. >> 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

. >> 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

but wabash also houses men doing time for far more serious crimes. 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, 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 mother'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 a butch

. >>> indiana's wabash valley correctional facility houses nearly 2200 inmates.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 supremacist with somebody that might have a child molestation case. just to try to resolve the conflict before it happens. >> but even with careful screening conflicts can still arise between cell mates. >> there was a report we just had an assault. 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 curtis cash who is serving a 29-year sentence for burglary. >> cash? >> yeah. >> what's up with you, man? you

it's over with now, though. >> four years after our shoot, trotter was still at wabash and in general population. >> imagine being 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? >>> this sunday, the growing russia investigation. new reports that president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, tried to set up back channel communications with russia to avoid u.s. monitoring. the reaction, former deputy cia chief john mclaughlin. >> if a

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they've seen him at wabash.hey don't seem to have any problems. >> i'm worried about his side effects with involuntary movements and whether the others will perceive him as odd. >> a little bit jerky? >> yeah. >> when i talked to him yesterday, the team -- the team he's on, they're aware of it, and they don't seem to have issues with it. i think he thinks he can succeed out there. >> anything else on mr. street? we can count him as one of our success stories for now. >>> coming up -- >> make sure you know those receipts. you told me you was doing that last week? >> even as he tries to prove the case, nick compton can't escape the wrath of other inmates. >> snitches get killed. [ bleep ]. >> going through my mind, to get out of prison. to get home. to be around civil, normal people. to be around my family. stop dealing with idiots. they can't break me. i got too much faith. too much good things going my way. >> nick compton believes he's a target of his former gang, the aryan brotherhood, and would prefer to be i

mississippi river, illinois, black current, white river, missouri river, and wabash. not only that,-pressure system will dip to the deep south with strong thunderstorms. diane, kendis. >> you can see a wide area under severe weather threats today, paul. thank you. terrifying scene in the meantime. in san diego. breaking news overnight. eight people shot while attending a birthday party. the gunman opening fire at a swimming pool in an apartment complex. at least one person has died. and six others are in critical condichlgts the gunman was shot and killed by police. he lived in that apartment complex. but it is not clear if he knew the victims. >> they describe the suspect as a white male wearing brown shorts. armed with a gun. and who had shot numerous people in the pool the suspect pointed the gun at our officers. and our three of our officers fired on the suspect. and the suspect went down. the suspect has been pronounced, the suspect is deceased. >> most of the victims we are told were there for the birthday party. what was a really warm day there. in the san dieg

the center part of the country include the mississippi valley, missouri, black, white, illinois, wabashjust to name a few. >> quite a few rivers flooding. >> breaking news overnight. shutdown, reaching deal on a massive spending plan. congressional aides say ita includes $15 million for the military. no money for president trump's border wall, the bill will pay for border security measures. the deal does not block funding for planned parenthood or sanctuary cities. democrats also get their way with a $2 billion boost for national institutes of health. vote expect midweek. the trump administration pushing back against the media after the president skipped the white house correspondent's dinner over the weekend. and slammed the press during a rally in pennsylvania. on abc's this week, white house chief of staff priebus said they looked at changing the libel laws as the president had threatened. and he complained about stories that he says have no basis in fact. >> this is a frustration of unnamed sources, of things that the fbi has told me personally, newspaper article in my office, one-o

trotter was scheduled for his review during our shoot at wabash. >> i'll be honest, there was a part you can't help but root for him a little bit to get out and give it a shot. >> but not everybody on staff felt the same way. >> if criss trotter comes out in into general population he's liable to hurt people, staffers. and this is my opinion. i'd rather not see him come out. he's done it before. i mean that's just his mo. >> in his cell trotter's only communication is with officers or by shotting to his neighbor demetres white. >> this place does have a psychological effect over a period of time. being locked up 23 hours a day in a windowless cell makes or breaks you. it's hard. it's real hard. you forget how to communicate, you know, how to social interact. i refuse to lose touch with humanity. when you lose that, that's it. you're transformed from a human being to a prison being. and i refuse to be a prison being. >> today we're going to interview inmate christopher trotter. he's served the better part of a the last ten years on administration isolation. and they're reviewing his s

also had to speak in code and they had all these kind of crazy codes that were constantly changing, wabash and willow and jam and uncle and they would have all these codes that would change very rapidly. in fact, one of the problems at the time when their headquarters was destroyed or partially destroyed, they couldn't tell the other women elsewhere why they hadn't been answering their calls for the last half hour and they were not happy with them. because the problem is if you could tap a line, then you could deduce who -- where the general staff might be, and so they had to be always very alert to this kind of problem of listening for that. being aware of it. >> any other questions? well, i hope you'll get to know the hello you will get to know the hello girls. they fought so hard for their story. and they fought so hard to keep their story going until it could be acknowledged by our government. the national archives made that possible. so i do hope you will get the book and read it and enjoy it as much as i enjoyed learning it myself. thank you. [ applause ] >>> you're watching american

wabash down to the mississippi and st. louis. all of those in green are flood watches, because, yeah, that water pours into the rivers. as i said it's drying off so looking at the exact raegs, we're not talking about additional rainfall, it did shift off to the northeast to the mid atlantic. the heavy rain that new york city saw yesterday, that wrapped up and it's replaced with a steady rain lingering over the course of the weekend. the mid atlantic stretching into new england, expect some showers over the course of today, running you eventually all the way through your weekend. the hour by hour forecast will time this out. even though we may not get consistent rain across the northeast and mid atlantic, there are going to be rounds of showers moving through the entire weekend. there is your time stamp through the corner. and taking you through sunday and monday morning and we continue to see at least a couple of showers lingering all the way up into the northeast. how much rain are we talking about? now, yes, there were folks ye