. >> back at kentucky state penitentiary, randy haight made it clear. he's not as eager to face death as holton. but he's ready for it, nonetheless. >> i'm extremely sad for what i've done. it hurts me knowing that i went to the level that i went. and if there was any way possible for me to be healed or correct it, believe me, it would be done. it's an impossible situation not only for me but for everybody involved, you know? and i'm not saying that to get out of an execution or -- because like i said, i'd ready. if you want to kill me, let's go. i'm ready to go. but i think that i have something i can offer somebody. and i don't think it's really time for me to die. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons to a world of chaos and danger, now the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >> every time we step into another prison we are amazed by the world that we enter. it's violent, it's loud, [ bleep ] -- very intimidating but through it all is a fascinating

but when "lockup" visited kentucky state penitentiary, we met fleece johnson, a long-time inmate whoa very different kind of homosexuality. >> we have sexual desires. right? so you got a bunch of mens locked up in one place. all of them get hard. all of them's horny, all of them get sexual desires. so what are they going to do? you won't let them have a woman. they going to have -- somebody's going to have to give up some booty. it's just that simple. >> the most memorable story that fleece told us was about the place and importance that booty has in a maximum security penitentiary. and he went on about it and on about it. >> in this prison, booty. booty was more important than food. booty, a man's butt. it was more important -- i'm serious. it was more booty -- having some booty was more important than drinking water. i like booty. >> johnson went on to tell our crew how he used to satisfy his sexual desires, especially during the 1970s and '80s when he was most active and prison security was more lax. >> when i'd see one and he looks good to me, when i go see him, i say, you come h

. >>> 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

. >>> the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, austere 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. let's roll tape. >> 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? was it because you guys weren't getting along? >> it was just a verbal altercation. >> does it happen a lot in here? >> 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 o

the sex offender we met at iowa's anamosis state penitentiary has a different existence.ry morgan spends nearly every hour of every day inside a small protective custody cell where he never sees the sun. >> well, what happened is they accused me of killing a little girl back in 1994 and next thing i know i'm in prison and then there's people talking about a contract supposed to be out on me. >> morgan was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl. he is serving life without the possibility of parole. >> there's been a lot of threats against me. it was a high profile crime at the time. and everybody in the system knew about it and they're trying to stand up and be some sort of righteous convict. i only rob banks or do drugs. i only sell crack to kids but this guy, he killed one, so now we're going to go and kill him. >> protective custody inmates like morgan are locked in their cells 23 hours a day to keep them from other inmates. >> it's claustrophobic being in a little cell 23 hours a day, but after a while you get used to it. what i miss most about

we work together. >> our visit to the anamosa state penitentiary in iowa led us to a memorable pair ofchael 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 at the door

as a group of inmates at kentucky state penitentiary explain to us. >> i don't fear none of these guyse 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 i'm concerned they can die.

. >>> nestled at the base of the rocky mountains, colorado state penitentiary was built to house the 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 the shower. yo

it replaced its 100-year-old predecessor, the tennessee state penitentiary, known as the walls. today, riverbend houses close to 700 male inmates, 480 of them are high risk offenders, classified this way because they're a threat to the security of the institution and other inmates. >> we house the worst of the worst including the male inmates, male offenders that are sentenced to death. >> ricky j. bell is warden at riverbend. he's been on the job since 1995. >> it's the state of the art operation. and very proud of what it represents for the taxpayers and the state. >> let's go! chow time! >> the prison compound consists of six different housing units. maximum security inmates live in one, three, and four. nicknamed the high side. it's here you will find riverbend's most dangerous inmates. >> the screaming never stops. it drives people crazy. i've seen a young man come to prison to maximum security, completely sane. three years later, he was screaming and cutting his self. >> ask me what being back here is like. it's like asking a cancer patient how it feels to die slowly. be d

steven robins is serving a 60-year sentence in the indiana state penitentiary for murder.ednesday night robins was mistakenly released after a court appearance in chicago. police found him last night at a home about 60 miles south of chicago, reportedly after numerous tips from the public and interviews with friends and family. he was rearrested without incident. >>> the search is on for a woman who was caught on camera pulling a brazen scam. she walked into a michigan car dealership earlier this week and drove off with a luxury suv without paying a penny. here's more on how she got the sales people to just hand over the keys. >> reporter: at west financial auto, there's absolutely no test drives unless three pieces of i.d. are shown up front. it was busy here tuesday night, and the owner says the woman was going from one salesperson to another trying to distract them. and it worked. >> the sales guy, he also handed her a key thinking i already took her license from her and her other i.d.s. >> reporter: the problem is, she left nothing behind and was out the door riding in

months and not years it means daniel harmon-wright can serve it in a county jail instead of a state penitentiary. peggy fox, wusa9. >> judge susan whitlock is scheduled to sentence daniel harmon-wright april 10th. she can either accept -- i should say she can accept or reduce the recommended sentence but she cannot make it longer. >>> u.s. officials are calling a suicide bomb attack on the u.s. embassy in turkey an act of terror. turkish officials believe the suspect belongs to a domestic militant group. >> reporter: the explosion blew off a door of the u.s. embassy in angora and threw debris into the streets of the turkish capital. a suicide bomber stopped at a security checkpoint killed himself and a turkish guard working for the embassy. >> the suicide bombing on the perimeter of the embassy is by definition a terrorist attack. >> reporter: police sealed off the area and are examining security camera footage. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but this is a photo of the suspect. turkey's interior minister said the bomber was linked to a domestic militant group. the state depart

ways out, dead or alive. 90 miles from new orleans, up the mississippi river lies louisiana state penitentiary. commonly referred to as angola at 18,000 acres, it's the largest prison in america. started as a slave plantation in the 1700s, converted to a prison plantation at the end of the civil war and taken over by the state in 1901, this storied land has seen more than its share of pain. it was once considered the bloodiest prison in america and its current cop pulgs of 5148 men serve sentences so long it's estimated that 90% of them will die here. yet things have changed drastically over the past decade and much credit goes to warden burl cain. >> corrections is our name. the root word is to correct deviant behavior. if we can save one person from becoming a violent criminal. that's really what our mission is. not to torment and torture but to correct bad behavior and do that any way you can. and the root way to do that is morality. moral people, obviously, don't rape, pilfer and steal. >> right here in the midst of angola, i have seen change and it's because -- >> it works on two levels.

ways out, dead or alive. 90 miles from new orleans up the mississippi river lies louisiana state penitentiary commonly referred to as angola, 18,000 acres,ed largest prison in america. started as a slave plantation in the 1700s, con vertsed to a prison plantation at the entd of the civil car and takingen over by the state this storied land has seen more than its share of pain. it was once considered the bloodiest prison in america and its current population of 5,148 men serve seen tnss so long it's estimated that 90% of them will die here. yet things have changed drastically over the past decade and much credit goes to the warden. >> corrections is our name, root word is to correct deviant behavior. if we can save one person from being a victim of violent crime it's worth everything we do and that's our mission not to termt and torture but to correct bad behavior and do it any way you can. the root way do that is morality, moral people ob skreesly don't rape, pilfer and steal. >> right here in angola, i have seen change. the favor of god on your life. >> the warden's approach to morality work

steven robins is serving a 60-year sentence in the indiana state penitentiary for murder. wednesday night robins was mistakenly released after a court appearance in chicago. police found him last knignighta home about 60 miles south of chicago after numerous tips from the public. he was rearrested without incident. >>> port operators along the east coast are breathing a sigh of relief this morning now that they've reached a deal for a new contract. this avoids a potential strike by long shoremen. the deal involved royalty payments made to union members for each container they unloaded. if the two sides did not come to an agreement, it would have crippled operations at 15 ports, including new york, new jersey, and hampton roads, virginia. both sides still do need to ratify that deal. >>> you'll need some extra patience if you ride metro this weekend. six stations are closed. right now buses are replacing trains between federal center southwest and checerly on the orange line. the capital south, eastern market, potomac avenue, stadium armory, minnesota avenue, and and did wo

multigrain cheerios >>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds the worst defenders in the state.e of war with each other and staff. it's up to the staff to keep the gang activity in check. today, they are doing a sweep in the level 5 facility allowing our crew along for the ride. >> ladies and gentlemen we are here to conduct a shake down. this is based on activity we've got. we have information on snm gang members. we're going to head to the unit and look for gang information and graffiti. >> sometimes when you shake down a cell, first thing you want to do is just observe everything. you look. the most common places you'll find is the easiest place you'll think of. look, gang paraphernalia here. >> what is it? >> three crosses. it's from new mexico. they use the three crosses to display gang symbols. >> it's essential in maintaining the safety of the facility. >> i found that hanging here. once it's validated, you'll never be able to go to a level-b facility. a lot bearing on the inmates future. once he gets validated. >> you can take that and i'll write him up for possession of

. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds some of the most violent offenders in the state.n our four months there, we saw some of the violence firsthand. but in 1980, pnm was site of one of the deadliest u.s. prison riots where inmates killed 33 of their own. >> jumped off february. almost by accident. big thing i couldn't get out of my head is they actually did it. we actually took the place over. >> james whittington survived the riot to return to the old main facility to show our producers what he witnessed. >> 27 years ago when i got up out of here. i didn't think i would ever see it again. leadership of the inmates decided hey, you know, this control center is takable. there was a huge industrial fire extinguisher that used to sit on one of these walls on hooks. three individuals lifted that industrial fire extinguisher off and said work on this window right here. the window began to give in. all three of these windows were taken out. >> once they broke that, they had access to the entire facility. they had full control. >> this is where it all turned bad after they bu

states for the disbursement of traffic people. we have the issue of 20% of the people in federal penitentiaries. there were unlawfully in the united states. border security is -- covers those particular issues. we have the other issues as well. i would like to concentrate on trying to secure the border. i am one of those who does not believe the border is secure. otherwise would not have all these organized crime problems that have been created in the united states. at the border in texas as you know, there is the ability for person -- different subject to come in and cross the border daily to go to school, to work. the 25 mile border visa system. and they use some type of card similar to this. where they are allowed to cross into the united states daily. do you think because of your location in san antonio that if we had a better legal entry visa whether it is a card with the biometrics, fingerprints, photographs, the different electronic things we can put what a person comes into the united states, slide in glide, so the speed. we know who that person is and they have permission to go to oregon

state's other prisons. they emphasize that stateville is reserved for their most hardened criminals. >> when it really comes down to it, you know, you in the penitentiary. so i mean, you know, certain things they could have, like maybe some more school. but guys get over there and they don't really take it seriously. so, i mean, for the most part, no. no, you in prison, man. >> when i'm walking galleries i'm talking to inmates and i get inmates that say they don't like it at stateville, i think that's a good thing. we don't want stateville to be a nice place. stateville is not designed to be a nice place. >> stateville becomes an even worse place for inmates who cause trouble. >> don't holler at me. >> we'll see just how bad things can get when we return to "lockup: stateville." ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds good. it's amazing what soup can do. [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. ♪ then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we'

penitentiary of new mexico. pretty much houses the worst of the worst. these individuals are the worst of the worst within level vi and level vi is the worst within the whole state of new mexico. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ]. >> these individuals are housed, one per cell. they're escorted and restrained everywhere they go. in handcuffs or leg irons and belly chains. we do have two and three-man status individuals that are very violent. and they like to assault our staff. >> today we tag along with deputy warden joni brown on her way to deal with one of level vi's most notorious inmates. >> they have an inmate who is refusing to leave his cell. at this point they're going to go in and give him a directive to cuff up and come out. if not, then we're planning the use of force for cell extraction. >> turn around and be restrained. >> no. >> if you don't turn around and be restrained we'll have to forcibly remove you from your cell. are you going to come out? >> what's going to happen now? >> they're going to instruct them to come in and remove him from the cell. >> 5:24 p.m., we're here for inmate kevin blanco 41918 who has refused several directions to be restrained

penitentiary of new mexico being heard on 5-6-08 at 2:20 p.m. on case number m-08-0498. my name is michelle boyer. i'm the hearing officer. will the inmate state>> my name is felix lewis. 56056. >> do you wish to be assisted by a staff member or another inmate? >> yes, davon lymon. >> do you need an interpreter to assist you in presenting your defense? >> si. no. no. >> do you wish to call anyone whose testimony is relevant in this case? >> there's no witnesses. >> you've been charged with category 8, paragraph 30, tattooing and/or tattooing or paraphernalia. do you admit or deny the report? >> i deny it. >> do you wish to present your version of the incident or do you wish to remain silence? >> my version. i was in the unit and i was called out. they told me that they've received information that i had received new tattoos. they asked me if that was true. i said no. so i stripped for them, and they seen my tattoo right here that has red ink in it, and they said that it was a new tattoo. i told them to look more closely, that it was red ink. and they were insistent that it was new. four days later, i'm in the hole. phd second major, my whole t

states for the disbursement of traffic people. we have the issue of 20 percent of the people in federal penitentiaries when they committed the crimeunlawfully and the estates. border security covers those particular issues. public like to concentrate specifically on post trying to secure the border. i am one of those that does not believe the borders secure, otherwise we would not have all these organized crime problems that have now been created in the united states. the border in texas, as you know, there is the ability for a person, a different subjects, to come in and cross the border daily to go to school, to work, the 25-mile border visa system. and they use some type of card similar to this where they're allowed to cross into the united states daily. do you think, mayor, because of your location in san antonio, that if we had a better legal entry visa to mull whether it is a card with biometrics, fingerprints, photographs, the different and i try things that we can put when a person comes in to the united states, slides and lives, so to speak, we know who that person is. they have permission to go to oregon for six months.

states for the disbursement of traffic people. we have the issue of 20% of the people in federal penitentiaries. there were unlawfully in the united states. border security is -- covers those particular issues. we have the other issues as well. i would like to concentrate on trying to secure the border. i am one of those who does not believe the border is secure. otherwise would not have all these organized crime problems that have been created in the united states. at the border in texas as you know, there is the ability for person -- different subject to come in and cross the border daily to go to school, to work. the 25 mile border visa system. and they use some type of card similar to this. where they are allowed to cross into the united states daily. do you think because of your location in san antonio that if we had a better legal entry visa whether it is a card with the biometrics, fingerprints, photographs, the different electronic things we can put what a person comes into the united states, slide in glide, so the speed. we know who that person is and they have permission to go to oregon