now he is one of more than 2,000 inmates at the wabash correctional facility in southwestern indiana. >> i had a great home and a great mother but by the same token when i step outside my front door it's the jungle. coming home from school you may get into a fight or get jumped or may get shot or harassed by the police. but when you grow up that becomes normal. you get accustomed to it and some people can make it out of the neighborhood. you know, if you can see an alternative lifestyle but a lot of people are consumed in a lifestyle that leads to prison or death. >> the street doesn't give you bright endings. i ran the streets and did the street life. and i'm in here washing clothes by hand and eating [ bleep ] chips. on the streets i wear a shirt and throw it away. here i have to wash it. things you do on the street is a luxury in here. this is your kitchen, your bathroom, your laundry room, your bedroom all in one cell. >> and you share it with another person. >> another bro man who fares and piss and whatever else he does. you stuck in here and you forced to deal with it. so you b

at prisons like wabash valley correctional facility in southwestern indiana. wabash houses men doing time for more serious crimes. men like jeremy blanchard. >> i have never been a drug abuser or a drunk. i knew what i done when i done it. i knew the heinous nature of what i done. i can still to this day remember nearly every blood spot that was in that house. i can remember the wallpaper, the way the bodies were laid. i can remember nearly everything that happened that night. >> blanchard has served a little more than one year of a 195-year sentence. but his facial tattoos will forever commemorate both his crime, the triple murder and the moniker the media gave him, the kokomo slayer. >> that's who i am and what i'm about. yes. >> blanchard tracked down his former girlfriend, her mother, and her mother's boyfriend when they traveled to kokomo, indiana to attend a funeral for jessica's grandmother. blanchard broke into their home, hid inside and stabbed all three to death with a butcher's knife. >> a friend of jessica's told me that she had an abortion and tha

. >> isolated in the rural farming communities of southwestern indiana, the wabash valley correctional facility is 340 acres of concrete, razor wire and broken dreams for the inmates incarcerated in this maximum security indiana prison. they arrive from all over the state. but the superintendent dick brown who runs wabash and started as a corrections officer here 19 years earlier has seen a big change in the population. >> traditionally they were from the inner cities, cities like gary and indianapolis and south bend and now we are seeing more from the rural communities in part to the methamphetamine problem. the ingredients for methamphetamine come from farms. so that's why we have a large amount of offenders being incarcerated from local small communities. they get involved with the meth ring and caught up and end up in the indiana department of correction. >> i got to be honest, most of the police knew me by a first-name basis. >> it's the same thing over and over. day in, day out. >> methamphetamine is the worst thing i have ever come in contact with. my only regret, i wish i never

. >> with more than 2,000 inmates, the wabash valley correctional facility in southwestern indiana has a larger population and more acreage than the rest of the small town in which it's located. >> carlisle is a very small community, approximately 1,200 is their population. it's comprised of a school. it has a grocery store. it has a gas station, a couple of little restaurants, a dollar store and that's really about all that's in carlisle. >> while carlisle might be a remnant of a simpler time, inside the twin security fences of wabash is evidence of how some aspects of society have grown harder. >> we're seeing a lot more offenders coming in much younger than they were before and much more violent than in the past as well. correctional officers are the backbone of the facility. they're the ones dealing with the offenders on a daily basis. they are frontline. >> i've been hearing about the correction setting since i was 8 years old. i grew up around it. so coming in here was actually kind of easy for me. i already knew what to expect. i've heard all the war stories. >> officer jarrod m

southwestern parts of state had to degree out from up to 10 inches of snow. wind topped 50 miles an hour. road were icy. tree branched snapped power lines. after a storm in central indiana, a case of a train versus a snowplow. and it looks like the train won. conductor said the plow slowed at a railroad crossing, slammed into the moving train for no apparent reason, the plow driver taken to the hospital with leg and arm pain but was alert and talking. >> lucky guy. lucky guy. a look now at your weather across the country. windy with more than a foot of mountain snow in the rockies. up to 7 inches around salt like city. cheyen cheyenne, denver. high wind from san francisco to san diego. snow showers around the twin cities. milwaukee and green bay. >> just 25 in fargo. 30, minneapolis. 45, indianapolis. 50 right here in new york. 60 in atlanta. a frigid 21 in colorado springs. and 51 in albuquerque. >>> check your calendar this morning. somehow, don't know how, we arrived at december 1. where is the year going? actually december 1 means it is world aids day. >> right started marking the occasion, down under, bathing landmarks in red light. the opera house and harbor bridg