and since then, trotter has done his share to maintain his image of that. >> trotter has maintained that he was defending another inmate from abusive staff. >> some of them were stabbed but some of them were beat up. some of them went to the court and overexaggerated their wounds. >> the judge in trotter's case saw nothing to laugh about. >> i was found guilty of one count of attempted murder, one battery, four counts of criminal defilement and one count of rioting. and i was sentenced to 142 years. and 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 now been in prison for 26 years 73 due to his role in the riot and other disciplinary problems, he has spent 16 of those years in the securitied confinement unit. >> due to his behaviors in the past, trafficking, extortions, intimidations we consider him to be a risk to our safety. therefore he was placed on administrative segregation. >> trotter has spent many years in confinement

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

or actually, suggesting we've got a good morning america trotter give you the details. >> high schoolan institution as right field time and again by hollywood. when this mild mannered school board member at a sparsely attended meeting in new hampshire advanced a radical idea. >> we have a moral imperative to at least begin the process of ending this game. >> it sparked an instant uproar. >> today we have the usually garrett jackson and michael shure and rick, let me me start with you. is it crazy? >> i think it's totally crazy. in many cases in many communities, it rallies that community. in those communities, it keeps a lot of those kids off the streets. now, i think one of the biggest problems are the coaches because in one segment i saw an espn, they were teaching kids to lead with their head. >> that's terrible. >> the technique is part of it and the coaches are a big part, as well. >> there's more on this. here's a doctor explaining his case. >> this is a dangerous game for children to be playing a game that uses the head as a battering ram is not a smart game to allow a youngste

if you want to travel on eastbound trotter road and jasper lindh, tracking an accident. crash there. rockspring road, accident in the belair region. all of these of volume-related delays in place. traffic in the area of white marsh. done to the 95 split, expect to be delayed. west side, old court road, southbound 795 ramp, very heavy. those delays continue all the way down towards the accident scene at baltimore national pike. >> there has been a little bit of fog in some neighborhoods, especially the far western suburbs. it does not appear to be a big deal. 48 in randallstown, 47 in parkton. we are watching rain on the southern part of origin. during the day, it should be fine. increasing clouds. mostly cloudy by the afternoon. off and on rainshowers likely during the day tomorrow. 75. dry and while on wednesday. >> we are back with another update at 8:56. >>> 8:30 on monday morning, the first day of october, 2012. and we're outside to say hello to all of the folks who decided to come by and say hello to us on a beautiful, crisp fall morning. good morning, everyone, i'm

they are on facebook and trotter and they want people to follow them. they want to be exposed.older people have a little bit more of a problem with privacy. we think about it in terms of flying on an airplane. the goal was not to have the airplane plot. in your pockets in front of you and collect your belongings on the other side. you get in will squeamish when they want to x-ray you and have these naked pictures going back to somebody in a different room, but now you do that. if tomorrow they said we are going to strip search you before you get on the plane in front of everybody you might take the train so there is a line that can be drawn coming and we want to make sure that there is both transparency in terms of the privacy policies and if you know about them and the ability to opt out. obviously europe is much further along on the path on this issue than we are. some other issues that we are touching on in terms of the privacy initiative or cyber bullying, the protection of intellectual property. you go on. right now you do research on rosetta stone. you want to learn frenc