. >> welcome to wabash. hope y'all could stay longer. >> with more than 2,000 inmates, the wabash valley correctional facility in southwestern indiana has a larger population and more acreage than the rest of the small town in which it's located. >> carlisle is a very small community, approximately 1,200 is their population. it's comprised of a school. it has a grocery store. it has a gas station, a couple of little restaurants, a dollar store and that's really about all that's in carlisle. >> while carlisle might be a remnant of a simpler time, inside the twin security fences of wabash is evidence of how some aspects of society have grown harder. >> we're seeing a lot more offenders coming in much younger than they were before and much more violent than in the past as well. correctional officers are the backbone of the facility. they're the ones dealing with the offenders on a daily basis. they are frontline. >> i've been hearing about the correction setting since i was 8 years old. i grew up around it. so

>> this is wabash, man. they do what they want to do. obey the rules here, you know, but sometimes they really want you to be compliant, you know, like puppets. don't do this, don't do that. do it like this, do it like that. [ bleep ] here, eat here, no, cant talk to that person, get off the door! all this [ bleep ] rules. i'm in jail for not [ bleep ] following the rules. >> wright says his attitude is the result of growing up in a tough new jersey neighborhood. >> either you sink or swim, you know what i mean? and i grew a hard exterior because i didn't want to be the victim, and over the course of time, that became a part of my character. >> and recently wright's character was put to the test. >> he came back from recreation one night and noticed that his tv had been missing, so obviously he knew someone had took it. so he was pretty upset about that, as anybody would be. >> this is the penitentiary. are you serious? people [ bleep ] kill for that, for real, for real. >> surveillance video from the unit shows another inmate standing o

but wabash houses men doing time for more serious crimes. men like jeremy blanchard. >> i have never been a drug abuser or a drunk. i knew what i done when i done it. i knew the heinous nature of what i done. i can still to this day remember nearly every blood spot that was in that house. i can remember the wallpaper, the way the bodies were laid. i can remember nearly everything that happened that night. >> blanchard has served a little more than one year of a 195-year sentence. but his facial tattoos will forever commemorate both his crime, the triple murder and the moniker the media gave him, the kokomo slayer. >> that's who i am and what i'm about. yes. >> blanchard tracked down his former girlfriend, her mother, and her mother's boyfriend when they traveled to kokomo, indiana to attend a funeral. blanchard broke into their home, hid inside and stabbed all three to death with a butcher's knife. >> a friend of jessica's told me that she had an abortion and that's what probed my anger and my hatred. i mean that's my child that was killed.

at wabash's youth unit.e plans to pursue a college degree from prison and hopes to earn time off his sentence by holding down a job. >> really my biggest concern about being on this side is just being in trouble. i hope that no one tries testing me, you know. because i used to be a very violent person. i'm not that person no more. i'll never want to revert to that. >> with good behavior, folsom may only have to serve 18 of his 36-year sentence. making his 18th birthday an even more significant milestone. >> a can of pop. a special occasion. you know. sometimes it's hard to keep hope. sometimes it's easy to fall into negativity especially in the juvenile block when there are so many kids that just don't care. it took getting 36 years to wake me up to realize that's not what i want to do that it's not a game no more. >>> coming up -- >> just hit a man while you're down. >> james stone is challenged by the new kid on the block. >>> and an unexpected twist in the escape investigation. >> due to much subject matt

. >>> i hate wabash, you know what i mean? >> forced to be locked in a room for 19 hours a day. then three of the half hours that we come out is to go get the worst food you've ever had your life. >> everything people take for granted we cherish right now. >> wabash maximum security prison the western edge of indiana. the sen tear piece of the town of carlisle. the inmate population of nearly 2200 outnumbers local residents 4 to 1. many of the most violent offenders are locked up here. the most violent of the offenders are house 2d 3 hours a day in the secured confinement unit. >> few, be however, are more notorious than leonard who has spent 16 years here. >> he still is escorted by two men, handcuffed behind his back. that unit is designed for people like mccoy. >> the most infamous chapter of his time occurred at indiana state prison 17 years earlier. he stabbed a correction's officer to death. >> we approached him from the front, stabbed him one time in the front chest area which actually broke a rib, stabbed him with such force. the sound of it targeted another staff member

call the number on your screen. [♪...] >>> most inmates at wabash prefer general population.or a number of those diagnosed as mentally ill, the only place they feel safe is the shu. >> in population, sometimes mentally ill people get victimized. so some mentally ill people are purposely in the shu. they do what they need to, to get in the shu. >> one such action that gets inmates sent to the shu is self-mutilation. >> i did that scar about ten years ago. i got it from the ankle all the way up to the hip bone, all the way down to the bone and i cut across sideways so the surgeons had to take about 12 hours to sew me up. you got seven layers of skin you got to go through before you get to the bone. and when you're going through one of them phases, you don't even feel the pain. you don't even know you're doing it. >> joe carr is serving an eight-year sentence for robbery. he is taking antipsychotic medication and under staff supervision, he agreed to tell us his story. >> i was anti-sociable. i didn't want to be around nobody. i didn't want nobody around me. i wanted to be by my

we do have some trouble in baltimore city where there's a crash right on wabash avenue right at northern parkway, and then another accident on hilton parkway at north avenue. for those of you traveling on the beltway, here's a live look right now at the west side at liberty road. traffic moving right along. there are no delays on the inner loop through pikesville. the outer loop nice and clear down towards 95. and this is what 95 looks like downtown, traffic moving right along here at 395. the roads still going to be pretty wet, so take some precaution as you do head out, and unfortunately, we do have another crash to tell you about in howard county, it's right along the eastbound lanes of route 32 at route 1. megan and charley, over to you. >>> bge is working feverishly to restore power to everyone. >> dozens of schools, they still don't have any service, so there are some closures that happened not only overnight, but early this morning. so abc 2 news education reporter sherree johnson is at our live desk this morning with more on who's open and who's not. sheree. >>reporter: well, meg

northwest baltimore, we are dealing with an accident on northern parkway that's going to be right at wabash avenue. if you are traveling in baltimore county this morning, we do have a partial collapse of the whiskey plant in cockiesville. it has shut down the northbound lanes of york road right at railroad avenue. you will want to use scwann road, warren road or even 83 as your alternate routes. this is what 83 looks like right now in hunt valley. everything up to speed, no problems from scwann road down to the beltway. if you are using the beltway, here's what it looks like in parkville. 11 minutes normal drive time right now to travel the outer loop from 95 all the way up to 83. and the west side of 695 is nice and clear, no delays, you're looking at an 11-minute ride as well, traveling that outer loop from 795 down towards 95. that is a look at your abc 2 time saver traffic. megan and charley, over to you. >>> parents, it looks like the storm won't keep your kids from collecting candy tonight. the mayor in baltimore city will meet to talk about safety but last night they told us everythi

an accident at all boche avenue and northern parkway -- an avenue.t at wabash so far so good on the j.f.x. northbound york road, the was a partial building collapse and there could be some closures in the northbound direction of york road. enclosures at 175 because of flooding in the gambrills region. about five minutes to travel on 95 south down from the split to the fort mchenry. this is the beltway at 97. a nice start on harford road. the outer loop of the capital beltway, there is an accident with multiple vehicles involved. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> the cleanup from sandy is a big story. >> restoring power to tens of thousands of marylanders still in the dark this morning. most of the outages are in baltimore county. 22,000 outages in anne arundel county. nnected rews have reconvey over 200,000 homes. >> jennifer franciotti is live in towson. you are not far from a road closure. >> some residents are doing individual cleanups with branches that are down. one roadway is blocked. we cannot get down to the area ying.se it is too low li are no road closure signs in the a

when we visited indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, officers in the security housing unitest 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 bar of soap. she'

a name that's levered and levered to the economy is wnc, wabash national.roblem -- market cap is around $500 million. you might want to be careful. it does have a tendency to move. a $6 number. remember, fiscal cliff issues, if we go off the cliff, that carves out 4% from gdp. they can solve it retro actively, but we can go over that cliff for the first quarter or so. >> all right. thank you, steve grasso. >>> by the way, how traders are positioning themselves ahead of hurricane sandy, which is a major -- calling it the frankenstorm, folks -- may not be hyperbole. coming next week. we'll get our take on that. >>> and what a new report says about the leadership shuffles at the top of city group. was the board -- was it completely honest about what happened? maybe not. >>> we call it the twicker. let's find out what's getting the most biz today on the twitter. >> people are using twitter to talk about how they are prepping for the storm. let's get straight to the tweets. dina says hurricane sandy is worrisome. remember isabel in '03, gaston in 2004? trees dow

geographical location in the state whether it's the south shore that runs this area or whether it's the wabashor ohio river down by me. such opportunity in those areas, life science and energy. we are just getting started indiana but we have got to work together in a bipartisan fashion. i've done that and i can keep doing it. >> moderator: thank you matt meant thank you mr. gregg. one minute to wrap it up. boneham: are we going to continue to lock up every person that breaks the law no matter how petty the law is, no matter if it's hurting themselves or others? are we going to let our government in indiana build another state facility incarceration center? are we going to take out another struggling economy and put another prison of? i hope not. i don't want to be a state that that -- the economy on incarceration. i want to be a state that actually builds an economy on work and workers business and business owners. when we lock everyone up even for hurting themselves they struggle for the rest of their lives. they are legally discriminated against on housing and employment. i have given hundre