it is what it is, you know. >> this is my second time here at seward. the last time i was here, oh my god. me and the boyfriend lived in the same cell. we had the matching comforters and the matching jackets and whatever. we had packages come in and always have the matching set or whatever. we were a little couple, you know what i'm saying? dysfunctional but it's all right. so i don't try as hard to stay out of prison like i should. which brings me back to places like this. >> though both sam and polando talk openly about their sexual experiences in prison, their outlooks are quite different. >> of course i'm not. oh, my god. i don't want to get into my partners. but you know. i'm not going to go without. please. >> let's see. i've had relationships before in jail that were long-standing. and you know, eventually they faded away or i left. i'm not concerned with sex, i'm concerned with my life. i'm at a stage in my life where i have to look outward. >> despite their successes, the alaska prison system is facing a crisis. most facilities like spring cree

a little more than 100 miles south of anchorage is seward, one of alaska's oldest towns. it is surrounded by water and the maj stick -- majestic fiordes. in the middle of the scenic beauty is a correctional facility that houses the most violent offenders. >> i'm a pimp on the street. you know what i'm saying? me and my girl, she didn't come back with the money on time so, you know, she got smashed. >> i was robbing a hotel in alaska and ended up getting in a fight with two people and hitting one of them with a hammer, a lot. >> they were like, what's going on, why are you killing me? i didn't say nothing to them or talk about it to them, i just did it, you know. and threw them into the bay. >> 500 inmates are housed on 328 acres of land which is surrounded by national park. alaska is the nation's largest state but it has the smallest prison population. >> alaska is a state that people have immigrated from all over the country and criminals don't change their ways when they move. they're still criminals. they just go to another state and do time in that prison system. >> o

seward called it an "irrepressible conflict" and i think it was there and i think it would have been there while douglas was there or certainly after douglas left all these splits were going on. the whigs were dissolving or had dissolved. there were issues that were so bitter between the abolitionists in new england and the fire-eaters in south carolina and various other places in the south that i'm almost willing to believe that with all our genius for compromise, there still wasn't anyway to settle this thing except by fighting. the most regretful thing is that the thing went on for four years with an incredible savagery. that's the great shame. there was bound to be a fight, but for it to be the fight that it was with literally more than a million american casualties, that need not have been. something should have stopped it before that. c-span: how many men men fought on the union side and how many on the confederate? >> guest: there's a good deal of argument about that. i've forgotten the exact figures. there probably were a million and a half union and possibly as many as 800,0

the words of william seward burroughs, one of my heroes.in 1953, shortly after shooting his wife to death in a drunken accident in mexico city. he was a heroin addict, a homosexual and an inspiration to those protohipsters who became known as the beatnik. there was nothing beatnik about him. he was a somewhat stuffy, well-dressed st. louis son of a good family gone wrong. he was also to my mind the greatest writer of the whole damn bunch. on the road, you can have it. his classic "naked lunch" was written here. a nonlinear, dark, dry humored searingly critical and satirical and profane masterpiece. burrows was apparently he for much of the process, on heroin, or locally valuable prescription opiate. and the daily staple in many of these parts. hashish, keef and maldune. hashish is the concentrated thc resin of the cannabis plant as well as the leaves and flowers that have been separated from the buds compressed into sheet or brick-like form. keif is the part of the plant containing only the strongest concentration of psychoactive ingredient

as our crews found out at the spring creek correctional center in seward, alaska. >> slow down., mr. seiko, slow down. >> blood on the floor over there. blood pathogens need to be cleaned up. mr. seiko, you need to respond to me so i know you're all right. let's go a little bit more. okay. okay. >> joel brooks is doing 12 years for assault. his adversary, john seiko, is serving a six-year sentence for sexual assault. our cameras were there when officers interrogated them about the fight. >> what was this all about? >> well, he's a rapist. i was talking with an inmate in the meal line about it with him. >> you were talking about his crime with another prisoner. >> i was talking with a prisoner about him being a rapist. he said, you aren't [ bleep ]. i said, you're not. >> i told him to stop talking about me and i repeated it. and he said, what are you going to do? and i repeated it again, stop talking about me. and then he walked up to me in my face and said, now what are you going to do? >> five minutes later he bum rushed me. >> don't come at me. >> slammed me against the wall.

. >>> nestled at the base of majestic glaciers, the small coastal town of seward, alaska, is known for more than just breathtaking natural beauty. it's also home to the spring creek correctional facility, alaska's only maximum security prison. it's here that we encountered carl abuhl, one of the most memorable killers ever profiled on "lockup." it didn't take long for him to make clear his opinions of some of his fellow inmates. >> all these inmates can say whatever they want to say. they're punks. and the people that are in control know they're punks. >> abuhl first came to spring creek in 2003 after he was convicted of murdering a co-worker. >> i caved his head in. i caved it in totally. i think the biggest fragment of bone they found was about the size of a half dollar. i probably got a little out of hand later on. i kept on hanging out and beating on him some more. there was -- are you really interested in the gory stuff? i was interested in how the decomposition would be. it was pretty interesting. it was kind of twisted. >> the raw interview footage goes on to reveal perhaps the