the kentucky state penitentiary, also known as the castle on the cumberland. >> i was really intimidatedy this place. it's an intimidating place to walk into. >> this could be the worst place you have ever been in your life. >> the eddyville castle will get you. somebody will take your life from you if you come through here with that old chip on your shoulder, there's going to be somebody to take it off you. >> ksp is kentucky's only maximum security facility. a group of stone masons from italy teamed with inmates from various prisons to construct the castle which opened in 1889. >> when they first built it, they had a sign up over the front door that said, "abandon hope all ye that enter here." they wanted this place to look pretty menacing and it still looks menacing even today. >> i think the penitentiary is unique in many respects, just because of the foreboding appearance that it has. it's a serious place where serious things happen. this is a prison. >> the castle sits on 90 acres and has seven cell houses for its 900 inmates. nearly 40 inmates are secluded on death row. fewer than

in the next hour on "lockup," we'll go beyond the scenic desert landscape to the penitentiary of new mexico, a prison that is battling to overcome a long history of violence. just 15 miles away from the art galleries and shops of santa fe, a concrete fortress looms above the horizon, surrounded by double razor-wire fences. housing more than 800 inmates, the penitentiary of new mexico is the state's highest security prison. >> we have pretty much the worst of the worst inmates in the state of new mexico. a number of the inmates that have been convicted of first-degree murder. >> they got a lot of psychos too who just don't give a [ bleep ], doing life sentences. >> the prison's history is notorious. many of the most violent events took place in a facility called the old main. >> inmates had to prove themselves just to survive. >> you had almost 1,200 inmates in that facility that was built for 750. >> you have people living on top of each other, pushing each other. i mean, there was a lot of tension. >> carlos cervantes was first brought to this prison in 1975. >> there was a lot of h

hear a lot of bad things about this penitentiary. kind of scary. because you're going to be here and you see how it is, like, maximum security and stuff like that. so i'm going to stay to myself, man. hope for the best. let me get up out of here. >> inmate walton and officer white make up the opposite ends of stateville. white will spend eight hours in his tower. once walton is processed into the system, he will join his fellow inmates who spend more than 20 hours of every day in their cells. the relationship between guards, inmates, and the prison they both inhabit is more than 75 years old. construction began here in 1916. and the prison opened in 1925. it differed from any other prison in the world. circular cell houses orbited around and connected via tunnels to a huge central dining hall. today one of the original cell houses remains, the only one of its kind in the country. stepping into it conjures up images of gladiators stepping into a coliseum. >> it's very beneficial because basically you can stand in one spot and get a visual of the who

. >> here, it's colorado state penitentiary. and this time estrada is in for murder, a crime he committed after being released from his first prison term. >> in here, you take things a lot more serious. somebody calls you a punk, somebody calls you a bitch, someone says i'm going to kill you, in here that means, you know, you hold people to that word -- to them words, man. when i got out and guys were saying that about me, i'm going to kill john, i'm going to do this to him. the first thing in my mind is i better go kill him before he gets me even though he was probably talking out of his ass. he didn't understand the type of person i am and where i've been and the thought process i've learned in here. and he's dead now for it. it's kind of like a kill or be killed. >> estrada's prison education started early. >> how old were you when you were first arrested? >> about 13 or 14. >> what did you do? >> stealing a stereo out of a car. that's how it all began. start out stealing bubble gum at the stores all the way to snatching purs

>> shortly after "lockup" arrived at kentucky state penitentiary, officers had to extract harper fromell again. >> he threatened us with throwing feces on us, spitting on us through the door, he threatened our families. >> a lot of the older ones like lieutenant gill, all of them, they know me from when i was a youngster back down here. so we have a different type of communication level and understanding. >> every night you're going to go through this. every night you work, you racist, redneck, no good [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. i know you is a coward! >> harper will serve at least two more years in segregation. >> i made things hard for myself. i've been in segregation for three years. i don't blame nobody else because i had an opportunity to get out of here. i let my anger and things get to me that i shouldn't have. and, as a result of that, i'm still here. >> i can't say i'm sane. i'm pretty off-balance, but i keep it in a certain amount of control. >> another inmate at kentucky state penitentiary who is no stranger to cell extractions is victor hiatt. prior to interviewing him, our prod

>> this is the maximum security facility on level vi for the penitentiary of new mexico. pretty much houses the worst of the worst. these individuals are the worst of the worst within level vi and level vi is the worst within the whole state of new mexico. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ]. >> these individuals are housed, one per cell. they're escorted and restrained everywhere they go. in handcuffs or leg irons and belly chains. we do have two and three-man status individuals that are very violent. and they like to assault our staff. >> today we tag along with deputy warden joni brown on her way to deal with one of level vi's most notorious inmates. >> they have an inmate who is refusing to leave his cell. at this point they're going to go in and give him a directive to cuff up and come out. if not, then we're planning the use of force for cell extraction. >> turn around and be restrained. >> no. >> if you don't turn around and be restrained we'll have to forcibly remove you from your cell. are you going to come out? >> what's going to happen now? >> they're going to instruct

. >> here at the penitentiary in new mexico we have a level two facility. we have a level five facility. and we have a level six facility. level two is more of a restrictive minimum inmate where you know we allow to work outside and stuff with minimum supervision. level five is supervision all the time. and obviously level six is full-time observation of those inmates. >> you all right? >> this is the maximum security facility on level six of the penitentiary of new mexico housing. pretty much houses the worst of the worst. these individuals are the worst within level six and level six is the worst within the whole state of new mexico. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ]. >> these individuals are housed, one per cell. they're escorted and restrained everywhere they go. and handcuffs or leg irons and belly chains. we do have two and three-man status individuals who are very violent. they like to assault our staff. >> today we tag along with deputy warden joni brown on her way to deal with one of level six's most notorious inmates. >> they have an inmate who is refusi

the walls of spring creek, natural beauty gives way to the harsh reality of a maximum security penitentiary. >> we're at the end of the road for the state of alaska department of corrections the worst behaved prisoners end up here. >> 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 -- [ 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 assaulted so i assault people back. i'm about my stuff. 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

. >> this is my fifth here in the penitentiary.time-consuming and exhaustive process, but it's what you have to do in order to ensure that drugs aren't getting into the institution. >> their living quarters have been searched. the mail has been searched. and now the inmates who've been allowed to attend classes or work in the equipment shops must line up for yet another sort of inspection. each man must disrobe and shower in a full view of prison staff. clothes are carefully examined as inmates pass through a metal detector. for all of the scrutiny over things inmates are not allowed to have, one of the things some of the inmates are allowed is conjugal visits. well chain-linked fence and barbed wire are made available for family visits for inmates who are eligible and demonstrate good behavior. >> in other words, i behaved myself well enough to get out from behind the wall. >> gordon simpson was sentenced to 5 1/2 years for receiving stolen property. he has 2 1/2 years left, and his wife, barbara, is allowed to visit. >> we met th

. >>> san quentin is a deteriorated penitentiary whose obsolete design is putting officers at risk andausing enormous inefficiency. but for the thousands of inmates incarcerated there, san quentin is home. it's where long days are spent in a small cell, where survival is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical one. >> there's a nine by six cell. now i can put my hand from here to here. and i can't even stretch my arms all the way up. >> you might say this is what criminals deserve, after all, this is prison. but for cellmates, russell johnson and christopher reid, for instance, it's hard time. >> it's certain ways you conduct yourself in here, too, you know what i'm saying? >> let's say for instance someone wanted -- >> somebody wanted to talk to him, you know what i'm saying, we got -- i've got to sit down. you know what i'm saying? >> or i might have to come up like this. or he can just turn to his side right here and walk this way. >> yeah. this is how you do it. you do your back that way. this is the real deal. you know what i'm saying? it really is. >> just how each inmate

got me a penitentiary back scratcher. this is existence. you make the best of it.t comfortable. you do what you got to do. it is what it is. >> making the best of life at the wabash valley correctional facility is something everyone must learn on their own. it is hard for martin mcdaniel. after officers found a stockpile of prescription pills and a suicide note they put him on a suicide watch. mcdaniel was taken off suicide watch the following day. several weeks later he admitted that despite his earlier denials he was suicidal. >> when i wrote the letter, right, i had intentions of o.d.'ing because my kids wrote me a letter. i was going to wait until after visit and take them that night, right? but it's a good thing they come in the room, man. >> you were, then? >> yeah. yeah. yeah. no doubt about it. >> mcdaniel says his despair was over the impact his incarceration was having on his two young daughters. >> sometimes i think it would be better. >> what would? >> they don't have to weigh the options. i like to see my kids grow up, you know. but -- it's pretty, pre

headed to the federal penitentiary adding to the moment a difficult one for the people of illinois to swallow. >>julie unruh reports from upstairs that the governor is sobbing literally after hearing this sentence ... >>well is a stiff sentence and the judge said that he wants to send a message ... on a state level there are murderers who do not do this much time getting out in less than 14 years ... >>here's a guy who will be near 70 when he comes out his children will be grown up these hurried the human factors but there are consequences for those actions of the abuse of power >>you saw the governor gets pretty emotional julie >>it was actually patti bloagojevich there was little emotion at the time when the sentence was being handed down she had her composure ... but the floor got cleared and she rushed to her husband's arms they are now openly affectionate couple he embraced her and that's when she broke down she has been the emotional face on these trials he always put up a tough front this has played out a little bit differently ... 14 years ... >>i think there was no doubt that

. >> this is the penitentiary. are you series? [ bleep ] killed for that [ bleep ] from real for real. >> surveillance video shows another inmate standing outside wright's cell. he enters the cell and exits with wright's television. the inmate places the tv inside another cell. >> i saw the tv was gone. i came back. [ bleep ] got ugly [ bleep ]. >> he approached offenders and called them out wanting to know if they took his tv. >> i started to go cell to cell [ bleep ] searching everybody [ bleep ]. >> the behavior created problems with other inmates. >> i'm not looking for trouble but not ducking none either you feel me? this is the penitentiary. you have to stand tall ten toes down. it's the wrong place to be a bitch. it's principle. you get killed for stealing on the streets. as wright continued the tirade the staff were concerned it would lead to a fight and sanctioned wright for taking matters into his own hands. he was transferred to administrative segment in the ccu. >> welcome to the belly of the beast. i hate lockup. for

indicative of wanton cruelty, it's the judgment of this court that you be remanded to illinois state penitentiary, where you will await execution by lethal injection on a date to be set forth by the attorney general of this state, and may god have mercy on your soul. carlson. here. partida. yeah. copeland. what? copeland, you be nice now. kimble? yeah. let's go, gentlemen. 4 prisoners coming out. prisoners coming out. [buzzer] let's go, gentlemen. kimble, you're here. carlson, right over there. partida, up front, left. copeland, you're back here with me. yeah, right. come on, make yourself comfortable. all right, you know the routine, gentlemen. i'm tired. mmm. 20 miles from menard. we should be there in about 40 minutes. i'll be glad to get rid of this load. let mckenzie take care of 'em. always got something good to eat there. i'm starving. aw, me, too. had enough of that prison chow. ohh, man. hey, old ed here, he don't care. his old lady's got him on a diet. [vomiting] [coughing] hey, somebody get in here quick! get a hack in here! he's getting sick back here. let's go! he's foaming at the mo

kamikaze is a penitentiary mcguyver. he's an electronic whiz.e's good at cooking his celly is really good at cooking. we have a nacho slam and make a cake. we say it's a celebration. i say it's to realize we wasted another month in here. it's something to look forward to. >> who makes the cake? >> my buddy kamikaze makes the cake. >> he is no ordinary cook. among wabash inmates he's a culinary genius, turning snack food into something special. but doing a prior prison term he learned to be a difficult sort of cook. >> i went around to other people who were in prison for cooking meth and got a recipe from this guy and this guy and figured that was going to be my new thing. stealing cars wasn't working. the last two times that i got out of prison that was all that i -- my intent was to cook meth. i love to smoke it too. but you know, i like to make it. making something that people really like and getting the reaction from it, you know, that was another thing that i liked about it. i tried to make the best stuff. >> thank you. >> for their monthly

this is like a penitentiary now. >> you see how nasty it is here. you got flies, you got rat, you got fleas, everything. >> faced with the prospect of serving hard time, many gang members will break the code of no snitching in order to help themselves. >> the guys on the street every day the code, i'm sure it exists outside. when you come in and they forget about you, you here for three months, nobody comes to visit you, nobody sends you any money, nobody calls you, nobody accepts your calls, it doesn't exist anymore. >> the criminal intelligence unit, or ci up the, capitalizes on this unique opportunity to recruit informants. these investigators work for the cook county sheriff, gathering intel to solve cases on the streets. they also help to manage security inside the jail. >> they moved a ton of people, 'cause 11 guys got stabbed here. >> ciu members closely monitor who is coming into the jail on a daily basis. when an arrestee arrives from an area hot spot, they will target him to see if he is willing to talk. >> anybody in here from maywood. >>

a visitor of prisoners at mccallister penitentiary, even preaching a bit on early morning television.> simply saying that death is not meaningless, that it's a part of the overall experience of life. >> and packing them in at putnam baptist. >> i may not match god's plan with my living, but he knows just exactly how long i'm going to live. i don't. praise the lord for that. >> for the pastor and his wife, charity began at home. >> their door was always open. they really, truly cared about people and where they were and how they could help them and how they could serve people. >> it was that generosity and openness that would come to haunt them. it was october 15, a monday. everybody home. >> my mom was in the kitchen. fixing dinner. and leslie was in the kitchen with her. >> it was brooks who answered the knock at the door. people called in all the time at the pastor's house. this one he didn't recognize. a bearded stranger who wanted a favor. and no one felt the evil then as it entered the house. >> the first thing i remember is raising my hands and thinking it always happens to the

another 10,000 inmates, however, cook county remains their home until they get transferred to a penitentiary or they're set free. >> are you affiliated? you lying, man. don't lie to me. just keep it real. i'm not going to say it. i've seen guys grow up in here. they come in with no hair on their face. they leave, they're grown men now. >> i've been in the system since i was 15 years old. i'm 33 now. it's like a revolving door. >> they recognize you. you recognize them. it's one of those where it's, like, "what did you do now?" >> you have to have informants inside this jail. this is survival here. my goal is to have one a deck. then i conquered my job. >> for ciu investigators, the endless cycle of new inmates at cook county jail means their work never ends. the jail represents a key battle front in chicago's law enforcement war on gangs and drugs. >> the city of chicago supplies us with probably 95% of our population, and chicago has an estimated 100,000 gang members. >> our approach here is that the criminal investigation never ends. you come into cook county jail and you're conducting you

i used to honestly feel my stomach coming up, maybe a couple hundred guys off to the penitentiary everyeven if it wasn't necessarily my people, just anybody, just to see that was, it was disturbing. wondered how do numbers get that high. you know? >> our plan of attack is to hit the south jets first. we've gotten plenty of guns out of there as everybody knows and a lot of drugs. going to the house authority so make sure you have police markings on. watch your backgrounds and stay with your partner. any questions? all right. let's go. >> there's certain areas of the suburbs more so than others that we hit regularly, and, frankly, it's because of the action. i used to be a prosecutor before i became sheriff, and tried a lot of cases out here. a lot of these problems have been going on since the late '80s. many neighborhoods don't change. compromised with limited opportunities for kids that grow up here. if you look at the door, every single day they head off to school. when you see this activity, you think what are your options in life? >> many people's options dried up decades ago on chi

still, there are those inmates like alex bennett, at the kentucky state penitentiary, who don't alwaysde by the rules. >> i'm a person that's been in the joint all of my life. i've been told i'm pretty hardcore and i need a certain type of environment. you got something you want to say to me now? we can get it on national tv here. >> everything about alex's mannerisms, his appearance and the words that he spoke said convict. alex just embodied that. >> bennett was 54 years old when we met him and had spent 33 of those years behind bars for armed robbery, kidnapping and murder. >> the system today isn't like the system that i came into 36 years ago. the system today has the majority of their inmates programmed to do what they're told when they're told to do it. and so they get to the point where they expect that from everybody. well, there's still a few old dogs around who like to do things their own way. >> bennett's way of doing things, however, has had horrifying results. after adapting to life in a single-person cell here, he was transferred to a lower security prison in 1998. he ha

. >> inmates who become disruptive or violent at the penitentiary of new mexico are transferred to the lockup units in level v or vi. the trouble is, once inside, their behavior doesn't always improve. a lesson rookie amy lee is learning the hard way. >> i went upstairs to ask joseph if he wanted to go to the shower. he told me to take his next door neighbor. i said, no, it's your turn right now, so we're going to go. he said, no, i'm not going right now. i said, okay, so at this point, you're refusing. we later went up with a sergeant and he used choice words, calling me a tramp. >> i snapped at her, yelled at her. and she got her little feelings hurt. if she don't -- if her feelings are gonna go get hurt, go work at a damn church. >> this is what's going to happen. we will pull him out, all right? you're going to -- you can just hang out in there. and we'll bring him to you. >> okay. >> it's time, joe. >> how come she's got to be sitting across from me like that? >> what's all this, joe? have a seat. >> why does she have to be sitting across from me like that? >> because she's a memb

system is a criminal system is no longer just an immigration system but is it's another criminal penitentiary system so he then goes into that system and he's transferred over to private prison corporation like c.c.a. who doesn't have the slide is need to tell people that this person asked and then told this capacity an illness and that he should be treated in a different manner why why should. because every night that he spends in that cell it's two hundred dollars that they bank and so he ends up spending about two years there after already having served where was one year and between another two years in total it was five years that he was in prison for dispute over tomatoes and that is what's happening in our system right now that our integration system is leaving a void that there's no real policy in place and because there's no real policy in place corporations are taking advantage of it they see the opportunity to make money as is the case with c.c.a. and most cases emblematic of many cases that are happening across the country there are cases in georgia where stored facility has the l

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. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds some of the most violent offenders in the state. in our four months there, we saw some of the violence firsthand. but in 1980, pnm was site of one of the deadliest u.s. prison riots where inmates killed 33 of their own. >> jumped off february. almost by accident. big thing i couldn't get out of my head is they actually did it. we actually took the place over. >> james whittington survived the riot to return to the old main facility to show our producers what he witnessed. >> 27 years ago when i got up out of here. i didn't think i would ever see it again. leadership of the inmates decided hey, you know, this control center is takable. there was a huge industrial fire extinguisher that used to sit on one of these walls on hooks. three individuals lifted that industrial fire extinguisher off and said work on this window right here. the window began to give in. all three of these windows were taken out. >> once they broke that, they had access to the entire facility. they had full control. >> this is where it all turned bad after they

what looks uncomfortably like a maximum security federal penitentiary is the largest u.s. embassy anywhere in the world. that and two gigantic consulates in erbil and basra are staffed and operated by more than 16,000 people, most of them americans, all of them under the direct authority of the u.s. ambassador to iraq, jim jeffrey. >> i believe that the white house and the executive office building together cover about 14 acres. how many acres are you covering here? >> considerably larger than that. >> 104 what is i've heard. >> i've heard that number too. >> would you disagree with it? >> not at all. >> have you ever seen a u.s. diplomatic enterprise of any kind? anything to compare with this? >> saigon when i left in 1973. >> that's not a very happy comparison. >> you asked me for a size, not an express of happiness. >> reporter: the windows are bullet-proof. attacks on the embassy reached their peak during heavy sectarian fighting during 2006 and '07. it's still a regular target. the question is what happens when u.s. forces are gone? the debonaire iraqi officer, major

. >>> former council member, leslie johnson will spend time in a federal penitentiary, but not much. a judge sentenced johnson to a year and a day in prison. john hanrahan was in the courtroom and joins us now with more. john. >> leslie johnson and jack johnson were the ultimate power couple. he was the county executor for eight years. and as his term expired, leslie johnson was elected to the county council. both ultimately pleaded guilty in connection with a federal corruption case. leslie johnson asked for probation rather than prison. during the fbi raid in november of 2010 when leslie johnson stuffed nearly $80,000 in her underwear, she was a panicked wife merely trying to protect her husband. in front of the judge today, leslie johnson said quote, i did not know anything about the criminal conduct that my husband engaged in. johnson's attorney referred to the huge pile of cash in the basement as household emergency money. johnson asked for probation. a prosecutor called that explanation crazy. raising the issue of the huge pile of cash while fbi agents were banging at their fro

. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds the worst defenders in the state. a constant state of war with each other and staff. today, they are doing a sweep in the level 5 facility allowing our crew along for the ride. >> ladies and gentlemen we are here to conduct a shake down. we have information on snm gang members. we're going to head to the unit and look for gang information and graffiti. >> sometimes when you shake down a cell, first thing you want to do is just observe everything. you look. the most common places you'll find is the easiest place you'll think of. look, gang paraphernalia here. >> what is it? >> three crosses. it's from new mexico. they use the three crosses to display gang symbols. >> it's essential in maintaining the safety of the facility. >> i found that hanging here. once it's validated, you'll never be able to go to a level-b facility. a lot bearing on the inmates future. >> you can take that and i'll write him up for possession of gang paraphernalia. >> he'll be documented as a potential street gang member and we'll start a file o

another day in the penitentiary. >> less than 24 hours after the stabbing, the warden has regrouped, taken the prison off lockdown and is back in control. >> we get these out of here. we had the hall looking great last night. let's try to keep it that way. we learned a few things last night. if you have an incident, at least make the best of it, try to learn what you can out of it. we reorganized the laundry, the way we bring our laundry in. the piece of metal, for things coming off a grinder. i feel that took place in the metal fab. we have a couple suspects that may be producing weapons in the metal fab. we'll try to pull those guys out. it was actually about shoes being stolen. he said he paid the guy three bags of coffee and the guy stole the three bags of coffee plus didn't bring his shoes back, so that's why he stabbed him. >> he had about three stab wounds. the one in his side was serious. the doctor told him they just missed getting his liver, which would have been, could have been, terminal. but after we got him back in from the hospital, he went on to ad-seg, and, of course

it is relatively close to chicago, it is not a camp, but it is a federal penitentiary. former mayor quentin kilpatrick in the end it will be up to the bureau of prisons to decide, the defense reportedly set to be requesting a house and oxford wisconsin of minimum security prison but his sentence may keep him away. there is a chance he could end up in a camp or a minimum security prison i think that's unlikely but it's certainly possible. the defense will make its prison request friday the judge will then make a recommendation to the bureau of prisons and they will take that into account blagojevich's expected to start serving his time february 16th. >> former federal prosecutor jeff kramer who prosecuted former sun * owner conrad black also the police commander john burke for serving time. 14 years some say harsh and some say perfect, would you think about that and will this deter others from corruption. >> the judge clearly agreed agreed with the government on a lot of issues. in the context of things i think it's a fair sentence, will be a deterrent, i don't know. you

we want to control the penitentiary system.n't take much to incite a riot or whatever, you know. you could take four officers hostage at the same time, and it's gonna domino. it's gonna domino. they don't have control. it's a delusion. >> forbidden to write letters in seg to general population, parker says he's able to communicate with fellow aryan brotherhood inmates by writing to friends on the outside. >> they're lazy. they don't read the mail. the mail clerk doesn't -- i don't think she would have time to read the mail, even if she wanted to. >> this letter is from steven parker to an inmate named reese. >> kyra gyden is in charge of reading the mail at holman. she has just intercepted one of parker's unauthorized letters containing insulting language about warden colliver. >> he wrote, "colliver --" and i'm not gonna read all of that because it's a lot of cussing in it. "he's an idiot, treats everyone like inferiors or children. i cannot stand that, and he's a supercilious jackass." steven parker is a weirdo, anyway. very

. >> this is what you live for in the penitentiary. never a dull moment. >> bobby must spend time in the bull pen outside while officers clean his cell. >> he can go up there and strip my [ bleep ]. it don't matter. i got 100 friends out there. i wish he would. however he wants to work this. >> finally got him out of the cell, moved him outside. now we'll find what he was busting that window with. here it is. one of the caps from the bull pen post. bobby getting out of the cell. somehow or another he smuggled this into his cell. one of the caps from the metal post. making all kind of threats about what he was going to do. he's pretty agitated right now. >> just leave him in the yard. >> we're going to leave bobby out there in the bull pen for three or four hours and let him calm down and think about it. when he gets through with his mad behavior, he'll be ready to apologize and get back to what he should be. >> ask any officer what he wants, by god, i don't [ bleep ] with nobody. but it's me and neil that have a [ bleep ] because we ar

multiple incarcerations and violent crime convictions are common to many of the inmates at the penitentiary of new mexico, but none of them told us their personal stories of self-destruction quite the way inmate frederico munoz did while we were shooting "lockup: extended stay." >> at the hour of my birth there were no celebrations. allow me to present my many tribulations. i come from a broken home. i am a bastard child. no wonder my life was violent, fast, and wild. >> we met frederico when we were filming what we call "b" roll in the outside exercise cages at the prison. he made a striking impression on me, because when we started talking, he was extremely articulate. and when he talked about his crimes, he was very self-aware and very honest about the consequences of his actions. >> i was brought up into a culture where they teach you to be violent. they teach you to outsmart the enemy. they teach you to regard later and your society and your government with contempt. once you have that lifestyle, that philosophy, it's not a matter of right and wrong anymore. it becomes a matter of this

her brother killed someone and spent 20 years in the penitentiary.own son. he actually went into the ministry after my mother's sickness to figure out this thing. so all of my life has been really affected by violence. my wife's cousins have been shot and killed. i had children in my church shot and killed. i ran for council in fact because i couldn't take the shootings anymore. the ease of which you can buy guns in this community is frightening. you can buy a gun from a gas station. i mean why does individual citizens need ak-47s, m-16s? ar-14s, three and four of them? there is no gun manufacturers in my community. the guns are not being made there. they're being brought here through straw purchasers, gun shows. and it's turned my community into either a combination of the wild, wild west or a ghost town. it killed the business. it residential community. the area i represented lost almost 75% of the population since 1968. it's gist been devastating and almost all that leads directly or indirectly to gun violence. >> you said you used to play here wh

penitentiary nent worshippers ritually beating themselves on shiite islam's holiest day had flooded central kabul streets when the bomber struck. the crowds were commemorating the 7th century death of imam hussein a grandson of the prophet mohammed. >> the ceremony was about to finish. a new group arrived and the suicide bombers placed themselves among the new group. >> woodruff: a short time later the shoes of the dead and wounded were piled in the gutters near the mosque. the shrine is in area of the capital near the presidential palace and many government ministries. a second attack in the northern city of... killed four more shiites. a third attack in kandahar killed one person. major sectarian violence in afghanistan between sunnis and the 20% of afghans who are shiites had been nearly unknown since the fall of the taliban in 2001. the taliban denied any role in today's attacks, but in pakistan where such violence is commonplace, a spokesman for a sunni militant group did claim responsibility. >> the first time on such an important religious date in afghanistan terrorism of that horrib