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. and i mean, there was a lot of tension. >> carlos cervantes was first brought to this prison in 1975. >> there was a l

a deal's a deal. >> back at kentucky state penitentiary, randy haight made it clear.s not as eager to face death as holton. but he's ready for it, nonetheless. >> i'm extremely sad for what i've done. it hurts me knowing that i went to the level that i went. and if there was any way possible for me to be healed or correct it, believe me, it would be done. it's an impossible situation not only for me but for everybody involved, you know? and i'm not saying that to get out of an execution or -- because like i said, i'd ready. if you want to kill me, let's go. i'm ready to go. but i think that i have something i can offer somebody. and i don't think it's really time for me to die. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons, into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw."

it was a mountain serving as the fourth wall of the penitentiary. james went over, the number one man. doug went over. spider monkey climbed it. he was supposed to pull the chain ladder up. but when he jerked, he fell backwards and fell off the wall. the ladder fell back down. there at the horseshoe pit, doug taylor was pitching horseshoes. he's watching these guys go over. no one's getting shot, no one seems to care. i'm serious. he just went -- he run over, he went over. about that time, a guy running laps. he had on running shorts and tennis shoes. he comes around and he saw doug go over. he stops and running in place. he shrugged, too, and he went over. >> 15 minutes later as the seventh inmate was climbing over, a guard in another tower finally took notice and fired a shot, striking the last escapee in the shoulder. >> the way it used to work here, they had a big steam whistle. when they would have an escape, they would blow the whistle. when you hear the whistle blow, you get a shotgun and your dog and go to the woods. because the inmates, bac

at iowa state penitentiary, we found that the most brutal violence is sometimes against oneself. >> openold inmate caleb etter, suffered severe burns over two-thirds of his body when the methamphetamine lab he was running exploded. when we interviewed etter, he was also serving time for both sexual assault and for attacking a peace officer. >> i push everything to the limit, because as you can tell, i think i'm unstoppable. i think nothing will stop me. nothing will ever kill me. i thought i was god. reality check, i'm not. >> in spite of his calm demeanor, a few hours after this interview, etter got into a verbal confrontation with a female correctional officer that quickly escalated. c.e.r.t., the correctional emergency response team, was called in to extract him from his cell. >> he's been banging his head on the door, spitting at the glass, refusing to move or comply with any orders. we have permission to use force to extract him from his cell. >> for security reasons, the prison videotapes all extractions. >> you ready to move? >> put your hand out. other one. >> a mask is placed ov

at iowa state penitentiary, we found that the most brutal violence is sometimes against oneself. >> openar-old inmate caleb etter, suffered severe burns over two-thirds of his body when the methamphetamine lab he was running exploded. when we interviewed etter, he was also serving time for both sexual assault and for attacking a peace officer. >> i push everything to the limit, because as you can tell, i think i'm unstoppable. i think nothing will stop me. nothing will ever kill me. i thought i was god. reality check, i'm not. >> in spite of his calm demeanor, a few hours after this interview, etter got into a verbal confrontation with a female correctional officer that quickly escalated. c.e.r.t., the correctional emergency response team, was called in to extract him from his cell. >> he's been banging his head on the door, spitting at the glass, refusing to move or comply with any orders. we have permission to use force to extract him from his cell. >> for security reasons, the prison videotapes all extractions. >> you ready to move? >> put your hand out. other one. >> a mask is placed

. >> anamosa state penitentiary is a maximum security facility located in eastern iowa. home of some of the state's most violent offenders. one would think that the overcrowded conditions would lead to a constant barrage of bloody confrontations. well, think again. behind the walls of anamosa is a world of unusual contrast. >> to the security office. >> for new inmates arriving at anamosa state penitentiary, the very look of the prison can be intimidating. more than 100 years old, it was built entirely of limestone from nearby quarries. over the years, as the criminal population increased, so did the size of the prison. today, some 1,300 inmates live behind the massive 35-foot-walls and, like any prison, the threat of danger is everywhere. >> around our perimeter we have seven gun towers. they're manned throughout the day. >> the danger is there each time you walk through that gate, you know. you don't know what's going to happen from the time you get on shift to the time you get off shift. >> there's only two types of people in prison. you got the predators and you got

>> i am in the united states supermax penitentiary. like all of the other penitentiary's.se arrest would mean i would be home on house arrest. i would probably have to wear a bracelet on my ankle, but that would be a lot better than this. at least i could get some medical treatment. i got real bad prostrate right now. it is just getting worse and worse. it ain't getting any better. it is not healing itself. it just continues to grow worse. >> your convicted of aiding and abetting the killing of these two fbi agents. what is your response? >> or rich shalit, i was convicted of first-degree murder. after their case fell apart, the most critical evidence against me, the mad -- weapon, then we filed a freedom of information act and found two documents where they had done scientific tests from their farms laboratory that can not negative. so this was another piece of manufactured evidence besides the manufactured witnesses and things like that. then there case fell apart. and 19 -- in 1985, the eighth circuit court of appeals judge asked the prosecutors just what was mr. peltie

an inmate at the penitentiary of new mexico proved to be an exception. >> this inmate was every woman's. this is the guy we're all told to fear and to defend ourselves against. >> i'm a serial rapist. i've been convicted in new mexico on three separate occasions for rape. >> he was convicted of three rapes, but he told us he had raped 22 women total. so i knew there were 19 other women out there who he had attacked and terrified. he wanted to remain anonymous, because he was getting out soon and he didn't want any of these victims to see him, because then he'd have to go back into prison. >> when we met him, he was coming up for parole on a 44-year sentence and it wasn't his first time in prison. >> my first rape was in 1975. and i picked up two to ten years on that and i served two. and i was released on parole, i lasted about a week and again was picked up and charged with a rape. i was returned to the santa fe state penitentiary from 1980 to 1986 when i was released again on parole. i lasted on that parole, for about two weeks. and then i began again, serial raping. >> in this rare i

>> that's the golden rule in the state penitentiary. don't ask me. don't tell them.respect yourself. >> they're going to feed him to the wolves. they're going to feed him to the wolves. he's a lamb chop. [ bleep ]. >> they're probably getting interviewed. your brother's going on tomorrow. >> without the nazi low rider code of honor to adhere to, speedy can work with i.s.u. even as a dropout, he is blatantly breaking gang ranks by helping officers gather intelligence, working directly with officer morales, who he has known for four years. >> hi, speedy. >> i think of myself as giving something back. if it's saving somebody from getting hurt, then that's cool. that's all right. >> i brought you in today because i want to actually get a little bit more insight on gangs, weapons, how they're made. i know every step we try to take, you're always one up. >> exactly. we've got 24 hours to stay ahead of you. you only come here for eight hours. so you've got to step up your game to keep up with us. >> what is this working for? >> this right here is a plastic bottle, a pepsi b

you play and again i was getting as i've been gang man i've been to the county jails several penitentiaries and back and forth to. the reception a gang banging is wonderful that is the lifestyle to live is no life period your we war but gang bang is to be crippled lang a life your greatest we war. is the life plus forty years young ultimate reward again banging is death. and you don't come back from that. if you. believe. you know. the. major streets of south l.a. have given rise to a new sort of get determined to fight not simply for turf or colors but for the lives of the next generation. i work with about four or five hundred high risk you every month the first thing i do apologize to him because i had to let them know my generation is build you miserable see i'll fifty one years old i've been two decades of this structure so we let them know that hey we have those roles just like you do or rock these peace makers many of them former gang members have stepped out from behind the gods and are now standing between literally risking their lives in the formation of street level gang interven

. >> this is my fifth here in the penitentiary. i've been all around.e been in the system for a while. >> soledad, tracy, jamestown, now here. >> many of these inmates are simply resigned to prison as a way of life. >> i will probably come back once or twice on a violation. ♪ i can't shake these penitentiary state blues ♪ >> but flaco has come to the realization that hanging with a street gang does not mean lifetime loyalty. >> well, basically what it boils down to, an eye opener for me was, when i fell, when i got locked up, where were they? you know, the only people writing me, taking care of me right now is my family. all those guys, home boy this, they ain't nowhere to be found right now. you know, so what it boils down to who is really here for me right now is my family. >> and for chester reed, it's that separation from family and his wife of 32 years that is most painful. >> misery i went through inside these walls and the pain that i caused my family, it will never happen again, not in my lifetime. it hurts me just to think of the hurt that i ca

he's a 45-year-old ex-con who did ten years in a michigan state penitentiary for robbery and assault. >> so i feel people that are weak and not in shape and can't protect their girls shouldn't be in this business. >> front side. he's got the money. white male, black top. keep an eye on him. >> we first met mico in 2010 -- >> step out. >> hands up. hands up. >> when he was arrested by michigan's human trafficking task force for pimping out a 19-year-old woman named heather giardan. >> get your shirt on. >> also known to police as lil' barbie. >> please. i didn't do anything. >> put your pants on. >> let me put my clothes on. >> at the time mico rejected the pimp label, choosing instead to describe himself as a bodyguard and chauffeur, offering guidance and protection to women working in the sex trade. >> i've never had one girl ever been hurt being with me. not one. you guys look at it differently, but i truly believe that i'm doing a good deed by protecting them. technically, okay, i can see what you're saying. you're contributing to the problem by driving them on calls, this and that

and penitentiaries. we have lost penitentiary. we are now prisons and warehousing people. we are making them the big business and expanding them on backs of black and brown people. and non-violent drug offense means, you know, you do some things that the -- amnesty international reportedly young white people are doing but are given a knock on the back. hand, don't do it again. we have to find a way to say let's forgive people. especially those that have not committed violent crimes. i have a brother that has been serving prison now for 23 years. accused of a violent crime. we think he is innocent but we understand the separation between those who have been accused of violent crimes and those that have done things not worthy of the kind of disproportionate penalty that they receive at the hands of the justice system. >> i want to thank you both. not only for sharing ideas but sharing your life experience which is difficult but vital. thank you for being here, john. >> thank you. >> singer/songe eersinger/songe forte. after the break she may still be on vacation on beapluto.

. >> 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 wasn't very optimistic about his chances on the outside. >> nobody ever makes parole. they all come back. come back and discharge and go right back out there again, and we learn nothing because there's no rehabilitation in here, you know? go right back out there and do the same damn thing over and over and over. >> joe sanchez was the perfect example of an institutionalized inmate. we see that a lot when we're filming in prisons. these guys have become so acclimated to prison life, they're more comfortable there than in the free world, and the first time i met joe he had been in trouble for some kind of infraction. he was constantly getting in trouble, but he also told me that he was due to be released soon, and without skipping a beat then said he was terrified of getting out. >> i keep snapping at these cos and picking up reports.

in just a few days curtis will travel with the boxing team to a nearby state penitentiary where he willat ring and fight, you got to be a stone warrior to fight, especially in prison fighting because i think it's more harder than professional fights. if i take this belt, if i win, i'm the man. i mean, nobody has beat this cat for three to four years, and if i beat him i'm the big man on the compound. nobody tell me nothing. >> one way in which curtis draws inspiration is through his family. >> i brought him in. >> two days before this fight, curtis's mother, sister, and niece traveled to elayn hunt to wish him their best. >> i try to come to visit him every other weekend. in the beginning it was real hard because i knew i had to leave him here, but now it's getting better because i realize that it was just -- it was a mistake that he made, and it's just something that we're learning to cope with. >> we're behind him, we're with him, and whatever it takes for us to see him through this, then that's what we're going to do. and once he's released, then we'll be released. to me he's the hea

murdered everybody did good and made their body else either go to exile or to lock them up in a penitentiary and when all that was over with a new element rose the call of crips. to sit. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and the black top playgrounds of fremont high school emerged this new war led by south l.a. teenager raymond washington generally cut it as the crips founding member. in response number of rival gangs formed an alliance calling themselves bloods moniker adopted by african-american soldiers serving in vietnam. the opposing armies now in place battle flags were raised blue for crips and red for bullets. exactly which set our neighborhood true first place and why you never be known. for the next four decades boring crips and bloods sets the car the streets of south l.a. into a grid of rival territories. today these fractured communities are home to five generations of carbon soldiers. really from well from. us this out is where we come from as a stall model kill or be killed. plus you go to any time they'd have to come across normandy you dot. com called for a march feel ba

we were at the penitentiary of new mexico when an inmate tried to break away from his escort officer. and tried to stab another inmate with a unique homemade shank. >> he actually fabricated this out of a piece of a pencil sharpener. you can see the rivet right in there. he attached a paper clip and ran it back, put some plastic cellophane on it, put a rubber band around it to make it more easy to handle specifically when it gets full of blood if you were to slice somebody. he actually admitted he put this on there so he could have some control once he sliced the individual. he's pretty ingenious as far as how he makes weapons. >> the inmate is 30-year-old christopher shiverdecker and his ability to craft ingenious weapons isn't the only thing that makes him memorable. >> the first time i met him, i was quite shocked by his appearance. i had never seen anybody before with a giant bullet hole in his forehead. >> i got that long, long time ago. it's just a bullet hole. it's like a bullet hole. >> shiverdecker has had plenty of time to amass tattoos and learn the ways of prison. at an ag

he's probably cost himself an nfl career and some time in the penitentiary. >> in 2009, he pleaded guilty to dui. one former coach says the nfl needs stronger punishments to deter drunk driving. >> only hammer you have is playing time. there should ab automatic two game suspension in the first dui. >> if convicted, he faces a minimum of two years behind bars. >> brent's attorney claims the client's bond is excessively high and is working to get it reduced. >>> sad news as the entertainment world, janet riviera is believed dead after a learjet carrying her and seven other guests crashed in new mexico. she was born and raised in long beach. she recently divorced from major league pitcher. >>> a murder in broad daylight has some oakland businesses concerned. a man was killed just before saturday afternoon near jackland and square. favorite spot for tourists. witnesses claimed, he fired a federal shot and flet the area of the 400 block of third street. last july, injured five people. police say crime in the area filled with cafes and condominiums is unusual. >>> police are looking for the peo

look at the population of the people in the penitentiary particularly from the one nine hundred eighty s. going forward black men are disproportionately represented that's the new video right here the band playing you know you would think of like. a little kid. you put. you in a sense. what this means is we are breaking even the possibility of there will be intact families with a mother and a father raising a child together. because we are sending a man off to prison an unprecedented rapes usually for nonviolent offenses that. would. be. even with time served so many of those determined to start a new life find little freedom in their lives i go to get a job i'm working for xerox sent an application and they found out i was on parole and i lost my job i used to be jealous somehow wife going to work at. this is my wife own a stew a bomb he grew up with me bill me kids and she would go out thousand go to work and i would be mad at her because she could go to work and i couldn't help. i'll be mad because she's paying the bills and i can bet you there's never no cycle to get us out of this

>> mercy college, teaching a program at sing sing penitentiary believe there not. i was teaching at columbia university. .. the best and brightest, what i'll tell you what, a maximum-security prison to all male. twenty-five students. they have an incredible thirst for knowledge. unbelievable how these men who have been in prison, committed serious crimes in their youth now, are trying to turn their lives around. i have had students at sing sing who have read the entire text book before coming to class. i could say that about some of my students at columbia. i'm teaching. my wife teaches english lit. >> at sensing. >> at sing sing. it's a four year college degree program privately funded except for the presidents also there are no programs, and a federal estate money at all. we have a nonprofit, at some length that deals with that. my son, as a matter of fact, just made a film called 0% that will be on nationwide tv. describe the whole sense in education program. >> was that experience like? >> well, it is such an emotional , thrilling to more rewarding experience,

all the way and suggest that some of these in the village we have incarcerated in our jails and penitentiaries who killed one or two or three people, there are mentally ill as well. they do not count. it is only that kid -- >> we have irrational killers. al capone, the valentine killer. they were coming in other territories, so they were shot. that is not mental illness. but if you think like a jared loughner where you are living in a world of numerology. he was talking about the influence of grammar that the government was using over him. you are talking about people living in a different world and they are not responsible. i believe in the s&p defense and on the grounds of acquittal by and sanity. daniel patrick moynihan, great american center and public servant had a simple suggestion. tax the magazines, tax the bullets, attacks the ammunitions. i do not care how many guns they have. if they cannot fire them, they will not kill people. >> state department takes a big hit on benghazi. >> the state department had not given benghazi the security, both physical and personal resources it needed.

. >> "they sentenced us to one year in the state penitentiary.ey suspended for 25 years and said that we had to leave the state." >> the supreme court ruled 9-0 to throw out their convictions, chief justice earl warren writing, "the freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness." virginia's law "had no legitimate overriding purpose independent of invidious racial discrimination." the decision went against public opinion. interracial marriage was illegal in 16 states at the time, and a gallup poll showed 73 percent of those surveyed disapproved of it. race relations have come a long way since 1967, and proponents of same-sex marriage see similar progress for gays and lesbians. >> i think this is an area in which we've seen tremendous movement over the last 15 or 20 years, and people are on a journey. i mean, as a lesbian i had to go through my own journey when the community first started talking about marriage, and i was, like, are you kidding? marriage? it's not for us.

. >> i did, like, 12 years in the penitentiary.to do something different. >> reporter: what were you in jail for? >> i was in jail for a lot of -- attempted murder, gun cases. if i didn't have this situation where i know i can come in here and build my skills and have a career in the future, i would be plotting on how i was going to pay my bills. >> reporter: they just want somebody to put their arm around them and tell them, you did a good job. and that's what i do. >> reporter: the things that come into this shop are banged up and neglected. but thanks to alex levesque, they leave in much better shape. [ car starts ] >> yeah! >> reporter: dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin. san jose long billed itself as the safest big city in america. as 2012 draws to a clo