i'm in wabash county correctional facility and i'm 18 years old. i only been in the juvenile system one time and that's it. i've never been detained or nothing. this is my first time ever doing some time for anything. >> aurelious woods has been locked up for eight months, serving a four-year sentence for robbery. now 18, woods is on the transfer list to be moved to adult population. >> i can leave any time. in october i turned 18. i can leave any time now. >> for security reasons, kids never know when or where they'll be moving once they turn 18. >> only thing i know they knock on the door at night. they tell you to pack your things. next morning you in a bus. i don't know what they put you on because i never left the facility before. >> i appreciate it. thank you, granny. i'm gonna go to my room. i miss my mama. my mom always told me to go to school. i wish i would have listened to my mama then instead of learning my lesson now. everything i done bad i think came back round on me. >> i'm sure every family's got their hardships like me, my brother

wabash valley.ds spend their time behind these walls in the wabash youth unit, a 53-bed cell block that becomes a fortress of the mundane. kids here rarely leave this unit due to the dangers posed by thousands of adult prisoners outside their door. >> at night, when you don't have anything to do, that's real when i it gets to you. like, you think like all the things you could have been doing on the outside. everything that you're missing out on. >> the kids incarcerated in indiana did not come in a one size fits all package. colt lundy is a 15-year-old with no history in the system, doing 30 years for conspiracy to commit murder. 18-year-old robert bealer committed batly and threatened to kill a police officer. he's serving a two-year sentence. >> my name is robert bealer. i'm in wabash valley. i'm in ccu for a fight. he's at the start of a three-month stint in segregation. >> we was playing cards, got into it and he smacked my face with the cards. so i ran up on him from the back, hit him a couple

this is wabash, man. they do what they want to do.i 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

but he had to leave him behind when he was transferred to wabash.irst several weeks, jinkster lived with another inmate. but then jinkster moved out to the country. he was adopted by stone's parents. >> jinkster is something else. he's not used to carpeting. and cloth furniture. everything was claws. i mean, he clawed up carpet, everything else. but, it was worth it because it was jim's. >> some people might not quite understand it. but my family we view our pets as family members. so you know, this was sort of like jim's kid. >> talk about your daddy. yeah. >> it's really, really hard for me to talk about jim. i love him so much. when he was a little boy, he loved to go for these walks. and we'd go for a long walk. he'd give out and i'd put him on my shoulders and bring him on in. i'm 69 years old and my worst fear is i'll never get to walk through the woods with him. jim would love it out here. he's such an outdoorsman. one of the reasons we got this place. it's everything that he would want. >> we all miss him. yeah. every day. there's not a day

. >> 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

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.

. >>> 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 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 where with someone with a child molestation case just to resolve the conflict before it happens. >> but even with careful screening conflicts can still arise between cell mates. >> there is a guy in the infirmary with several injuries to his facial and head area. at this point he is saying he had a seizure. we will 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 curt its cash who is serving a 29-year sentence for burglary. >> cash? >> yeah. >> what's up with you, man? >> you can stay laid down if you want to? what happened?

. >> jones, who also denies being a white supremist, came to wabash three years ago at age 18. he was sent tensed to six years for burglary. >> i was hanging out with the wrong people, strung out on drugs and broke into a house. i took a tv and a bunch of other little items, took them and sold them for drugs. >> the house he robbed was his father's. >> my dad called the police and said i strongly believe it was my son. >> jones said he would like to rebuild a relationship with his father and will soon have the chance. he leaves prison on parole in one week. >> why would you enjoy the weather, man? you get to enjoy all that when you go home, next week. >> next thursday. >> he wants to be influenced, because he's still being molded as a man. he's still a kid and turning into somebody. >> delivering papers. >> no, that's just temporary. just long enough for me to find a job. >> i'm glad you have aspirations. >>> coming up -- >> i got a $100 million tattooed on any penis. >> two boyhood friends, now cellmates, find themselves at a crossroads. >>> i'm asking you, miss moore, to open

. >> the first time i put on a stab vest was in indiana at wabash valley.t was definitely an uneasy feeling knowing i had to wear this to walk onto the next unit that i was going to, 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. when i'm interacing with inmates, i kind of joke around about how it adds ten pounds to me, how the color doesn't really go with my outfit. i just 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. you know, i got a look at myself, really? >> and later previously unseen clips from one of the more memorable inmates we ever met. >> gra

. ♪ >>> the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana houses a large number of inmates who are orill at the time of their crimes. 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, no no, there ain't nothing to that. 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 i thought th

. >> 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

. >> some of my buddies that patrol over and the wabash river in indiana call me and said shlt hey, youme over here. >> matt calls troy and they set out on a fishing expedition they will never forgive. >> all of a sudden that first fish comes flying out of nowhere, passes between us, through part of the boat. >> oh, there's one. >> a single jumping fish is unusual. but it's not enough to shock fry or matt. but within seconds, dozens of fish start leaping out of the water in all directions. >> left side, right side, front, back, all the way across the river, they were just jumping everywhere around the boat. >> oh, there's one. >> the fish are so active the guys have to protect their heads. it's no nick i hik picnic for the cameraman, either. >> boom! >> hit the cameraman, nailed me right in the back. >> some of the pish weigh more than 20-pounds, they're propelled by powerful tails that can launch them up to 6-feet in the air. >> oh my gosh! >> they are asian silver perk also known as flying carp. while their behavior looks bizarre, they are responding to the boat's motor. >> it gets st

when we visited indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, officers in the security housing unitwith 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 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. >> tried 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 somethin