it until i get it where it's supposed to be. >> a life sentence for kidnapping has given viers a chance to master bird carving. >> i kept the very first bird i ever carved because i just knew that i would get better. that is the first one i carved. ñ that's my duck head. duck's getting a little bit better. i have another bird here. they get better. >>

five, six times a day i go through that. >> it beats lockup. >> you dang right it beats lockup. that's right. you know, my dreams are simple. i want to get on a bike and ride, open highway. i want an open highway in front of me, a backpack and sleeping bag on the back and i want to ride. that's what i'm going to do. >> are you going to make it this time, staying out? >> yeah, i believe i'm going to make it, no doubt. i do have a problem with authority. sometimes i have authority issues and that's definitely a major bump in the road for me. dealing with my p.o. or people in the parole department. it's just hard for me to do it, it just really is. it's hard. not that i don't want to be free. i want to be free. i don't want to go back to prison. but sometimes i have this impending doom on my back. >> sometimes prison ruins people, man. you know what i mean. it does. after that much time, and i understand that, so be it. but prison didn't ruin me. honestly. i'm not ruined at all. i'm ready to get out there and do whatever it takes to make it. and i'm gonna. i want to be a success st

now, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >>> when you come to prison, you have to join a gang. you have no choice. it's a must. >> once i opened the door with the druggingss, i got recognition. >> many of them have this warrior mentality. >> by getting that recognition, i get power. >> my job was to go in there and kill him and went in with the intention of killing him. with power i get every one i go to. >> you're surrounded by, you know, a thousand killers. and every one of them is a stranger. >> once i control the yards i control the drug situation. i control the inmates as well. >> we were actually killing people that didn't deserve to be killed. >> this is california's san quentin state prison, one of the first prisons ever profiled on "lockup." >> for a photographer, san quentin was a really interesting place to shoot because it's the old-style tiers and the big exercise yard and there's a lot of corners and shadows and things to attract your lens. so it was just as a photographer, it was really an interesting place to shoot. it can be a very dangerous place because it's

>>> tonight on "lockup: world tour" -- >> i will [ bleep ] murder you. we go behind walls in scotland. we meet a killer with a sadistic streak. >> what do you do with fires? >> and the interview takes a startling turn. violence erupts inside a maximum security prison in belgium. >> he's a crazy man, a murderer, but i'm not scared, you know? [ bleep ] what you threaten me? >> but in this prison when tensions rise, inmates can cool off in the sex room. >> two hours for sex. >>> to americans, it's a country best known for chocolate, waffles and beer. belgium. roughly the size of maryland, it's considered to be one of the safest nations in europe. but criminals do exist here. and the most hard core can be found 50 miles east of brussels in the town of hasselt. it was built in 2005. it houses 470 men and, in a separate unit, 30 women. >> this is unique. the other prisons in this country, they are old prisons. they are more than 100 years, 150 years old and have a culture. bad or good culture but they always have a culture. we started from zero. >> as the nati

now, the scenes you've never seen -- "lockup raw." >>> inside every prison there's one question that both inmates and correctional officers must ask themselves. knowing the right answer could mean the difference between life and death. the question, who can i trust? >> you can get close to somebody but you can't trust that person because that person might be the one to stab you or get you raped or something. and you have to learn how to grow eyes in the back of your head and learn how to fight real good in prison. can't have nobody punk you. can't be no bitch in here. >> there are inmates in here for 20 years, even though we're friendly and we speak, they walk up on me, i still want to know what they're doing. >> i will kill a friend for messing me around quicker than i will anybody else. betraying my trust. spitting on my trust. i guess it don't make me mad, it hurts, too, you know? >>> for inmates to survive, they have to make friends. they have to make alliances for security purposes. the problem is they're surrounded by people who aren't very trustworthy. so here's the dilemma --

"lockup raw." >>> inside every prison cell or in any jail bunk, we find harrowing stories. >> all the sudden there's just blood coming out of my eye, and i knew i got shot. >> i never seen death before. so i put the rope around his neck and killed him. >> unique personalities. >> hi. >> i wore nice clothes. i drove nice cars. and my robbery paid for that. >> welcome to my humble abode. >> but they all share one thing in common. >> they don't attempt to bully me. they know what will happen. >> [ bleep ]. >> i'm often asked how we find the stories we cover on "lockup." and the answer is footwork. it comes down to the field producers simply taking the time to get to know dozens of inmates. other times we just follow the action and the story unfolds in front of our eyes. once in a while the path to a good story is a little less obvious. >> 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 co

"lockup: raw." >> what is it? what is it? >> a fight. >> when our crews go behind prison walls, we know always to expect the unexpected. we've seen bloody assaults. >> we got another cut up here, guys. >> inmate rage. >> we will not negotiate with terrorists! >> destruction in the cell block. >> are you the ones flooding out here? >> and bizarre expressions of personal style. now, some of the most memorable, unexpected moments we've encountered inside america's prisons. >> this is what you live for in the penitentiary. >> you want to think it's funny. >> tough [ bleep ]. >> never a dull moment. >> we send our producers and crews inside prisons. their job is to be objective observers. but in the first week of filming inside limon correction facility in colorado, something unusual happened. we inadvertently became part of the story we were covering. >> why is everybody getting agitated? we were in ad seg, administrative segregation, the prison within a prison. we started hearing inmates screaming out things and i started to hea

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. hardly 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

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lockup crews have also been frequent guests at california's state prison corcoran. >> you might have to fight. you might have to stab. you never know. depends on the situation. >> a lot of times it is fist fights out here. but i would say maybe every other month we get a righteous stabbing. when they do stab each other they go for the kill. they don't just stab each other to play around. >> every morning you wake up you are dealing with 1,000 different attitudes. you never know what can happen on that certain day. all you can do is think the worst, hope for the best. >> we met two inmates on the yard at corcoran who are much more pro-active when it comes to surviving life in this powder keg. they gave our crew a tutorial on how they do it. >> the rules you want to live by behind the walls you want to give everybody the same respect that you expect to receive from them. >> without order we have

this is "lockup: pendleton juvenile extended stay."ç >> pendleton juvenile correctional facility, one of america's largest maximum security juvenile prison. here, teams serve their time behind razor wire while staff attempt to rehabilitate and educate, over 300 male offenders. >> [ bleep ]. kkk. drop it. >> some are harder than others. unlike adult prisons staff here must deal with impulsive teen behavior that can escalate without warning. >> six months of shooting inside of pendleton, we witnessed all of this and more. >> these youngsters here when they simply get angry and go from 0 to 60 in a second, they simply react and then they think about the consequences and how they're going to get out of it. >> lieutenant gary burke supervises the segregation unit at pendleton. when an enmate acts out in the general population, he's moved to seg for the safety of offenders and staff. most kids who come here are still a long way from rehabilitation and their defiance can cause added pressure for officers. >> the challenge is bring your "a" g

but david took things to a level unlike anything ever witnessed by "lockup" producers. >> i tattooedhe whites of my eyes. >> why? >> i don't know. the question is why not? everybody's got tattoos. everybody's got stretched heres. everybody's got this and that. you never seen anybody with the whites of their eyes tattooed. >> except for his cellmate, paul inman. >> it's like the final frontier. nobody has it done. i have blue eyes, so i chose blue. i thought it would be a good combination between a dark blue and black. i thought black would be a little scary, so i went with dark blue. instead of being one in billions of people in the world, you could be like the fifth or sixth person in the world to be like that. that's pretty amazing. and i'll bet you there is no one in the world that has the same color eyes as i do. >> neither of the cellmates would reveal how they tattooed their eyes or how they managed to create the colored ink. >> i can't tell you the process, but i do know it is painful and you don't use conventional tattoos or a homemade tattoo gun. so there's a layer you got t

this is "lockup: pendleton juvenile, extended stay."on any given day, inside the razor wire fences of pendleton juvenile correctional facility, anything can happen. >> stop! stop! turn around. >> during our six months inside, we learned some days can be more chaotic than most. >> control to all units and shift supervisors. >> caught him signal 2000, which is an attempted escape. going to run for it. told the sergeant he was going to run and took off out of the unit. >> i think by 7:30 in the morning, we had a signal jam meaning officer needs ó0@&h(lc% assistance. we've had two signal 2000s, which are escaped. >> turn around. turn around. get on your knees. get on your knees. put your hands behind your head. stay like that until we exit the cell. >> it was a half hearted attempt. he gave them a little struggle and they brought him here. he acts relieved now that he is here. as a matter of fact, i believe it's his second time trying to escape in the last two weeks because he's having such a problem getting acclimated with the other offend

. >>> coming up next on "lockup: extended stay," the contraband investigation turns to billy groves. >> you want to give me any statement on this or anything like that? >> i don't have anything to say. >> while another inmate remembers the last time he saw his folks. >> just after midnight when they arrived, i killed them both. ids, but they can be really expensive. so to save money i just found them a possum. dad, i think he's dead. probably just playin' possum. sfx: possum hisses there he is. there's an easier way to save. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] we believe you're at your best when you can relax and be yourself. and at thousands of newly refreshed holiday inn hotels, you always can. holiday inn. stay you. and now stay rewarded with vacation pay. stay two weekend nights and get a $75 prepaid card. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] what's the point of an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon if the miles aren't interesting? the lexus ct hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> someone dies in your family, you can

"lockup." >> open 11. >> i plead guilty to sexual assault. with intent to commit sexual -- >> yeah, i love pain! yeah! >> i try to go through everything in their cell looking for contraband, everything from matches to guns. >> i look more female-like more than any of the other ones here. >> for me, being here, i guess the sooner i die, the better for me. aside from getting caught, i don't regret it one bit. once i was away from here, i felt pretty good. i'm not going to lie. >> the crime rate in the historic town of fort madison, iowa, is almost nonexistent. and yet many of the state's most violent offenders call this small town home, sort of. they live at the iowa state penitentiary. behind this 40-foot stone and concrete exterior is a population of drug abusers, murderers, and the mentally ill. on the west bank of the mississippi river is one of the oldest prisons in the country, iowa state penitentiary. there is a separate facility at iowa state penitentiary called ccu, the inmates who are considered mentally ill are housed here. lieutenan

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. me and him never had a 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. >> h

"lockup: raw." ♪ daddy, are you coming home ♪ >> the lucky ones find ways to cope with it. >> you havefind something to fill up whatever void you have. >> others are haunted by it. >> it still bothers me a whole lot even today. talking about it's got me shaking already. >> but for some, the past could return with a vengeance. >> they told me they're coming. they're going to cut all the tattoos off of me that are aryan related and basically take my life. >>> at a typical "lockup" shoot at any one prison we might interview up to 100 inmates. many of these inmates have come to terms with their life behind bars. they really don't care anymore about the past or the future. but every once in a while we'll meet an inmate, follow their story where the futility of their past catches up with them. and it's like a light comes on and they realize they have to change. >> behind the 40 foot walls of indiana state prison, inmates have plenty of time to think about their lives and the consequences of their actions. but others, like ronnie shephard, turned to other activities to fill their time. >> i r

we was all on lockup when i actually first met him.s -- his dad from inside the prison system. >> me and my dad, we ain't got a real good relationship. then i met robert. he's been more like a father than my real dad has. >> he's really just a lonely kid, you know what i mean? he wants to play tough, but actually he just wants to know that someone cares about him. >> every time he sees me he's like, stake out of trouble, stay out of trouble. if i do get myself in trouble, he'll cuss me out. >> josh reminds me a lot of me when i was his age. i know what he's going through. he thinks he's got something to prove to people, but i think he's wanting me to see him as a tough guy, you know? >> spears would soon be proven right. >>> next -- >> well, he passed a rumor that he wanted to try to kill me. >> josh harrison finds himself in serious trouble. >> i eat beat him up just to show him, do not talk. with the spark miles card from capital one, thor's couture gets the most rewards of any small business credit card. your boa! [ garth ] thor's s

"lockup raw." >>> for most inmates, life boils down to three words. the first is respect. >> you going to do time in prison, respect is the only thing that matters. >> the second, reputation. >> every time somebody goes missing up said i did it. >> the third, revenge. >> if you cross me, i'm going to give it to you. you know what i mean? because i'm a good [ bleep ]. you know i'm going to beat your ass. >> just about every inmate story we tell on "lockup" resolves around the three rs, respect, reputation and revenge. at indiana state prison, we met one inmate whose story revolved around his search for all three. >> don't know what the hell is blinking. battery must be going dead. >> during our shoot at indiana state prison, officials allowed us to give select inmates handheld cameras to express personal thoughts in the privacy of their cells. >> my name is cephis pasco. c-e-p-h-i-s p-a-s-c-o. i am a convict at the indiana state prison. >> we learned a lot from them. including the importance of reputation within prison. >> i've done the time. i've stay

lockup: raw. >>> for some inmates, a prison sentence means nothing left to lose. >> what the [ bleep ]. >> i'm ever put in general population, i'm as good as dead. >> sometimes life has other plans. >> him or me at that point. >> this was real. it was -- >> people often ask me if we've ever had a member of our production crew attacked or somehow hurt in a prison. unfortunatel fortunately, the answer is no. our crews are very experienced and know how to carry themselves in prison and never get too comfortable. >> but the reality of prison is you can go from calm and quiet to a life and death conflict in an instant. >> about halfway through ten weeks of filming for our extended stay series at the homan 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 were waiting for our producer

now, scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." inside prison or jail, regrets are never in short supply. >> actually killed an innocent kid. that haunts me. >> and as if watching "lockup" isn't warning enough for some -- >> tell him you will get [ bleep ] up in my book. >> this is a place where people come to die. >> -- prisons and jails use inmates to warn troubled teens before it's too late. >> huh? [ bleep ] >> an hour's worth of tape. >> others express their regrets with personal cameras. we call inmate cams. >> i just wish that i could do it all over again. >> during a typical "lockup" interview, we have our producer, our director of photography, our audio technician, an associate producer, and various staff members in the room kind of surrounding the inmate. it can be difficult sometimes to get an intimate interview with so many people around. so we created the inmate cam. where it's basically a small digital camera we give to the inmate. >> we have this camera, super simple to use. it's already turned on for you. >> they ca

"lockup: raw." >> if personal relationships can get complicated on the outside, they can be even more complicated behind bars. >> my mom gave me the best advice. everything that has happened in my life, she told me that was going to happen. >> are you having a relationship with gay men or straight men here? >> straight. >> and for those unable to cope with them, relationships can lead to a life in prison. >> i threatened everybody in her family tree and this husband and her dog, too. >>> when we shoot "lockup: extended stay," our crews film for four months inside a single prison. the last stage, usually an easy day, we're doing something called b roll, doing pickup shots, kind of exteriors. most of the time we're thinking about the flight home. but in prison, you never know who you're going to run into. >> in one such instance, the person we ran into was rick clapsy. he was serving a life sentence at the penitentiary of new mexico. >> it was our last day of filming, and we were getting some b roll of a particular inmate, and clapsy was the inmate next door to this guy. and clapsy star

now, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >> there are lines nearly everywhere you look in prison and jail. >> it's a long time. >> inmates move in lines. containment lines. but there are also invisible lines. lines between right and wrong. >> someone shot her seven times. she was tortured. she was hog-tied. she suffocated. who did that? >> lines between freedom and years behind bars. >> i'm finally clean, doing good, and all of a sudden, bam, you're back in jail. >> some inmates discover beauty lines. >> origami has been real therapeutic. >> while others cross them. >> that's [ bleep ] -- >>> what's up? >> you get escorted everywhere you go. >> the inmates profiled on "lockup" cross all lines of race, religion, gender, and sexual preference. but most of them fit into three broad categories. there's the inmate who seems like your neighbor or co-worker. the second is the inmate who embraces the criminal lifestyle and makes no qualms about it. >> i believe in stabbings. i believe in some people should be stabbed. >> and then there's the third type. >> from afar they seem like a norm

when she passed, i was up here in lockup. one of the lieutenants came up with my mom and she's like, "it's kiara." i'm like, "it's kiara"? i said, "what's wrong? is she in the hospital?" she's like, "no, she's dead." i freaked out. they did everything they could to at least let me go to the hospital, but it was out of the prison's hands. it was upper staff management. and i have to say because i was up here and the status quo i was in, it didn't allow me to go to the wake, to the funeral, the viewing or even to the hospital. because at first her brain died. and they had her on a breathing machine, you know, just to see if they would let me go up there, but when they didn't let me go, you know. and my spirits kind of like dropped, you know, and i didn't eat. i lost a lot of weight. you know, and i looked like a raccoon. my eyes were, you know, all black and stuff. but then i thought about it. i said, you know, that's just another baby that god needed. but every day, i look at those pictures of my daughter up there, and this is

"lockup: raw." three unforgettable inmates. each one about to cross the threshold to freedom. >> look back, you come back. this time i'm not looking back. >> we witness their joys. >> i look like a pimp. look at this little phone. >> do you think i'm stupid? >> their fears. their triumphs. >> i have done everything i could over the last 26 years to be ready. >> sometimes the only thing tougher than being in prison is staying out. >> everybody is betting i don't make it. >>> for inmates who have spent most of theirs lives locked inside maximum security prisons, the prospect of getting out can often bring more fear than relief. >> unfortunately, more than 50% of the inmates who are released from prison come back in. it's a chronic problem that's resulted in one big revolving door. >> we saw an example of this firsthand when we met joe sanchez at the penitentiary of new mexico. >> i have been doing this since 1981. in and out, in and out, in and out. >> sanchez was nearing his release date after serving five years for burglary but

murder suspect turned himself in. >>> now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, vieweriscretion is advised. >> everything that i have, everything that i ever will have is in this cell. i went from having a nice house, in-ground pool, air conditioner in every room, tv in every room, nice car. to this is the rest of my life. look at this. there's my sink, my kitchen, my toilet, my bed. that's it. >> who is it? mini me. that's what the administration thinks i am. they just don't know it. a friend of mine out in population made it for me. it's made out of toilet paper. >> what's on the back of the neck? >> the beast. he's a beast. >> though indiana state prison officials regard steven weaver as a high-ranking member of the aryan brotherhood, he's not the only member with a reputation. >> my name is franklin street jr. i've been down since 1993 for shooting my mom. >> hopefully he can get the cell. that way he won't do nothing to him himself. >> reporter: the medications and therapeutic treatment have helped street enough that prison officials have decided he can be transfer