it's here that we encountered carl abuhl, one of the most memorable killers ever profiled on "lockup." it didn't take long for him to make clear his opinions of some of his fellow inmates. >> all these inmates can say whatever they want to say. they're punks. and the people that are in control know they're punks. >> abuhl first came to spring creek in 2003 after he was convicted of murdering a co-worker. >> i caved his head in. i caved his head in totally. i think the biggest fragment of bone they found was about the size of a half dollar. i probably got a little out of hand later on. i kept on hanging out and beating on him some more. there was -- are you really interested in the gory stuff? i was interested in how the decomposition would be. it was pretty interesting. it was kind of twisted. >> the raw interview footage goes on to reveal, perhaps, the most grisly aspect of abuhl's crime. >> your whole sentence is what now? tell me. >> 70 years. i got six months, too, for cruelty to animals. >> for what? >> cruelty to animals. >> what happened? >> i nuked the guy's cat that he had. t

the thought process. >> let me out of lockup. >> how can i get you out of lockup?me locked up. that's my problem. >> no, no, no, no. listen. you haven't proved th ed thad t. you want to go back to pop. the thing you want to deal with, came down, did your time. and let us figure that out. you seen that happen before. that's how we came to agreement, that if you keep your nose clean, then i cut you loose. but you couldn't do that. >> i slipped. >> okay. there's a consequence for slipping. >> there's a consequence for slipping. i know that. i'm taking responsibility for that i did. >> and i'm taking responsibility for what you did, too. this is what you have to do, though, terence. before we can talk about working out a deal that we had before you slipped, you have to do these 14 days. and you still know you're going to get disciplinaried for all that stuff. >> i know that. i ain't trying to manipulate the system. i'm trying to be straight up. if i do these 14 days, this is the only thing i'm asking for right now. if i do 14 days, can i get a five-minute phone call to

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 boston delshaun. >> yeah. no bull. it's funny because i was really thinking that. it's crazy. >> coming up -- >> that doesn't make he look good. >> delshaun bloodworth is caught in a lie. and -- >> can we throw a gang sign? >> and experiencing lockup with our field team. >> if you get lackadaisical about it, salesmen something can really happen. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ we, we chocolate cross over. ♪ yeah, we chocolate cross over. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing fiber one 80 calorie chocolate cereal. ♪ chocolate. let's see what you got. rv -- covered. why would you pay for a hotel? i never do. motorcycles -- check. atv. i ride those. do you? no. boat. house. hello, dear. hello. hello. oh! check it -- [ loud r&b on car radio ] i'm going on break! the more you bundle, the more you save. now, that's progressive. ,  >>> during our extended stay shoot at the suffolk county jail in boston, delshaun bloodworth warmed up to the cameras. >> working with what i got. it's all i got. >> and seemed determined to make a lasting impression on us. >> all right. all right

think you like lockup. you don't like lockup? why you keep coming back?f 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. >>> just as the crew is wrapping up for the day, the violent side of holman erupts. >> move it. lock him up. move him. move him. >> i got a knife. >> don't step on the blood. >> get my hall crew up. there's a mop and pail. start the cleanup process. after we were getting him in from the other pris

"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 ], [ 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 both 2000 and 200

"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

this is "lockup: san quentin, extended stay." san quentin state prison served as the reception center for 17 counties in the state of california. each week, the prison releases 150 prisoners. and welcomes 350 new inmates. san quentin was built to hold about 3,000 people. it currently houses more than 5,000. >> unfortunate for some of them, they think this is a step up. in the circles they travel in, unfortunately, it is. you know, i made it. i'm in state prison now. >> with repeat offenders clogging up the works, the officers struggle to keep the inmates under control. >> control, be advised we have an alarm in south block. >> i can only speculate and the only thing i can think of is we have a missing inmate. that's probably the number one thing. >> step on the tiers and conduct a count, submit it to patrol immediately. >> 5 west 45. hernandez. i don't know where he is. >> his name is skanvinsky hymes. my prison number is e-04448. i've had this prison number since i was 18 years old. i just turned 37 on february 15th. i'll be dis

"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. it 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 that's just 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 for

being you're in lockup, you have the right to have an investigative employee.you have anybody you want to investigate it -- >> everybody on the word, they seen it. i don't know their names. i really don't. that's what i'm saying. if you could find out for me, i don't know that last name, they will tell you it was self-defense. >> what i'm going to do, i'm going to get the yard, see who was out there that day, ask them the questions you want me to ask them. was it self-defense, did he swing on you first, that what you want me to ask them? >> that it was self-defense, he swung on me first. the whole yard seen it. >> i will give you a copy of the report once it's typed. all right? >> all right. >> see you in a little bit. what i'm going to do right now, i have to get the yard list from the officer so i know who to question. and i will ask the individuals per inmate samuels, did the other inmate swing on him first? >> friday was the 30th. right here, willie. >> give me the house and the name. >> officer alejos locates witness names in the yard log. there are five i

the first time we met her she was in lockup.eing 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 walked down the tier. and, of course, all the inmates start hooting and hollering everywhere she went at holman prison she created a scene. >> hello. >> holly was in ad seg because his various relationships with other inmates led to disruptions, but he's no stranger to troubling relationships. he's serving 25 years for murdering the man he considered to be his husband. >> he and some of his colleagues were having a little ball, valentine's ball. he come in and i'm associating with another guy, you know, 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

"lockup." >>> it's not our job to extract justice. it's our job to keep these people in these cells here. >> it's pretty rough, you know? >> you eat yourself? >> it's an adventure every day. >> you can't let your guard down for a second. >> you know who your mommy is? he said, yeah, in jail. >> nobody enjoys coming to jail, i don't think. i don't. it just happens. >> how come you're all in there? you having a party in there? >> as you can see, i have concrete and bars. i don't have any place to expand. i can't make another cell. >> i'm not a very violent person. i can be violent when i want to. >> a lot of people in here with hiv. >> the first one looks like a wire shank. >> a stabbing, knocking a guy down, kicking him until he's bleeding. >> these kids don't know how to act like proper gangsters anymore. >>> los angeles county california has a population larger than 42 states in the nation. nearly 10 million people live there. it is also the home to one of the largest jail systems in the world. more than 20,000 men and women live wit

this is "lockup san quentin: extended stay." >> san quentin is home to more than 3,000 inmates ranging from the most violent offenders in california. >> i'll rob you in a minute. >> i pulled a gun on this man and shot him six times in his chest. >> to the all too common parole a violators flooding the system. >> i do drugs. that's my violation. >> the overpopulated san quentin serves as the reception center for 17 counties in california. >> there's 384 inmates in this gym. right now i have six members. >> it's forced to house a dangerous mix of high and low risk inmates. >> you got the drugs, you got the inmates to manufacture alcohol, you got the gangs, the weapons. so it can be real dangerous at times. >> i've been a pretty successful robber. >> level 4 inmates, the worst in california are housed at san quentin while awaiting permanent transfer to other facilities. >> i used to rob stores, you know, and that in itself is a rush that you can't explain. it's like whoa, i can -- i own the world. i can do whatever i want. i can better than any ceo in the world, i can instruct you to do w

"lockup: raw." >>> this is the hardest part because you're in here with very little to do. you sleep. and you eat. and you sleep some more and you eat some more. >> it is a life of profound monotony. >> can't do nothing. just sit in here and look stupid. same thing every day. just lay down, read a book, and that's it. >> day after day. >> it's hell. >> year after year. >> it's like an animal in a cage, you know. >> spent in cramped, uncomfortable confinement. >> this is a 9x6 cell. i can put my hand from here to here and i can't even stretch my arms all the way out. >> where boredom is interrupted by moments of sheer terror and occasional bursts of inspiration. >> i've been working on this dollhouse for two years now. >> you've got a brother locked up once again. >> inmates have a lot of free time on their hands. it's what they do with that free time that separates where they are going to go with their lives. will they make use of the time in a positive way, or will time make use of them and they go to the dark side? >>> ask any "lockup" producer where to find the most dram

no problem getting in your face at any time. >> he has not adapted well to the lockup setting.the system has made him very hard. >> this place, what it does is it builds up a lot of frustration and anger and stuff in you because of the environment that you've been placed in, you know? you don't have much jobs, don't have much education programming here. don't have much recreation. we're isolated with everything. we are isolated in our cell. we come out here to the rec area, and we're isolated. i try to do the right things, but there have been times, yes, that i got into a fight over certain things. >> i myself had many a run-ins with inmate sears. had to lock him up out of population several times. >> the only conversation that we really are -- or social contact that we really have or anything, as you can see, is yelling. i've had to do things i didn't want to have to do, you know, beating people up and stuff. i was a young kid then. i'm older now. i was 16 years old when i got busted, and they waited till i turned 17 and tried me as an adult. maybe if i had stayed at home and

"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 under 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 comes do

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 like lie -- 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 faint 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 of crimes and are now 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 f

yeah, i have anger issues. >> we first met bobby gilbert during the shooting of the original "lockup: holman" episode. >> you want us to exhibit some sort of model behavior but yet every avenue is closed to us to do anything constructive. we can't read a novel because we can't have one. i can't play chess through the mail like i used to. >> it's segregation. it wasn't meant to be nice. you ain't here because you were doing something constructive. >> bobby gilbert's mother kathy hartline remembers their abusive household where both she and bobby were exposed to extreme violence. >> 12 years old, bobby saw a lot of abuse. he did. and i guess it's partly my fault. because i should have got out of it. but i had nowhere to go and i thought i had to stay there. >> i didn't have what you call a childhood where you could, you know, be a kid, play. you know, humor and cutting up wasn't looked upon too favorably. >> a lot of times bobby would see his dad beating me, abusing me, and bobby would tell him, dad, quit, dad, don't do that. we're very close. he's my baby boy. and he always stood by me

, been in lockup with status cases before.o i leave that all alone. >> we spent a lot of time and a lot of effort and a lot of resources on making sure we stay on top of all of our gang activity. there's always a new group being formed or in the process of being formed. there's always people coming together and wanting to have their control of their environment. and it's something you have to stay on top of and make it part of that balance. >>> next on "lockup" -- >> my crime is murder and i cannibalized during the process. >> crimes of the unspeakable. >> i just said, you got to eat some of her brains for her to become part of you. and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can't get back to sleep. it's an effective sleep medicine you don't take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep. do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing zolpidem,

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 awhile. you know, you got to get away from it. >>> 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. that's my duck head. duck's getting a little bit better. i have another bird here. they get better. >> when we met hi

back to "lockup." ? >>> you would think that putting criminals behind bars would stop them from committing crimes. as we with found out from talking to c.o.'s and inmates, that's usually not the case, especially when it comes to gangs. >> the gangs inside the prison control drug trafficking, extortion. any kind of crime that you can think of that happens in the streets, it happens within the prison system. >> actually, gang members, their number one source in making money is through narcotics. out on the street, and the institution, they can make just as much money in the institution as they can on the street. selling narcotics leads to hits, people that have drug debts. >> once i came to state prison, i knew there was always a demand for drugs. >> miguel perez was convicted of a contract murder and drug trafficking, when he was only 15. he says he used family connections with a foreign drug cartel to rise up the ranks of his prison gang, the mexican mafia. >> once i opened the door with the drugs, i got

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 drugs 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 did 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 got

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. when it came to our plants... we were so confused. how much is too much water? too little? until we got miracle-gro moisture control. it does what basic soils don't by absorbing more water, so it'

this is "lockup san quentin: extended stay." >> probably next to an inmate's release date, visits are the most important things in their lives. keeping in touch with their loved ones. >> i don't like coming here, but i have to so i can see him. >> for some, visits are rare moments of intimacy. and for others, a business transaction. >> a lot of drugs come in through the visiting room. a lot of drugs. >> you don't want to be here, man. >> and then the hustle just like the bona fide, hustler with the web and then with the two hands, like you said. >> the money. >> money in one hand, dice coming out the other. >> it's going to be hard. make sure that i do it, though, because if someone else does it, it's going to be different. >> no, i know. >> everybody hates prison. society hates prison. it's part of life. i've got to accept the things i put myself in. i can't try to be rebellious and hate the people that lock these doors on me every day. that's part of their job. they're making money. you know what i mean? and i've got to respect that, but yeah, i hate prison. i hate the cards i was d

now back to "lockup." >> i'll tell you what it's all about. who runs this place.ls the cell. that's why i started my own country. my name's father flanigan i'm the god squad. flaniganistan, this stands for freedom, liberty and national intelligence, governs a nations internet as goes to the network. here we go. >> angel rodriguez has little human contact and spends his time expressing his inner anguish through art. >> she represents the queen and i represent the king. because it's part of bible stuff. god said that you're going to be kings and queens in the new system of things. in my letters i tell her she's my queen and she tells me i'm her king. that represents that. i mean, my girl. you know what i mean? it's something i pray for. that's what the prayers are for. and it goes with the scripture. psalms 37:4, if you find your delight in god he'll give you the desires of the heart. and that's what she is. she's one of my desires. to be with me forever, and being that i'm in here, my hope's based upon all that. and i feel if i didn't have that hope, things would b

we open the gates, "lockup." >> jail is hell. jail is hell. >> willie, will you come to the door, sir? >> a lot of the mental state hospitals have closed down, and the only options to the police agencies are bring them to the jails. >> it's dirty. the shower's dirty. the toilet's dirty. the floor's dirty. point-blank, dirty. >> anything can happen, any given time, at any moment, just like that. very fast, very quick. >> let's go, let's go, let's go. >> i'm not even looking for shanks. i just happened to stumble upon these. >> you never know what to expect. all we do all day is sit here like a time bomb waiting for something to happen. >> this is as close to a living hell as i think i ever want to come. >> when someone breaks the law, there is a distinct difference between going to prison and jail. prison is for convicted felons, many with long-term sentences. jail is where suspects spend a relatively short time, either while waiting for trial or before being transferred to another facility. it's also where convicts also serve sho

"lockup: raw." >> what is it? what is it? >> a fight. >> when our crews go behind prison walls, we know to always 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 >> are you going to come out or what? >> 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. [ 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 hear them talkin

this is "lockup: pendleton juvenile extended stay." ♪ >> pendleton juvenile correctional facility, onef america's largest maximum security juvenile prisons. here, teens 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. during 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 inmate 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" game when you come to work. bring your "a" game.

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

we open the gates, "lockup." >> this place is crazy. it's totally insane. more insane than me. >> come on in. come on in. >> i don't really have a whole lot of respect for life in general, my own or anybody's. >> i took a knife and stabbed him with it, until he was dead, and then i butchered him with it. >> there is violence in here unheard of. but it was right up my alley. >> this is no way to spend your life. >> in medieval times, law breakers were punished in unspeakably cruel ways, so perhaps it was no accident that the architect who designed the kentucky state penitentiary more than a century ago, built a structure that resembles a castle where dungeons might have served as torture chambers. for even the most hardened criminals in kentucky today, the first sight of the prison can be overwhelming. during the next hour, we'll take you inside kentucky's maximum security prison, known as the castle on the cumberland. ♪ the cumberland river winds through the western kentucky town of eddyville. looming around a bend is a virtual fortress. the kentucky state

this is "lockup - corcoran: extended stay." violence seems inevitable in prison. >> get down. get down! >> whether it stems from racial tension -- >> they took our tape. >> -- or dispute between cellmates -- >> he stabbed me with a cigarette lighter. >> being trapped in a cell with a big-ass cellie who's going to beat the hell out of you or chop you up. you don't know what a man is thinking in prison. >> it's the officers' job to prevent these attacks, and it's their lives on the line. >> get down! get down! >> let me see your hands, sally. put your hands up! >>> corcoran's a maximum security prison in the california state penal system. we house approximately 5,600 felons. >> this population includes infamous criminals like juan corona, sirhan sirhan, and manson. built to hold the most violent offenders in the state, corcoran has seen its share of brutality. today, a fresh group of inmates arrives at receiving and release, no doubt aware of this prison's reputation. >> when i get on the bus, they called your names out to come off the bus, and they're teary-eyed coming to corco

this is "lockup: holman extended stay." for the officers and staff working at holman, the biggest challenge is dealing with difficult inmates. >> you know you violating the law! 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 ain't 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. >> if i fail -- 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

and by not going into the lockup, that did get the marginal buyer off their can and buy some stocks.he stocks melted up, it wasn't moved up, melted up. and people waiting jumped in with both feet and legs. >> brenda: that's usually a sign that things are going to start going down. we'll get to that in a minute. but jim, wall street watching washington and headed higher? >> stocks don't care about washington. this market's been moving higher for the last three months, the last four years, stocks don't care about the dumb arguments that washington keeps having, if anything, they like them a little bit. i mean, at least you're talking about spending cuts and that's a positive. and the fact that everything in the world didn't fall apart when they cut-- when they put the sequestration in is kind of like wall street giving a big finger to washington, saying, we don't care what you do, we know these aren't real cuts, we know these arguments aren't going to do anything meaningful. we're going to move on without you. and the doomsayers, who say this is going to shut down the economy, they've

to "lockup."dvised. >>> welcome back to "lockup." one of the most important aspects of prison life is time spent in the yard. at folsom state prison in california, over a thousand inmates can be on the yard at any given time. it's a central meeting place where prisoners work out their aggressions and interact with other inmates. but it's also the flashpoint when violence breaks out, as witnessed while msnbc's cameras were in the yard. >> this is my life. state raised, federally funding. >> treat us like slaves. treat us like slaves up in here, man. >> you see around here, it's like this every day. >> seeing people, you know, getting shot, you know, killed, you know, riots. and, you know, melees and stuff like that. like if you get somebody that's been an informant from your county or child molester or something, somebody in your car, that's your county, you know, your local people, you know, that are here in prison, you've got to handle it, somebody's got to handle it, or the whole car is shunned.

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. be advised we have a similar at 2049. >> caught him signal 2000, which is an attempted escape. decided he was 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 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. i think 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 suc

now back to "lockup." >>> paris hilton, you know, she got in trouble.t her booking number on tv. i wrote it down. i shot her a letter and she wrote me back. i just wanted to thank you for your kind words of love and support. the fact that you took time out of your day to write me means a lot. i told her, be strong, and you'll get through this. it's a learning experience. i am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation. she shot me a little glossy, i cuddle with it at night. no, i'm just kidding. >> once an inmate is validated as a gang member in corcoran, they have a choice, stay in the gang or drop out and debrief. our officers were allowed to follow officer garcia into the debrief process. >> there's one building set aside for inmates who are requesting protective custody. the inmate has to notify us, he has to request to be placed in protective custody. from that point we ask him to go ahead and draw up or write his autobiography, detailing his involvement with the gangs from the street to the county jails to the prisons, and back

"lockup: raw." in a life full of restrictions, we have seen inmates take control of whatever they can despite the consequences. >> he wants this and he wants it now. well, he's not going to get it now. >> come on down, bronco. >> two sides [ bleep ] >> we've seen frustrated inmates reach their breaking point. >> i actually felt small pieces of glass hit the camera and hit myself. >> and in the battle of wills, some will take actions that can never be reversed. >> tattooed red the whites of my eyes. >> any time we film inside a prison, we know at some point there's a particular type of story we're going to encounter. we call it the battle of wills. we know we're going to find one inmate determined to get his way even against overwhelming odds. >> and we encountered one of the most compelling examples at the penitentiary of new mexico. kevin blanco. >> he's one of those inmates that can be unpredictable. you really don't know how he's going to behave from one day to the next. >> our first encounter wi