segregation unit. >> basically, there are very few inmates that come directly to the kentucky state penitentiaryr the most part, inmates come to the penitentiary via other facilities that those inmates have either committed serious rule infractions, have long-term segregation sentences and/or have failed to adjust at other facilities and that's basically how they wind up here. >> we have some searches to do. >> glenn haverlan became warden of ksp in 2002, after 30 years with the kentucky department of corrections. >> y'all have a good shift. >> yes, sir. >> he says that while the prison may look old on the outside, many security measures within the facility are state of the art. >> we have approximately 68 closed-circuit cameras throughout the facility. some of the cameras we have, have the ability to pan areas, zoom in on a particular person to the degree that you can literally read what they write on a piece of paper. we also have the ability with this system that there are passwords that i can provide to different staff to where they can actually pull the system up on their pc at their workst

they live at the iowa state penitentiary. behind this 40-fat stone and concrete exterior is a population of drug abusers, murderers, and the mentally ill. on the west bank of the mississippi river is one of the oldest prisons in the country, iowa state penitentiary. there is a separate facility at iowa state penitentiary called ccu, the inmates who are considered mentally ill are housed here. lieutenant john fedler oversees the correctional staff at ccu. >> the staff have been through specialized training to be able to deal with the mentally ill inmates. >> up to 200 men can be housed in ccu. most of them reside in single cells in one of the four general population pods. >> i am here for depression. i was out on work release. i escaped from a work release center because i couldn't find a job. i robbed a bank in my hometown where the work release center was. i got in a high-speed chase with state troopers of missouri and local law enforcement. i hit one of the state troopers head-on, trying to commit suicide. and i killed the

at iowa state penitentiary, we found that the most brutal violence is sometimes against oneself. >> open. 22-year-old inmate caleb etter, suffered severe burns over two-thirds of his body when the methamphetamine lab he was running exploded. when we interviewed etter, he was also serving time for both sexual assault and for attacking a peace officer. >> i push everything to the limit, because as you can tell, i think i'm unstoppable. i think nothing will stop me. nothing will ever kill me. i thought i was god. reality check, i'm not. >> in spite of his calm demeanor, a few hours after this interview, etter got into a verbal confrontation with a female correctional officer that quickly escalated. c.e.r.t., the correctional emergency response team, was called in to extract him from his cell. >> he's been banging his head on the door, spitting at the glass, refusing to move or comply with any orders. we have permission to use force to extract him from his cell. >> for security reasons, the prison videotapes all extractions. >> you ready to move? >> put your hand out. other one. >> a mask is

[ bleep ] >> when we visited the kentucky state penitentiary, we met inmate dwayne harper, who had astory of forcing officers to extract him from his cell. [ bleep ] >> i fight sometimes. i argue with the guards, but i'm not violent. you know, i've done a lot of time. i've been doing time on and off since i was 12 years old. >> when we first met harper he was serving his third year in administrative segregation or solitary confinement for having assaulted correctional officers. >> in my opinion, duane is a really stressed out individual. >> get everybody out of the top. don't just strip me out of the pop. strip everybody out of the top. you [ bleep ]. >> shortly after "lockup" arrived at kentucky state penitentiary, officers had to extract harper from his cell again. >> he threatened us with throwing feces on officers, spitting on us through the door, he threatened our families. >> a lot of the older ones like lieutenant gill, all of them, they know me from when i was a youngster. so we have a different type of communication level and understanding. >> every night you are going to go

a deal's a deal. >> 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 into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >>> this is the hardest part because you're in here with very little to do. you sleep. and you eat. and you sleep some more and you eat some more. >> it is a life of profou

>> when we met dante bullock at the anamosa state penitentiary in iowa, he was spending his third day in ad seg, the administrative segregation eye unit, also known as the hole. authorities say he stuffed this padlock inside of a sock and brutally attacked another inmate with it. >> do you think that you have a violent past or angry or what is your situation? >> i am violent when i am provoked. >> bullock is already serving a life sentence for kidnapping, but if the padlock assault charges stick, he could spend the next year in ad seg, locked in his cell 23 hours a day. >> i was in the wrong place at the wrong time. the inmate had been assaulted and my defense to them was telling them i was in the area and pushed out of the way as the inmate was trying to get away from the person that assaulted him. >> bullock was anxiously awaiting a hearing with the prison's administrative law judge to plead his case. in the meantime, he let us know that while ad seg meant losing

serving time for murder at animosa state penitentiary in iowa. >> i was never incarcerated with him. when i found out he was getting incarcerated, what he did time for, what he's charged for, they asked if there are any problems if we're in the same prison. i told them, yeah, i would probably end up killing him. i just cannot condone that. >> "lockup" has profiled many inmates who spew hatred to sex offenders. but we've also introduced viewers to those on the receiving end. thomas headley is serving a 15-year sentence at utah state prison. and like many sex offenders says his punishment is unjust and his crime misunderstood. >> i was charged with kidnapping somebody that was under 14. i am a man that is attracted to young women, god forbid. 99% of us are. >> when we interviewed him, headley was serving his time in solitary confinement as a punishment for being uncooperative. but he explained to us that he had his own motives for being in the hole.

>> 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.

>> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars. he 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

. >>> 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 under way. >> quiet on the set you bone heads. >> it's a prison, you know. >> all right. let's roll tape. >> then he calmly told us how he got 16 years added to his original sentence of 12 for robbery. >> me and another inmate had an altercation. i manipulated the door so that it wouldn't 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 got to understand. there's 16 men living together behind closed doors with stress, animosity toward one another in some cases, and it's not always a pleasant pla

. >> here, it's colorado state penitentiary. and this time 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 gets me even though he was probably 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 purs

still, there are those inmates like alex bennett, at the kentucky state penitentiary, who don't always agree with or abide by the rules. >> i'm a person that's been in the joint all my life. i've been told i'm pretty hard-core. and i need a certain type of environment. you got something you want to say to me now? we can get it on national tv here. do you? >> everything about alex's mannerisms, his appearance and the words that he spoke said convict. alex just embodied that. >> bennett was 54 years old when we met him and had spent 33 of those years behind bars for armed robbery, kidnapping and murder. >> the system today isn't like the system that i came into 36 years ago. the system today has the majority of their inmates programmed to do what they're told when they're told to do it. and so, they get to the point where they expect that from everybody. well, there's still a few old dogs around, who like to do things their own way. >> bennett's way of doing things, however, has had horrifying results. after adapting to life in a single-person cell here, he was transferred to a lower sec

because if he didn't believe what he was hearing, we were going right back to the state penitentiary.and there was never no more relief. >> this was it. >> this was it for sure. >> good morning, your honor. >> when i got to the hearing, it was all out warfare. >> the defense began laying out the strange tale with the facebook post. >> why have you come forward in this case? >> you know, on the streets i always heard that hires didn't do it. >> next, the d.c. lawyer who just happened to answer that post of mary's. >> would you please state your name for the record. >> kevin. >> kevin was feeling the pressure. that morning he'd awakened screaming obscenities. >> just a crazy, bad dream where there were demons trying to prevent me and john hellsher from testifying in these hearings. i don't normally wake up in the middle of the night screaming obscenities. >> on the stand, he retold the story that john, the old roommate told him back in 1993. >> he made a comment to the effect that you wouldn't believe what happened that night. >> so he felt it was his duty to step in. >> two innocent pe

housing more than 800 inmates, the penitentiary of new mexico is the state's highest security prison. >> we have pretty much the worst of the worst inmates in the state of new mexico. a number of the inmates that have been convicted of first degree murder. >> they got a lot of psychos too who just don't give a [ bleep ], doing life sentences. >> the prison's history is notorious. many of the most violent events took place in a facility called the old main. >> inmates had to prove themselves just to survive. >> you had almost 1,200 inmates in that facility that was built for 750. >> you have people living on top of each other, pushing each other. and i mean, there was a lot of tension. >> carlos cervantes was first brought to this prison in 1975. >> there was a lot of harshness as far as punishment. back then you had a hall, which they called the hold, which was a prison cell with nothing but a hole in the middle, and they would throw you in there butt naked. >> tired of the overcrowding and abuse inside the prison, inmates reached their boiling point on february 2nd, 1980. what ensued

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 population so long, that many will die here. things have changed over the past decade and much credit goes to the warden. >> it's the mission to not torment and torture but to correct bad behavior and the root way to do that is morality. more old people, obviously, don't steal. >> right here in angola, i have seen jesus. >> warden's approach to morality works on two levels. one, spiritual and religious. the other, engaging employment opportunities. church is optional. work is not. >> i've been with the production now for nine months. >> perhaps the most unusual example of innovation at angola is the tv station. the only big house produc

ray had been an escapee from missouri state penitentiary when he assassinated king. >> the main thing he was interested in was escaping. now, when i first met him, i was interested in escaping too. we got into a couple of plots together that never worked out. one we were going to go through the roof of the old auditorium where they showed movies. we did get the hole cut but it was discovered before we had a chance to use it. we didn't get caught, we didn't get locked up over it. they found it and tightened security in that area. >> in 1977 ray plotted another escape with james slagle and two other inmates. the plan was to climb the outer wall using a makeshift ladder crafted from chains. the inmates knew the tower guard closest to the wall took an afternoon nap. but slagle feared ray's high profile would lead them to the escapees. >> i said, james, you've got no pickup, no car. as soon as your foot touches down, they know it's you, there will be a million cops in this valley and there's no way you'll get away. it's a futile effort and i don't believe in wasting my energy, so i just sa

>>> the penitentiary of new mexico houses the state's only death row.ast lethal injection took place in 2001, and you're about to meet one of the few men waiting execution. he has a reputation as a savage killer and a unique perspective on his crimes. >> my name's robert fry. i am in for four counts of murder, and i'm currently serving three life sentences, and as of now, i'm on death row. should that get overturned, i'll be serving a maximum of 209 years. >> robert fry is a serial killer. behind each of his murder convictions lies a tale of violence and horror. >> i feel that i had evil within. not that i myself was evil, but that i allowed myself to be drawn towards evil things. >> while robbing a store, fry stabbed his first two victims, then slit their throats. >> when you walk in that path of darkness, you can't help but walk hand in hand with evil. whether you believe it to be evil or not, i never considered myself a violent person. >> in 1998, fry savagely beat a man to death with a shovel. >> i came from a very good family, but i got involved wi

. >> that's the golden rule in the state penitentiary, don't ask me [ bleep ], i don't tell them., respect yourself. they're going to feed him to the wolves. they're going to feed him to the wolves. he's a lamb chop. yeah. [ bleep ]. >> they're probably getting interviewed. your brother's going on tomorrow. >> without the nazi low rider code of honor to adhere to, speedy can work with isu. even as a dropout, he is blatantly breaking gang ranks by helping officers gather intelligence, working directly with officer morales, who he has known for four years. >> hi, speedy. >> i think to myself as giving something back. if it's saving somebody from getting hurt, then that's cool. that's all right. >> i brought you in today because i want to actually kind of get more insight on gangs, weapons, how they're made. because i know every step we try to take, you're always one up. >> exactly. we've got 24 hours to stay ahead of you. you only come here for eight hours. so you got to step up your game to keep up with us. >> what is this working for? >> this right here is a plastic bottle, a peps

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

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

as a group of inmates at kentucky state penitentiary explain to us. >> i don't fear none of these guysre. the one i fear the worst is probably my clique. 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. so 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 them don't mean they can't take me out of it. you don't have to fear a man to get hurt or killed by him. 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'll get you because they fear you. >> to me, he's more dangerous than a stone cold killer. you know, he's scared. he's put himself in a situation where he's in a corner. >> that's his only way out. >> and no group of inmates feels more cornered than sex offenders. rapists and

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kern valley state prison opened its gates in june 2005 to help ease overcrowding at other state penitentiaries. it brings california's total number of correctional facilities to 33. 130 miles northeast of los angeles is california's central valley. known for farming and agriculture, it is also home to kern valley state prison. the facility costs $379 million to build, and it will eventually hold 5,000 men. >> we want to try to get the inmates to start programming and try to rehabilitate them to be able to get back on the outside and get their footing back into the community. >> there's no rehabilitation in the california department of corrections. and i don't care who tells you that there is, they're lying to you. >> this prison is supposed to be a model throughout the entire state. its specific purpose is to show society, right? that hardened criminals can be rehabilitated. okay, but that's not what it is. everybody's landing here and it's just exactly the opposite. >> behind triple-layered razor-wired fences, inmates occupy four housing units. open less than a year, the prison is still strug

except what they mean is, the texas state penitentiary at huntsville, also sometimes known as the huntsville unit, which is not a hospital. the prison had a hospital long ago apparently but that hospital has not existed since something like 1983. when this pharmacy, pharmacy innovations, found out where they had really sent their drugs in response to this purchase order, when they found out it wasn't to a hospital and what it meant about how these drugs were going to be used, the company reportedly was shocked. they were caught unaware that the drugs were purchased to use them for lethal injections. ha, ha, texas apparently fooled that company to sending the prison system some drugs. but when the state of texas tried to pull that same trick again with the same company to get them to send another drug, by that point the company had caught on to what texas was doing and lying about and the company would not send them any more drugs. lethal injection, deliberately misusing pharmaceuticals to kill people through iv lines and needles, it's never been a trouble freeway of killing people. even befo

in just a few days, curtis will travel with the boxing team to a nearby state penitentiary where he willstone warrior to fight, especially in prison fighting, because i think it's more harder than professional fights. if i take this belt, if i win, i'm the man. i mean, nobody has beat this cat for three to four years, and if i beat him i'm the big man on the compound. nobody tell me nothing. >> one way in which curtis draws inspiration is through his family. >> i brought him in. >> two days before this fight, curtis's mother, sister, and niece traveled to elayn hunt to wish him their best. >> i try to come to visit him every other weekend. in the beginning it was real hard because i knew i had to leave him here, but now it's getting better because i realize that it was just -- it was a mistake that he made, and it's just something that we're learning to cope with. >> we're behind him, we're with him, and whatever it takes for us to see him through this, then that's what we're going to do. and once he's released, then we'll be released. to me he's the heavyweight champion of the world. he

being described as the%z)ñ botched execution of convicted killer clayton locket in oklahoma state penitentiaryw for the murder of 19-year-old stephanie neman. he shot her and)1ñ watched as a 4j+$s(lices >+ 1999. trace gallagher is live with this. >> it was 33 minutes between the time the first drug was injected and he died of a heart attack. his 19-year-old victim, stephanie neman endured hours of unthinkable agony on th night she died, june 3rd, 1999 stephanie neman was driven in area.anie neman was driven in beaten, reportedly raped and forced to watch her own grave being dug and pushed into that hole and when she told her attacker that she would go to police, clayton locket put a shotgun to her head and pulled the trigger. that gun jammed. locket walked back to her truck, cleared the weapon, and despite stephanie neman's screams, he shot her in the head. locket was told by an accomplish neman was stillaccomplice to bury her anyway. her family said every day we are left wi.enrrific images of the last days of her life. we're left with the images that she needed us and were not aware &háhp &h

last night stayed, based on the tragic and traumatizing events last night, in the oklahoma state penitentiary, thank you for helping us understand this. i know this is an exhausting and stressful time. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, rachel. >> thank you. all right, to that point to the way we execute people and whether or not it gets were the, whether or not it could be improved, whether there is a safe way to kill people, turns out the progress on that, a thing that's hard to call progress, that story is ahead, plus a lot else tonight. stay with us. ♪ what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together reliably fast internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system. it looks like the future! we must have encountered a temporal vortex. further analytics are necessary. beam us up. ♪ that's my phone. hey. [ female announcer ] the x1 entertainment operating system. only from xfinity. tv and internet together like never before. >>> there are few events, few occasions that the entire country experiences together. but what happened in the e

. >> so sergeant tahmooressi first put behind bars at la mesa state penitentiary. >> he leapt over a huge wall. scaled over a wall and obviously activated the protocol, security protocol. he was placed in a special cell, it's my understanding and then he hurt himself. >> you mean deliberately hurt himself? >> yes. >> he didn't hurt himself in the jumping. >> yes apparent whether i a light bulb. >> and they chained him as a result of that? >> well, he was chained but my understanding is that he had some sort of bandages so he wouldn't be hurt. because their concern was that he might hurt himself. or he might hurt someone else. >> will he mesa prison transferred sergeant tahmooressi to more modern prison here in mexico. he was previously held at another prison which was a much more dangerous prison. he has been transferred now to this prison. "on the record" went to the prison to interview sergeant sam reissy. but at the gate, despite repeated attempts and promises, the prison turned us away. so then, after finally being provided pen and paper, sergeant tahmooressi sent a handwritten l

. >> when we visited iowa state penitentiary, we found the prison attempts to provide services for aa lot of the religions are a just quieting, mellowing, peaceful type of thing. and so 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, the 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 the 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. and if you look at number nine

last night stayed, based on the tragic and traumatizing events last night, in the oklahoma state penitentiaryfor helping us understand this. i know this is an exhausting and stressful time. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, rachel. >> thank you. all right, to that point to the way we execute people and whether or not it gets better, whether or not it could be improved, whether there is a safe way to kill people, turns out the progress on that, a thing that's hard to call progress, that story is ahead, plus a lot else tonight. stay with us. [female announcer] grow, it's what we do. we grow big celebrations, and personal victories. we grow new beginnings, and better endings. grand gestures, happier happy hours. so let's gro something greater with miracle-gro. what will you grow? (meowright on cue. (laughs) it's more than just a meal, it's meow mix mealtime. with wholesome ingredients and irresistible taste, no wonder it's the only one cats ask for by name. ♪ why do results matter so much? it's probably because they are the measurement of everything we do. for a wireless company, results come