step out. >> when we visited the kentucky state penitentiary we met inmate duane harper who had a longhistory of forcing officers to extract him from his cell. >> i'll fight sometimes, i'll argue with the guards but i'm not violent. i've done a lot of time. i've been doing time 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. shortly after lockup arrived to kentucky state penitentiary officers had to extract harper from his cell again. >> threatened us, throwing feces on us, threatened our families. >> a lot of the older ones like lieutenant gill, they know me from when i was a youngster back down here. so we have a different type communication level and understanding. >> every night you work. i know you all. >> harper will serve at least two more years in segregation. >> i made things hard for myself. i've been in segregation three years and i don't blame nobody else. i had opportunity to get out of here. i let my anger and my things get to me that i sho

this is what membership does. >>> cell house 220 at iowa state penitentiary houses the most disruptiventire state. this is administrative 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 fo

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, and 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 corrected, 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 there to get out of an execution because like i said, i'm 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 really think it's time for me to die. save your coffee from the artificial stuff. ♪ switch to truvia. great tasting, zero-calorie sweetness... ...from the stevia leaf. you know, the salesmanwhen comes over...r, and tells you, "okay, this is the price," and you're like. you know, you don't know if you're getting a good deal or not. that's what led up to us looking at truecar.com. and it shows you all the information... you need about what price

. >> this is the electric chair, which is maintained by the kentucky state penitentiary in order to complete executions by electrocution. it was originally built somewhere in the 1900s. >> it's just leather and wood and metal like any other chair, but there's this unmistakable feeling. you know people died there. >> some of kentucky's death row inmates can choose between the electric chair and lethal injection. that's also the case in the neighboring state of tennessee. when we visited there, we met a death row inmate who soon would face that decision. and as far as darrell holton was concerned, the sooner the better. >> convicted of four counts of first degree murder. my children. >> throughout the entire interview, holton spoke in a calm, coherent manner about what led to his nightmarish actions. >> got out of the army.

we first met roy in the original "lockup" episode at colorado state penitentiary in 2000. at the time he had been through five gruelling cell extractions. >> i got some criminal tendencies, okay? you know what i mean. i robbed, i assaulted a guy in here. it ain't like i'm in here for nothing, you know? >> roy slagle was paroled in the fall of 2008. but his twin brother, ray, is incarcerated here at limon, serving 15 years for assault. >> how is your brother, where is he at now? >> he's at home. >> is he at home? when did he get out? >> about two months ago. >> he would act out, though. he would get up to that point where he would act out. and once he calmed back down, he was reasonable. but he would get worked up. >> point of no return. >> several years prior to becoming the warden at limon, travis tranney was a lieutenant at colorado state. and had been involved in several of roy's cell extractions. >> the last four cell extractions that was ever done with him when he got sprayed, i was the one that sprayed. that was the last straw. he said he didn't want to play anymore.

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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. >> everything about alex's mannerisms, his appearance, and the words that he spoke said convict. alex just embodied that. >> bennett was 54 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 are told when they are 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 as way of doing things has had horrifying results. after adapting to life 18 single person cell here he was transferred to a lower security prison in 1998. he

. >> reporter: when we visited iway state penitentiary, we found a prison attempts to provide services for a wide range of religious beliefs. >> a lot of religions are a quiet and peaceful type of thing and so for them to pray with you about answers, it's very, very special. >> reporter: then we met an inmate travis wolfkill. >> in the name of satan the ruler of the earth the chemical and biological of the world, i command the darkness to be bestowed upon me. i'm in the satanic group here. it's only about four of us here. 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, improves the quality of our life. >> reporter: such an attitude may have been what led wolfkill to a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murdering his grandmother of a $300 texas check. he told us he has a saflation is of sorts. >> this has the 11 satanic rules of the earth. if you look at number nine, it says, do not harm little children, number ten says

. >> he will spend the rest of his life in a state penitentiary.

at iowa state penitentiary, we found that the most brutal violence is sometimes against ones self. >>pen 11. >> 22-year-old inmate caleb suffered severe burns over two-thirds of his body when the methamphetamine lab he was running exploded. when we interviewed him, he was also serving time for both sexual assault and for attacking a peace officer. >> i pushed everything to the limit because i'm unstoppable. i think nothing can stop me. nothing will ever kill me. i thought i would die. 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. sert the emergency response team was called in to extract him from his cell. >> he's banging his head on the door, banging the glass, refusing to comply with orders. >> for security reasons the prison videotapes all extractions. >> you ready to move? keep your hands down. all the way. >> open b-11. >> a mask is placed over his head to prevent him from spitting. >> let's go. initially he seems to be compliant. but as th

most of them within the stone ramparts of kentucky state penitentiary. >> this was like a gladiator down here. you come down here, you won't even fight. are you going to be somebody's punk? it's just that simple. so, to survive here in here, i am fighting. and so we fought. and i whooped their ass all around this prison. >> johnson recalls the legacy of violence he unleashed on officers during his time in kentucky's three cell house, the hole. >> when they come up to my cell, said back up, handcuff, i said [ bleep ] you. you come on in here and get me. let's do it. when they come and fight me, they don't play. i like being shackled to the bed no telling how many times, maced. i was maced so much they said don't even mace him because it don't even faze him. he's immune to him. they're take and shoot me with a taser gun, whatever. because it's going to take more than that to calm me down, you know. and when they come up with something new, they come to me, and try it on me. see if it works. >> i definitely have the sense that fleece loved to have an audience. he was' great storyteller. and

to the state penitentiary. >> so this guy takes me back to the jail cell and prison doors slam it has the sound, you thought you would never get out again. >> as soon as they leave and get tired of stirring up trouble, we're going back to the same old way of living that's made our city such a wonderful place in which to live. thank you very much, mr. mayor. >> this attempt to stop the freedom rides only served to fuel the flames of the civil rights movement. >> i would like to see the hands of those of you who will be willing to continue the freedom ride in the near future. show of hands, please. >> freedom ride after freedom ride would come through and get arrest in jackson and go to jail and get moved to partnerman penitentiary. >> during the time they spent in prison, a bond formed and they came out of prison more dedicated than ever. and they began to fan out across the south. >> james h. meredith, so that of a cotton farmer, grandson of a slave, and applicant to the university of michigan university. james, what do you want from the university of mississippi? >> i think every cit

billy hankins was in this startling prison surveillance video that we acquired from colorado state penitentiary00. now older and wiser, hankins is an inmate at limon. >> this is my 43rd birthday. i think i've been locked up, the only birthday i haven't been locked up for was my 26th birthday. other than that, ever since 1982, from juvenile i've been locked up all the way to adult. i think i've had one birthday on the streets. in what, 25, 30 years? >> so what are the plans for your birthday? >> fellows are making some burritos, but the meal at chow sucks today. it's pizza made with some kind of turkey. so we would be making burritos anyway. >> your future? what's the big sigh? >> what future? i have no future. this is my future. i don't know. >> when we first interviewed him in 2000, he explained how he received life without parole for a murder he committed during a robbery. >> i was out a job, christmas was coming and i needed money. i knew how to make money. it just wasn't the right way and i knew it, you know, and i just guess i programmed myself to believe i could get away with it, you know

"in a cramp dimly lit room next the to oklahoma state penitentiary's death chamber three volunteer executioners push syringes of lethal drugs into the veins they cannot see." one of the more stunning revelations from today's report is they have virtually no way of communicating from that chamber that they're in to where the guy's actually dying. for that crude system of code involving colored pencils. the only way the executioners can communicate with the warden in the execution chamber is by sticking colored pencils through the hole in the wall. that's the same hole in the wall that lets the iv line from the drug administration room extend all the way to the inmate's body. red pencil through the hole in the wall, there's a problem. yellow or black means okay. amazing. this reporting is sort of essential for any reasonable analysis or understanding of the death penalty in our country which right now is undergoing a massive challenge. exposing unbelievable details about oklahoma's death penalty >>> right now a weird story coming up about a big trick the democrats of trying to play in one electio

i was returned to the santa fe state penitentiary from 1980 to 1986 when i was released again on parole, for about two weeks. and then i began again, serial raping. >> in this rare interview, the inmate went into great detail about the preparations, tactics and execution of his crimes. and while his comments are disturbing, they offer valuable insight into the mind of a dangerous criminal. >> before i would start committing my rapes, i would prepare my sites. this would take at least between a week or two weeks to get set up. i would find isolated places on all four sides of a city, places with no houses within a given distance. each of my locations i would have at least three escape routes. >> once his preparations were made, he would look for his victim. >> shopping centers is a major hunting ground for me. laundromats. college campuses, places generally where they have parking lots. >> i felt there was tremendous value in doing this interview. even though he wouldn't be identified, he gave us a complete breakdown of how he was able to perpetrate these crimes. for me, it was a true ca

i had on "lockup," i was working in michigan city, indiana, which is my hometown at indiana state penitentiaryctually ran into somebody i used to hang out with when i was a child. we were shooting in the visitation room and i kind of saw him out of the corner of my eye, and it was one of those odd moments because what do you do? i didn't want to interrupt his visit and say hello, but later on as we were interviewing somebody else, he found me and came up to me and started talking to me, and talking to him for a good while and it was just the most interesting experience because i hadn't seen him in years and to be talking to him as he's now an inmate and, you know, when we were 12, 13 years old, i would never have guessed i would have been seeing him in this position. >> visitation often proves to be a place not only to find great stories, but to see inmates in a different light. >> when we first met jonathan hall serving 40 years for second degree murder at colorado's limon correctional facility, we wouldn't have guessed that one of the most emotional reunions we would ever see between an inma

. >> eastern state penitentiary. >> perfect spot. >> you can go to any part, any play station, new jerseyr pennsylvania. >> wisconsin, whatever. >> moms are leaving, come here. >> cool. >> this is prx, and you say using this kind of playground equipment mimics what you would do in a gym setting. >> yes. >> here's your regular rope. >> as low as you feel comfortable w row it right up. give me one more. now, step up. come on up. do it right over here. >> yes. >> you can do the same thing. >> lets do it together. >> all the way down, all the way up. we want to make it dynamic. we have the legs up. >> you can still see your kids, holy cow, wow, i cannot do that. >> so they have been working out since 7:00 o'clock this morning. >> yes. >> first thing we will do is a modified mountain climber. >> one legged. >> by the way, we will try to get to you to do the high five. >> pop it, girl. >> up there. >> yes. >> abs are real tight. >> you are using your arms a bit. >> go up further. >> now i'm doing real climbing. >> go up further. >> yes, now touch my hand all the way down. >> good. >> your kids

contact is minimized, prisoners are remotely monitored, california's pelican bay state prison is a maximum security penitentiary, where 500 inmates have been locked in administrative segregation for more than ten years. nearly 200 inmates there have experienced more than 15 years in isolation. and still another 78 have spent two decades confined to an eight by ten cell. a federal judge in oakland is allowed hundreds of prisoners at pelican bay to join a lawsuit, challenging the constitutionality of their solitary confinement. the suit originally brought by the center for constitutional rights on behalf of ten inmates arguing their confinement in the security housing unit is cruel and unusual punishment. a violation of their rights and c.c.r. says experts con skulling in bringing the lawsuit found long term solitaire con finement caused psychiatric morbidity, and disability. the people that inhabit these prisons are not the most sympathetic population. it is the answer i would rather worry about the victims, but right now, across the country, we are beginning to move away from the extremely long sentences that w

state prisons. >> my grandfather before he passed away was associate warden at tracy. my uncle worked for new folsom or something to do with the folsom penitentiary my biological father worked at tracy at one time, and now works at a women's prison in chowchilla. my mom right now currently is getting ready to retire from tracy prison. she's not a cop, she's an accountant. she works for the corrections department. >> when kirkpatrick left his gang, he asked his family to take him back. >> all these letters i have all over my bed right here, 90% of those are from my mom. >> but there are complications. kirkpatrick's past makes it impossible for him to even keep pictures of his relatives, including his mother. >> oh, i don't want one. my mom don't like the way she looks in pictures. i said, it doesn't matter, i'm your son, it's not like i'm going to go around showing it. she's like but what you don't understand is i work for cdc. i don't want my picture going through and people might recognize me or know who i am. i was like all right, i understand. and that's [ bleep ] up because that shows that she's ashamed of me. you know what i'm saying? that's

. >> he will spend the rest of his life in a state penitentiary. >>> investigators still believed charles holden had something to do with his mother's murder, and may have hired someone to kill her. >> even though there was the forensic evidence that didn't match charles holden, there could have been some connection between charles holden and the person who committed the murder. >> investigators suspected that the hired killer might have been the man with charles at the fast food restaurant. >> detectives went back and they were able to locate some of the people who were in the parking lot that night, and they were able to find that there was, in fact, a black male walking through the parking lot looking for a ride and actually did see this person get in the car with charles. >> investigators asked charles to describe the hitchhiker. and from that description, police created this composite sketch. the large glasses were the most distinctive part of the image. investigators looked for criminals who fit this description and put together a photo lineup. >> charles picked an individual by the