trotter has done his share to maintain his image of that. >> trotter maintained he was defending another inmate from abusive staff. >> some were stabbed and some were beat up and some went to court and overexaggerated their wounds. >> the judge in the case saw nothing to laugh about. >> i was found guilty of one count of attempted battery, and count of rioting and sentenced to 142 years. i was like, wow. most violence is spontaneous. that's what that was. it was spontaneous. one incident led to something else led to something else led to something else but it is never the solution. >> trotter has been in prison for 26 years. due to his role in the riot and disciplinary problems he has spent 16 of the years in the secured confinement unit. >> due to his behaviors in the past, we consider him to be a risk to our safety therefore he was placed on administrative segregation. >> trotter has spent many years in confinement reading and writing. he has found meaning in mary shelley's "frankenstein." >> i have watched the movie "frankenstein" and i read that one and i was like hey. i started to l

since then, trotter's done his share to maintain his image of that. >> trotter maintained he was defendingnmate from abusive staff. >> some of them were stabbed. some of them were beat up. some of them overexaggerated. >> the judge in trotter's case saw nothing to laugh about. >> i was found guilty of one count after tempted murder, one battery, four counts of criminal finding and one count of rioting. i was sentenced to 142 years and i was like, wow. most violence is spontaneous. that's what that was. it was spontaneous. onen incident led to somethingless and then led to something else. >> trotter has now been in prison for 26 years. due to his role in the riot, he has spent 16 of those years in the secured confinement unit. >> due to behaviors in the past, traveling, extortions and intimidations, we consider him to be a risk to our safety. therefore, he is placed on administration i administrationive confinement. >> he spent many years reading and writing. >> as a child, i've always watched the movie "frankenste "frankenstein." i recently read the novel. i was like hey, i started to look

few people know more about how difficult life in confinement is than christopher trotter. after ten consecutive years there, he has been released to a transitional housing unit on his way back to general population. >> probably known him for 12, 13 years. when i heard he was going to open pop, i couldn't believe it with his reputation that he has. i didn't think they would let him out. >> oh, man. this is what i do all day long, drink ice water. it's been ten years since i had a cup of ice water. i was like, dang, i never knew that water tasted so good. but it does, just ice water. and these are the little things we take for granted. >> trotter, whose name is infamous in the indiana state prison system, will now be around other inmates and staff without handcuffs and shackles for the first time in ten years. he originally came to prison nearly three decades earlier on a four-year sentence for theft. but then trotter received 142 years as a result of being one of the instigators of a major riot at another prison. he has spent a total of 16 years in confinement but says thes

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ron paul win iowa, that's like -- they become the washington generals to mitt romney's harlem globe trotter foe, or ron paul -- with ron paul stating the obvious. he does have passion and supporters, but his foreign policy views are far outside the mainstream of the modern conservative movement. the notion that you would allow iran to go nuclear, and that it might actually be a good thing, i think strikes most conservatives as absurd. and i think frankly once voters know more about -- republicans know more about ron paul and rick santorum they would do bad. the problem is, that they're surging late and so republicans don't know as much bad stuff about santorum and ron paul as they do about newt and perry. >> you know, i'm actually -- that was the one poll stat that actually made me very happy because i've been writing a lot about how unacceptable ron paul is just in american politics given the newsletters and how unacceptable newt gingrich is given some of the things he's said about the president, ç anti-kenyan, anti-colonialist view, the line of argument against the president. so this giv