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Keeps you and i from being obedient to god. >> we try to encourage them to empower themselves and empower their lives by making a change, so that when they leave here, that they have acclimated in the right mindset back into society. dont get caught up into trying to build a castle in prison. thats not what prison is about. if you build your house in prison, you aint going nowhere. up next, we revisit rikers jail within a jail. the most dangerous cell block, known as cpsu.

Inmates who may be suicidal are placed under 24-hour direct supervision. >> in the first year that i was here, we had six suicides. which was one after another, quite stunning and quite disconcerting. and when i looked at it, i found there were things we could do to improve our performance in suicide prevention. so weve implemented a variety of procedures in that regard, and they have paid off. the number of suicides has been substantially reduced. >> female inmates who are pregnant when they ar...

>> in the first year that i was here, we had six suicides. which was one after another, quite stunning and quite disconcerting. and when i looked at it, i found there were things we could do to improve our performance in suicide prevention. so weve implemented a variety of procedures in that regard, and they have paid off. the number of suicides has been substantially reduced. >> female inmates who are pregnant when they are arrested are placed in the prenatal cell block at rikers. >> i got aids...

>> they get their hair cut. then theyre photographed and fingerprinted. >> starting with your right thumb, roll your fingers. >> eating. >> in an effort to avoid violent confrontations later, every inmate is evaluated and classified according to his history of violence outside and inside the penal system. >> enemies? >> none. >> gang-banger? >> share a cell with another man, no problem? >> its all right with me. >> okay. thank you. >> as long as youre compatible. >> i wish we could make that cal...

So instead of waiting on hold, well call you when things are just as wonderful... [phone rings] but a little less crazy. were doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. captured killer david sweat is spilling the details on exactly how he pulled off one of the most daring escapes in u.s. history. this photo here this shows the cloth cover hacksaw blade sweat and richard matt used. when the lights went dark i...

>> reporter: fascinating stuff. the new york times is reporting david sweat wander around the tunnels night after night beginning this winter. he would leave his cell every night on the hunt for the skpap route confident the guards wouldnt miss him because as you said they were sleeping. he would disappear between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and be back by 5:00 in the morning. he somehow rigged a fan underground to cool himself reportedly using electricity anderson from the tunnels lights. >> and th...

Know you have two bags when no one else normally will get two full bags of stuff, thats when you make your friends. its fake here. you cant expect a good friend here. inmates. you know what i mean? just got to watch your back, thats all. >> do you think you belong here? >> i dont know. no. >> what are you guys playing? >> spades. >> do i look down on anyone here? i try not to judge anyone. i dont want to be judged myself. what if i was being judged? >> have you had a chance to give her any advic...

Could have ended up behind bars. what did he say that made all the difference? >> reporter: the visit really seemed to have an impact on president obama. he sat down with six inmates who were locked up for nonviolent drug offenses and heard their stories how they came to be in prison. he toured the prison under tight security with the warden even peeking in at one time to a nine by ten cell block. the president got a little intro specktive afterwards. he said under a different set of circumstanc...

Cell and tunnel. >> reporter: good morning. it was a journey to get there. at least 13 checkpoints inside this maximum security prison. we had to show our ids multiple times. it was a cell block of at least eight cells, home to the countries most ruthless killers and murderers and criminals. and in that corner cell was where "el chapo" was until he escaped on saturday night. for the first time our cameras are allowed inside cell number 20. this is some remnants of what he left behind. for nearly...

They will not accept our drones or u.s. marshals. >> there were stories united states warned the mexican government about the effort to break out. when you look at the elaborate nature of this, the 30 foot drop to a motorcycle, and here is the video in his cell block, disappears behind the wall, a half wall down the shower and down the hole on to a motorcycle and picked up by a helicopter waiting outside of the structure you were at earlier today where they were supposedly building a house. it w...