. >> the first time i put on a stab vest was in indianaed at wabash valley.t was definitely an uneasy feeling knowing i had to wear this to walk on to the unit an that the potential to be stabbed was higher here. it definitely makes you a little more on your toes and a lot more alert of your environment. >> we noticed that these vests said lock down. wile we're here we're going to slowly but surely change every stinkin' one of them. >> if i'm required to wear a stab vest i usually just make light of it. i joke around about how it adds ten pounds to me and the color don't go with my outfit. i make it into a joke. >> and a sense of humor goes a long way in breaking the ice with many of the inmates featured on lockup. >> coming up the one lockup crew member inmates love to rib. >> sometimes i'll hear people say stuff through their cell, hey fat boy. i have to look at myself, really? >> and later previously unseen clips from one of the more memorable inmates we ever met. you tell us what you want to pay, and we give you a range of coverages to choose from. who is

. >> the first time i put on a stab vest was at wabash valley.his to walk on to the next unit that i was going to that the potential to be stabbed was higher here. it makes you more on your toes and more alert of your environment. >> we noticed that these vests at lock down while we're here we are going to change every one of them. >> if i'm required to wear a stab vest i make light of it. when i'm interacting with joke around how it adds ten pounds to me how the color doesn't go with my outfit. i make it a joke. >> and a sense of humor goes a long way in breaking the ice with many of the inmates featured on lockup. >>> coming up the one "lockup" crew member the inmates love to rib. >> sometimes i'll hear people say stuff through their cell, hey fat boy. i have to look at myself, really? >> and later previously unseen clips from one of the more memorable inmates we ever met. >> how grandpa wears them nowadays. then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every d

got in my mouth, my ear and all down my side here. >> wabash valley secured housing unit, or shu, holdss most dangerous inmates. >> how did you come back to work after that? >> you have to. you absolutely have to. if you let something like that stop you, then they win. if some of them were out on the streets, i would pity anyone they came across. >> but some inmates feel the shu only fuels their violent tendencies. >> the shu is terrible. it is a terrible place. i wouldn't wish this place on my worst enemy. >> as a shu inmate, billy brown is confined to a solitary cell. >> 24 hours i sit in this cell. without communication, without contact from any other human besides officers. >> it's a windowless cell in a pod and he said this incredible thing. he says, do you know how long it's been since i've seen a tree? >> the last time i saw a tree? oh, it's been years. years. it's been years since i saw a tree. when was the last time i interacted with some people? years. >> but some of the staff here believe brown earned his shu term. serving a 40-year sentence for rape, brown landed in the shu

how bad are power prrblems in thhs stop lighttat the corner of wabash and rogers avenue in northwest baltimore is running mosttstop lightt are runnnng normally. bbg-e spokesman, rob gould. - 3 p3 3 checking on the elderly becomes even more important &pduring powwr outages ann hot . weather.the bbltimore city health department was making today. and mayor stephaniee 3awling blaae was helping ut..- 3 3 health offfcials says the elderly are more aa risk hen ninnties. baltimore city olice say hiss and a no toleranceepolicy for the fourtt.last year's celebration at the inner harbor ended with a touriit being fatally stabbed...ann pour year old shot. shot.janice park is live downtown baltimore tonight, to doiig this year. janice? jennifer,pplice say they have a no tolerance pplicy thissyear...where they will be arrrssing trouble makers. and in order to connrollthe least 200 thousand people tommorow...you will be seeing phese waist high bike rackks all around the harbor. you'll remember last year things got out of hand.an alabama man was fatally stabbed...and a 4 yearrold was hit by a celebr

they've seen him at wabash.hey don't seem to have any problems. >> i'm worried about his side effects with involuntary movements and whether the others will perceive him as odd. >> a little bit jerky? >> yeah. >> when i talked to him yesterday, the team -- the team he's on, they're aware of it, and they don't seem to have issues with it. i think he thinks he can succeed out there. >> anything else on mr. street? we can count him as one of our success stories for now. >>> coming up -- >> make sure you know those receipts. you told me you was doing that last week? >> even as he tries to prove the case, nick compton can't escape the wrath of other inmates. >> snitches get killed. [ bleep ]. >> going through my mind, to get out of prison. to get home. to be around civil, normal people. to be around my family. stop dealing with idiots. they can't break me. i got too much faith. too much good things going my way. >> nick compton believes he's a target of his former gang, the aryan brotherhood, and would prefer to be i

susppct is wanned for trying to sexxally assault a woman near the iitersectton of liberty heights and wabash venues.the suspect wasswearing a redd basebaal cap, brown capri cargo shorts with tte had seeeral taaoos on his and - &pchest... one of which was a large crown n tte center of his chest.anyone with baltimore city police. &p3 state police ssy a traffic stop uncovered more than 100 thousand dollars in suspected heroin.it happened about 2:30 wednesday afternoon in perryville, when a trooper stopped a driver on i-95.the sniffing dogg which found 5- thousand wax bindles containing suspected brown heroin... and more than 78 thousand ollars in cash. police arrested the driver .... 37-year-old lterick boyd from noorh caaolina... he's being held tonight on numerous drug charges. a teeeaaer is dead - and three of his friends are hospitalized - after a car crash in columbia.it happened early this mornnng.melinda roeeer has more on the accident - and why neighbors are concermeddmelinda? &ppolice believe the 17-year-ol drivvr was speeding. but they are also invessigating weather alcohol is to blam

she is brought up alongside of t the wabash. he always called him robert. said he was always pleasant looking and well dressed. fitting him very well. i asked him a few questions and checked the nair rrative and hed been thinking about it for a week or two. general ripley's house and office are, a steamer was on each side of him and the crew wanted to try it. steam got up at 4:00 they let go and stood down quietly when he came up with the fort he blew the whistles. this was not only cute but intelligent in trying to sneak by. they chosely bonded. the former slave robert smalls. besides bringing out a valuable steamer. most important was the news that the confederates were eevacuating the mouth of the river. this was important that the british followed during the revolution. he ordered the commander to investigate confirmed what smalls reported and a week after small's escape the union vessels entered the river. the move into the river will result ain an event al attack by u.s. army forces. they will be defeated. the army will evacuate but the navy will keep

msbs -- msn -- man, locked up wabash extended stay. msnbc, locked up wabash, extended stay.the belly of the beast. yeah. >> we hear a lot of inmates describe prison as the belly of the beast. >> this place sucks, man. >> it's usually not used to describe prison kitchens. but that might be the most appropriate use of the phrase there is. >> our crews are always looking for ways to get these kind of iconic prison or jail shots, and the kitchen is a great place to get them, because i don't think anything really says incarceration more than seeing some bland food scooped on to an institutional tray by a 6'4" inmate covered in tattoos. >>> and the funny thing about the food is, inmates always complain about it, but inevitably, they're always looking for ways to get more of it. >> so we don't starve later on. but if you want to see a real sack, look over there. show them what you got. >> but if you're going to do it, if you're going to take a chance at getting caught, do it in a big way. >> go big or go home. right? and since we can't go home -- >> this is how we do it here. >> mo

into the port royal sound, she is brought up to and long side of admiral dupo dupont's flagship the wabash and dupont sends for smalls and he was very impressed with small ises. he called him robert, always called him robert, said he was very pleasant looking, trimmed, fine teeth, a clean and nice linen checked coat, with a very fine linen shirt, possibly part of the wardrobe of the navy officer who commanded the boat, fitting him very well if they were. i asked him a few questions to check the narrative when he first took the notion, and what made him think he would be successful. he had been thinking of it for about a week or two. the boat was taken in the evening to the -- a steamer was on each side of him, he got his wife on board quietly and the crew were of one accord to try it and then steam was got up at 4:00, theylet go of their fast and stood down quietly on reaching the fort at daylight when he came up

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when we visited indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, officers in the security housing uniting with the latest in a string of violent incidents involving convicted burglar, douglas mccombs. >> since he's been inside the shu, he's been on strip cell. when you see the offender coming out wearing his underwear, on strip cell, for resisting staff or trying to assault staff before. we have had trouble with him on about every range we've put him on so far. >> i can't get along with people too much. especially when they're evil. >> one of the people mccombs claims was evil, officer sachen. >> an average day in the shu can be pretty mundane. you have rec and showers to do. you have chow to serve. md sick call. so on, so forth. some days like today get a little more exciting. we had an offender who became belligerent in the shower. >> the offender was mccombs who told us he had good reason to be upset. >> try to get me to take a shower. but they don't have no soap or nothing. i said, ma'am, i just came from the other side, it was nasty where i come from. i need something to wash, a b

suspect is wanted for trying to sexually assaalt a oman near the intersection of liberty heights and wabash avenues.the suspect was wearing a red baseball cap, brown capri cargo ssorts wwih the right-side ccrgo pocket torn. he was not wearing a shirt and chest... one of which was a large crown in the cenner of his chest.anyoneewith inffrmation is asked to call baltimmre city police. state police say a trafficc sttp uncovered more than 100 thousand dollars innsuspected heroin.it happened about 2:30 wednesday afternoon in perryville,,when a trooppr stopped a driier on i-95.the trooper called for a rug- sniffing og, which found 5- thousand wax bundles containing susppcced heroin... and more than 78 thousand dollars in cash.police &parrested he driver ... 37- year-olddalterick boyd from north carolina... hh's beiin held tonight on numerous rug charges. a man from balitmore was arrested... after he stole a securiiy vehicle from a guard near the avenue at white marsh. early sunday morning...pplice say obert insley found he &pguard's s-u-v......unlocked... ...running with keys in the ignitiin.poli

. >> when we visited the shu at indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, the staff made it clear shu in about two seconds. some of the challenges we faceÑn are the threat of being gunned down, as we say in here, having feces or urine thrown on you, spit, blood, semen, anything you can think of has happened in this building. >> but for inmates in the shu, the monotony brings a horror of its own. they told us what it was like to spend 23 hours a day in a windowless concrete cell, sometimes for years at a time. >> it's like you're always trying to find a way to come up for air. this place suffocates you. you know what i'm saying? >> it's a tomb for me. you know? it's like a tomb. it's like a tomb, a concrete tomb. what if they would have sent these punk ass dudes to -- and he would have succeeded in killing them, right? >> during our first day on the shu, we walked into a heated exchange about murder. >> what you saying about the killer? you saying both killer. >> but it wasn't about prison violence. >> showed up, saying that macbeth sent him. >> it was about shakespeare. >> it was

. >> wabash "lockup: extended stay," and hell yeah, the stay is extended.0. that's five decades, man. i'm going to show you my cell, man. show you what's going on in my cell. show you all where i live, how i live. all right. wake up. that's my bed. it ain't that thick. you know what i mean? it's my window. this is my window. that's the gate teasing me with freedom. you see the cars running by, going places i can't go. trying to paint a picture for you so you can understand what i'm going through. >> i look out the window a lot. >> a lot of inmates have the hopes and aspirations of going home. because of the nature of my crimes, the brutality, the heinous and gruesome events that occurred, i know that i'll never see the streets again. >> this right here, as pathetic as that is to say, this is my pillow. don't nobody touch it. doesn't nobody touch it. ain't nobody going to touch it. you know. i put my head on it. i -- i cradle it at night like it's another person. you know. because it's one of the things you wish you had. now, do i want the company of another

menagerie to match that of philip stroud, who was serving three life sentences for murder at the wabashley correctional facility in indiana. >> basically making origami figures. you've got the lion, you've got the swan, you've got the rabbit, little puppy, dinosaur, flower. my niece, she loves the little goldfish. this is my favorite one because it turns into like a kaleidoscope-type thing. the hardest one to make was probably the elephant because it got a lot 6 folds. i'm an artsy fartsy type of guy, i guess you could say. it's basically a way to spend my time, use my hands to make something that really means something that can bring a smile to somebody's face, instead of using -- using my time or using my hands to hurt somebody or to destroy something. i even sent some to nursing homes and stuff. the different animals remind me of when mom used to take us to the zoo or, you know, cartoons or stuff like that because in here, it's easy to grow cold. it's easy to become desensitized. and i was like that for a while. and i'm still trying to come out of that. so this is a part of me trying

running to the present springfield and decatur, south of that line, other than the indians on the wabash river there were virtually no indians who are in permanent residence. the indian tribes who are north of that line had come in from the north, had forced their way into kaskaskia, forced their way in by violence and taking land away from the illinois in the event had been a more than one or two generations, had so the really longer than the 1760s at the earliest. bill that passed through the state on many occasions before. coming in from the south, the settlers from tennessee and kentucky primary. also some from the northeast, but very few of those, would come in through southern indiana or kentucky. and as they move north they met the indians were forcing their way in from the north and a software direction, and where they would, result from the collision of the cultures was the war of 1812. >> now, to put it again in a bigger framework, this time a global framework, the war of 1812 of course is the chapter in the 20 years struggle between the british and the french. now, the war of