in the next hour on "lockup," we'll go beyond the scenic desert landscape to the penitentiary of new mexico, a prison that is battling to overcome a long history of violence. just 15 miles away from the art galleries and shops of santa fe, a concrete fortress looms above the horizon, surrounded by double razor wire fences. 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 o

the kentucky state penitentiary, also known as the castle on the cumberland. >> i was really intimidatedy this place. it's an intimidating place to walk into. >> this could be the worst place you have ever been in your life. >> the eddyville castle will get you. somebody will take your life from you if you come through here with that old chip on your shoulder, there's going to be somebody to take it off you. >> ksp is kentucky's only maximum security facility. a group of stone masons from italy teamed with inmates from various prisons to construct the castle which opened in 1889. >> when they first built it, they had a sign up over the front door that said, "abandon hope all ye that enter here." they wanted this place to look pretty menacing and it still looks menacing even today. >> i think the penitentiary is unique in many respects, just because of the foreboding appearance that it has. it's a serious place where serious things happen. this is a prison. >> the castle sits on 90 acres and has seven cell houses for its 900 inmates. nearly 40 inmates are secluded on death row. fewer than

this is what the next six months hold for maurice. >> this is the penitentiary. he real deal. >> in addition to the problem prisoners like maurice, the segregation unit also houses inmates with psychiatric problems. stateville doesn't have a psych ward, so until it's determined that an inmate needs more comprehensive care off site, they are observed here. >> what is the emergency? >> that creates daily challenges for the staff. >> i'm in here for being assaulted in "h" house and i'm going to have mr. snyder and the head of investigations down here. i want the media. >> you want an awful lot, don't you? >> no. listen. i don't want no problems. i'm having a problem with myself -- >> don't beat on my door. don't beat on my door. >> i haven't done anything to anybody. >> yes, you did. you disturbing the peace down here. >> i can't live in this cell. >> don't holler at me. don't holler at me. >> i'm not in here because i did anything. yes, sir. yes, sir. >> it's very hostile. it can bother you. you have to be very strong to work over here. because, you know, just every

it was a mountain serving as the fourth wall of the penitentiary. the number one man. doug went over. spider monkey climbed it. he was supposed to pull the chain ladder up. but when he jerked, he fell backwards and fell off the wall. the ladder fell back down. there at the horseshoe pit, doug taylor was pitching horseshoes. he's watching these guys go over. no one's getting shot, no one seems to care. i'm serious. he just went -- he run over, he went over. about that time, a guy running laps. he had on running shorts and tennis shoes. he comes around and he saw doug go over. he stops and running in place. he shrugged, too, and he went over. >> 15 minutes later as the seventh inmate was climbing over, a guard in another tower finally took notice and fired a shot, striking the last escapee in the shoulder. >> the way it used to work here, they had a big steam whistle. when they would have an escape, they would blow the whistle. when you hear the whistle blow, you get a shotgun and your dog and go to the woods. because the inmates, back then there was

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 s

>> no, i ain't going back to the penitentiary. i'm ready to get out. k. >> it's even worse there. >> yeah. strip-searched, you know. i know all of it, the strip-searching, bending over, coughing, squatting, all of that, but they don't do that. they definitely don't put their hands right here in the crease like that. they tell you, get naked, bend over, squat, cough, you know? >> all right, well, but you're not going to help yourself if you caused a problem here, you know what i'm saying? you just could have made your problem worse. >> while powell might be considered a problem inmate, those enrolled in enough is enough, the jail's antidrug program, are held to a higher standard. >> part of recovery is that you've got to help somebody else. you have to help someone else. >> after near lifelong addictions that have kept them both coming in and out of jail, john carroll and joe smithsson were recently accepted into the program. >> one of the things i shared with them is the hardest part of the program, is for them to hold each other accountable. we use the

the suspended sanctions. >> while morgan lived in the minimum security level two section of the penitentiaryw mexico, he was awaiting transfer to an even less restrictive level one prison, commonly known as the farm. >> i tell them it's like disneyland. oh, i'm going to disneyland. going to go find a ride. >> the farm is a lot more freedom. 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 with peaches. he was

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 we 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 tick

an inmate at the penitentiary of new mexico proved to be an exception. >> this inmate was every woman's. this is the guy we're all told to fear and to defend ourselves against. >> i'm a serial rapist. i've been convicted in new mexico on three separate occasions for rape. >> he was convicted of three rapes, but he told us he had raped 22 women total. so i knew there were 19 other women out there who he had attacked and terrified. he wanted to remain anonymous, because he was getting out soon and he didn't want any of these victims to see him, because then he'd have to go back into prison. >> when we met him, he was coming up for parole on a 44-year sentence and it wasn't his first time in prison. >> my first rape was in 1975. and i picked up two to ten years on that and i served two. and i was released on parole, i lasted about a week and again was picked up and charged with a rape. i was returned to the santa fe state penitentiary from 1980 to 1986 when i was released again on parole. i lasted on that parole, for about two weeks. and then i began again, serial raping. >> in this rare i

the sex offender we met at penitentiary has a different he is serving life without the possibility ofrole. against me. system knew about it, and of course they're all trying to he killed one, so now we're cells 23 hours a day to keep you know, after a while you get is probably being able to be anything else. i mean, these places don't smell >>> next on "lockup raw: ever started rattling back and forth >> when a life sentence extends >> i'm not a superstitious and i believe everything that has an explanation. i've seen here that i've not >> see, i'm getting goosebumps are you flo? yes. is this the thing you gave my husband? well, yeah, yes. the "name your price" tool. you tell us the price you want to pay, and we give you a range of options to choose from. careful, though -- that kind of power can go to your head. that explains a lot. yo, buddy! i got this. gimme one, gimme one, gimme one! the power of the "name your price" tool. only from progressive. >>> correctional officers are well aware that some inmates pose a near constant threat and that many of them will be incarcerated until

you're looking for a place for your life to happen. >>> we were at the penitentiary of new mexico withate joe sanchez in the weeks just prior to his release date. he had already been informed it would be delayed by 15 days due to a miscalculation of his earned good time. but the news was about to get much worse. >> mr. sanchez, how are you doing today? got a little bit of a problem. in looking at your file, i have found an error -- i found -- >> you guys find errors. you never find nothing good. you're good at finding errors. just get to the point. >> okay. at this point in time i'm looking at like 88 days, not 15. >> 88 days? >> and that's what i wanted to talk to you about, but i think it's more appropriate -- >> you guys are [ bleep ] doing that wrong. i don't know where the hell you get 88 days or who the [ bleep ] made that up but -- >> that's what we want to talk about, and i think it's more appropriate to talk about that in a committee. >> you guys already did it so what the [ bleep ]. you already did it. you already done it. >> no, i haven't done it. >> i know for a fact in my

went to county jail, got out for that, got another gun charge, got sentenced to the penitentiary. out now. i got a violation for access to a gun. never had no positive influence. my influence was the streets. and i thought that was positive because that's all i knew so i'm thinking that's the right way so i'm going to go that 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 right now. that's what i think about all the time. i want to straighten my life out for him because i ain't never had no dad. even though my dad would have been good to me, because i knew who he was, he fell victim to the streets. i don't want him 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 going to forget even if i troy to straighten up my life. because a lot of people are trying to straighten their life up

serving a double life sentence for killing two police officers. >> i hate that i'm going to die in the penitentiaryot 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 know, t

independent and secure afghanistan this is the education establishment the cheap enough that the penitentiary department a present for you mates main offenders in the georgian capital tbilisi. is it into itunes and inform the juvenile justice center undertaken by the government of georgia and unicef and supported by the european union. rehabilitation of young offenders and their reintegration into society it's a crucial aspect. this has come up with an old idea of supporting the kid needs of patients in jordan and i think he gets that but that is deemed accurate and that he would ask the medicine and treatment they had been safe mining pits can be used to import chinese descent and so should they fail. the bombing instance be distilled down nice and tight in the coming years. i'm still likes the medicines to fifty two pleasant of the population. i get paid to cotton setting it's well below the lives of john f kennedy's things for the nineteen sixties european union plus to mobilize the energy of youth and the elderly as volunteers to build the skills they need to gain of one european parliame

this is how it goes. >> and those are the first things -- >> the signs. >> you come to learn in the penitentiary. >> inmates must be even more aware of their environment than an officer. for them, it's all about survival of the fittest. >> using your vibes and looking at the motions and the actions to people from a distance. something is not right. something is not right. so, we've got to watch this here. >> the northern hispanics are our main gang here at san quentin. it's because they're better organized. if you look at the yard, it looks like the blacks control more of the yard. but the blacks are all fragmented into different gang groups. when the northerners, no matter what gang they're in on the street, when they get here, they're one group, and they all stick together. then the border brothers run this area over by the laundry that has the volleyball court. border brothers being anybody that was born south of the border. they usually are the ones getting the advantage taken of them because they're not organized at all. they've taken that little area there because nobody else wants it beca

-- send you to the penitentiary. i don't think there's anyone out that if congress targeted at the would be a serious constitutional challenge. they would probably be more than five votes to strike down such a law. >> the question of when they start racing attacks come which they will have to in order to combat the increasing price of insurance on one side because not enough help for buying insurance, not declared constitutional line where that comes coercive. it becomes the new baseline like the south dakota v. dole for individual coercion because south dakota vtol case which is dashing they said 5% of highway funds was not enough for diversion and then he went to medicaid expansion the same question up with how much you have to charge a person before you actually unconstitutionally coercing. >> yes, down here. >> i'm jason miller, a law student, and i a question in your blog debates in the previous discussion leading up to the case. did the religious freedom issue, up? for example, -- [inaudible] >> they did but th

. >> we have problems at sir francis drake boulevard with a solo vehicle spendout near the penitentiary it is drying in certain areas of the bay area over the san mateo bridge. we were looking at no shine on the roads so it is drying up. not true along highway 17. southbound side we have two separate crashes one a solo vehicle spin intermediate and another behind it and we are seeing no delays with the traffic headed in the number direction and here is berkeley away from the albany split, it is busy and you can see that is the university avenue overcrossing but you can see it is funneling into the tunnel and it is pretty packed conditions. mike nicco has the weather conditions? >> we will start at pacifica and headed to daly city and brisbane getting light rain. that is stretching over to emeryville with the drizzle and lit rain and berkeley and piedmont and the entire area. all three airports are on time. you can see the visibility is impressive if supposedly having rain. our visibility isen limited so you have aned in how light the rain is. we have another batch along the coast pushin

. >> so the hospices, like the one at the iowa state penitentiary help the prisoners in their final days. >> well, i mean, for the most part the prisoners, most prisoners die in their cells by themselves, in an infirmary by themselves as well, or in a state hospital, shackled to a bed with a guard outside the door, with no visitors can come. the prison hospice at the iowa state penitentiary allows the prisoner to die with family around and friends from the prison. >> research shows, as you said one out of every 5 prisoners is elderly or expected to die in the cells alone over the next decade. what impact do you think this hospice will have on the prisoners turned patients? >> i think the truth is we are not going to have - it will not be used, rarely is it used now. medical parole is rarely used. the hospice program is the next best thing for the prisoners destined to die behind bars. the benefit of the program is that this particular program in iowa trains the inmate to be a volunteer, and they can help their buddy go through the dying process. that is comfort care, palliative care. and

another day in the penitentiary. >> less than 24 hours after the stabbing, the warden has regrouped, taken the prison off lockdown and is back in control. >> we get these out of here. we had the hall looking great last night. let's try to keep it that way. we learned a few things last night. if you have an incident, at least make the best of it, try to learn what you can out of it. we reorganized the laundry, the way we bring our laundry in. the piece of metal, for things coming off a grinder. i feel that took place in the metal fab. we have a couple suspects that may be producing weapons in the metal fab. we'll try to pull those guys out. it was actually about shoes being stolen. he said he paid the guy three bags of coffee and the guy stole the three bags of coffee plus didn't bring his shoes back, so that's why he stabbed him. >> he had about three stab wounds. the one in his side was serious. the doctor told him they just missed getting his liver, which would have been, could have been, terminal. but after we got him back in from the hospital, he went on to ad-seg, and, of course

. >> this is my fifth here in the penitentiary. i've been all around. ystem for a while. >> soledad, tracy, solano, jamestown, and now here. >> many of these inmates are simply resigned to prison as a way of life. . >> yeah, i'll probably come back once or twice on vice. ♪ i can't shake these penitentiary state blues ♪ >> but flaco has come to the realization that hanging with a street gang does not mean lifetime loyalty. >> well, basically what it boils down to, an eye opener for me was, when i fell, when i got locked up, where were they? you know, the only people writing me, taking care of me right now is my family. all those guys, homeboy this, they ain't nowhere to be found right now. you know, so what it boils down to who is really here for me right now is my family. >> and for chester reed, it's that separation from family and his wife of 32 years that is most painful. >> misery i went through inside these walls and the pain that i caused my family, it will never happen again, not in my lifetime. it hurts me just to think of the hurt that i caused

we want to control the penitentiary system. ake much to incite a riot or whatever, you know. you could take four officers hostage at the same time, and it's gonna domino. it's gonna domino. they don't have control. it's a delusion. >> forbidden to write letters in seg to general population, parker says he's able to communicate with fellow aryan brotherhood inmates by writing to friends on the outside. >> they're lazy. they don't read the mail. they mail clerk doesn't -- i don't think she would have time to read the mail, even if she wanted to. >> this letter is from steven parker to an inmate named reese. >> kyra gyden is in charge of reading the mail at holman. she has just intercepted one of parker's unauthorized letters containing insulting language about warden culliver. >> he wrote "culliver," i'm not going to read all of that because it's a lot of cussing in it. "he's an idiot, treats everyone like inferiors or children. i cannot stand that, and he's a supercilious jackass." steven parker is a weirdo, anyway. very weird. t

you know, you don't have freedom when you're in the penitentiary. >> with a family to provide support frank trusty is one of the lucky ones. frank arrives after a haircut and change of clothes to change his offender status from prisoner to parolee. >> regardless of how well or bad your life is going, you have to report as required. we are going to come to your home. >> okay. >> and if we believe there's a reason to look around, we're going to ask to look around. you can't have weapons. possession of a firearm is a federal offense. because you're a convicted felon. you should always come to the office, ready to give a urine. >> okay. >> frank will face random drug testing as part of his parole. any positive urine test, frank could be sent right back to usp. >> i smoked marijuana. my distribution was for mushrooms. every time i get out, i end up getting high again. i hope this is different. i'm scared, though. >> frank's 30 years old. that's where offenders are usually on the cuffs. where they'll start aging out, they'll slow down and will start making responsible decisions. you'll hear

get out, he's going to try to do more than what he was doing with himself before he went to the penitentiaryide, i'm going to get 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

you've been to the penitentiary. i agree that it's a wholly unpleasant place to be.y hope for you, and it is for everybody in your situation, is that you take advantage of whatever opportunities are there for you. and that, at some point, you develop a sense of empathy for what you've done to these people. not just to mr. bishop, but to his family. and the curse of that is that you will feel the horror of that. but the blessing of that is that that will allow you to change. good luck with what happens next. thank you all. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> i'm going to show you what i'm made of! >> he's easily one of the most volatile inmates to peer on "lockup." but now is it possible he's discovered true love? >> we've been together four years. it's just something that happened. >> this man ranks as one of the most talked about inmates featured on "lockup." >> look at his eyes. >> they're tattooed. >> they're what? >> but now he's out of prison and his tattooed eyeballs continue to fascinate. >> [ bleep ] punk, sit here and [ bleep

it's complicated but they are all paying if they get the sniffles in the penitentiary heather and i aretexas, they now have to foot the bill for those prisoners in other states, fascinating. >> mad as hell when i hear commentators talk about what a weaker flawed candidate mitt romney was in the last election. true charitable gentleman. if a flawed candidate does not speak well for the state of our country. look, i think mitt romney is a good man, i think you agree with that. >> certainly handled it so well how that msnbc anchor talked about his grandson. >> in my humble opinion and i don't want heather to weigh in she is a news anchor, he was not a good presidential candidate. he did not bring the fight to the democrats. he wasn't aggressive enough. he blew it on benghazi. and he didn't have enough. next letter comes from bob daugherty burbank, california. mad as hell that once an breach of glamour. people say i was like in lieu of i said. valley speak means that fewer folks sound unintelligent self-respecting. >> we have bigger fish to fry here. when you look at teenagers you see them

. >> this is the penitentiary here. >> she's been up here like seven, eight months.real time in county jail. not that playland, and my best friend applications and [ bleep ] like that. we don't get down like that in the town or in alameda county. i don't even know where she's from. that's why i would roll them up and put them down there. they're in play jail. we in real jail and we want to go home. >> that takes some [ bleep ] >> while markert finds herself in the middle of a brewing storm. >> vincent del judas has not let his 12-year sentence prevent him from finding a port in his storm. a few days ago ago, he took a major step. he got married. >> i got married here in santa rita, you know? on valentine's day. so you know, it was kind of a -- she was kind of happy about that. >> hey, baby. >> how you been? >> i've been all right. >> del judas' new wife, maria, has been visiting weekly since he's been at santa rita. and during her last visit, they tied the knot. >> when we do visiting, it's through the phone, through the glass. they don't let us touch or nothing like

. >> this was a radio that he had when he was in the penitentiary. >> this, too, was left in the doorway, i believe, is scratched on here. >> ray's hair would link him to the bedspread. then there was this in the bundle. so this laundry tag from his shorts -- >> yes. >> -- was traced back to him? >> exactly, exactly. >> james earl ray would eventually admit almost everything, except killing king. his brother, jerry ray. >> he don't deny that he didn't rent the room. he don't deny he didn't buy the gun. the only thing he denies is that he was in that room. >> the only thing he denies is that he shot dr. king. >> that's the only thing he didn't do. >> jerry ray says before the shot was fired, his brother drove the mustang away to try to get a spare tire fixed. no witnesses have said yes, he came in to get the spare tire fixed. yes, i saw that man. we were too busy, we couldn't take him, but he was here. nobody. there's not one witness who has talked about a man coming in to get a spare tire fixed. >> i don't know for sure. i don't know if nobody admitted that he was in there or not. >> whe

they consented to the penitentiary for doing something that they don't want you to do. i don't think there's anybody now who would deny that it congress try to do that there would be a serious constitutional challenge and there were probably more than five votes to strike down such a law. >> interesting thing is too the question of when they start raising the tax which they will have to in order to combat the increasing price of insurance on one side because not enough healthy people are buying insurance. there is a line where that becomes coercive and up comes the new baseline of the south dakota v. dole. in the south dakota v. dole case which is about stakeholders they said 5% of highway funds was not enough to koreshan and the medicaid expansion. we have the same question now with how much you charge a person before you're actually unconstitutionally coerced. >> yes, down here. >> eyeing jason miller. i am a law student and i had a question, in your blog debates in the previous discussions leading up to the case to the religious freedom issues, up? for example contra

certainly can't treat in the way the drug laws are treated under the commerce clause and send you to the penitentiary for doing something they don't want you to do. so that precedent, i don't think there's anybody now who would deny if congress tried to do that, there would be a serious constitutional challenge, and there would be probably more than five votes to strike down such a law. >> the interesting thing, too, is that the question of when they start raising the tax, which they will have to in order to combat the increasing price of insurance on one side because not enough healthy people are buying insurance, there's theoretically some constitutional heretofore not declared constitutional line where that becomes coercive. and it becomes the new baseline of, like, the south dakota v. dole for individual coercion. because in the south dakota v. dole case which is about state coercion, they said 5% of highway funds was not enough to coercion, and then they went to this medicaid expansion which was enough for coercion. we have the same question now with how much of you have to charge a person befor

do that, but they certainly can't treat in the way the drug laws are treated and send you to the penitentiary for doing something they don't want you to do. so that precedent, i don't think there's anybody now who would deny that if congress tried to do that, there would be a serious constitutional challenge and probably more than five votes to strike down such a law. >> the interesting thing, too, is the question of when they start raising the tax, which they will have to in order to come watt the increasing price of insurance on one side because not enough healthy people are buying insurance. there's theoretically some constitutional heretofore not declared constitutional line where that becomes coercive. and it becomes the new baseline of the south dakota v. dole. because many that case, which is about state coercion, they said 5% of highway funds was not enough to coercion, and then they went to this medicaid expansion which was enough for coercion. we have the same question now with how much you have to charge a person before you're actually unconstitutionally coercing them. >> other que

them grow, that's your cat. >> it was really amazing to see all of these guys in the state's maximum security penitentiaryall over them. they had them up on their shoulders. they were petting them constantly. and it was really interesting how the inmates had developed very, very nurturing relationships with these cats. >> we got all kinds of cats. you've got these guys here, these cats is their kids. mess with one of the cats, just like messing with my kids at home. these cats is their family. that's all they've got. >> and like any proud parent, the inmates shared photos of their favorite felines. >> we are cat lovers up here. here comes one. this is a monster right here. >> people had specific cats, and if you didn't want anything to happen to that cat, the last thing you were going to do is commit an act of violence that would send you to segregation where you couldn't care for it anymore. so in this funny little way, the cats contributed to a lower level of violence on that yard. >> event comes once a month. you can buy dry food, medicine and toys and stuff like that. >> so guys work hard at their job

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

president clinton said it was the crown jewel in the federal penitentiary system. president obama said what the mistakes of his first term was failing to break out of the white house and mover of the country as much as he showed a tiny stream to change that now. so we've had the problem. church radios have biases funded johnson's 45 years ago wrote a book called the twilight of the presidency and he said the biggest problem he could see coming from the presidency was being isolated from reality. if anything, it's gotten worse in them because of many of the fact as i'm about to talk about. some of them are positive thing from the president's day-to-day life. the president has treated like a king in some ways. ichat white house staff that is there to do whatever the president wants. in addition to the official political staff. there's camp david, presidential retreat, air force one and i wrote a book about air force one that i can tell you of the five presidents have cover, does that mean they always say the most when they leave office, defying white house. never has

we're not talking about places like illinois where governors habitually end up in the federal penitentiaryis is a very different case. >> but the lax laws, this is really going to test those kind of limits. it's a tough case for the prosecution to prove, but as you can read the indictment, they've thrown the kitchen sink at them at this point. so it will be an interesting case. but there's nothing wrong under virginia law with taking those gifts. it's just the need to disclose and was there a quid pro quo. >> former congressman tom davis, thank you very much. >>> and what a view. two million people visit rio's christ the redeemer statue. but these repair workers are getting a rare perspective indeed, from atop one of the world's incredible manmade landmarks. they are making repairs on the famous monument after a lightning strike damaged the head and right hand of the statue in a storm just last week. the statue was actually struck by lightning between three and five times a year. officials say they will now place additional light thing rods on the statue to prevent future damage. cer ] nat

called the white house the great white jalyn president clinton said it was the crown jewel in the federal penitentiaryystem and president obama said one of the mistakes he made in his first term was failing to break out of the white house and move around the country as much as he should have and he's trying to change that now. we have had this problem. joy at -- george reidy who is invited by lyndon johnson 40 years ago wrote a book called the twilight of the president -- presidency and he said the biggest problem he could see coming for the presidency was being isolated from reality. i think of anything it has gotten worse since then because many of the factors i'm about to talk about. some of them are positive things in the presence day-to-day life. the president has these tremendous court -- perks of office. there is a giant white house staff to do whatever the president wants. there is a 132 household staff members in addition to the political staff. there is camp david, the presidential retreat and there is air force one and i wrote a book about air force one. i can tell you of the five president

the blues. he spent 11 years in a federal penitentiary and was recently convicted of a bank robbery he says he didn't i'll be on the lam ♪ >> and the crowd went wild. i was america's most wanted man. thanks. that's the crowd. unfortunately, they're a captured audience. >> torres used to sing in a band on the outside, but he's probably better known for being a prolific bank robber. now he's pursuing a literary career working on his autobiography. >> yeah. it's "the bank robber blues, the tales of the mummy bandit." it's pretty good. i've got a couple guys here. i let them read it, and they are kind of my critics, and they say it's a page-turner. it keeps the reader interested. it doesn't take a genius to figure out how to write when you lay it down. if they can do it, i can do it. i'm working on it. i'm just getting warmed up. i have a lot more to go. i'm like in 1985 right now. >> but for now torres puts his book aside to help out his cellmate ryan abbey. >> basically what you want to tell them is that you need help, buddy, okay? >> yeah. >> you've got a problem. we both know that. what you told me,

i just don't see that level of frustration, the sort of penitentiary-up liberalism waiting to pounce.ood news if you are a democrat is who is -- concerned about this, is that the liberal part of the democratic party much smaller than the conservative portion of the republican party. >> de blasio's big campaign promise is that he wants to raise taxes on high earners and there areally some in new york to pay for added benefits especially universal pre-school. george, do you see this as an aberration, as a one-off because it is new york city? or as a -- a sign that there's something going on in terms of resurgence? >> i hope that it is a resurgence. >> you would like to see that. >> there is nothing better for american conservatism when periodic examples of liberalism, lyndon johnson after 1964 had huge majority in congress and had his way, republicans won five of the next six and seven of the next nine presidential elections. let him have his way in new york city. and let people see what happens. there are more 30 contracts of public employees unions have been held in advance until mayo