warden grantt culliver embodies them. he's authoritative. >> you know that. >> dynamic and tough. >> you are not going to win an academy award. >> he shows compassion for the inmates he oversees, many of whom will never get out. but when violence explodes at holman, his zero tolerance policy is in full effect. >> lock down. we are under a lockdown. >>> administrative segregation is home to roughly 200 inmates. confined to their cells 23 hours a day. these men often become defiant and desperate. when an inmate acts up in general population, he's moved to ad-seg. but when he acts up in ad-seg, the officers' only option is to periodically move the inmate from cell to cell. >> we're going to move him out. he's already hostile. we'll just use caution with him, okay? >> put your hands behind you. cuff up. >> stick your hands out. >> shower stall right now. >> jammy bell is temporarily housed in the shower stall until his new cell is cleaned and inspected. >> all that nasty -- somebody stop harassing me. our crew first met jammy

> warden's office. culliver. can i take a message? >> he'll call you back. yes, ma'am. >> you take messages, warden? >> yes, ma'am. we do it all. >> he's firm. >> get your shirt on like you're supposed to. >> but fair. tough -- >> you're right. i'm going to be with -- >> [ bleep ]. >> if you would shut the [ bleep ] up then i could understand somebody's going to be pissed off at your ass in this place acting like a child. >> yet understanding. >> so really i'm doing a favor on the one hand. >> but this morning, a side of the warden we haven't seen emerges. >> last month, we lost three cos and we lost three trainees. one new trainee is scheduled to report on the 16th and we're not making any headway. all you got mandated. actually going backwards. it just puts more work on the current staff that we have. and all the time. more than anything else, it's our staff. it puts a lot of pressure on staff. and i just feel like our staff is -- i don't want to say "tired" but i feel like the staff is "tired." you c

i don't know that the warden will release you.ase you, you're going to be on a real strict stipulation probation. but if i find out that you have caused problems down there or [ bleep ] get into it about you, i'll lock you back up. >> i will accept that. i will accept that very strict probation. >> all right. let me think about it then and i'll get with warden culliver to see if he'll agree with that. >> i appreciate that. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i feel a lot better. i feel a lot relieved. he's going to take it into consideration. he didn't just say no. if he had said no, i probably would have broken down and said, take me back. i don't want to talk to you no more. i'm ready to get to my husband. well, back to my hot little cell. you leave my house alone. >> while marcus thomas may find that her tenacity could reward her, terrance mosley is about to be rewarded for his good behavior over the past two weeks. >> today i'm going to call your mom. that was part of the thing. when was the last time you talked to your mom? >> b

the warden recommended my release.tor than there is in my cell. >> after nearly 17 months of waiting in ad seg, marcus thomas is meeting with captain craft to discuss her release to general population. >> i can feel myself getting closer to my husband. >> marcus is optimistic that her name is finally on the release list this time. >> the other night in the shower, you were asking if you were on the list to get out of seg. is that what you're talking about? >> yes, sir. >> no, it's not on there. that's what we're going to talk about now, why i don't have you on that list. when you first got here, we turned you out to population, and they met you down there like a herd of horses waiting like you. there was a lot of confusion between two or three different guys, and then all of a sudden guys wanted to try to go to fighting over marcus. i honestly believe there will be a problem. >> there aren't going to be problems. >> the last two times you were down there, there was problems. >> why are you so hard on me because i'm a h

yes, ma'am. >> you take messages, warden? >> yes, ma'am. we do it all here.all. >> who got a cigarette? who got a cigarette? >> in response to the honor dorm stabbing, the warden has suspended inmate benefits and loss of the store affects everyone at holman. >> right now, a pack of bugler will cost you a bag of coffee. a bag of coffee costs $3.39. a bag of bugler costs $1.08. p.c., you got a cigarette on you? >> no matter how tense life gets, ty's committed to keeping his nose clean. >> you have to sit back and relax. can't get in trouble. if you get in trouble here, that's another case. then you go back to the judge. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. ain't nobody got no cigarettes? >> despite his hopes to avoid trouble, ty's favorite method of coping with prison life puts his future at risk. >> smoke your old joint or something. kick back. brighten your spirits up. listen to the radio. that's my type of relief, getting high and minding my own business. >> how do you smoke it without getting caught? >> it ain't hard. yeah, you come outside, smoke it. go in your cell. as

and as i spoke to his warden, his warden said, mr. harper, you sound like a well-intentioned young man. i said i want to change this young man's life. if you listen to the way it's written, you realize it's a 16-year-old young man who is probably writing at a third or fourth grade level. it it makes me think did we fail brian or did brian fail us? the warden said you're not going to be able to do much. he said you must not understand something. he said you're going to be dead before brian ever gets out. he said he was tried as an adult. he committed a heinous crime and he's going nowhere. i won't be the warden and you won't be alive. that set me back in a way to realize there's so many brians out there. there's so many of them. it's up to us to catch them before we actually lose them. to grab them before they are gone. before it's too late. so i celebrate the youth promise act in that regard because it seeks to do those things. and i promise that i will not stop fighting. that my foundation won't stop fighting to grab every brian out

he's hitting my truck. >> the warden's truck is hit, but he is unharmed. >> shots fired!ired! >> the suspect takes off in his car once again. but now deputies wallace and comit are also on his tail. >> he reported shots fired and one of the rounds had struck his truck. >> the thought was we have to catch him before he gets to the village because it's time for the kids to get out of school. >> but the driver changes his route and turns off the main road. the other officers take the lead in the pursuit from peery. >> careful, guys, he's got a gun. >> deputy wallace maneuvers his vehicle to get the suspect off the road. >> and i forced him into the ditch area with my vehicle. >> off camera, deputy comit rams the suspect and his car is immobilized. but the driver won't wave the white flag. he pulls out his gun and starts blasting. >> i see deputy comit engage frenzer in gunfire. we were all screaming for him to put the gun down. we could see the gun. the gun was pointed in our direction. >> i know deputy wallace, warden peery and myself had fired rounds. it was undetermined w

and as i spoke to his warden, his warden told me, he said, mr.harper, you sound like a very well-intentioned young man. i said, i want to change this young man's life. he had the courage to write me this letter. it's a 16-year-old young man who's probably writing at a third or fourth grade level. you think about, did we fail brian, or did brian fail us? i didn't want to fail him. and the warden said, mr. harper, you're not going to be able to do much for this young brian. i said, i'm going to help him as soon as he gets out. he said, you must not understand something. you're going to be dead before brian ever gets out. i said, what do you mean? he said, he was tried as an adult. he committed a heinous crime. he's going nowhere. i won't be the harden anymore when he gets out and you won't be alive. that -- set me back in a way to realize there's so many brians and biannas out there. there's so many of them. and it's up to us to catch them before we actually lose them. to grab them before they're gone. before it's too late. and so i celebrate the y

she did preside as the warden over several executions. natasha is the death penalty policy director for the american civil liberties union of northern california. she previously worked as a deputy public defender in alameda county, and was a staff attorney with the california task force on criminal instructions. she is also working on the effort to abolish the death penalty in california and pursuing the goal of reforming capital sentencing procedure. before we start with the first question, we have a short video. i have been told that this is a video from the former warden of the mississippi prison. >> it is clear that the execution will take place and something happens. they may not come out and say that they did this, but they will tell the victim -- i am sorry. and then they say, i did this. and i leaned down to whisper in his ear, and i thought i could reach them because i wanted to make certain that he is at peace with themselves. i said it is not important for you to confess to this crime and is not important for anyone in this roo

you were a former warden of san quentin. i wonder if you could share with us your experience at having actually conducted executions? you saw the word from mississippi said that this had a personal effect on him and i wonder if you can address the issue that comes up with the victim's family often get satisfaction of some kind -- some relief because of the person that they understand has committed the crime and they are finally put to death. can you remark on this? >> let me say, i agree with everything that they have talked about. i cannot really speak for the families of the victims, only what i have observed to the execution process. this has an impact on everyone who is involved, including the staff. and of course the inmates' families. and the people who show up to watch this. and the whole show of people who are there for this. you cannot walk away from this without having been impacted. i want to talk about the war and has said, that these executions have been 7-10 years after the crime and we're not executing the sam

you can be the warden or you can be an informant. everything in between can be alive one minute and dead the next minute. that's the things you think when you see these stabbings occur around you. and some of them die. and the code requires that you act like you didn't see it. >> i recall those days vividly, averaging four to six gunshots a day at this prison, and you were constantly carrying a gouurney with a wounded man on it, and many times the man was dead. >> lieutenant tom ayers, a former marine, has been a correctional officer at folsom for 21 years. >> when staff come in here, especially our uniformed officers, they are taught the history of this prison and the great sacrifice of people who have died here in the line of duty, and they're constantly reminded of that. >> a reminder of folsom's grim past is the execution room. >> the hanging area was right here. in the old days, what they did was they did turns, down below us, more cells, and you've got these cells up here. you worked your way up to the very last cell. that was

bobby is eating again after he made an agreement with the warden. in return for taking anger management classes, the warden promised bobby a transfer, eventually. >> [ bleep ] >> his old prison buddy, sherman moore, will be cutting bobby's hair. >> he's basically the same person that he was when i met him. he had just came to prison. we were both in segregation. we understood one another off the top because we had the same mentality. it's all about being tough. the tough guy road, be a gangster in prison, nobody means nothing to me, it's my world. the world revolves around me. >> do you think you can pull a flat-top out of your hat? >> is that what you want? >> yeah. do this thing up right. >> you want to look like g.i. jane? huh? >> yeah. >> okay. bobby has not come up out of that thinking mode yet. he still thinks that he has to do the things he has to do to survive when really prison is so much unlike it was 24 years ago. i was telling them all about you and me drinking that bottle of scope up in west jefferson. remember that? >> that was about 1

he's even asked me to get in contact with the warden and ask for his release.he time. i just can't bring myself to go about that procedure. it was a bad day in mine and my family's life. i'm sorry he has to stay in prison for what he did, but that's just the way it is. >>> next, on "lockup: extended stay." >> it happened eight years ago on february 24th, 1999. >> sherman moore comes face to face with the mother of someone else's victim. >> i can't say i understand how you feel, but i can understand your loss. it really shook me up. there's no justifiable reason to take a life. feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea. could've had a v8. the passat is one of nine volkswagen models named a 2012 iihs top safety pick. not...that... we'd ever brag about it... turn right. come on, nine. turn left. hit the brakes. huh? how did that get there? [ male announcer ] we can't hide how proud we are to have nine 2012 iihs top safety picks. so we're celebrating with our "safety in

. >> thank god for the warden at that time because he actually did what he had to do and got me out of this place alive. you can actually see some of the old bullet holes when they came in and shot this place up to get me out. i used to think i was the biggest, baddest thing to walk the earth, and i realized at that point you know what i mean, that i was just as human as anybody else. thereafter the incident, for about a month and a half straight, i had nightmares every time i closed my eyes, and i just felt, you know what? i'm either going to come back and face this or i'm going to live with it for the rest of my life. at that point, i called the chief of security at that time, the major, i told him i'm ready to come back on one condition. he says, well, what's that? i said that you put me right back where i got taken hostage. so that next night, i came in, came in, worked down here. and i actually got the first good night's sleep in a month and a half. >> due to uncontrollable violence, rising operation costs and the slow deterioration of the main facility, prison officials closed th

. >> it is deputy warden shaw's responsibility to make sure the department of correction guidelines areorced. in addition, he is required to follow coast guard regulation. >> you never know you're on a barge unless something big goes by and your coffee cup is going back and forth. but prior to that, it does have unique problems. i mean, i do have a marine engineer on 24 hours a day. i do have to check the ballast every day to make sure we're not listing. there are water problems. the weather. i mean, i do have to worry about that kind of thing. >> the yard on the barge does not provide deck chairs or offer shuffleboard, but it does offer an amazing view of new york, something the high fences and razor wire can't obstruct. but it's also a place of constant concern for the officers. >> i was just doing a security check of the outer perimeter of the fence, just check to make sure everything looks secure, nothing's broken, no chance for anybody to escape. that's always a high risk because you're outside, you're not inside. it's less secure, but it would be pretty hard to escape from this si

warden is spokesperson for the ballot campaign. and says the money could be better used to hire cops and other official autos this costs $186 million more per year to have individuals on death row. >> this victims' advocate isn't buying it. >> the only reason the cost of execution argument is being played now is because none of the arguments they've played over the years have worked. >> klaus lost his daughter, polly. her killer confenced -- confessed and is he on death row. >> i want the guy that murdered my daughter to be executed. i suspect a majority of californian woz like to see the guy that murdered my daughter executed as they would other monsters and goons and creeps that exist on death row. >> the most recent field poll indicates 68% of the voters favor keeping the death penalty. 27% support doing way with it. obi anthony says he spent 17 years in prison for a murder did he not commit. >> and this system is not perfect and makes mistakes. >> mark claus opposed, there are other family that's support the initiative. we'll t

i cut him up into little pieces, because, like i told the warden down there, you know, this is what i or one of y'all will be next. i meant what i said. i have a choice because i have nothing to lose. see my point? i don't have nothing to lose. usually, i hang out right here. this is my spot. i used to stay over there. but the child killers took it over. and they can have it. i don't argue with nobody about spots. i feel like the whole joint belongs to me since i killed to get here to get it. a whole lot of guys think that i'm an insane, psychopathic, you know, murderer. >> but later, bennett revealed that he did care what the "lockup" audience would think of him. >> deputy warden nancy doom took me to meet alex in his cell so i could get a few extra shots of him. he was taking this long pull off a cigarette. and i could start to see the gears turning in alex's mind a little bit. and he said to me, why do you need all this footage? i just don't get it. why do you need all this footage about me? >> this don't make a whole lot of sense to me. >> what's that? >> just sitting here looking

. >> having worked at san quentin for 25 years, warden jeanne woodford understands the challenges that confront death row. >> as the number of condemned come in, it's just created a situation with this physical plant, with the open cell fronts, their ability to communicate with each other and pass on gang information just makes it very difficult to manage that population. >> the most sadistic death row inmates are isolated in the adjustment center where assaults are almost ritual. >> in the last year, it's probably tripled. and not only in numbers, but in seriousness. just some very serious incidences have happened here. >> in one recent 18-month period, 45 of the 85 inmates at the adjustment center have successfully attacked staff. the number of attempts? off the charts. >> the mentality of most inmates in this unit is, i'm on death row, there's nothing you can do to me. if i assault you today, there's nothing they'll do to me tomorrow. that's their mentality. you can only kill me once. >> just like in general population, one of the most volatile times at the adjustment center is meal

when we shot there, robert ayers was san quentin's warden. >> we are grossly overcrowded, which is justthe inmates, and the staff. >> been here before? >> no. >> all right, come over here and stand on the fence right there. >> the incoming population at san quentin was relentless, with staff releasing 150 inmates each week, but welcoming in 350 new ones. >> let's go, gentlemen. let's go, let's go, let's go. clear the door. >> many of them wound up in the gym, which had been converted into a huge, overflow housing unit. >> when i first walked in to the dorm at san quentin, i was taken aback by how many people were packed into this small area. it was very loud. ♪ >> james, report to the office upstairs. >> there's always people talking, people yelling. some people in there were trying to read and some people in there were trying to sleep. so you'll have a big group of people having a conversation over here while a guy's trying to sleep over here. most people would tie towels around their head to try to block out some of this noise. >> officers strive to maintain order in this potentially

her father was the acting warden during the escape. remembers what happened the night of june 12th, 1962. >> the prisoners probably left after we had all gone to bed or after we left the playground. but we were playing out and we all went to bed, no one knew about the escape or the plans. which had been in effect for six months maybe, eight months. we-- the siren went off around 7:15, that was the first time i knew something was wrong. >> so the escapers had about a seven hour head start before their disappearance was discovered. dismayed officials sat stunned in the cells with the dummy head and gaping holes in the wall. now for 30 years the question has been asked, did frank morris and clarence anglin get off the rock and live? >> i don't think so. if you look at the circumstantial evidence it doesn't look probable. the men were repetitive criminals. it was reported that morris had 14 prior escape attempts and in every attempt he was brought back. >> two more convicts escaped in december of 1962, one man actually made it to san franc

we also have a former warden at san quentin who surprised the last three executions, and she is now the head of death penalty focus which is an anti-death penalty group. we have somebody, though, who really symbolizes everything that's wrong with the death penalty. in 1983 he was arrested and within 120 days was convicted in two trials which resulted in the death penalty. he was sentenced to angola in louisiana, death row, where they were executing people left and right. he spent 14 years. he had nearly half a dozen execution dates. and yet he survived and he's here today. and actually -- i know you are on the third panel. come on up. come on up. this is james "j.t." thompson. he came all the way from louisiana to be here today. [applause] one question, how did you survive? >> god. god. god. death row is a place that brings out the truest human being in you. it makes you realize you can't take nothing for granted. you need to love every moment of each day and praise and thank god for each moment you have out here. for the system to do what it did to me -- i was the only child from my mo

and as i spoke to his warden, his warden told me, he said, you know, mr. harper, you sound like a very well intentioned young man. i said i want to change this young man's life. he had the courage to write me this letter, and if you listen to the way it's written, it's actually at a third or fourth grade level. it made me think about did we fail brian, or did brian fail us? and i didn't want to fail us, and the warden said, well, mr. harper, you're not going to be able to do much. he said i'm going to help him as soon as he gets out. he said, you must not understand something. he was tried as an adult. he committed a heinous crime, and he's going nowhere. i won't be the warden anymore when he gets out, and you won't be alive. what that -- set me back in a way to realize that there's so many brians and briannas out there. there's so many of them. and it's up to us to catch them before we actually lose them. to grab them before they're gone, before it's too late. and so i celebrate the youth promise act in that regard because it seeks to do those things. and

and was calm and went willingly mr gardner was seated in the chamber and placed in restraints and warden truly asked mr gardner if he had any thoughts or feelings to express to which mr gardner replied i do not following the statement which was placed over mr gardner's head and it. in the warrant was served. in this regard there was pronounced dead at twelve seventeen this morning. i'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of the staff for the two other of corrections this is an onerous responsibility as has been the one that has required complete dedication has been exhausting. it has been one that has been done with absolute dignity and reverence for human life and also reverence for the lives that have already been lost at the hands of this regard the. forty nine year old partner with the third guy priory wife thankfully not a partner truly method over the top of the lethal injection attorney said he believed in the great river by the bad guy veronica gardner spent the last hours of life in reading and watching the word if you're right. i'm jennifer garner i'm with you since you p

by saying i have had the opportunity to view this issue from every point of view, having been the warden at san quentin state prison. i am absolutely impassioned about the fact that it is time to end the death penalty in this state. life without possibility of parole is the real sentence. hold people accountable and gives them the opportunity to change within the prison system, and they can give back by working within the prison system, giving restitution to family members and working on behalf of the state of california on a variety of projects that go on inside prisons. i also want to echo what the process said -- please join, please help -- i also want to echo what natasha said. talk to 10 of your friends, send e-mails, send letters. thank you. [applause] >> 1985, when i was sentenced to death for a crime i did not commit, i thought right away that this would be rectified. i was convicted of two different crimes. it took 18 years. it took me seven execution dates. i watched 12 then be executed while i was there -- i watched 12 and then be executed while i was there. i'm not in a posit