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Back. in addition to that, that kind of settlement tax as city. who pays for this? taxpayers. when we think about, this a victory is not for one family to get a settlement or a judgment. a victory is for there to be an overhaul of the criminal justice system. i like what the president said. he gave us three cs. community, courtroom, and cell block. we need reform in each of those areas. not just one. >> i want to you respond, tom fuentes. the new york city police union, he called this settlement...

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 advice since shes new? >> you have to ask. while monahan is considered the new girl on the cell block, brenda brewer says shes had well over 100 stays here. while her presence oft...

>> they did get out to that point of the village and did actually pop one of the manholes up. they felt due to there being a number of houses in that area that it might not be a good spot to exit from. so they located a manhole in between that manhole and the tunnel system where they escaped from. >> what do you think of that possibility, they made it as far as the street poked their head out, didnt think it was a good place and went back into the prison for the next night? >> i think it tells y...

>> what is? what is sensationalism? >> everybody is sleeping on the job. >> how many guys are on that cell block at a time looking after the honor block. if one guy is asleep its a liability, no? >> absolutely its a liability. theres no way that should be happening, not at all. it will take two people to be able to safely do rounds. usually you have one officer walking and another at the end watching him. so nothing can happen to him while he is out and walking. >> i want to talk more about what...

Retired last year from the facility and head of the fugitive investigation at the u.s. marshal service. john and jeff thank you for joining us. jeff i have to talk about the notion that maybe some of the guards were asleep on the honor block during the escape and the breakout and maybe some of the planning of this escape. that is so shocking. is it realistic to be shocked about that? i guess they have to sleep sometime but not when they are on guard guarding a maximum security prison. >> they ha...

Fifth floor of "i" cell house. the intensive detention unit. the most dreaded cell block at isp. >> theres currently about 99 people, thats our maximum capacity, here on idu. and you can hear -- this is what its like pretty much every day. youve got -- you walk out pretty much with a lot of headaches every day. this is like prison within prison. someone is going to try to gun you down. these guys are going to get combative with you. these guys will try to stab you, and, hence, the stab vest i ha...

The doctor said i dont know how much more you could have taken. had he kicked you one more time, he could have killed you. without a doubt you could have died. >> her attacker received an additional ten-year sentence for aggravated battery. and after recovering from her injuries, officer talley took the brave step of returning to work at the prison. this time monitoring the trucks that deliver food to the facility. she no longer has any contact with the inmates. >> in life itself, within seconds...

Life in prison, hed be in a solitary confinement basically a cell block where he would only get an hour a day to communicate with anybody else. is it the same type of thing on dwet row? >> they only talked about that very briefly because the focus was really on the adx prison, the super max prison in colorado and the conditions there and whether that was the right thing to do. whether that was the worst punishment punishment punishment. but we presume he would be headed to death row in terre hau...

The first time it was for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. >> my wife and i hadnt been getting along for quite a while. i wanted her to go to the bedroom to -- to have some sex, and i hadnt had any sex for seven months. and so it was kind of the straw that broke the camels back when she told me to get out because i was drinking. and i loaded my 9 millimeter glock and went back in to the living room. and i said, im not going to lay a hand on you, but im going to get your attention. i aime...

Terrorists! >> destruction in the cell block. >> and bizarre expressions of personal style. now, some of the most memorable, unexpected moments weve encountered inside americas prisons. >> this is what you live for in the penitentiary. >> you want to think its funny. >> tough [ bleep ]. >> never a dull moment. >> we send our producers and crews inside prisons. their job is to be objective observers. but in the first week of filming inside limon correction facility in colorado, something unusual ...