Confinement Unit News Today

A prisoner has died at a high-security federal facility in Indiana, according to prison officials.

A prisoner has died at a high-security federal facility in Indiana, according to prison officials. It was the second time since December that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons reported a death at the U.S. Penitentiary-Terre Haute. Staff discovered Mario Waters, 35, unresponsive after a perceived altercation with another incarcerated individual, the prison bureau reported Monday.

Toni Fly, previously bunkmate of Keith Raniere, is at USP-Terre Haute. Maurice Adonis Withers, who punched Raniere, is also there.

>> security is tight inside the perimeter as well. especially in the secured confinement unit which houses the prisons most violent and disruptive inmates. today internal affairs investigator frank littlejohn has been called to the unit to investigate a report that possible escape paraphernalia has been found inside a cell. >> last night an officer had looked inside of a cell and observed a sculpture object like a -- we refer to them like a dummy-like object on a comment report, which is escape ...

Was also removed from the cell. if he was to get outside of a cell and have this covered up and a body-like object in the cell, the staff might walk by, especially if the lighting is bad in the cell and at first glass looking through the cell door and you see this, that it could possibly be somebody laying there when actually its this. >> the inmate in whose cell the items were found is nigerian born lukuman aderibigbe. hes serving 38 years for the armed robbery and battery of two other nigerian...

Hell in me, often overlooked, stepped upon, crushed. no one stops to notice that my movements are poetic. my stride is determined. my love is unconditional. my spirit is free. although im a monster, there is a soul inside of me. >> i do not believe there is an employee in the indiana department of correction in any state facility that does not know the name christopher trotter. >> beverly gilmore is the confinement units case manager. one of her responsibilities is to evaluate trotters ability t...

Manner. i remember. >> well, i got a tame tongue, not an untame tongue. seriously. >> you think highly of yourself, do you know that? >> no, thats the difference, though. thats the difference. >> i would really like to be able to see christopher trotter go back to general population, because of the length of time he has been in segregation. but should he go? im so thankful im not making that decision. >> bottom line here is where were at. it is up to me now to make that recommendation. okay. lik...

Let me show you whats going on with my cell. this is my red right here. you know what i mean? this is what i sleep on. this is my cellie rack right above me. this is where his bed where another grown-ass man sleeps at. you understand? out here to the left is my window. thats the gate teasing me with freedom. and right there is the highway, i think. see cars driving by? going placess i cant go. you feel me? so just trying to paint a picture for you so you can understand what im going through. >> ...

Workout is designed to prepare him, just in case hes released. >> rotate around like im working on a loading dock or something. call it a workers workout. that way if i do get out, job aint going to kill me. im all ready for it. plus when you get to be my age, you got to stay in shape. that way, when the guys half my age want to mess with the old man, it aint my fault. >> there is always a new guy or two arriving on stones unit every week. for some its just a short walk from a special unit at wa...

Most inmates here have assaulted staff or other offenders and are now held inside windowless single-man cells 23 hours a day. they take their meals alone and even phone calls, which are allowed once a week, are made from the isolation of their cells. >> in this confinement unit we have to deliver all of their services. so i try to make contact with every one of my offenders at least once a week. thats all 144 of them. >> case manager beverly gillmore is the primary link to the rest of the world ...