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Wabash valley correctional facility is a maximum security if facility unlike any other in the state of indiana. its home to a cell block of 53 kids, sentenced as adults. >> im colt lundy. its overwhelming to know that there are kids that could be like my grandpa. its really quite -- everybody calls me youngin and im always treated like a little kid. on the news, they made it sound like i was just horrible. like cold-blooded. my crime might seem like that. but like im not the person that they may...

And didnt come out for lunch. so whatever happened obviously happened inside the cell. >> woods was taken to a high security cell block where he will be locked in a single person cell 23 hours a day pending the final results of the investigation. >> put that on. >> they put us in a room. ever it is really hard. really hard. especially if you are not -- especially if they have seizures in the cell, you get blamed for it. >> coming up, joshua bean faces new troubles following a shakedown.

Huskers cell block has been put on blockdown, limiting movement of all inmates until investigators can determine the cause of curtis cashs severe facial injuries. both cash and his cell mate dane that woods claim cash simply fell but enternal affairs investigator frank littlejohn suspects a coverup. >> the suspect probably told the victim you better not tell on me, say you tell. typical in these types of situations. nobody falls and receives those kind of injuries. >> the havinger suspects he mi...

Naked. >> tired of the overcrowding and abuse inside the prison, inmates reached their boiling point on february 2nd, 1980. what ensued was one of the deadliest prison riots in u.s. history. inmate carlos cervantes saw it all happen. >> it was like a bomb exploding, it just went off and the whole prison system was taken over, the whole facility. >> for 36 hours, the riot raged out of control. finally, when national guardsmen entered the facility, they found the interior in ruins. 8 officers and ...

Aaron cooper, serving 10 years for assault and escape, didnt stretch his ear lobes until he got to prison. >> did it about four years ago when i was in ad seg. no reason, really. i just like the way it looked. it started with the tooth of a comb and started wrapping saran wrap about it and got it fatter and fatter. this was bigger than i wanted to go, but these were the only things that were round enough that when the officers could take them, i could put more back in, just little plastic bottle...

You, theyre going to write you up. >> ive cut myself so much so long, its natural for me, you know. it dont even hurt. when i cut, it dont even hurt. 1-6! it gives me a release. but more than anything, i think its just the act kind of calms me down. >> because of his compulsion to self-mutilate, ricky beauchamp is assigned to the residential treatment unit, rtu, its the only cell block in the state of indiana specially designed for inmates suffering with mental health issues. >> he was brought h...

>> guys being stabbed, heads cut off. pipes going through their heads, you know. unimaginable things. you couldnt even think of, you know. >> one of the inmates came down from the dormitory areas. and he had on his belt, tied to his side, the human head of a black man. this individual proceeded to take this head and gripped this head by his hair and he went over to that young guard that was crying, and he ordered that guard to kiss that head. and the inmates recorded in cellblock four never had ...

B-line, the only town in america built behind prison walls. the citizens call it the safest town in america. >> each one who lives here provides some professional service, more than just his job, like medicals here, doctors are here, emts, the farm, the cows might get out. >> indeed, angola not only has its own zip code, it also has its own golf course. if the b-line is the safest part of angola, death row is the most ominous. executions have been temporarily halted, awaiting a ruling by the sup...

Placed on his movements, he still feels the attempt was worth it. >> aside from getting caught, i dont regret it one bit. id do it again tomorrow, if i could. next on "lockup raw" -- >> these are the worst of the worst. >> its aggressive, dangerous, violent, you know. >> in one prisons most notorious cell block, a gray haired man provides an alternative to violence. >> im a pretty harmless guy. its been a pretty friendly kind of relationship. i had enough of feeling embarrassed about my skin. ...

And anywhere i go that it looks like it has the potential, ill always ask, do you have any ghosts around? in new mexico they had a lot at the old prison. >> when we shot at the penitentiary of new mexico, major dean lopez took us to the old main. a now abandoned building that used to be the heart of the prison before it was replaced with a state-of-the-art facility. >> this is where most of the murders from the riot took place, was this cell block right here. >> this was the site of a 1980 riot....