proud of the progress we've made both in the gulf and inside bp. >>> cell house 220 at iowa state penitentiaryive inmates in the entire 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. fi

. >> we met gerald at anamosa state penitentiary in iowa where he was serving two life sentences fortempted murder. 11 years earlier he opened fire at the factory where he worked. >> i was suffering from paranoia schizophrenia and i didn't know it at the time and my family was trying to get me committed and i refused to go to a mental health place because i was afraid they would take away my guns because i'm a gun collector and i had a lot of guns and i knew once they found me mentally incompetent i wouldn't be able to have guns in a minute and developed to the point where i got delusional and i hallucinated and i imagined my wife had been kidnapped, raped, and tourtured and killed by these guys at work and i thought i'd take vengeance and take matters into my own hands and that's what i did. i shot two employees in the head and then i also shot two in the leg. >> his symptoms have been treated for a few years and now works in the metal shop on prison grounds. >> here you are back in a work environment and your fellow workers, do they know what your crime was? i'm just cure ow how th

. >>> 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 >> 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 place to be. >

>> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars.nt 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 cell? >>

. >>> 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 bred 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. >> you know, in every prison we film in, there's always a shank museum. a place where the authorities display all the weapons that are confiscated by staff. homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted d

the sex offender we met at iowa's anamosa state penitentiary has a very different existence. larry 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 of course they're all trying to stand up and be some sort of righteous convict. and it's like, oh, well, you know. i only rob banks, or i only do drugs, you know. 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. >> at first it's kind of claustrophobic being in

we work together. >> our visit to the anamosa state penitentiary in iowa led us to a memorable pair ofel 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 of

. >> here, it's colorado state penitentiary. 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 purses,

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

they went to jackson, mississippi where they were beaten and vailed and sent to the state penitentiarywis did not take that fellowship and go to india. he stayed in the south. he was refusing to stop being nonviolent. he became ahead of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, at age 23, he was the man who spoke just before martin luther king gave his "i have a dream" speech. he was the youngest speaker that day. he was beaten and arrested atmosphere frequently and recently than anyone else who spoke that day. he worried everyone the most that day. he writes now in the new book about the frantic up to the last second appeals to johnson lose for that speech to please tone it down. and he did tone it down a little. >> robert john lewis. >>> joining us now for "the interview" is congressman john lewis, and nate powell, who helped do this book. thank you, gentleman, this is amazing. you're doing a trilogy. collectively, what did you learn when part one was so successful? what did you learn about telling this history and how much people knew about it and what they can still learn from

. >>> visitors to the eastern state penitentiary, they are not usually shown in public, but they are going on display as part of a pop-up museum an escape tunnel map and mugshots of escaped inmates and weapons that were confiscated. the museum opens up to the public tomorrow and that should be a cool show. >> i checked it out and it was very, very cool. up next, police in one community are warning drivers about a new rash of thefts. >>> just how he got discovered. coming up in big talkers. m. with lookout decks for star gazing? yeah. cool! wait. how...? you've got the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. oh yeah! the wizard of oz with top prizes of $300,000. there's a full moon tonight! [male announcer] want to see your dreams come to life? you could scratch your way to instant winning. the pennsylvania lottery. bring your dreams to life. >>> from our delaware newsroom police are warning about a new crime trend criminals are stealing the tailgate off pickup trucks through delaware county. other agencies through the county say they have seen similar crimes as well. they are

. >>> 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 is window where you can get some fresh air. that's it. # everywhere you go,

i was returned to the santa fe state penitentiary from 1980 to 1986 when i was released again on paroleparole, 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 t

experiences i had on "lockup" i was working in michigan city, indiana, my hometown at indiana state penitentiary and i actually 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 between an inmate and chil

. >> 90 miles from new orleans, up the mississippi river, lays louisiana state penitentiary. commonly referred to as angola, at 18,000 acre, it is 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, the 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 sentences so long, it's estimated 90% of them will die here. yet things have changed drastically over the past decade. and much credit goes to warden burl cain. >> that's really what our mission is, is not to torment and torture, but it's to correct bad behavior and do that any way you can. the root way to do that is morality. moral people obviously don't rape, pilfer and steal. >> right here, the midst of angola, i have seen change. because the seed of the favor of god -- >> warden cain's approach to morality works on two levels. one, spiritual and religious. the other, engaging employment opportunities. c

. >> when we visited iowa state penitentiary, we found the prison attempts to provide services for as. >> 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 number nine, it says, do no

jackson, mississippi, where they were not only beaten and jailed they were ultimately sent to the state penitentiarylewis did not take that fellowship and go to india. he stayed in the south, he was obstinate against one side in refusing to back down in the face of violence and obstinate against another side in refusing to being nonviolent himself. he became the head fof student nonviolent coordinating committee and at age 23 he was the man would spoke just before martin luther king gave his "i have have a dream" speech. he was 23 years old, the youngest speaker that day and he was the one who had been beaten and arrested more frequently and more recently than anybody else who spoke that day. he was the man whose speech oried everyone the most that day. and he writes now in the new book about the frantic up to the last second appeals to john lewis to please please for that speech at the march on washington, please tone it down. and he did tone it down a little. ♪ ♪ will come some day ♪ >> brother john lewis. [ applause ] >> so that we may be patient and wait we have said that we cannot be patient. w

number of other people including dennis kozlowski who we were talking about earlier who is in a state penitentiaryve custody with violent offenders. jah rule, the rapper was one of his protective custody mates. they put the famous people in one place. >> so they still put famous people together? >> they do. >> do they have red velvet robes and bottle service? >> they don't -- well kozlowski who's getting paid $100 million a year going in was being paid 85 cents a day to clean socks. he did laundry. >> is the point of this to make us feel more compassion for the white collar criminals than we might have? >> no i think the point was to do two things. one, to take us inside this world in a way we've never seen it before and to really take people on the journey, the mental journey, the psychological journey that people go through in terms of how they think about their guilt. a lot start out thinking they're not guilty they maybe get convicted and it takes time even once they here in prison to convince themselves of their guilt and what that means and the rehab, if it is a rehab. we have know nacchio i

kozlowski was in a state penitentiary, he had cells. >> i took a tour o, l.a.hing about it was that there weren't individual cells. very few. some of the hardened guys had to be, but an eye opener. did he have a reason to be worried about his safety? >> i think in this particular instance, no. we also went to kentucky. spent some time with a fellow who is in prison in one of these things. i don't think that those particular places are nearly as dangerous. we also went to a women's prison, actually. which was fascinating. i mean some people talk about these things. there's a yoga class that she goes to in the morning. >> one of the routines that sesallysesour sister network cnbc and they have a lot of "lockdown" shows and they've been very successful. i watched a couple that were incredible and one was in a women's prison. but i never, i didn't realize we would snoop to that for ratings at this point. >> thanks. thanks, joe. >> but now we've done it. it's different than "lockdown" this is white collar. >> this is white collar. look, to me this is like "orange is

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 we

. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds the worst offenders in the state.nstant state of war. both with each other and staff. it's up to the stiu to keep gang activity in check. today the stiu are doing a sweep in the level v facility, allowing our crew along for the ride. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen, we're here to conduct a shakedown. it's based on some activity we got. we're going to have some information on snm gang members. okay, so we're going to head to the unit, we're going to look mainly for gang information and graffiti and stuff. >> sometimes when you come shake down a cell, first thing you want to do is just observe everything. and you look. the most common places you'll find is the easiest place you'll ever think of. oh, look. gang paraphernalia right here. >> what is it? >> three crosses. represents he's from las cruces, new mexico. they use the three crosses to display their gang symbols. >> to validate is essential in maintaining the safety of the facility. >> i found that hanging here on his vent. >> once he's validated, a member will

. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds some of the most violent offenders in the state.ths 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 busted up and go

to prosecute somebody where you put them in the penitentiary, there has to be some kind of culpable, in other words, beyond negligence. the oklahoma state law is clear on that and the jury instruction is clear on that. >> all right -- >> you can make a mistake. >> go on. >> i don't mean to minimize the loss. and the first thing that mr. bates said to me was, what can i do for this family? that's where his heart is. it always has been. so, this is not a man that ran from responsibility, that denied his involvement in any way. they've been completely transparent. he's been ganged by this plaintiff's law firm that represents people that have been terminated in the past. that's your source. >> we will leave it there. clark brewster, i appreciate your time and your honesty with us. thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> up next, it is probably a bad idea to try to sell assault weapons and ammo to a mexican drug cartel, especially if you're in the u.s. military. wish your skin could bounce back like it used to? new neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrat

>> is the things that you worry about in a -- like a penitentiary that i drive by every day, northern statesheck out of me is white collar -- do you have the same concerns in a white collar prison that you have? is there a chance that you could be raped in the shower? is there a chance that there will be you know demands for some -- doing things that you don't want to do? will you be trading cigarettes to get food that you can eat? >> there's a completely underground illegal network. >> do people have shanks? do you have to make your own shanks? >> the answer is yes and no. you're going to hear from joe and bernard, both of whom were put in the hole and were in horrible situations with people with shanks. >> but kerik put people in there, right? >> skinheads, the whole thing. they weren't in there with those guys the entire time. that was for a particular piece of it. if you're just in a camp and you're just in a camp and not moved -- if you're moved, any time you get moved, you're moved with everybody else and that's actually where things run into trouble. plus there's an underground networ

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