a deal's a deal. >> back at kentucky state penitentiary, randy haight made it clear.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'm 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. >> america's prisons, dangerous, often deadly. there are 2 million people doing time. every day is a battle to survive and to maintain order. located in the deep south, holman correctional facility where most are serving life sentences. we spent months documenting life on the inside where the prisoners have nothing but time and nothi

the sex offender we met at iowa's anamosis state penitentiary has a different existence.organ spends nearly every hour of every day inside a small protective custody cell where he never sees the sun. >> well, what happened is they accused me of killing a little girl back in 1994 and next thing i know i'm in prison and then there's people talking about a contract supposed to be out on me. >> morgan was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl. he is serving life without the possibility of parole. >> there's been a lot of threats against me. it was a high profile crime at the time. and everybody in the system knew about it and they're trying to stand up and be some sort of righteous convict. i only rob banks or do drugs. i only sell crack to kids but this guy, he killed one, so now we're going to go and kill him. >> protective custody inmates like morgan are locked in their cells 23 hours a day to keep them from other inmates. >> it's claustrophobic being in a little cell 23 hours a day, but after a while you get used to it. what i miss most about fre

>> 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

at the penitentiary of new mexico. you know, about 13 years ago. >> an inmate who was former law enforcement is going to always be perceived as the enemy as far as the other inmates go. so, it's usually a precarious situation. given his circumstances, i thought daniel was pretty secure. going from being a former c.o. to an inmate in the same prison where he once worked, i would have expected him to be a little more nervous, uptight, what have you. but he acclimated quite well. >> the officers, some of them treated me the same. some of them treated me different. for the most part, though, i've always gone along with people. i came into prison. and i ain't here to prove a point. i'm just here to do my time. >> was it weird at first dealing with officers? did you run into people you knew? >> yeah. i mean, i ran into a few people. they said, hey, rapatz. they call me by my last name, what happened, how did you end up here in the joint? what happened? i tell them, i ended up wrong place, wrong time. i was out drinking and u

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, you guyed are [ bleep ]. we need more. what do you want to know? >> robertson, serving a 60-year sentence for murder has spent most of the last two years in house one. >> why are you in here? >> in house one. it's a long story. i refuse to let myself be assaulted and not fight back. >> robertson not only fights with other inmates. he fights with staff as well. >> i was disrespected. i decided to make the guys do a cell extraction. >> days before our

>> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars.spent the last two years as cell house 220 also known as the hole. >> this is your maximum security unit inside of a maximum security prison. here's where we house all the inmates that couldn't be handled at another institution or couldn't be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> during his time in prison and especially in the hole, murray has found a coping device in self-mutilation. >> i've been in here so long it kind of releases stress. >> how do you cut yourself? >> i was on razors but they put me on razor restriction and i find stuff in here, staples, plastic from deodorants and stuff like that. >> when was the last time you cut yourself? >> about two weeks ago. >> the next day on their way to another interview in cell house 220, our crew ran into murray as correctional officers were moving him into a holding area so that they could inspect his cell. >> can you tell us what is going on? >> we are taking him out to shake down his cell?

. >>> at kentucky state penitentiary, some inmates can apprentice in an auto body shop. at rikers island jail, a bakery churns out nearly 90,000 loaves of bread per week while teaching inmates how to bake. in many of the prisons profiled on "lockup," inmates have opportunities to learn skills that can help them find work on the outside. but all too many spend their time honing skills more suitable to mayhem and murder. >> i stabbed an inmate 12 times over some dope in front of the chow hall. >> i took a knife and stabbed him with it three or four times until he was dead. and then i butchered him with it. >> you find a piece of metal or something, file it down on the concrete. it ain't got to be sharp, it's just got to have a point. put your handle on it and do what you need to do. >> "lockup" crews are regularly exposed to the tools of a deadly trade. >> every prison we film in, there's always a shank museum, a place where the authorities display all of the weapons that are confiscated by staff. homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted down plast

. >>> people outside a penitentiary in brazil were met by a very aggressive escapee.his goat was not happy about these people apparently being outside this penitentiary. and you are wondering, why all the aggression? i do want to point out this goat has some big [ bleep ]. >> a big bell hanging off his neck. he is larger than the average goat. >> he goes back to where all those people are hanging out. and that guy with the striped shirt becomes his next target. he runs toward him and then there's this woman walking away. he's like, oh, no you don't. >> nobody is escaping from this prison because there's a guard goat throughout that will buck you up. >> oh, no! knocked the lady down? >> the man he was attacking earlier comes to the aid and starts kicking the goat. then he gives it to him. >> guy was trying to jackie chan the goat. >> but the goat is really getting mad now. he backs up here and starts charging at the guy again. judges it a little bit. finally this guy comes over, grabs him. they are able to apprehend him. >> i don't like to see this. i want to take him

>> kenneth morgan, also known as peaches, was one of the more memorable inmates we met at the penitentiaryw mexico. his life in prison is marked by a clear duality. >> hi, boys! >> he was an open, if not flamboyantly gay inmate living in general population. but when it came to adhering to the inmates code of conduct, he made it clear that he was no different than anyone else. during our shoot he had received one of his rare disciplinary write-ups for helping cover up a bloody fight between two other inmates. >> right here, this is peaches. looks like he's got the shirt that was taken from the inmate. looks like he was rubbing the floor right here. so that's one of my biggest issues right there. i want to show you the video. okay? so get over here. who is this? >> that's me? >> and what does it appear that you're doing right there? >> kicking the shirt. >> not cleaning up blood. or nothing like that? >> i just kicked it up. that's all i did. >> why would you do that? >> because i was actually way over here by my cubicle and i kicked it all the way around giving it to them, telling them to d

we work together. >> our visit to the anamosa state penitentiary in iowa led us to a memorable pair of siblings michael and brad love whose lifelong allegiance drove them to kill. >> growing up i wanted to be him, you know. he was almost four years older than me. i see him running around drinking. breaking into stuff. doing whatever he is doing. i'm like i want to be like him. that's my big brother. that's my idol. so i kind of followed in the same footsteps. >> but as the love brothers revealed to our crew, those footsteps led down a bloody path that ended at a holiday party in the trailer park. >> christmas night, 1992, me and my brother went to a party with what we thought were friends. but they tried to rob us. take the liquor that we brought. >> they started beating me up. four of them. >> they hurt brad. i couldn't let them get away with that. they threatened his life. and i just couldn't handle that. so we left went to my trailer. i got a shotgun. my brother got a knife. machete. we went back out there and did what we did. >> i remember mike standing there he had the gun pointed

. >>> san quentin is a deteriorated penitentiary whose obsolete design is putting officers at risk and 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 surviv

. >> well, i met him while i was working at the penitentiary, and he was one of my patients. he is a real smart one, smart alec, funny guy. i was too. i was feisty right back to him, and so we just started messing around, joking around like that. i think that's what our playfulness with each other is what got david and i to start a friendship. >> as the old saying goes, you can't help who you fall for. you know? >> david and i had known each other for seven months when we finally got caught. >> an officer came up to me and told me that he thought there was some impropriety going on within -- between david scritchfield and a nurse. okay? so what i did is i pulled up his information on the computer. i had a bunch of phone calls from the inmate. i started listening to the phone calls. the name paula came up. paula happened to be the nurse the officer told me about. >> they said that they recognized her voice on the telephone. we were communicating, you know, outside of the prison system. i didn't want to get her in any kind of trouble, but i couldn't stop communicating with her.

. >>> nestled at the base of the rocky mountains, colorado state penitentiary was built to house thet violent and disruptive inmates. it gives new meaning to the words "hard time." >> we decided that csp could not be a place where inmates could get comfortable and make a life for themselves. we had to treat them differently. >> colorado state isn't just any maximum security prison. it's a super max facility. inmates here are considered a constant threat and are confined to single-person cells 23 hours a day. >> i was astounded by how sterile and stark and what tough time it would be to serve in that particular prison. i think that would be the hardest time possible. >> many of the inmates we spoke to agreed. they say the isolation is too much. >> i've been here a long time. i've seen a lot of guys, seen them snap, you know? any given day they can snap. >> 23 hours a day you're locked down. you come out for five hours a week. essentially it's just another cell. it's a dead room with a pull-up bar. there's one small window. where you can get some fresh air, and that's it. everywhere yo

. >>> the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, austere environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day, but despite his surroundings, inmate shawn shields was in high spirits. when he sat down with us, he was eager to help our producer get the interview under way. >> quiet on the set, you bone heads. >> it's a prison, you know. >> all right. let's roll tape. >> then he calmly told us how he got 16 years added to his original sentence of 12 for robbery. >> me and another inmate had an altercation. i manipulated the door so that it wouldn't latch completely, and when he came out to walk, i came down after him and proceeded to stab him. >> why? was it because you guys weren't getting along? >> it was just a verbal altercation. >> does it happen a lot in here? >> there is a lot of verbal altercations between people. you got to understand. there's 16 men living together behind closed doors with stress, animosity toward one another in some cases, and it's not always a pleasant pl

our first slagle encounter was in 2000 when we met roy at colorado state penitentiary, and he made an. at the time, roy was serving a 12-year sentence for robbery and had a notorious reputation for forcing the prison to perform cell extractions on him because of his frequent refusals to obey orders. nine years later, during our shoot at the lyman correctional facility in eastern colorado, we met an inmate named ray slagle who wasted no time reminding us of our sibling. >> come here, look at this. this is my twin brother right here. you already did a clip on him on msnbc. he was wild as hell. but by then, roy was anything but wild. and, in fact, had recently been released on parole. so we visited him at his parents' home where he had been living. >> are you going to make it this time staying out? >> yeah, i believe i'm going to make it, no doubt. >> roy is optimistic about his future, and so were we. back at lyman, his brother ray was serving a 15-year sentence for assault but was only days away from being released on parole. we looked forward to covering their first reunion in more t

simply line the bottom of junior's crib with at least four inches of my pat penitentiaried pee pee-pellets. then in the morning, scoop away the offerings. and bravo, "new york times," for reporting on this new trend of cleaning up accidents. although i think i'll stick with my old method: picking them up with the "new york times." we'll be right back. 1fhoqododoaodo%opo

simply line the bottom of junior's crib with at least four inches of my pat penitentiaried pee pee-pellets. then in the morning, scoop away the offerings. and bravo, "new york times," for reporting on this new trend of cleaning up accidents. although i think i'll stick with my old method: picking them up with the "new york times." we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is abc's chief medical correspondent. while i'm interviewing him, my staff is stealing his prescription pad. please welcome dr. richard besser. ( cheers and applause ). hey, richard. good to see you again. okay. now as i said, you're abc news chief health and medical correspondent. and you've got a new book here called "tell me the truth, doctor: easy to understand answers to your most confusing and critical health questions." what are the most confusing health questions out there? >> a lot of the questions people have are around diet and exercise. >> stephen: should i diet or exercise? >> actually you need to do some of both. >> stephen: mmmmm. if you want to lose

. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico houses both low-level and maximum security inmates. the most dangerous and notorious are held in level six. >> you want to make me look like the monster. i've been here over 2 1/2 years. i never did nothing. i don't disrespect nobody. i don't cause no problems or nothing, but just because i'm small and able to slip the handcuffs any time i want, i'm a problem. i got locked up when i was about 10 1/2. i got grand theft auto. i've been to probably over 30 prisons. probably around 20 in florida. six or seven in oklahoma. three here. i don't get in trouble. i don't disrespect anybody. cops come to my door. i'm always, yes, sir, no, sir. yes, ma'am, no, ma'am. i don't disrespect nobody. i've made my mistakes and did some stupid stuff when i was young. but hurt somebody to where they went to the hospital and ended up dying later on, you know, but never been charged with murder. a lot of people, like, the first thing they think about me is they think about somebody like mcgyver or something. because i stabbed somebody with some jolly ranchers

. >> 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

. >> you wouldn't be interviewing me at least not liar live to live i would have been in the penitentiary. i swrould been the first human on earth that was able to take a person's head off their body and kick it down the street like a soccer ball. >> man oh man what a story. >> in other news, somebody dropped the ball in sharing information between the united states and russia. the issue is that russians knew that tamerlan tsarnaev was more radicalized than the fbi was led to believe. u.s. firnls say they would have take an harder look at tsarnaev before the bombing had they known. this is the place with sar nooi is buried, a muslim similar tear in west virginia. they were taken off guard when they learned he was secretly buried there. >>> he was on the job trying to save lives after a huge fertilizer plant exploded but now police accuse him of having materials to make a bomb. we're live with a new twist in the story next. have you eaten today? i had some lebanese food for lunch. i love the lebanese. i... i'm not sure. enough of the formalities... lets get started shall we? jimmy how happ

programials say a pilot that uses new technology has been in place since january at the former state penitentiary but not at the city jail. the governor is going to sign more loss into effect today. it is not clear when the medical marijuana program will begin. state gas taxude increase. deliver herman will first state of the county address. she vetoed the state mandated storm water fee. the county council voted to override the veto. $34 a year will be paid as a fee. councilmembers' said the measure is important to the committee. neuman xecutive presented her school district spending plan to the council on wednesday. the school system will receive a $17 million increase from last year. million set aside $125 to support building projects. the final document will be approved next month. >> 6:08. three new suspects under arrest this morning in connection with the boston marathon case. >> and a public apology. jcpenney is asking customers to forgive and forget. the annualready for kinetic sculpture race. kinetic sculpture race. stay tune i'm over the hill. my body doesn't work the way it used to. pas

>>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds the worst defenders in the state.dated gang members that are in 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 m

. >> i kept telling your mom, she will not bury you in penitentiary that's what the lord told me. >> doesn't he answer my prayers? >> yes, he does. he was little, don't pray for me. >> i used to always say that. i'm going to pray for you. don't -- please, mom, pray for me. >> i look and see how much hurt she got in her face and how much pain she's going through. and sometimes it's hard to look at her. >> your precious holy name i pray, amen. >> if i get convicted, she feels she will lose another child. >> my god, i love you so much. >> i love you too, mom. >> coming up, tony goodwin is called back to court. this time, to hear from the jury. and -- >> he says, don't make me put my hands on you and show you how my hands can be. >> lorraine green accuses an officer of misconduct. >>> recently, the special response team at the cuyahoga county correction center got more than it bargained for when responding to a fight between scott and timberlake. >> there was so much water and soap on floor. it was meant for us to slip and fall. >> the officers could not prove who might have sabotaged th

. >> 90 miles from new orleans, up the mississippi river, lays louisiana state penitentiary. commonly referred to as angola, at 18,000 acre, it is the largest prison in america. started as a slave plantation in the 1700s, converted to a prison plantation at the end of the civil war, and taken over by the state in 1901, the storied land has seen more than its share of pain. it was once considered the bloodiest prison in america. and its current population of 5,148 men serve sentences so long, it's estimated 90% of them will die here. yet things have changed drastically over the past decade. and much credit goes to warden burl cain. >> that's really what our mission is, is not to torment and torture, but it's to correct bad behavior and do that any way you can. the root way to do that is morality. moral people obviously don't rape, pilfer and steal. >> right here, the midst of angola, i have seen change. because the seed of the favor of god -- >> warden cain's approach to morality works on two levels. one, spiritual and religious. the other, engaging employment opportunities. c

it replaced its 100-year-old predecessor, the tennessee state penitentiary, known as the walls. today, riverbend houses close to 700 male inmates, 480 of them are high risk offenders, classified this way because they're a threat to the security of the institution and other inmates. >> we house the worst of the worst including the male inmates, male offenders that are sentenced to death. >> ricky j. bell is warden at riverbend. he's been on the job since 1995. >> it's the state of the art operation. and very proud of what it represents for the taxpayers and the state. >> let's go! chow time! >> the prison compound consists of six different housing units. maximum security inmates live in one, three, and four. nicknamed the high side. it's here you will find riverbend's most dangerous inmates. >> the screaming never stops. it drives people crazy. i've seen a young man come to prison to maximum security, completely sane. three years later, he was screaming and cutting his self. >> ask me what being back here is like. it's like asking a cancer patient how it feels to die slowly. be d

he is currently serving time at a nevada stated penitentiary after his conviction in october 2008 onrges of armed robbery assault and kidnapping. simpson is looking for a retrial on grounds his lawyer, he claims had botched his defense. so we're back to o.j. again. he is media magnet. why? >> he a media magnet because he a celebrated person that have been tried for murder. that is enough right there to keep him on front pages of the publications of the grocery store line. we can't get enough of him. some of us at the table hope we hear less of him. >>> fame is all it takes? >> he was a famous guy on the tape there, he said he is innocent. and jury believed him. why are we doing this? >> jon: media were not so kind to him this time. the "new york post", o.j. does lard time. that was their headline. daily news in new york also wrote, grow j., he put 40 pounds in prison. you as a football fan as you are. >> so that i am, and i think that if he does get a new trial, they are going to have whole another round of o.j. and many legal experts think he deserves one. >> one of the interesting

a convicted murderer escapes from a federal penitentiary, and a massive manhunt is on to capture him. the fugitive, richard lee mcnair, is a dangerous criminal, a highly intelligent martial arts expert who's escaped from two other prisons in the past before being recaptured. this time, he hides in a mail truck. he's the first prisoner to escape from a federal maximum security facility in nearly 15 years. hours after mcnair's discovered missing, an officer with the ball police department sees a man running on the railroad tracks and gets out to question him. >> what it is, we've got an escapee. >> oh. where from? >> a prison. >> is it the man he's looking for? >> when i crossed the tracks down there, i saw you running. and i said, well, how lucky can i be? >> nope, nope, nope, nope. i'm not no prison escapee. >> the police only have an old, blurry photograph of the prisoner they're looking for. and the officer can't tell if the person he stopped matches the description. so, he asks the man some questions. >> do you have any form of identification on you? what's your name? >> robert jon

i would be in the penitentiary, bro. i would be the first human on earth able to take a person's head off their body and kick it down the street like a soccer ball. >> wow. man, oh, man. what a story. >>> other news to report. we want to head to washington and the controversy around the government talking points used to describe last year's attack on the u.s. compound in benghazi, libya. sources say an e-mail discussion about the much debated talking points seemed to suggest a white house and state department were more involved in removing an assessment that said a group with ties to al qaeda was involved in the attack. athena jones from the white house. is the bottom line here a question? did government officials change their account of the attack for political reasons? >> reporter: hi, don. that's certainly what republican critics are alleging. we know there were multiple discussions going on in coming up with these talking points between the white house, the state department, the fbi, cia and justice department offici

people, including four corrections officers with drugs and weapon charges at the former maryland penitentiary in baltimore. in both situations, the governor martin o'malley and the secretary of public safety and correctional service gary maynard were in charge. yet, o'malley and maynard admit no wrongdoing at all and say they have done a good job the security chief of the baltimore detention center was finally removed after the press began hammering o'malley. but maynard kept his job, which is amazing. so how bad was this prison? jesse watters did a number of interviews to find out. >> the family basically run the jail. they had freedom. they were never in their cells. basically running around the facility. the correctional officers were bringing them outside food. anything they wanted basically. to be honest in the time i was there i never once saw the warden. you would see an assistant warden maybe walk by maybe once a month or so. but never really saw anybody with any rank there. >> so no authority figure whatsoever at this place? >> no. not on the cellblocks. >> what kind of drugs was he

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. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds some of the most violent offenders in the state.n 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 bu

. >> i kept telling your mom, she will not bury you in penitentiary that's what the lord told me. >>oesn't he answer my prayers? >> yes, he does. he was little, don't pray for me. >> i used to always say that. i'm going to pray for you. don't -- please, mom, pray for me. >> i look and see how much hurt she got in her face and how much pain she's going through. and sometimes it's hard to look at her. >> your precious holy name i pray, amen. >> if i get convicted, she feels she will lose another child. >> my god, i love you so much. >> i love you too, mom. >> coming up, tony goodwin is called back to court. this time, to hear from the jury. and -- >> he says, don't make me put my hands on you and show you how my hands can be. >> lorraine green accuses an officer of misconduct. whwhat a nightht, huh? but, u um, can thehe test drivie be over nonow? head b back to the d dealership?p? [ mamale announcncer ] it's praractically y yours. but we stitill need yourur signaturere. volklkswagen sigign then dririe is back. anand it's nevever been eaeasir to get a a passat. that's's the powerer of g

in just a few days curtis will travel with the boxing team to a nearby state penitentiary where he will 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 heavyweight champion of t

prison in northern california has always had a reputation as one of the most violent and volatile penitentiaries in the nation. when we first visited the institution in 2000, it was under lockdown, still reeling from one of the worst prison riots in u.s. history. five years later, we went back inside pelican bay, where the staff has worked to curb gang activity and prevent violent outbreaks. but in an environment simmering with bitter rivalries and racial tension, finding any long-term solution is a never-ending battle. >> inmates in the general population right now consider everything a state of war, so they are ready for everything. >> some guys gonna get their head blown off, some guys are going to get stabbed real good. >> there's no hope. >> we are in the new alcatraz. >> isolated on the northern coastline, some 300 miles north of san francisco, there is a small community besieged by violence, incinerated by racial hatred. the community is called pelican bay, one of the most notorious maximum security prisons in america. pelican bay state prison was designed as california's new alcatraz, a

cell mates who seemed more like frat house brothers rather than inmates at a maximum security penitentiary. >> look at the nugget, dude. >> no [ bleep ]. >> when we met richard evans and roger boshears the high-spirited duo had recently reunited as cellmates after bo boshears' release from a 14-month stay in the hole. >> i was in the hole for tattooing. >> who were you tattooing on again? >> actually, got caught tattooing on this one right here. this is the one we got caught doing right here. we got ran up on while doing this one. gun in hand. oh, really? for real? >> thank you, gentlemen. >> oh, man. >> thank you. >> next thing i know, i do 14 months in the hole. he hangs out here. come in the window. when you coming out, bro? >> what's up, dude? >> i'll be right out. >> sun tanning. >> you sure you don't want no more bread? >> we've developed a really nice relationship. i'd do anything for this guy. anything. >> same. he's my twin sister. >> older sister. >> i'm glad you came back. >> but this bond also has a dark side. the cellmates share a strong appetite for methamphetamine. >> what a

mother stood there -- his real mother -- and she said, you will be home or you will be in the penitentiary dere you will be in prison. nt in a cemetery or in prison. to my father went next door and into another door to get a job.t my father literally went door-to-door to find some sort of job, he ended up become employed for the train.father they were the largest employere of blacks and he did it in california at the time. sol my dad comes out of theof e service. he goes to chattanooga, wal tennessee. he goes there to get a job. he walks to an unemployment hi e office. he has to go back out and gock o through the colored only door. he tells my mom that this is bsg i'm go ting to go to california and get a job as a cook. r sorry,s to california, goes to thstaurants and they say, i'm sorry, sir, you have no in references, which is their way of saying that we don't hire in black people. when he was in chattanooga, they said that we don't hire blacks. so he walks through their, they, have nothing. they say they open at 8:30 a.m. my dad sat there all day and thn lady says, i have a job for you,

you go to the penitentiary and you see the exact same formula there. they wanted me to learn about abraham lincoln and george washington and benjamin franklin but i wanted to learn about everybody. i don't know the various cultures of the ethnic groups that we have grown up with. i know the white culture. but i don't know the indian culture and i don't know the asian culture. sometimes i have to figure out mott my culture is because they don't teach us these things and until we get to -- our own households is a very vital thing and you have to remember love starts in your house. .. >> congressman lewis has written quite a response to exactly that. we, all of us, are responsible for the democratic process. and lots of us might argue the democratic process seems to be rather problematic right now along the way. and he has also written to revolutionize america, we must first revolutionize ourselves. i wish you would elaborate. >> i believe in something that v call the spirit of history. hist and that we must be consumedtunw with the spirit of history.hist