Page 13 - Carlton Wright News Today

The custody control unit or ccu. >> welcome to the belly of the beast, man. i hate lockup. [ bleep ] back here, for real, for real. just make your time hard. all you do is think. when youre in ccu, you dont get really nothing but a bar of soap, some toothpaste, a pair of shower shoes. youre a really in survival mode back here. my hair [ bleep ], i aint able to get a hair cut or a shave, [ bleep ] none of that. ive been back here just slumming it, you know. this is the downside of prison, you kno...

>> feet cant be on the wall. >> cant be on the wall? man, youre so strict! >> privileges like this are reserved for general population inmates with good behavior records. carlton wright, who is one year into a 50-year sentence for robbery has mostly stayed out of trouble. >> i cant see it? >> carlton wright actually came to prison in 2010, and since hes been in, hes receive add few conduct reports, nothing severe. i had heard that he has a mouth on him and that hes pretty disrespectful towards s...

Whats in your wallet? >> let me give you quake look around my sell. let me show you whats going on with my cell. this is my bed here, you know, what i sleep on. this is my cellie rack right above me. this is where another man sleeps. understand? out here to the left is my window. that mice window. thats the gate that teases me with freedom. and right there is the highway, i think. see the cars going by, going places i cant go. you feel me? so just trying to paint a picture for you so you can und...

Off the door! all this [ bleep ] rules. im 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 didnt want to be the victim, and over the course of time, that became a part of my character. >> and recently wrights character was put to the test. >> he came back from recreation one night and noticed that his tv had been missing...

Eventually one of thems going to get to me. so i dont want to arm anybody thats going to potentially come back and use it on me, at all. coming up -- >> they all think theyre "gq" material. >> inmate picture day at wabash. >> your feet cant be on the wall. >> feet cant be on the wall? man, youre so strict here. and carlton wright causes a disturbance. >> i came back, [ bleep ]. the kids are asleep. look what i got. oh my froot loops! [sniffs] lets do this? get up! get up! get up! get up! loo...

At the wabash valley correctional facility in southwest indiana, prison officials allowed us to give cameras to some of the inmates in order to let them record personal thoughts in the privacy of their cells. among them was carlton wright. >> dining time is a [ bleep ], man. its nothing but you and your thoughts and these brick walls. you feel me? and if you aint strong, man, youre going to crumble? you know what i mean? until you walk in my shoes and did this, you cant tell what its like, man. ...

State line looking for a walmart and i ended up in indiana. >> wright might have been looking for a walmart, but his trip to indiana involved more than shopping. >> i was pimping on my girlfriend -- well, you can call her a girlfriend, female companion, whatever. yeah, i was pimping. so thats what i was doing from state to state, for income. ive got good communication skills. communication is my occupation. im talkative, i meet different people. believe it or not, a lot of people are looking to ...

>> someone stole my tv while i was gone, so, you know, when i came back and [ bleep ] things got ugly. >> from what i heard, he approached several offenders, kind of called them out, wanting to know if they had taken his tv. >> i started going from cell to cell, searching my [ bleep ]. im going to search everybodys [ bleep ] until i find what im looking for. >> wrights aggressive behavior soon created problems with other inmates. >> im not looking for trouble, but at the same time, im definitely...

So you better pray you got a cool cellie, or it aint going to work. being in prison, its reality, man. you know, people watching movies in prison, and you see them, oh, thats sad, and you turn it off and forget about it, but its our life. you know, we wake up every day to this, living under these strict set of rules, no privileges, you know what i mean. this is reality. theres no going home from this. >> and wright is a long way from home. >> this is my first time ever in indiana. i never lived ...

Here, so they had a picture of me to put in their photo album. >> the sun is bright. >> makes a good picture. >> i cant really see too much. the sun is too bright. its kind of reflecting off the screen. i couldnt see it too good. i guess when it prints out, well see how good it is. >> feet cant be on the wall. >> cant be on the wall? man, youre so strict! >> privileges like this are reserved for general population inmates with good behavior records. carlton wright, who is one year into a 50-year...