seward was everyone's friend and everyone's enemy at the same time. lincoln sent him down to fort monroe, hampton roads, to be ready to meet there with these three southern peace commissioners once he learned they were coming. as we'll see in a moment, he was going to be sure first, if he could, that those peace commissioners were serious about reunion before he would let the meeting take place. on the day that lincoln was sent down to hampton roads, the house of representatives was set to vote on the 13th amendment banning slavery. this is the house chamber, same chamber we have today, though at that time it was quite new thaddeus stevens there. that day to be the vote -- against, this is treated as the main theme of the lincoln movie for those of you who have seen it. the emancipation proclamation, its post-war effect was very dubious. there was a lot of debate about whether it was going to be effective after the war or not. the 13th amendment was going to cure that problem, by amending the constitution to ban slavery permanently as a matter of law.

it is what it is, you know. >> this is my second time here at seward.me 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 creek are operat

." ♪ >>> nestled at the base of majestic glaciers, the small coastal town of seward, alaska is knownor 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 abel, 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 of these inmates can say what they want to say. they're punks. people in control know they're punks. abul first came to spring creek in 2003, after he was convicted of murdering a co-worker. >> i caved his head in. caved it in totally. i think the biggest fragment of bone they found was a size of a half dollar. i kept hanging out and beating on him some more. there was -- it was -- are you really interested in the gory stuff? i was interested in how the decomposition would be. it was pretty nasty. it was kind of twisted there. >> the raw interview footage goes on to reveal perhaps the most grisly aspect of abuhl's crime. >> your sentence is what? >> 70

seward was even rumored to have nursed jefferson davis back to health during one of his fits of illness. so these friendships and the washington experience help explain why davis and others were so surprised by the speed at which the session took called and the sadness in which they met, the end of the union or at least what they expected to be the end of the union. there's a great scene at the end of all this be a jefferson davis saying goodbye in january 1861 folding up his things, walking out of the capital, weeping the entire way. it's not that picture we think of jefferson davis. but even jefferson davis understood that this was a serious moment, a moment he was not necessarily expecting. what i want to leave you with tonight is this idea that washington during this time was not the typical divisive and violent place that we think when we think of the coming of the civil war. in many ways it was the exception. it was the kind of place where you could escape some of that divisiveness and as a result we , cannot think about these people is causing a civil war or are being emblematic

the words of william seward burroughs, one of my heroes. 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 beats. he was not a hipster. burroughs had nothing about him that was a beat nick. 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. burroughs was apparently high for much of the process on heroin or locally valuable prescription opiate. of course the daily staple of many in this part, hashih. 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 psychoa

." ♪ >>> nestled at the base of majestic glaciers, the small coastal town of seward, alaska is knowning natural beauty. it's also home to the spring creek correctional facility,

--streets, sewards power and water. >> pam: the master developer of the oakland coliseum city projecteed tracking going on over at the alameda county board of supervisors. >> pam: the $2 billion development plan for the sports and entertainment complex appears to have the backing of oakland city leaders. but alameda county supervisor nate maile explains why the board of supervisors has yet signed on >> for is we will be interested creek maybe if the private developers buy out and the city working on this bill themselves. >> pam: >> reporter: san mateo bridge is showing off tonight. sluggish but traffic is moving better. temperatures 54 degrees in san francisco. we can go ahead and take a look at the temperature trend for the next few days. >> reporter: 65 degrees for the weekend. pleasant weather all the way all around. 46 degrees in santa rosa reaching 49 in hayward. afternoon will warm up after f o g in the morning. 67 in redwood city corporate--we have 66 degrees for richmond. and walnut creek. 65 is where we will pop off and then deal and the peninsula to rid--in danville and the