. >> isolated among the rural farming communities of southwestern indiana, the wabash valley correctional facility is 40 acres of concrete, razor wire and broken dreams for the more than 2,000 inmates incarcerated at this maximum security prison. they arrive from all over the state, but superintendent dick brown who runs wabash who began as a corrections officer here 19 years earlier has seen a big change in the population. >> shut the door, please. >> traditionally, most of the people being incarcerated were from bigger cities. now we're seeing a lot more offenders come in from rural communities. i think that's due in part to the methamphetamine problem. the ingredients from methamphetamine comes from farms. that's why we have a large amount of offenders being encores rated, in my opinion, from local, small communities. they get involved in the meth ring, they get caught up and then they end up in the indiana department of corrections. >> i have to be honest, the police in my town, most of them knew me on a first-name basis. >> same thing, over and over. day in, day out. >> methamphetami

wabash valley correctional facility is isolated among miles of corn and soybean fields in southwestern indiana>> some of the states most violent inmates are housed here and they've been known to hurt each other. james stone has been in prison for the past 25 years for attempted murder. he's had more than a few scrapes in that time. some inmates have been known to create knives out of toothbrushes or anything else. several years ago, when stone was at another prison, he devised a more unique weapon. >> cheese graters, i had leather work gloves. i took the pads off the inside of welding gloves. dipped them in varnish, put the pads on top of the varnish, until it got good and tacky. dripped back down in the varnish, went over to a drill press where the curly cues are, i dipped down in a bunch of them, so it looked like a metal bush on top of the gloves. then let them dry for a minute. then i ran through the top layer of the varnish in the can to keep them from breaking off. and let them dry on your hands while your hands stay balled up. once they dried, they last forever. every time you hit someo

. >> 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

. >>> when we took our cameras to to the rural farmlands of southwestern indiana for our "lockup: extendedl facility we got a unique look into the lives of men who grew up in the small towns that dot america's heartland. few, however, came from towns any smaller than the one in which wabash is located. >> we're actually driving into carlisle, indiana. we have the town store. but it's actually a really cool little town. it's -- i think it's very typical, small midwest town. this is our lunch spot. >> there's really good baked spaghetti and pizza. but that's pretty much all that's on the menu. >> but it's good. >> during our shoot at wabash, we met a young man who appeared typical of many of the inmates. william jones jr. grew up in the small central indiana town of shelbyville, far away from the negative influences of big cities. >> it ain't very big. i like it. a lot of people don't like it. i like it. there's not a whole lot to do but, you know, just hang out with friends. wrong ones at that, i guess. >> hey, good morning. >> jones' first run-in with the law came at age 9, when he was fou

now he's one of more than 2,000 inmates at the wabash valley correctional facility in southwestern indiana. >> yeah, i had a great home, a great mother. you know what i mean? 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, you may get jumped, you may get shot, you know what i mean, may get harassed by the police, but when you grow up around that, it becomes normal. you get accustomed to it, and some may make it out of the neighborhood, if you can see an alternative lifestyle. but so many get consumed in a lifestyle that leads to prison or death. the street don't give you too many bright endings, man. i ran the streets, man. i did the street life. i'm in here washing clothes by hand and eating bull [ bleep ] chicks like that on the street. i wear my white t-shirt one time and throw it away and buy a new one. you make do with what you've got in prison, you know? the things you think you'll never do out on the street is like a luxury in here. this is everything, your kitchen, your bathroom, your laundry room, your b

the line of storms moving through illinois, southern parts of illinois and southwestern parts of indianais afternoon and evening we do have potential for severe storms as far west as portions of colorado and new mexico as far east as upstate new york and western connecticut. the greatest probability across areas in the eastern portions of tennessee through upstate new york where you look at the possibility for storms to rotate and produce isolated tornadoes in addition to large hail and damaging wind gusts. as far as travel goes, we expect conditions to remain quiet across the east. eventually storms will produce issues across parts of the east coast and most of the activity across portions of the interior northeast and across parts of the central plains. you cannot issue a travel out there. we will keep you updated otherwise high temperatures across the nation. you are well into the 90s across texas, oklahoma and the 90s across parts of the carolinas and interior portions of the northwest heating up as well. montana, idaho and also washington state. let's head over to you. sandra: maria

indiana and central illinois. this is where we expected it to be. and by later today, expected to be in southwestern pennsylvania. that is at 4:00 this afternoon. then the threat of showers will be here during the evening hours at 9:00 this evening, we could see heavy downpours moving through maryland and into central and southern delaware. this is where there is a threat of damaging winds and hail from severe weather. that threat stays to the south of philadelphia. the farther north you can, the less likely of seeing showers and thunderstorms this evening. during the day, enough sunshine to warm you into the upper 70s for the pocono mountains. sunny skies for allentown and reading, 8:000s this afternoon. middle 80s for mt. holly. 83 doylestown and 80s at the shore. dry during the day for rehoboth and cape may and atlantic city. showers arriving this evening. parts of the area scattered activity for this area and wilmington will likely see an evening shower. today sunshine and then clouds later on. this weekend, looks like rain for saturday. a high of just 71 degrees. we could see some late day suns