. >> wabash, locked up - extended stay. welcome to the belly of the beast. pow. >>> i hate wabash. you know what i mean? they make sure you know you're in prison everyday. >> who wants to be locked in a room with another man 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 ate in your life. i don't even know how they call it food. >> everyday, seeing people take for granted, we cherish right now. >> wabash valley correctional facility -- a maximum security prison on the western edge of indiana. the center piece of the rural town of carlisle. the inmate population of nearly 2,200 out numbers local residents 4-1. many of indiana's most violent offenders are sent here. >> the approximate breakdown for offenders that have committed serious offenses against a person -- which may be murder, voluntary manslaughter, battery, assault -- is approximately 35% to 40% of our offender population. >> the most violent of these offenders are housed in single person cells, 23 hours a day in the secured confinement unit. >> 1205. >> few however

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 getting 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 lukuman aderibigbe escape investigation. in t

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

. >> welcome to wabash.e 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 comi

the wabash facility is more than a hundred miles from an urban center. >> wabash valley has approximatelys. approximately around 400 different gang members. that doesn't reflect all of our suspected members. those are all confirmed members. we have twin 200 to 300 suspected gang members at this facility. >> most of the gangs are divided along racial lines. the majority of the gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs. prison officials suspect that asatru might be a front for white supremacist gangs. marcus murray denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture. nor one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe that our religion is fine, your religion is fine. >> guy radcliffe who has been practicing asatru for several years here. said there's one group that is not welcome. >> if we found out someone in the community was a child molester, he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it's a bylaw, you cannot be a sex offender and be in asatru. >> radcliffe also defended the fac

but wabash also houses many doing time for far more serious crimes.en like jeremy blanchard. >> i have never been a drug abuser. i've never been 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 local media gave him, kokomo slayer. >> it's telling you, that's what i've done. that's who i am. that's what i'm about. yes. >> blanchard tracked down his former girlfriend, jessica berg, her mother, and her brother's boyfriend when they traveled to kokomo, indiana, to attend a funeral for jessica's grandmother. blanchard broke into the house they were staying in, hid inside until they came home and got ready for bed then stabbed all three to death with

. >>> indiana's wabash valley correctional facility houses nearly 2200 inmates.e 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 somebody who might have 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 has received 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 curtis 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?

. >> the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana houses a large number of inmates who are, ore considered, mentally ill 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. >> i'm frank 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 the people were out there hurting me. and i have this video cassette tape of a party showing people hurting me. and i showed my parents. they said no, no, there ain't nothing to that. i said well you guys are crazy. i'm watching it. they was thinking sane, i was the crazy one. >> a short time later street's delusions got the better of him. >> i load up the 30-30 because i thought p

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 was on strip cell. when you see the offender come out of the cell and always wearing his underwear, at that time he is on strip cell. i think it was for resisting staff or trying to assault staff before. we've had trouble with 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 sachtjen. >> an average day in the shu can be pretty mundane. you have showers to do, chow to serve, sick calls, so on and so forth. some days like today do 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. >> they tried to get me to take a shower but they don't have no soap or nothing. and i said well, ma'am, i just came from the other side. it was nasty wh

. >> when we visited the shu at indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, the staff made it clearour quietest day in the shu can be your worst day in the shu in two seconds. some of the challenges we face are the threat of being gunned down here, or as we have 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 breeds 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. >> you're always trying to find a way to come up for air. the place suffocates you. you know what i'm saying? >> it's a tone, for me, you know? it's like the tomb. it's like a tomb, a concrete tomb. >> what if they sent these punk ass dudes against and he would have succeeded in killing them -- >> during our first day on the shu we walked into a heated exchange about murder. >> the killer. so what you saying the killer? you say -- >> but it wasn't about prison violence. >> saying macbeth sent him. >> here's what i'm say

wacker drive will be closed on the south side of the river between clark and wabash. the bridges at state and at dearborn will also close. for more, and a very cool interactive tool called "take wallenda's walk"... visit out website, *wgn t-v dot-com slash- wallenda.* it was only a matter of time before someone thought of it... the shower scene from the movie "psycho"... all done with pumpkins. a pumpkin carver from new york recreated the entire scene, almost frame for frame, in pumpkin art. every detail was recorded... the shower rings... the shower head... the victim... the knife... all captured on 30 pumpkins. of course, the pumpkins have since rotted... but not before they were captured in a youtube video titled "psych-o-lantern." i have seen some of those professional pumpkin carvers, they are amazing. demetrius is mesmerized. >> i am checking that out. all the grown-ups are looking at the psycho part and probably couldn't sleep doctor that. 37 degrees. in this column. in base thursday coming. it's like the calm before the storm. but the storm is really more of a

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