>>> cell house 220 at iowa state penitentiary houses the most disruptive inmates in the entire state.istrative segregation, also known as ad seg. >> the first time i entered ad seg, i was completely blown away by the cacophony of noise. every single prisoner seemed to be screaming at the top of their lungs and every single scream was an insult directed toward someone else. >> iowa state penitentiary is a maximum security institution, and there are challenges every day just by a virtue of the type of inmate we have here. many are here because of their lengthy sentences but an awful lot of them are here by virtue of their conduct at other prisons. this is the end of the road for them. >> and our cameras were rolling as the latest van full of trouble arrived. >> we're expecting 12 inmates coming in. they'll be processed in, their photos taken, height and weight and they'll be processed and sent to the appropriate cell houses. >> among those on their way to cell house 220 is jeremy fickling, a baby-faced inmate with a penchant for violence. fickling is serving four years for assaulting a

>> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars.e spent the last two years as cell house 220 also known as the hole. >> this is your maximum security unit inside of a maximum security prison. here's where we house all the inmates that couldn't be handled at another institution or couldn't be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> during his time in prison and especially in the hole, murray has found a coping device in self-mutilation. >> i've been in here so long it kind of releases stress. >> how do you cut yourself? >> i was on razors but they put me on razor restriction and i find stuff in here, staples, plastic from deodorants and stuff like that. >> when was the last time you cut yourself? >> about two weeks ago. >> the next day on their way to another interview in cell house 220, our crew ran into murray as correctional officers were moving him into a holding area so that they could inspect his cell. >> can you tell us what is going on? >> we are taking him out to shake down his cel

. >>> the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, rusty environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day, but despite his surroundings, inmate shawn shields was in high spirits. when he sat down with us, he was eager to help our producer get the interview underway. >> quiet on the set, you boneheads. >> then he calmly told us how he got 16 years added to the original sentence of 12 for robbery. >> me and another inmate had an altercation. i manipulated the door so that it would not latch completely, and when he came out to walk, i came down after him, and proceeded to stab him. >> why? >> it was just a verbal altercation. there is a lot of verbal altercations between people. you have to understand there are 16 men living together behind closed doors with stress, animosity towards one another in some cases, and it is not always a pleasant place to be. >> when inmates erupt, no one is safe, including correctional staff. >> we had an inmate that was on his way to the rec yard and

. >>> at kentucky state penitentiary, some inmates can apprentice in an auto body shop. at rikers island jail, a bakery churns out nearly 90,000 loaves of bread per week while teaching inmates how to bake. in many of the prisons profiled on "lockup," inmates have opportunities to learn skills that can help them find work on the outside. but all too many spend their time honing skills more suitable to mayhem and murder. >> i stabbed an inmate 12 times over some dope in front of the chow hall. >> i took a knife and stabbed him with it three or four times until he was dead. and then i butchered him with it. >> you find a piece of metal or something, file it down on the concrete. it ain't got to be sharp, it's just got to have a point. put your handle on it and do what you need to do. >> "lockup" crews are regularly exposed to the tools of a deadly trade. >> every prison we film in, there's always a shank museum, a place where the authorities display all of the weapons that are confiscated by staff. homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted down plast

. >> here, it's colorado state penitentiary.me estrada is in for murder, a crime he committed after being released from his first prison term. >> in here, you take things a lot more serious. somebody calls you a punk, somebody calls you a bitch, someone says i'm going to kill you, in here that means, you know, you hold people to that word -- to them words, man. when i got out and guys were saying that about me, i'm going to kill john, i'm going to do this to him. the first thing in my mind is i better go kill him before he getsmy, you know, even though he was probably just talking out of his ass. he didn't understand the type of person i am and where i've been and the thought process i've learned in here. and he's dead now for it. it's kind of like a kill or be killed. >> estrada's prison education started early. >> how old were you when you were first arrested? >> about 13 or 14. >> what did you do? >> stealing a stereo out of a car. that's how it all began. start out stealing bubble gum at the stores all the way to snatching p

we work together. >> our visit to the anamosa state penitentiary in iowa led us to a memorable pair of siblings michael and brad love whose lifelong allegiance drove them to kill. >> growing up i wanted to be him, you know. he was almost four years older than me. i see him running around drinking. breaking into stuff. doing whatever he is doing. i'm like i want to be like him. that's my big brother. that's my idol. so i kind of followed in the same footsteps. >> but as the love brothers revealed to our crew, those footsteps led down a bloody path that ended at a holiday party in the trailer park. >> christmas night, 1992, me and my brother went to a party with what we thought were friends. but they tried to rob us. take the liquor that we brought. >> they started beating me up. four of them. >> they hurt brad. i couldn't let them get away with that. they threatened his life. and i just couldn't handle that. so we left went to my trailer. i got a shotgun. my brother got a knife. machete. we went back out there and did what we did. >> i remember mike standing there he had the gun pointed

. >>> nestled at the base of the rocky mountains, colorado state penitentiary was built to house the state's most violent and disruptive inmates. it gives new meaning to the words hard time. >> we decided that csp could not be a place where inmates could get comfortable and make a life for themselves. we had to treat them differently. >> colorado state isn't just any maximum security prison. it's a super max facility. inmates here are considered a constant threat and are confined to single-person cells 23 hours a day. >> i was astounded by how sterile and stark and what tough time it would be to serve in that particular prison. i think that would be the hardest time possible. >> many of the inmates we spoke to agreed. they say the isolation is too much. >> i've been here a long time. i've seen a lot of guys, seen them snap, you know? any given day they can snap. >> 23 hours a day you're locked down. you come out for five hours a week. essentially it's just another cell. it's a dead room with a pull-up bar. there's one small window. everywhere you go, handcuffed, handcuffed to go in th

. >> two ways out, dead or alive. 90 miles from new orleans lies louisiana state penitentiary. commonly referred to as angola. it's the largest prison in america. started as a slave plantation and taken over by the state in 190 is, this land has seen more than its share of pain. it was once considered the bloodiest prison in america and the current population of 1,048 men it's estimated that 98% of them will die here yet things have are changed drastically and much credit goes to the warden. >> >> if we can save one person from being a victim of violent. it's to correct bad behavior and do that in a way that you can and the root way to do that is morality. moral people obviously don't steal. >> right here i have seen change because of god in your life. >> warden cain works on two levels, one, spiritual and religious, the other, engaging in employment opportunities. church is optional. work is not. >> i've been with productions for nine months. >> perhaps the most unusual example of innovation at angola is the tv station. the only inmate production company in the united states. >

as a group of inmates at kentucky state penitentiary explain to us. >> i don't fear none of these guys out here. the one i fear the worst is probably -- it's not a clique, my friends that i hang with, these 10, 15 people. i probably fear them most. because i know who they are. the rest of these guys i don't fear none of them. i hope they watch this. they all know the ones that don't. they all know they probably do anyway. >> only thing i fear is the end, i believe that's what's going to get me in life. kicking the bucket. >> just because i don't fear doesn't mean they can take me out. if he fears you that's when you got to worry. in here especially because they'll sneak up on you with a knife, a rock, a choke, whatever they want to do. they will get you because they fear you. >> to me, he's more dangerous than a stone cold killer. you know, he is scared. you know put himself in a situation where he is in the corner. >> that's his only way out. >> and no group of inmates feels more cornered than sex offenders. rapists and child molesters are the pariahs of the prison yard. >> as far as

based on past statistics, roughly 60% of them will be convicted and go on to serve time in a state penitentiarychoose to go down this road so now we got to pay the consequences for what we do. >> i'm going to be home one day and when i get home i'll be fairly young, i'll be 42 years old. i can still do something. my life is not over. >> i don't want to be in this situation again. i'm through with it. and i will never be in this environment no more. that's all i got to say. >> how many times you said that before? >> i got to give it up somewhere. i've got kids to think about, man. i don't want to be 50 years old up in here. >> the jail's criminal intelligence unit offers inmates a chance to help themselves by talking. if a detainee volunteers information that solves or even prevents a crime, than the cook county state's attorney's office may strike a plea deal with them. >> cooperating with the investigation, instead of 20 you can get 10 years, 5 years. i don't get you out of jail, you get yourself out of jail. from that point on we don't make any promises. i just takes time. it's the process we

. >> when we visited iowa state penitentiary, we found the prison attempts to provide services for aange of religious beliefs. >> a lot of the religions are a quieting, mellowing, peaceful type of thing. for them to pray, to see god answer something is to have something answered is empowering. >> then we met an inmate named travis wolfkill. >> in the name of satan, ruler of the earth, the king of the world, i command the forces of darkness to bestow the infernal power upon me. >> i'm in a satanic group here. there are only about four of us. it's a real small community. the church of satan is about enjoying life. it's about doing what you want to do. we believe in indulgence rather than abstinence. we believe in doing what makes us happy and what improves the quality of our life. >> such an attitude may have been what led wolfkill to a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murdering his grandmother over a $300 tax refund check. but he told us he has found a salvation of sorts in his religion. >> this has what's called the 11 satanic rules of the earth. if you look at num

to me and his son had been sentenced on his first drug offense to 15 and a half years to a state penitentiaryhe day president clinton left the white house, he signed a presidential pardon saving cory springfield a decade in a federal penitentiary. there is someone sitting in a federal penitentiary today with a 55-year sentence for selling marijuana on three occasions because the informant said there was a gun around. so a gun enhancement, mandatory gun enhancement from the judge that entered the sentence said it was an outrage. it was unjust. but 55 years. this is the kind of human toll in this country. we don't just need to legalize marijuana, we need to end drug prohibition, just like we ended alcohol prohibition and treat drug use and abuse as a public health and education issue and get it entirely out of the criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] we have the highest incarceration rate. we have 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prison population. we have more people in prison and in jails in this country on drug offenses than western europe has in their prisons an

penitentiary there. a lot of federal spending. up through here, farm subsidies, drought relief. all kinds of things. out in arizona, retirees and other -- all the way up there in the state of washington. i understand we've got somebody coming from that state, a big naval base. that's going to show up big and make it red. what the pew center on the states did, they divided it up, said what federal spending is a% of gdp. maryland, virginia, district of columbia comes up the highest. fairly evenly split between defense and non-defense cuts. hawaii 16%. the bulk is defense spending. you come down here to alabama where there is a lot of defense spending as well. colorado and georgia would round out the top ten list. another way to look at impact of federal cuts is not just spending but what about jobs. some surprising states show up. texas is a red state but they have a lot of federal jobs as a percentage of total employment. so does california. is it because of sometimes it's military? it's just that they're big states and there happen to be a lot of federal jobs there. also virginia, sort of a purple state. florida comes in relatively high. so michelle, what we have here i

penitentiaries. these are some of the reasons congress has prohibited the transfer of these detainees to the united states and why those prohibitions must continue. mr. president, this prohibition made sense last year and it still makes sense today. in the g.a.o. report only confirms that. the detainees who remain at gitmo include the ones who have been determined to be too dangerous to transfer, including individuals who were responsible for the masterminding of the attack on september 11, where -- which we just celebrated the 11th anniversary of. so if that's the case, why on earth would we put these detainees whom we won't send to other countries and cities and towns across the united states of america? the federal government's primary responsibility is to keep the american people safe. keeping these detainees at gitmo accomplishes that goal. i urge my colleagues to support the ayotte amendment and i would yield -- excuse me -- and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: i also ask i be recognized as if in morning

state like colorado is very purple. it wasn't just sort of your left wing soros billionaires that helped fund and push this thing through. it was libertarian conservative think tanks like the end penitentiarylike there is a starbucks and there is a secret stash medical marijuana store. so it's going to be a huge thicket of enforcement problems and the tension between the federal government and what the people have decided here has already been played out in the handful of states that have passed similar measures. >> steve: that's right. it wasn't just colorado. it was also washington state legalized pot. michelle malkin, we'll see you next thursday. >> you bet. take care. >> gretchen: take a good look in the mirror now. there are four things on your face that could reveal you're about to die? >> steve: oh, great. >> brian: first, struggling to pay your mortgage? bob massi on deck with what four more years of an obama administration means to you and your house g it. so why spend even a moment considering any broth but swanson? the broth cooks trust most to make the meal folks spend all year waiting for. in stuffing and more, the secret is swanson. meet the 5-passenger ford c-max hybrid. whe

state. we can even drill down further and look county by county, and what you see here for example if you drilled down here in louisiana there's one county in here where there's a federal penitentia penitentiaryl jobs as a percent of the total. you can see places along the texas coast, the bottom line on all of this is that we talk about reducing the ifisical cliff and solving the problem on a national level, but there are individual states that are going to be hit harder and there are blue states and states that come in so it's not easily democratic or republican solution, becky, when we look at it on a state by state basis, you drill down in some counties there are individual representatives who are going to oppose some of the solutions out there but it's complicated. >> i'm looking for a way to find resolution with the different initiatives. steve, how do you, i don't know, with that added complicated calculus, how could you possibly work this out? >> i forget what discussion we had last week that made me think about drilling down on this level but it was one of those where we thought we had it solved and you start gaming out the politics. the democrats are going to oppose that. what if we