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Housed in the secured confinement unit. most inmates 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. 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 primar...

Confinement unit. >> hold the koran up, read this every day. mcquay says his koran has helped him grow spiritually, the other books in his cell have helped him grow physically. >> every day i do me some curls. i do these. i do shrugs. back arms like this. like this. probably about 55 or 60 pounds. >> mcquay has spent years trying to earn his way back into general population. but his history as a violent offender continues to haunt him. >> i engaged in an emotional response to be an offense.

Very secure for us. >> 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...

Frankenstein, the moment you created me, you condemned me, rejected me, crucified and despised me. abandoned me emotionally, unleashed the very 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 nam...

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...

News. he has been released from the confinement unit. he was sent there for threatening other inmates while trying to locate his stolen tv set. >> whatever happened with the guy who stole your tv? >> i dont know. i aint seen him yet. >> did you ever get your tv back? >> i got another one. >> so the guy who stole your tv was never prosecuted? he -- >> i dont know. i mean this is wabash. im on a trip. this is a small prison. youll bump up to him again. its hard to live in a place like this for 40 ...

This is my cellie rack right above me. this is where another man sleeps. understand? out here to the left is my window. thats my 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 understand what im going through. >> carlton wrights picture will change very little in the next 24 years. thats when hes eligible for parole on his 50-year sentence...

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 understand what im going through. >> carlton wrights picture will change very little in the next 24 years. thats when hes eligible for parole on his 50-year sentence for robbery, bodily injury,...

Let me give you a quick 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. thats my 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 understand what im going th...

>> who wants to be locked with another man for 19 hours a day? then three of the half hours that we come out is to go get the worst food youve ever ate in your life. i dont even know how they call it food. >> everyday, seeing people take for granted, we cherish right now. >> wabash valley correctional facility -- a maximum security prison on the western edge of indiana. the center piece of the rural town of carlisle. the inmate population of nearly 2,200 out numbers local residents 4-1. many of ...