my name is shane bauer. 2009, i was captured on the iran-iraq border with josh fatal and sarah shourd. we never knew when or if we would get out. i spent four months in solitary confinement did i did not expect to find the same or worse back at home in california. >> solitary confinement was the worst experience in all of our lives. > >> just getting my cameras redding. i have this feeling of heaviness. i am nervous. to pelican to go in bay state prison. i know i'm going to see people who up in living in solitary for a very long time. >> always be on your toes through the >> my guides are the ticket chris acosta and the institutional bank investigator, david. pelican bay, one of the first supermax prisons in the country is infamous for its six shootinsecurity housing unit. some have never even broken housing rules. they're held indefinitely because the department of corrections says their connection, however continuously, to prison gangs. it is in seven months since i've been inside a prison cell. i thought

the best reporting on this has been done by a newsweek journalist and joe bicker and scott shane bauer of the new york times. when it comes to individual strikes, whether signature or not, you can only infer it by the number of casualties. signature strikes tend to kill more people, i think. >> it's an assumption? >> it is an assumption. strike refers to a a group of people doing certain things and not to one person. the administration has, with an im -- a euphemism -- tads, something to do with terrorism. because signature strike does not sound good. so i cannot say more, because i don't know. >> i don't have an inside view of the criteria they are using to operate signature strikes, nor do i have the data. that's one area where greater transparency would be in favor of greater legitimacy. when i can talk to you about is the analogy of drones -- signature strikes on one hand and circumstantial evidence on the other. if i am a prosecutor and i have a murder, i want to prove that murder with eye witness testimony. i want to approve it with dna. i don't want to prove it with circumstanti