wabash valley correctional facility is isolated among miles of corn and soybean fields in southwestern indiana come on. >> 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. zipped them in varnish, put the pads on top of the varnish, 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. they i ran them through the top layer of the varnish in the can so it would keep them from breaking off, and let them dry on your hands while your hands stay balled up. and once they dry, they last forever. every time you hit someone,

>> isolated among the rural farming communities of southwestern indiana, the wabash valley correctional facility is 340 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 kick brown, who runs wabash, and began his career as a corrections officer here 19 years earlier, has seen a big change in the population. >> get the door, please. >> traditionally most of the prisoners were from inner cities, gary, indianapolis, south bend, fort wayne. 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 for methamphetamine come from farms. that's why we have a large amount of offenders that are being incarcerated, in my opinion, from local, small communities. they get involved with the meth ring and get caught up and then they end up in the indiana department of correction. >> i goat honest, the police in my town, most of them knew me by a first name basis. >> it's the same thing o

back to "locked up." >>> isolated in rural southwestern indiana.he wabash facility is more than a hundred miles from an urban center. >> wabash valley has approximately 43 different gangs. approximately around 400 different gang members. that doesn't reflect all of our suspected members. those are all confirmed members. we have twin 200 to 300 suspected gang members at this facility. >> most of the gangs are divided along racial lines. the majority of the gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs. prison officials suspect that asatru might be a front for white supremacist gangs. markus maury murray, one of the leaders denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture. nor one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe that our religion is fine, your religion is fine. >> guy radcliffe who has been practicing asatru for several years here. said there's one group that is not welcome. >> if we found out someone in the community was a child molester, he would

changed the face of the inmate population at prisons like wabash valley correctional facility in southwestern indianat wabash also houses men doing time for far more serious crimes. men like jeremy blanchard. >> i have never been a drug abuser. i've never been 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, triple murder, and the moniker the local media gave him, kokomo slayer. >> it's telling you that's what i've done. that's who i am. that's what i'm about. yes. >> blanchard tracked down his former girlfriend, jessica berg, her mother and her mother's boyfriend when they traveled to kokomo, indiana, to attend a funeral for jessica's grandmother. blanchard broke into the house they were staying in, hid inside until they came hom