houses not only the state's most violent offenders but a large population of the mentally ill, the wabash valley correctional facility. the challenges of running a maximum security prison are compounded by the increasing number of a new kind of prisoner. >> approximately 700 of the 2,200 offenders we have at this facility are diagnosed with a mental illness. i think these numbers are increasing throughout the country. increasing for everybody to deal with. >> superintendent craig hanks has been working at the prison since it opened in 1992. >> this is a multi-security level facility. it's a large facility. we're on over 500 acres of property. the perimeter is approximately a mile and a half around the facility. we have maximum security, medium security and minimum security offenders. what probably sets us apart is the different segregation units. >> offenders who assault staff or other inmates are moved to the secure housing unit, a prison within the prison, known as the shu. >> there have been discipline problems, they've been assaulted and they've had issues at other facilities. so they

it's over with now, though. >> four years after our shoot, trotter was still at wabash and in generalng buried alive in a windowless cell 23 1/2 hours a day. the sunlight hasn't touched your skin in years. you feel like a vampire living in darkness. and humanity has been drained from your soul by the cruel and inhumane conditions being inflicted upon you. imagine being buried alive and being deprived of your basic senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. you're faced with extraordinary isolation. complete idleness. and limited environmental stimulation. which pushes you to acts of desperation and paranoia. imagine being buried alive and losing your sense of time. you can't tell day from night. and each day passes you by just like the one before. how long are you going to imagine being buried alive? >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> my particular interest is most in latch key kids. >> i would identify my victims by finding women alone in their home. >> i tell myself i will just kill her. >> what do we do with society's monsters, the people who a

. ♪ >>> the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana houses a large number of inmates who are orill 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 i thou

public outrage over the wabash case led to the passage of the interstate commerce act by congress in887. it created the interstate commerce commission and it made its forbidden to have special rates for powerful shippers. you remember rockefellers scheme from a few weeks ago. there would be no rate discrimination against shortfalls. public inspection of rates. if you abuse the regulations, you could face up to a $5,000 fine. take that, vanderbilt. they work through. in 1890 growing public frustration over the strength of the trust led congress to pass the sherman act of 1890. by 1890 several states have passed antitrust laws and now congress was joining the parade. the sherman act is important for us moving forward because it outlawed every contract and combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade again imposing a $5,000 fine. potentially also a year in prison. i don't want you to be misled. this hardly represents the foundation of a robust regulatory regime. for one thing, the president of the gilded age were generally uncomfortable with this stored at state intervention. they he

convicted of dealing narcotics, chazz harper welcomes every opportunity to stay busy at indiana's wabash valley correctional facility. >> take the broom and sweep around the cracks, [ bleep ] underneath the tracks, and come back with a big broom. >> how many times a day do do you this? >> about three times a day. three or four. depending on how many times we get out. >> and though harper doesn't mind cleaning the showers, he does hate showering in them. >> you have to do a hand stand to get the soap off of your private area. you know. i mean seriously. look how close you got to get against the wall. if you are fat, that's not going to happen. get pay, you get outside, i mean out of your cell more. >> how much do you make? >> about 30 bucks a month. it is what it is. same thing over and over. >> left, left. >> we have seen some more unusual jobs, as well. [ chanting ] >> the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, has the only female chain gang in the nation. their job is to assist a local catholic church in burials of the indigent. >> we are here to bury the body of james. bless, oh, l

when we visited indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, officers in the security housing unitt 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, at that time he was on a strip cell. i think at that time it was 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 recs 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 wher

i'm actually a senior this year at trader's point and heading off to wabash college in the fall. >> goodwe all know senator sanders is offering free college tuition. [ laughter ] >> i think he is leaving the race today by the way. so he has got some difficulty but go ahead. >> i think this is unattainable and obviously unachievable. >> sure. >> it would also devalue a person's degree. however, being a high school senior, financial decisions play a massive role when deciding where to go to college. my question is do you have anything in place to combat the everrising cost of college tuition. >> it's a great question. it's a question i get asked more than any other question especially when i'm in areas where you have young folks going to college. it's very sad, the students are literally they borrowed up to here. and what the colleges have done is they haven't watched their costs because basically the students are the conduit between the government and college to get money. college rates keep going up, up, up much faster than any other cost if you take a look. we will look into that. the s