sounds like someone running over a cat with a lawn mower. >> today fry remains on death row at the penitentiaryhis appeals. >> even at the hour of your death, if you turn to god and are truly repentant of the things you've done, he'll forgive you and he will accept you. and he knows. >> what if that's not the case though? >> that is the case, though. >> but what if it is not? >> it is. >> but what if it is not? >> you can say what if and why about anything in the world, but faith -- >> does it come into your mind that maybe the interpretation is not quite there and you may be meeting a different kind of maker? >> no, no. it's faith. faith brought me to god. faith cleansed me of my sins, and faith will see me through. that's all there is to it. >> when we visited iowa state penitentiary, we found the prison attempts to provide services for a wide range of religious beliefs. >> a lot of the religions are a quieting, mellowing, peaceful type of thing. for them to pray, to see god answer something is just very very special, it's empowering. >> then we met an inmate named travis wolfkill. >> in the

at the penitentiary of new mexico. u know, about 13 years ago. >> an inmate who was former law enforcement is going to always be perceived as the enemy as far as the other inmates go. so, it's usually a precarious situation. given his circumstances, i thought daniel was pretty secure. going from being a former c.o. to an inmate in the same prison where he once worked, i would have expected him to be a little more nervous, uptight, what have you. but he acclimated quite well. >> the officers, some of them treated me the same. some of them treated me different. for the most part, though, i've always gone along with people. i came into prison. and i ain't here to prove a point. i'm just here to do my time. >> was it weird at first dealing with officers? did you run into people you knew? >> yeah. i mean, i ran into a few people. they said, hey, rapatz. they call me by my last name, what happened, how did you end up here in the joint? what happened? i tell them, i ended up wrong place, wrong time. i was out drinking and usin

they live at the iowa state penitentiary. behind this 40-foot 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

the mansion is staffed from inmates from the state penitentiary. almost all of them are murders because the experts say they're the least likely to commit another crime if their crime was a crime of passion. so the department of correction sends us who works there. i don't pick them. the governors traditionally given them clemency. four years ago i pardoned the prisoners who worked there. however, because of katrina and other things we didn't look at any other pardons. so we are looking at eight years' worth of pardons. 215. 189 of whom had been out of prison in many cases for ten or 15 years. so there are 26 people we are talking about who will be free shortously. what we did is valid and consistent with mississippi's constitution. in fact, the attorney general you just heard talk when the previous democrat governor pardoned people for which there had been no publication at all, jim hood didn't say a word. >> bret: okay, governor, you heard. >> in our case we made the effort to do the publications, some of the newspapers ran them late. >> bret: you

you suspended sanctions. >> while morgan lived in the minimum security level two section of the penitentiarynew mexico, he was awaiting transfer to an even less restrictive level one prison, commonly known as the farm. >> i told them, it's like disney land. >> where you going? >> i'm going to disney land. going to go find a ride. the farm is a lot more free gom. it's four-foot fences. you know, you're pretty much on your own will. you do what you want to do, you know. it's all trust that you build up. >> peaches was told he had six months to stay disciplinary free in order to go to a lower level facility. that seemed pretty easy to do since he was so well acclimated in that prison. >> morgan! >> but adherence to the convict code would soon cost morgan his place in general population and the transfer he'd been waiting for. after a fight in his dorm, surveillance video caught morgan trying to clean up the blood. >> you could be a firsthand witness to an actual crime, but if you live by the convict code, you see nothing, you hear nothing, and you say nothing, and that was the case unfortunately

in september 2009, scott connen left the oregon state penitentiary. lam meth river to dallas, oregon where nearly a decade before he'd been tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. but when he returned to a courtroom, it was clear that authorities in polk county were intent on trying him once again on those three murder counts. it appeared cannon could sit in the county jail for months, maybe years waiting for that new trial. but the defense wondered. so much had changed over the past decade. what evidence could the prosecutors use at trial this time? >> you don't have anything that leavenings scott cannon to the scene anymore. >> the comparatively bullet lead analysis from the first trial was no longer considered rivalry. the prosecution's chief witness, bimla boyd is now a convicted killer herself and the defendant turned up new witnesses pointing to plausible new suspects like tom mcmahon, the suspected drug dealing partner of jason kinsler. his picture turned up in a police photo array hours after the murder and at least two

we let 26 out of the penitentiary. as you mentioned half of them for health reasons. 189 of these people had been ou, most of them had been out for years and years and years. they're no more threat to the people of mississippi now than they were the week before they got their pardon but there's a handful that this is all about. it is becoming public now that the attorney general's office was very involved in this. in fact, if it had anything to do, i would have found out that the attorney general's office had something to do with it and got somebody else to tend to it. >> schieffer: all right. we have to leave it there. thanks to both of you for that analysis this morning. we'll be back in a minute with a little round table. [ man ] i've been out there most of my life. you name it...i've hooked it. but there's one... one that's always eluded me. thought i had it in the blizzard of '93. ha! never even came close. sometimes, i actually think it's mocking me. [ engine revs ] what?! quattro!!!!! ♪ >> schieffer: welcome bac

he was serving a life sentence at the penitentiary of new mexico. >> it was our last day of filming, and we were getting some b-roll of a particular inmate, and clapsy was the inmate next door to this guy. and clapsy started talking to me through this cell door, and he started telling me that he was serving a life sentence for the torture/murder of his girlfriend and that he would like to be on the show. >> and we warn you, the interview that took place was one of the most disturbing we've ever conducted. seven years earlier clapsy was working for a cell phone company when he met a 24-year-old woman studying to become a medical animator. her name was mary alice. >> she was, you know, 5 foot nothing, 100 pounds. beautiful, caring. i considered her like an angel. i mean, she was this pure little thing. i mean, i wouldn't smoke around her. i would curb my sailor's tongue around her because it was mary alice and she was fragile. you know? >> during the few months the pair dated clapsy says he often used drugs, including methamphetamines. then one day clapsy says he discovered two movie ti

he was serving a life sentence at the penitentiary of new mexico. >> it was our last day of filming, and we were getting some b roll of a particular inmate, and clapsy was the inmate next door to this guy. and clapsy started talking to me through this cell door, and he started telling me that he was serving a life sentence for the torture/murder of his girlfriend and that he would like to be on the show. >> and we warn you, the interview that took place was one of the most disturbing we've ever conducted. seven years earlier clapsy was working for a cell phone company when he met a 24-year-old woman studying to become a medical animator. her name was mary alice. >> she was, you know, 5 foot nothing, 100 pounds. beautiful, caring. i considered her like an angel. i mean, she was this pure little thing. i mean, i wouldn't smoke around her. i would curb my sailor's tongue around her because it was mary alice and she was fragile. you know? >> during the few months the pair dated clapsy says he often used drugs, including methamphetamines. then one day clapsy says he discovered two movie ti

went to county jail, got out for that, got another gun charge, got sentenced to the penitentiary. out now. i have a violation. never had no positive influence. my influence was the streets. i thought that was positive. that's all i knew. i'm thinking that is the right way. that's what i did. >> samuels wants to turn his life around for the sake of his son. he doesn't want his boy to grow up without a father like he did. >> that's my life right there. that's what i got to live for. that's what i think about all the time. i want to straighten my life out for him. i didn't even have no dad, even though he would have been good to me, he fell victim to the streets and i'm not trying to be the same. i don't want him growing up like me. i got to be there for him. i'm thinking right now, i'm not doing nothing right for him. i have to do something for him. people ain't gonna forget, even if i try to straighten my life up. a lot of people trying to straighten their life up but living in the same environment. people don't forget because you're doing good. it don't take away the hurt you cause

i hope to put him in the penitentiary. >> fisherman board regulars like petty cap montgomery consider it the safe place. >> i've always felt safe in this neighborhood, i had this whole lot of problems. >> some who work in the shops say they feel safety and working late at night. and apparently so do tourists. >> we were fine. we didn't feel unsafe or anything. >> i was walking around last night and it seems like an safe area. it's unfortunate to hear this happening here. but i guess that didn't happen everywhere. >> police would not say how the suspect was injured or how the extent that they can have. >> other bay area headlines now. richmond police are looking for the gunman who shot and killed the college student. the shooter was chasing the car on foot when he stopped and opened fire at brother and sister sitting in his parked car. 22 -year-old edwin martinez died at the scene, his sister was not hurt. police say there is no indication that the gunmen opened fire because he thought the siblings were witnesses. so far no arrests or of suspects. >>> at half dozen homes evacuated in s

the mansion is staffed by inmates from the state penitentiary and almost all of them are murderers because the experts say they are the least likely to commit another crime if their crime was a crime of passion and the department of corrections sends us who works there, i don't pick them. >> reporter: he said that he understood and respected how victims' families and survivors were hurt by this is decision. a decision, he said, was based in christian principles. >> most people in mississippi are christians or profess to be and we believe in forgiveness, and we believe in second chances. and, in the case of these five inmates, at the state penitentiary that is what most of this is about. four murderers, they have all said they were guilty, they have served on average 20 years in the penitentiary. you know, these are not guys that got a slap on the wrist. >> reporter: he added the majority of those granted clemency have been out of prison for years and that 90% of the decisions were based on recommendations from the parole board. kelly? >> kelly: all right, doug, i think the story will be ar

. >> this is the penitentiary. are you with serious? ople [ bleep ] kill for that, for real, for real. >> surveillance video from the unit shows another inmate standing outside wright's cell. he then enters the cell and secs later exits with wright's television. the inmate then places the tv inside another cell. >> i saw the tv was gone, so i came back, and [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> from what i heard, he approached several offenders, kind of called them out, wanting to know if they had taken his tv. >> i started going from cell to cell, searching my [ bleep ]. i'm going to search everybody's [ bleep ] until i find what i'm looking for. >> wright's aggressive behavior soon created problems with other inmates. >> i'm not looking for trouble, but at the same time, i'm not ducking none either. you feel me? you know, this is the penitentiary. you've got to stand tall, ten toes down? you know what i mean? you can't take no losses? you know what i mean? it's the wrong place to be a bitch? you feeling me? it's the pressure? you feeling me? you get

serving a double life sentence for killing two police officers. >> i hate that i'm going to die in the penitentiary. i'm not happy about it, but i accept it, because i don't have no choice in it because i'm not going to take my own life. but i'm going to make the best of this life sentence. >> when he first arrived at anamosa, taylor was considered one of the most dangerous inmates to ever step foot inside the prison. >> they was on pins and needles right when i got here, then they heard i was going to get here. they was on pins and needles. they didn't know how i was going to behave. i got a stack of disciplinary reports because i disobeyed direct orders. i wouldn't take no orders you know, because i thought i was above that, right? so they locked me up, because they didn't want no gang bangers running this institution. >> but after years of violent outbreaks, defiant behavior, and long stretches spent in solitary confinement, taylor decided to turn his life around. >> it took a while to get me a job. it took about six months. i had to go around and really, really convince certain staff that, you

i hope they put him in the penitentiary. ve daughters. >> fisherman's wharf like matt montgomery consider the tourist a safe place. >> it's a big city. one always wants to be careful. i've always felt safe in this neighborhood. i haven't noticed a lot of problems. >> women who work in shops here tell us they feel safe walking by themselves. apparently so do tourists. >> half past 10:00 at night and we have never seen -- we were fine. we didn't feel unsafe or anything. >> i was walking around, it is a safe area. it's unfortunate to hear that's happening here. but i guess bad things happen everywhere. >> police would not say how the suspect was injured nor would they describe the injuries to the victim. they would only say injuries were nonlife threatening. don knapp, cbs 5. >> other bay area headlines now. richmond police are looking for the gunmen who shot and killed a college student. the shooter was chasing a car on foot when he stopped and opened fire at a brother and sister sitting in a parked car. 22-year-old edwin marti

i hope they put him under the penitentiary. >> it's a safe city. one always wants to be careful. i've always felt safe in this neighborhood. haven't noticed a whole lot of problems. >> women who work in shops here say they feel safe walking by themselves even late at night. apparently, so do tourists. >> we're traveling to our last site, past 10 at night, and we've never seen any. we don't feel unsafe or anything. >> i was walking around last night and seems like a safe area. unfortunate to hear that's happening here. but i guess bad things happen everywhere. >> police would not say how the suspect was injured, nor did they say what the extent of the injuries were to the victim. they say injuries to both were non-life-threatening. >> other bay area headlines. richmond police are looking for the gunman who shot and killed a college student. the shooter was chasing a car on foot when he stopped and opened fire at a brother and sister sitting in a parked car. 22-year-old martinez died. his sister wasn't hurt. so far, no arrests or suspects. >>> a half a dozen homes were evacuated fo

i hope they put him under the penitentiary. i have daughters that age. >> both the victim and the suspect both taken to the hospital. due tell facing multiple rape charges and false imprisonment. >>> san francisco supervisors might put more limits on what the police department can do when work with the feds. a proposed ordinance would ban police who would working with -- who are work, with the fbi's joint terrorism task force from investigating local residents unless there is a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. the police chief said the measure was unnecessary and those concerns were already addressed by orders he put in place last year. >>> pleasanton school board approved using drug-sniffing dogs at its 3 high school campuses. drug and alcohol suspensions are on the rise at the schools especially at foothill high school. last night the board unanimously voted to allow police to search parking lots and locker rooms when students are not present. >>> a san francisco jack-in-the- box will remain open late in the night. i

no we don't know, but what we suspect is that there are three elements to what the penitentiary gone has to do to do a better job in think background the industrial base going forward. that is awareness, there's a habit or has been historically the last couple of decades to focus on the contractors, bigra contractors share to maybe 30 or 40% today with the rest being sustained by contractors and a prime on one project is a sub on others. the first question is does the pentagon have better information? yes, they have spent the last year with the sector by sector analysis. i suspect a number of you in this room have spent considerable amount of time and engine and cost filling out surveys and the second is how to they use that information in the decision? we have statements that they have done so, we cannot validate instances, and the third is whether or not they actually did the right thing when they made the considerations, if you will, because ultimately what this is, is a judgment call of how close to the edge of the cliff we will allow the industrial base to go before it a history

, as you mentioned, perhaps they'll have to get the courts to lock up more people to fill up the penitentiary. i don't mean that seriously. in all seriousness, al, one wonders the extent to which the spanish people can put up with more of this. unemployment is at 22% and the economy is flat on its back. >> indeed. actually we still haven't really seen many analysts say, if you talk to a lot of people, we really haven't seen where this government will make their really deep cuts, because they don't have a budget for this year yet. last week they rolled over the 2011 budget. remember they were just elected in november and just took power a few weeks ago. they'll have to fashion a budget. they're saying maybe by march we'll have a budget. that's where everyone thinks the deepest cuts will be coming and the deepest reforms that's when, analysts say, when we may see the streets, which have seen protests for months, get a lot hotter. charles. >> there must be a great deal of polarization. someone has come in and managed to oust the left. traditionally, left supporters are spitting tacks at the mome

four murderers, they have all said they were guilty and have served on average 20 years in the penitentiaryuys who got a slap on the wrist. >> reporter: he added he did not pick the prisoners, to be pardoned. 90% of the decision was made by the mississippi parole board. >> thanks, doug. a fix-up job for the martin luther king memorial in washington. one quotation carved in stone was taken out of context. marking criticism for not reflecting the spirit of dr. king's full remarks and giving a false impression. the inscription currently reads: i was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness, edited from a sermon he gave in 1968, and monday, the national honors -- nation honors the civil rights leader in a nationwide holiday there. deservedly so and rick, here's the full quote, he says, yes, if you want to say i was a drum major, say that i was a drum major for justice and say i was a drum major for peace and a drum major for righteousness and of all the other shallow things that will not matter. taken out of context and shows him -- an depict him as being arrogant which he was not. >>

. >> the inmates that are here, they're not here for going to church. >>> 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. >> 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 t

that is what this is about they all said they were guilty and served on average 20 years in the penitentiaryer: he added the majority of those granted clemency were out of prison for years and 90% of the decisions were based on the recommendation of the parole board. in washington, doug mcelway, fox news. >>> and desperate for drugs. the number of armed pharmacy robberies in the united states went up 81% and that is in the last five years. the number one choice is a powerful pain killer likeoxy code own. y that installing cameras and sometimes, even adding bulletproof glass. some are calling for an explanation of why there has been a surge in these prescriptions in the first place. >> we need a bet better flow information from the doctors to the pharmacist and insurances that pay for the drugs. >> more than 5,000 people start abusing pain prescription pills every day. >>> scientists are getting ready to blast millions of gallons of water into a volcano to see what happened. >> and that is enough to create clean, el cajon energy. the process could cause an earthquake and they don't think that

, and just yet on cbs's "face the nation," barber responded to the controversy. >> 26 out of the penitentiarybeen out for years and years and years. they're no more threat to the people of mississippi now than they were the week before they got their pardon. >> we'll have a live report coming up on that. >>> also, you like to hike? me, too. this is not how you want your hikes to end, though. a paramedic with a helmet camera caught this dramatic rescue yesterday. this is a mountain just south of pasadena, california. this woman found herself trapped on the edge of a cliff with a 100-foot drop. so after the paramedic, you see ultimately reached her, they were both finally pulled to safety. >>> a mudslide in a water main break. no one is actually sure which one came first. it damaged at least three homes in belleview. another home had to be evacuated. a witness said he heard a huge crash and then just saw a lot of mud start to slide down. the "new york times" said a jack started to float around like a snake. we've got a lot to cover in the next few hours. >>> mitt romney versus newt gingrich. th

. >> we had 26 out of the penitentiary half for health reasons and most out for years and years no more threat to the people of mississippi than the week before they got their pardon. >>jonathan: the judge will not be ruling on whether the people are a danger to the public he will simply be ruling on whether their pardons were constitutional. that hearing will get underway in jackson, mississippi, in 35 minutes. >>shepard: jonathan will chat away about the story and the headlines throughout the news hour at foxnews.com/shep clicking on "on the hunt," link. we hear more of the conversations between the captain of singing cruise ship and officials on the ground. the captain promised to stay on board until every passenger got off. but we now know that didn't hand. not at all. because he said he "tripped and fell into a life boat." one of many stories in a live report ahead. plus, big changes to the makers of blackberry. boom. chief executive officers are out. what does that mean for the text messaging and e-mail? that is ahead. [♪...] >> announcer: bank robbery certainly is a frightening c

i hope they put him under the penitentiary. i have daughters that age. >> both the victim and suspect were taken to the hospital yesterday. dutel faces rape charges an false imprisonment. >>> a san francisco jack-in-the- box will remain open late but not all night. the burger join's 24-hour operating permit was removed after complaints of early- morning disturbances. last night the city decided the restaurant must close between the hours of 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. a second security guard was also added. >>> a fatal accident in the east bay. let's go over to gianna for details on that. >> thank you, frank. yeah, it's involving two vehicles, one of those overturned and chp now has issued a traffic alert. the three right lanes are blocked until further notice and you can see on our maps here we're seeing a bit of a backup here. we are getting reports of lots of debris in the road. so this is west 80 near carlson, central, that whole area backed up to san pablo at this point. again, 7 miles per hour in some spots. now, depending how long

. >> people told me that you eat better in the penitentiary, you eat better than you do in the county jail. >> i remember when i was getting the shot of jason sitting down and finally eating, it was like a kid at a picnic with all the best food, all the best food imaginable, like a kid in the candy store. he was just putting it in his mouth, having a great time. >> what did you have? >> hotdogs and cake. >> okay. you look pretty happy. >> well, i haven't had cake in three years, so you know. >> okay. >> i'm happy about that. and i can have some sense, you know, some sense of joy. >> at the miami-dade county jail, we met a group of friends who couldn't quite agree on the culinary merits of lunch. >> this is the only meal that's not great. it's the only one that's not great. it's bologna every day. a hot meal in the morning and at night. >> this is the best part of the day, lunchtime. and this is how we eat. nice cold cuts. they're great. we enjoy it sometimes. >> this is turkey salami with little pieces of peppercorn in there that kind of like get jammed in your teeth and they're terri

i hope they put him under the penitentiary. i have daughters that age. >> both victim and suspect were taken to the hospital. dutel faces rape and false imprisonment charges. >>> in other headlines on this wednesday, pleasanton school board approved using drug- sniffing dogs to search parking lots and lockers at its three high school campuses. drug and alcohol suspensions are on the rise at the schools especially at foothill high school. >>> watch out where you light up in mountain view. the city is moving closer to expanding a smoking ordinance. the proposal creating a 25-foot buffer zone for secondhand smoke. the tough new rules on smoking going into effect 90 days after its second reading. that's set for valentine's day. >>> caltrans has about six more months of digging to finish the new bore of the caldecott tunnel. "contra costa times" reports work on the project has speeded up since crews working from both ends met in the middle seven weeks ago. the work is safer with a completed tunnel because explosive gases are no longe

have been -- that are at issue here, david gatlin, these guys served on average 20 years in the penitentiary. david gatlin, in 20 years, never had one citation for any infraction or violation of the rules. >> but in terms of the man he shot in the head and that man survived, have you reached out to him or other victim's families? >> only to give notice that these guys were being released. let me say, i understand, recognize and respect the fact that if you were injured by somebody or if your loved one was killed, that there may be vengeance, there may be fear, there may be all these things. but my state spends about $350 million on corrections every rehabilitation. >> governor -- >> a lot of guys won't be rehabilitat rehabilitated. these have been. they've redeemed themselves. they deserve a second chance. i'm the only one that can give it to him. >> you would have made the same decision if you were running for president and it was got a political question? >> same thing -- four years ago i released and pardoned the prisoners who worked at the mansion. i made plain i would do it again. >> th

get out, he's going to try to do more than what he was doing with himself before he went to the penitentiary right, i'm not going to commit more crimes, or he's going to give in to his impulsiveness and he's going to commit another crime and he could very well be doing 25 to life. so i think with hymes, it's either going to be all of one or all of the other this time. >> man, hey, now i'm so glad. is that $200 in that bag, in that gizmo? >> don't worry about it. don't worry about it. >> this is my brother. he loves me. >> all the police -- look it, i do not belong to the california department of corrections no more. i am discharged. i no longer have a prison number. i am discharged. i'm a free black man in america, let me live. that's all i want to do, live, enjoy my family. >> hymes has a new life ahead of him on the outside. >> bye, california correctional center! >> later we'll see where he is two months after release. >> officer brucell, also known as red bull, works in south block. >> my job is third watch. south block rotunda officer. my main job is to control the flow of traffic durin

syed detailed the escape from the penitentiary 1967, strauss wrote this out, mexico and los angeles and his assassination of dr. king. the free library of philadelphia as a host of this event. it is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. it's great to be back. i think that all writers eventually want to go back to the place where they came from. in this case, it was for me to go back to memphis, tennessee were a corrupt,, where i was born and try to understand this pivotal moments in american history and to try to understand inserted deconstruct the most controversial, the most tragic, it the most in many ways complicated event in my city's history. my father was a law professor and italy are at a loss for environmentalists and rep resented the garbage workers unrepresented king when he came on behalf of the garbage workers. in fact, i got a lot from him about this event. but you know, you always have your memory of things you want your, was the family correct? did you hear the story correctly? you as much a test your memory against the hard, cold documents. but you know, coming back t

but we found an inmate inside the penitentiary of new mexico who grew up with all of life's advantages i come from a nice family, a good family compared to a lot of the families i hear about in here. my dad's a retired naval officer. retired from the navy then joined the national guard. retired from the national guard then started going to the county for a job. he retired as the county jail administrator. my mom, she's a secretary. she's very educated, very knowledgeable about things. she quit her job to stay at home with me so that i would have someone there for when i got home from school do, my homework, make sure do i what i had to do. >> but that didn't keep steele out of trouble. >> i never had to face consequences so i guess i figured pretty much i was untouchable. and i rebelled against them being so straight. and i went crooked bad. >> steele's rebellion culminated in a 60-year sentence for residential burglaries, armed robbery and fall imprisonment. >> i was robbing the house boom. someone came home, i put the gun to their face told them shut up, sit on the couch. finished ro