badge, and there i went. >> her security clearance was pulled, and she's no longer allowed on the penitentiary in new mexico. >> why? >> for the fact that it's a threat to security of the institution. >> i didn't -- i guess i didn't realize what a security threat they thought that i was being. i didn't think david and i were anything like that, but who he is and his reputation, i can understand their fear of what i could have done if he had ever asked me to do something like that, but that was never what we were about. >> it puts everybody at risk, a very high risk, because they're letting out all our secrets, and inmates don't tell us their secrets. we got to find them out, and if somebody is telling them all our secrets, then it goes against us. it hurts us. >> it was a bad choice, but i wouldn't take it back for anything. i think he is the best thing that's ever come into my life. >> although visits are out of the question, david and paula are allowed phone calls. >> he tries to call me once or twice a week, and so that's pretty much the only time i can talk to him. >> i talk to her as much

i don't do this to think i'm going to get out of the penitentiary because i'm not. e a sense of understanding. it gives me a sense of responsibility for my own actions. >> good morning, everyone. i want to thank these guys for taking the time out to come up. this today is -- i'm nervous, by the way. >> the day was especially personal for one other inmate as well. >> i've been in for nearly 20 years. my victim's mom and stepdad are here today. vicki and greg. i want to thank them very much for coming. >> mark smith murdered his girlfriend jenny crompton when he was just 18 years old. through the program he was first confronted by his victim's mother and stepfather several years earlier. >> i was a mess. jenny had been gone eight years and i was still barely functioning. and i was full of anger and i was full of pain. and my other children were suffering. >> i had numerous recurring dreams, kind of nightmares that i had a lot of anger. and i wanted to definitely take it out on him. >> the meeting lasted five hours. >> we brought with us, do you remember, some pictures

in virginia, the superintendent of the state penitentiary sent multiple missives to the chair of the house reconstruction committee noting how the state democratic judges persistently sentenced black defendants for hard time in the state prison over minor infractions. in early 1869, the superintendent reported that "negroes are sent here for stealing one single bushel of corn from a cornfield valued at one dollar, in open violation of the law which requires that one should steal up to $20 before he can enter this institution." according to wardwell, the state's judges openly flouted these laws. he maintained that the responsible parties in congress need only read the indictment describing the offenses against certain of these freedman defendants to know that, "an american traitor with a heart black with perjury and hands red with blood should never be trusted on the judge's bench in a state like virginia." as an aside, wardwell was a new england quaker and had himself spent more than two years as a political prisoner in one of the deadliest confederate prisons after refusing to take

. >> that man is 74-2 in the granite boxing ring in the penitentiary behind the fence. >> 74-2? >> 74-2 is his record. >> maxwell, who has spent most of his adult life behind bars, did not earn his reputation solely through fighting. >> he's got a history of getting out of lockup, escaping from several facilities in the state of oklahoma. during that time he got a heck of a reputation of not being able to be held. >> and just 14 hours earlier, maxwell fled an oklahoma state prison 60 miles outside of tulsa. he was apprehended on the outskirts of town, suffered a black eye and a shoulder injury in the process. >> due to his being an escape risk, we will be using handcuffs, leg irons and a chain around his belly with a box and a padlock. >> we're going to have him black boxed. what this is is a system that was actually invented by inmates in prison, who have learned how to compromise the handcuff. what it does is covers the key holes. that good for you? more slack? >> a little bit more. >> he might be a high escape risk. that's no problem. he's not going to get out of our facility

. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico houses both low-level and maximum security inmates. the most dangerous and notorious are held in level six. >> you want to make me look like the monster. i've been here over 2 1/2 years. i never did nothing. i don't disrespect nobody. i don't cause no problems or nothing, but just because i'm small and able to slip the handcuffs any time i want, i'm a problem. i got locked up when i was about 10 1/2. i got grand theft auto. i've been to probably over 30 prisons. probably around 20 in florida. six or seven in oklahoma. three here. i don't get in trouble. i don't disrespect anybody. cops come to my door. i'm always, yes, sir, no, sir. yes, ma'am, no, ma'am. i don't disrespect nobody. i've made my mistakes and did some stupid stuff when i was young. but hurt somebody to where they went to the hospital and ended up dying later on, you know, but never been charged with murder. a lot of people, like, the first thing they think about me is they think about somebody like mcgyver or something. because i stabbed somebody with some jolly ranchers.

. >> inmates who become disruptive or violent at the penitentiary of new mexico are transferred to the lockup units in level 5 or 6. the trouble is, once inside, their behavior doesn't always improve. a lesson rookie amy lee is learning the hard way. >> i went upstairs to ask joseph if he wanted to go to the shower. he told me to take his next door neighbor. i said, no, it's your turn right now, so we're going to go. he said, no, i'm not going right now. i said, okay, so at this point, you're refusing. we later went up with a sergeant and he used choice words, calling me a tramp. >> i snapped at her, yelled at her. and she got her little feelings hurt. if she don't -- if her feelings are gonna go get hurt, go work at a damn church. >> this is what's going to happen. we will pull him out, all right? you're going to -- you can just hang out in there. and we'll bring him to you. >> okay. >> it's time, joe. >> how come she's got to be sitting across from me like that? >> what's all this, joe? have a seat. >> why does she have to be sitting across from me like that? >> because she's a membe

went to county jail, got out for that, got another gun charge, got sentenced to the penitentiary. got 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 is 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 for me, because i knew how 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 gonna forget, even if i try to straighten my life up. because a lot of people are trying to straighten their lif

in the penitentiary, it's not granted that you see another chance. you see in the penitentiary is another facility to another facility. when i look outside, it flashes will i be able to touch the outside society freely again. it gets emotional sometimes, you know, because that's my life. that's the first leaf i seen in a long time, brother. [ bleep ] >>> samantha mcdonald prefers to take her rec time at night. >> i never come out during the day usually. i usually come out at night. so i never get sunlight. little b.? and i socialize with other units and my friends. i don't know. >> gathers and mcdonald say they have developed a romantic relationship by speaking to one another through the air vents between their cells. mcdonald has recently entered a guilty plea on her charge of burglary and petty larceny. since she has no prior serious offenses, she is likely to bond out soon. >> when samantha leaves, it's like a test. now this is when the ball game starts. all of what you said during your introduction, during your interview, during our honeymoon per

the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile use teen 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 boneheads. >> it's a prison, you know. >> 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 that happen a lot in here? >> there is a lot of verbal altercations between people. you've got to understand, there's 16 men living together behind closed doors with stress, animosity towards one another in some cases. it's not always a pleasant place to be. >> when in

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 is 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 for me, because i knew how 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 gonna forget, even if i try to straighten my life up. because a lot of people are trying to straighten their life up

. >> if i get charged with assault i'm going to the penitentiary for 9 1/2 flat. 9 years flat. even though it's an internal charge, they can be jerks and make it an outside charge if dude shows up in court and i go to the penitentiary for nine flat. >> that's a big deal. >> yeah. there's a lot to lose. i feel stupid for doing it. >> so what are you, depressed? you look a little out of it. >> yeah, i'm depressed. i'm really depressed by it. i am going to the hole. i have to explain to my wife that i can't have no visitation or nothing because i punched somebody in the face, and get yelled at and my kids are probably going to act out for the next week and a half till i get home and put her through hell. it's a lot of unwanted stress that shouldn't have been caused. >> moments later the sergeant enters the holding cell to take coleman's statement. coleman must choose the version he thinks is in his best interest. >> coleman, i'm sergeant jim. what's your side of the story? >> we were goofing off and he took off and slid across the floor. which i did it first, i slid across the flo

but we found an inmate inside the penitentiary of new mexico who grew up with all of life's advantages and yet still became a violent predator. >> 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. he retired from the navy and joined the national guard, retired from the national guard and then started going to the county for the job. he retired as the county jail administrator. my mom, she's a secretary. she's very educated, very knowledgeable, she quit to stay home with me so that i would have someone there for when i got home from school. do my homework, make sure i did 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 i was pretty much 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 false imprisonment. >> i was robbing a house, boom, someone came home, i laid in wait or whatever. they came through

. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds some of the most violent offenders in the state. in our four months 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

larry and claude were each sentenced to 50 years in the federal penitentiary. >> they were the men whod taken an oath to protect these people from violent criminal activity, and they're the very people preying upon them. and so we felt that there was a certain amount of culpability that went to those two that didn't go to alvin. >> alvin was sentenced to 15 years. >> and i think it was the shirt that an fbi investigator at the lab was able to identify that this is the exact shirt that was worn in this robbery, and it matches identical to the surveillance film inside the bank. i think that that became the straw that broke the camel's back and broke the case. >>> a series of medical mixups left one woman dead and her doctor in prison for negligent homicide. but that wasn't the entire story. in a single strand of hair a forensic toxicologist found evidence of another medical mystery, one that made headlines around the world. >>> hi. say "happy halloween." >> happy halloween. >> happy halloween. >> who is that guy? >> 1997 looked like it would be a banner year for the pignataro family. dr.

on count two, the sentence will be 24 months in the state penitentiary. fine. on count four, 24 months in the state penitentiary, you will pay a $10,000 fine. those sentences will run consecutive to one another. and you will have a lifetime driving suspension and will also pay court costs. >> i guess my hopes were kind of shot down. my hopes were about two years. two to three years. with a chance of getting my driver suspension revoked at some point. >> and the victims families spoke what was it like for you? what was going through your head? >> basically what was going through my head was stay strong. basically the male's family was mad. i don't think they are going to get over it. like me, i'm not going to ever get over it. but to cope with it is one step. the girl's grandfather did say that he forgave me. and that was a big thing. it hurt in my chest. but it felt good to hear that someone actually forgave me. >> coming up -- kyle stein takes the long walk to the state prison bus. >> i got about four years to think about what got me here. ♪ do you know

>>> the penitentiary of new mexico holds the worst offenders in the state.ive in a constant 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

another day in the penitentiary. other day. >> 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 and keep it like that. >> we learned a few things yesterday, which is always good. if you have an incident, at least make the best of it, try to learn what you can out of it. and so we reorganized the laundry, the way we bring our laundry in. the piece of metal looked fairly fresh, 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 be looking at that to 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 l

. >> john alt was warden at the anamosa state penitentiary at the time we shot there. >> any time you can have inmates participate in some type of meaningful activity it makes their time easier. it makes staff's time a lot easier. i'd much rather have them participate in something positive than sitting around with nothing to do and talk about maybe how to pull an armed robbery or plotting against us or fellow staff members. >> during our shoot at indiana state prison, authorities even allowed for a weightlifting competition. >> lions, 495. lyons now lifting at 495. >> other penitentiaries get that weight up. that's how they're doing it. get your weight up. >> this is 25. >> 25. on deck. we push. on deck. >> let's go! go! >> good lift. good lift. you got it. >> of course, in prison, there's also a practical side to staying in shape. >> if you ever come against somebody who wants to approach you in a negative way, attack you in a fight or something, you don't want to be the person that's going to run out of air first. the person that runs out of air first is the person that gets hurt. >

but we found an inmate inside the penitentiary of new mexico who grew up with all of life's

. >> this is what you live for in the penitentiary. er a dull moment. >> bobby must spend time in the bull pen outside while officers clean his cell. >> he can go on up there and strip my [ bleep ] cell. i got 100 friends out here. give me whatever i want to work with. >> finally got him out of the cell, moved him outside. now we'll find what he was busting that window with. here it is. one of the caps from the bull pen out there, the post. bobby getting out of the cell. somehow or another he smuggled this into his cell. one of the caps from the metal post. busting the window out. making all kind of threats about what he was going to do. he's pretty agitated right now. >> just leave him in the yard. >> we're going to leave bobby out there in the bull pen for probably three or four hours, let him calm down, think about it. when he gets through with his mad behavior, he'll be ready to apologize and get back to what he should be. >> ask any officer what he wants, by god, i don't [ bleep ] with nobody. but it's me and neil that have a probl

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

cat. >> it was really amazing to see all of these felons, the guys that were in the state's maximum security penitentiaryth cats. climbing all over them. they had them up on their shoulders. they were putting 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 got these guys here, these cats is their kids. and you mess with one of the cats, i mean it's just like messing with my kids at home. i mean, 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're cat lovers up here. now 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 them. so in this funny little way, the cats contributed to a lower level of violence on that yard. >> vet comes once a month, you can buy food and medicine and toys and stuff like tha

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

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and it was unforgettable. >> this is the electric chair, which is maintained by the kentucky state penitentiary electrocution. it was originally built somewhere in the 1900s. >> it's just leather and wood and metal. like any other chair. but there's this unmistakable feeling, you know people die there. >> some of kentucky's death row inmates can choose between the electric chair and lethal injection. that's also the case in the neighboring state of tennessee. and when we visited there, we met a death row inmate who soon would face that decision. and as far as daryl holton was concerned, the sooner the better. >> yeah, i was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder. my children. >> throughout the entire interview holton spoke in a calm, coherent manner about what led to his nightmarish actions. >> got out of the army, divorced my wife, had custody of my children. reconciled with my wife. the reconciliation didn't work. and i hit her. i struck her. she got custody of the children and pretty much factored me out of the picture. >> then on november 30th, 1997, holton picked up his four child

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

. >> within the 275-acre penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe.son within a prison. shoe inmates spend about 22 hours of every day in solitary confinement. locked up in an 8 x 10 windowless cement cell with little human contact. inside the shoe are about 1,000 level-four prisoners, what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don't want or can't handle. dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. >> because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community to commit these types of crimes. >> and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. it's sunday, and it's raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire prison is on edge dating back to a smaller racially charged riot six months earlier between two gangs, the southern hispanics and the black guerilla family. >> you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. as it went on, the tension got more and more and more pronounced. >> the pent-up tension finally erupts. >> just

but we're so focused on just desserts retribution are retaliation the root at the turn penitentiary. then they do find for productive members of society. that we now have of class of people that we refer to as x. clines. they committed a crime. the person doesn't get a job but that means it is the risk of community. we're referring to what economists call as teeming capital. so eric holder i have tremendous respect for him is pushing for enactment of the bill. but fair sentencing act with that 100 / one crack cocaine structure. because maybe we will get smarter and figure out that we are talking roughly 7 million people. that in all of our communities there are studies that show the reduction of productivity productivity, the reduction of gdp the impact of families and to the breakup of the family connected to poverty we cannot afford to do something different. >> the only way that will succeed is the equal employment opportunity commission permits employers to take into account of the ex felons because the cost for something to have been is a foreseeable consequence. if we changed th

so focused on just desserts, retribution retaliation, rather than pensions, at the root of the term penitentiary. this goes back to the question dan was raising which is we now have a class of people we referred to as back sconce. you committed a crime. it could be something as small as one gram of crack cocaine. a person doesn't get job. that means that is a risk in communities, a risk to society as a whole. we are depleting economists refer to as human capital so the question of cost to me is can we afford to continue doing this? error colder, i have tremendous respect for attorney-general eric holder began pushing for a bill not called fair sentencing that was the title of the bill enacted in 2010 fair sentencing. that meant we are being fair to those who are subject to the 100-1 crack cocaine structure. it is smarter sentencing because maybe we will get smarter and figure out we should be ensuring, we are talking roughly 7 million people. we were just out there in our communities. all of our communities so even after it that there are studies that show the reduction in productivity, the redu

that is sort of the word of the term penitentiary and learn and become productive members of society and this goes back to the question which is we now have a class of people that we refer to as ex-cons. there can be something as small as one program of crack. so that means -- that is a risk in community, to society as a whole. we deplete what economists refer to as human capital. the question of costing me is really can we really afford to continue doing this? eric holder i have tremendous respect for attorney general eric holder has begun pushing for a bill. not called fair sentencing. that was the title of the bill and not in 2010. what that meant was we are being fair to those who are subject to the 100 to one penalty structure. smarter sentencing because maybe we would get smarter and figure out that we should be ensuring, but we are talking roughly 7 million people. in our communities, all of our communities. so there are studies that show the reduction in productivity the reduction in gdp the impact on families that imprisonment especially black males that contributed to the br

. >> mark david chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life, and sent to the new york state penitentiarytica. in his interview with larry king, chapman claimed to have recovered from the mental illness that had led to his crime. >> it was me, larry. and i accept full responsibility for what i did. i have seen places where i am blaming the devil, and i hope that isn't kept going after this interview. i'm not blaming the devil. i'm blaming myself, but in a major sense, it wasn't me because i'm better now. i'm sorry for what i did. i realize now that i really ended a man's life. i just saw him as a two-dimensional celebrity with no real feelings. he was an album cover to me. you could sit at your computer and read all about zero-turn mowers. click. scroll. tweet. or you could just sit on a john deere z435 eztrak and feel its power. you'll know it'll get the job done fast. when it's time to pick a mower, you've got to get on one. visit your local john deere dealer for a test drive today. sign up to take your turn on a z435 and save 100 dollars on your purchase. nothing runs like a deere. but

this ain't no regular penitentiary. it's the hole, man. >> basically, it's the same thing every day, you know? you sit in your cell. sleep in your cell. >> strip out right now. >> get down! >> yeah. >> as long as i keep busy, then i'll be all right. but the second i'm at a standstill, i don't know what to do and i'm looking for something to do, i'm going to get myself in a wreck. i'm going to get in trouble. >> pacing back and forth, two or three hours at a time. everyone here is like animals. back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. nothing happens. so it's like one day goes into another. and the next thing you know, weeks go by, months go by, years go by. >> a new day begins at san quentin. >> good morning, gentlemen. >> how are you doing? >> california's oldest and most notorious prison. with its own zip code, almost 6,000 inmates and more than 1,500 staff members who walk through its gates every morning, a typical day at san quentin is, more often than not, just like hundreds, even thousands, of other days. for 19-yea

additions that you're looking at because the older editions have this kind of but there'll baldaccini like that, just like eastern state pennsylvania -- penitentiary. they have the slipped where the light of god could shine down on you and make you think about all the awful things that you get. so yes there's quite a bit in the book about homeless bird had an appalling pass. -- holds berg. a lot of medical testing that when i go into in greater detail their weather tested just about anything you would want to be tested with they probably tested on people. they also had a bunch of riots and some of them were really grow. one, the deputy and the warden of were murdered. i'm sort of working from the present back but one of the early incidents was a hunger strike with the people were unhappy about the quality of food and so they took the strike leaders and put them into buildings that no longer exist called the klondike that a bunch of radiators and steam pipes. they changed into the wall close the windows and basically boiled them alive. and so the governor actually came out and was really upset and shaken by it. it's just a terrible thing. they did

the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >> at kentucky state penitentiary, some inmates can apprentice in an auto body shop. ikers 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 i stabbed him with it three or four times, until he was dead. 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. just has to have a point. put your hand on it, do what you need to do. >> "lockup" crews are regularly exposed to the tools of a deadly trade. >> 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 down plastic. i mean, t

the judge. pollock, louisiana, april 5, 2006. a convicted murderer escapes from a federal penitentiary, and a massive manhunt is on to capture him.rd lee mcnair, is a dangerous criminal, a highly intelligent martial arts expert who's escaped from two other prisons in the past before being recaptured. this time, he hides in a mail truck. he's the first prisoner to escape from a federal maximum security facility in nearly 15 years. hours after mcnair's discovered missing, an officer with the ball police department sees a man running on the railroad tracks and gets out to question him. >> what it is, we've got an escapee. >> oh. where from? >> a prison. >> is it the man he's looking for? >> when i crossed the tracks down there, i saw you running. and i said, well, how lucky can i be? >> nope, nope, nope, nope. i'm not no prison escapee. >> the police only have an old, blurry photograph of the prisoner they're looking for. and the officer can't tell if the person he stopped matches the description. so, he asks the man some questions. >> do you have any form of identification on you? what's your name? >> robert jones. >> robert jones?

. >> it turns out the passenger is sidney byrd, a career criminal who escaped prison while out on work release. >> had nothing to lose. he wasn't going back to alabama penitentiary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> backup is now on the scene, the manhunt for byrd is on. >> the county calls the horse team out there and dog team, and pretty quick, within an hour, an hour 15 minutes, hour and a half tops the smith county deputies have already caught him hidden underneath some leaves in a pasture less than a hundred yards away. >> years after the ordeal, troopers goins and andreesen recall the dramatic events of that fateful night. >> i get that one round off right here. >> we had 30 minutes left of the shift when all this happened. >> i had gotten the camera put in the day before. it was one of those fluky things. three holes in his jacket. but not him. >> byrd is found guilty of aggravated assault on a public servant with a deadly weapon and sentenced to life in prison. >> i started that day as a rookie, but i went home that night as a veteran. >>> coming up -- with a gun in each hand, a man opens fire on police. >> we've just been fired at. the car has been hit s

left and see the state department, that was built in the late 1950s, early 1960s, which is for n anything else it sort of looks like a federal penitentiaryurn back a reminder of how important his voice has been. >> i read camilla asking if people ever ice skate, if they can skate on the reflecting pond at other point. this is the 20th trip for prince charles to washington here but even now we were talking about the first trip he made in 1970 where he was hosted by then president richard nixon. the desire as we look at awesome photos, the desire of our then president appeared to be create a match between his then 24-year-old daughter trisha and prince charles. does he talk about that? >> president nixon married one daughter off to the grandson of eisenhower. he thought he wanted to follow that with marrying her to prince charles. he jokes about that a lot and has over the years but that's one reason why it's so fascinating having him here. this is someone who met with barack obama yesterday, as a child, knew winston churchill, the swath of history is amazing. >> talk about the role of royals in our history, i mean these trips have been ta

the law. i have a brother in a texas federal penitentiary for murder. my big brother is back in jail for about the fifth time. as far as coming out of jail and needing this and that, first of all don't break the law. i am an iraqi veteran coming back. it is eight years later, and i am still not being helped. i look at breaking the law versus a vet coming home and not getting help. bring common sense. leave all the therapist stuff out of it. guest: thank you for your service to our country. i think one of the issues you highlighted is that there are situations for people serving their time behind bars that impacts family members. it is definitely a complicated situation. one of the things i have learned a lot in my work in this area is housing and family members support even in terms of phone calls is a way for people that have made mistakes or broken the law can try to find a path back to having a more productive life and living in our communities and a way that is not harmful to others but also has employment and other ways to contribute to the communit

congress did in power the irs to take actions to address this by forming agreements with various states and federal penitentiaryorrectional organizations. and they have -- they didn't some point take positive steps in doing so. some of those expired. others fell by the wayside. but this is a multibillion-dollar problem. it is still going on. and a lot of these individuals have so much time on their hands, and in all candor, have nothing left to you lose, that they're not going to stop. until something more tangible is done meaning further prosecutions or more authority or the irs somehow feeling the pinch of they don't tech -- take action with data information sharing programs and the like. this problem will continue to grow. it will metastasize. >> i red the ig report talking about this, and one of the recommendation was i think there were 300 some odd prisoners they had identified to decision give that information -- that group that they had, you know fix it where they could, and they refuse to do that. is that correct? >> i don't know if they refuse to do it. at one point, they did not have the authority to

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congress did empowered the irs to take action to address this by forming that agreements with various states and federal penitentiary or correctional organizations and they have -- they did at some point take positive steps in doing so. some of those expired. others fell by the wayside but this is a multibillion-dollar problem. it is still going on and a lot of these individuals have so much time on their hands and in all candor have nothing left to lose, they won't stop. until something more tangible is done, further prosecutions or more authority or in all candor the irs somehow feeling the pinch if they don't take action with signing up that information, sharing programs and the like with states. the problem will continue to grow and metastasize. >> i read the report talking about this and one of the recommendations was there are 300 some odd prisoners they identified to essentially give that information, to make it such that that group that they had, they could fix it where they couldn't do it and refuse to do that. is that correct? >> don't know if the refused to do it but they did not have the authority to do

the heels from target. under $30. >> on matt, for guys, it's penitentiary to stay tonal, but not to match. is what donnell and mariah. >> think stripes for spring. this spring it's about bigger and bolder. on donnell, you see the sweater we took a classic nautical stripe and made it more modern and paired it become to a jogger chino. that leisure hint, but fore of a formal look. this guy is sail boat to sidewalk ready. >> this outfit is super cute and chic with the nautical trend. a lot of women might be afraid to wear the horizontal but vertical looks longer and leaner. the nude flats. you want to keep your shoes neutral. >> thanks to the models. >> thanks so much. we are back in a moment, but first this is "today" on . >>> elizabeth furly will be joining us. >> curtis stone is back with us. >> we are wearing something that is very >>> good morning. i'm chris cato. it's 9:56 and yes, you will need the umbrella this afternoon. let's get your first alert forecast with meteorologist brittney shipp. >> that's right. take it before you leave your house because we do have rain moving in. as we p

the law. i have a brother in a texas federal penitentiary for murder. my big brother is back in jail for about the fifth time. as far as coming out of jail and needing this and that, first of all don't break the law. i am an iraqi veteran coming back. it is eight years later, and i am still not being helped. i look at breaking the law versus a vet coming home and not getting help. bring common sense. leave all the therapist stuff out of it. guest: thank you for your service to our country. i think one of the issues you highlighted is that there are situations for people serving their time behind bars that impacts family members. it is definitely a complicated situation. one of the things i have learned a lot in my work in this area is housing and family members support even in terms of phone calls is a way for people that have made mistakes or broken the law can try to find a path back to having a more productive life and living in our communities and a way that is not harmful to others but also has employment and other ways to contribute to the communit