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at wabash's youth unit. he 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. stolen identities? >> 30-
at wabash's youth unit. he 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...
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. >> 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
. >> 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...
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this is wabash, man. they do what they want to do.bey 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 out
this is wabash, man. they do what they want to do.bey 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...
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murray says he discovered it shortly after coming to wabash 11 years earlier. he's serving a 60-year sentence for beating another man to death. and the religion, which worships nordic gods, has helped him come to grips with the murder. his thor's hammer pendant and his tattoo us are similar bombs of his faith. >> they're norse-oriented. viking age is a long period of viking history. >> prison officials have begun to see it as something else. a front for white supremacist gangs. members have been allowed to hold services at some prisons. but wabash has banned such gatherings. >> they are using the services to have gang meetings within the services itself. and it's been disruptive at other facilities. >> murray denies any ties to white supremacist gangs. and has filed a grievance to appeal the ban. >> it does not promote criminal elements at all. it's religion based on virtue and knowledge. >> the ban also hasn't stopped murray from recruiting new members. his latest, williams jones jr. >> mark has been teaching me about what the hammer means. what the different
murray says he discovered it shortly after coming to wabash 11 years earlier. he's serving a 60-year sentence for beating another man to death. and the religion, which worships nordic gods, has helped him come to grips with the murder. his thor's hammer pendant and his tattoo us are similar bombs of his faith. >> they're norse-oriented. viking age is a long period of viking history. >> prison officials have begun to see it as something else. a front for white supremacist gangs....
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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.
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....
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>>> 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
>>> 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...
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. >> the first time i put on a stab vest was in indiana at wabash valley.finitely 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. >>> "lockup: extended stay" field teams spend weeks at a time in maximum security prisons throughout
. >> the first time i put on a stab vest was in indiana at wabash valley.finitely 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...
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. >>> indiana's wabash valley correctional facility houses nearly 2200 inmates.ore than one-third of them are doing time for serious violent crimes. unless isolated in solitary confinement, the vast majority of inmates live in two-man cells. pairings are critical and avoiding a volatile mix of cell mates is a constant challenge. >> we try to not put people doing life with people who are going home next year or blacks with whites or white supremist with someone that might have a child molestation case just to try to avoid the conflict before it happens. >> but even with careful screening conflicts can still arise between cell mates. >> that was report of assault. there's a guy in t infirmary with several injuries to his facial and head area. at this point he is saying he had a seizure. we will just go over, try to talk to him. he may have been assaulted with a hot pot. we're going to talk to him and see if he is willing to talk at all. >> the victim is curtis cash who is serving a 29-year sentence for burglary. >> cash? >> yeah. >> what's up with you, man? >> you
. >>> indiana's wabash valley correctional facility houses nearly 2200 inmates.ore than one-third of them are doing time for serious violent crimes. unless isolated in solitary confinement, the vast majority of inmates live in two-man cells. pairings are critical and avoiding a volatile mix of cell mates is a constant challenge. >> we try to not put people doing life with people who are going home next year or blacks with whites or white supremist with someone that might have a...
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. ♪ >>> the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana houses a large number of inmates who are ortally ill at the time of their crimes. >> come back here. >> when "lockup" visited there, we met two such inmates. they killed after their own minds turned on them. and their murders took on dimensions that were not only shocking, they were unimaginable. >> my name is howard franklin street jr. i'm 38 years old. i've been down since 1993 for shooting my mom. >> during our first day of shooting at wabash, our "lockup" crew met frank street, an inmate housed in the prison's residential treatment unit. at the time of the interview, street was experiencing involuntary tremors due to his medication. >> i started having delusions that people were out to hurt me. and i had this video cassette tape of a party and showed people hurting me, you know. and i showed it to my parents, ain't nothing to it. i thought you guys were crazy. they were thinking sane, they were sane. i was the crazy one. >> a short time later, street's delusions got the better of him. >> i loaded up my dad's 30/30. because
. ♪ >>> the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana houses a large number of inmates who are ortally ill at the time of their crimes. >> come back here. >> when "lockup" visited there, we met two such inmates. they killed after their own minds turned on them. and their murders took on dimensions that were not only shocking, they were unimaginable. >> my name is howard franklin street jr. i'm 38 years old. i've been down since 1993 for shooting my...
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when we visited indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, officers in the security housing unit, douglas mccombs. >> since he's been inside the shu, he's been on strip cell. when you see the offender coming out of his cell only wearing his underwear, he was 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. chow to serve, md sick call, so on and 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's talking crazy to me. right. she come up here
when we visited indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, officers in the security housing unit, douglas mccombs. >> since he's been inside the shu, he's been on strip cell. when you see the offender coming out of his cell only wearing his underwear, he was 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....
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. >> 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
. >> 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...