it's easy for me to do crazy stuff when i'm high. >> wabash valley correctional facility has unveiledew weapon against meth dealers and addicts in its system. a drug rehabilitation unit called c.l.i.f.f. the program had only been open for a few months when our cameras came to visit but was already operating at full capacity. >> clean life is freedom forever is what the acronym really stands for. they have to really work to be involved in it. they have homework. they're on the go from about 5:00 in the morning until about 10:30, 11:00 at night with activities, groups, education. and what i like about it is the individual that's here has to be here of their own accord. it's voluntary. they have to want to change and want to do something. because it does require them to make a lot of effort. >> i just wrote to my mother, who is my best friend. she's the one 'sthere for me more than anybody in the world. i love my mom a lot. and i just -- i'm thankful that i got a program like this now and hopefully i can get something out of this so i can show her that i -- that i can change and i'm sorr

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, lord the

when we met him, he had been in a windowless segregation cell at the wabash valley correctional facilitycade. trotter wrote about the experience. >> imagine for the last nine years, being entombed in a windowless cell. held under sensory deprivation in isolation from human contact. and the only human touch you feel is the unwanted touch of prison guards. the conditions are dehumanizing, demoralizing, and every day is a struggle just to keep your mental liberty and self-respect, which are the last two things they haven't taken from you. how long are you going to imagine that i don't exist? this is my life. >> trotter was originally convicted in the mid 1980s for petty theft and sentenced to four years at another state prison. but with only a few months left on his sentence, he became one of the ringleaders in a prison riot. one in which six officers were stabbed. four of them critically. two other officers and a counselor were held hostage for more than 15 hours. >> i was found guilty of one count of attempted murder. one battery. four counts of criminal confinement and one count of rioti

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

. ♪ >>> 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