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This is my bed right here. you know what i mean? this is my cellie rack and his bed where another grown ass man sleeps at, you understand? out here to my left is my window. and this is my window, and that is the gate teasing me with freedom. right there is a highway i think. you see the cars going by, and going places that i cant go. you feel me? so im trying to paint a picture for you so you can understand what im going there. >> carlton wrights picture will change very little in the next 24 ye...

Manner. i remember. >> well, i got a tame tongue, not an untame tongue. seriously. >> you think highly of yourself, do you know that? >> 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. like i ...

For some its just a short walk from a special unit at wabash for minors who have been convicted as adults. the adult maximum security prison. miles folsom has been in the youth unit for the past two years. but today is his 18th birthday. and his first day in the big house. he is serving 36 years for armed robbery, criminal confinement

Considered to be the most dangerous and disruptive are housed in the secured confinement unit. most inmates have assaulted staff or other offenders and are in windowless single man cells 23 hours a day. they take their meals alone and phone calls made 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 ...

>> but change is on the horizon. after graduating from one of the polices educational programs, gaskill is about to leave the housing unit to spend 60 days in confinement with inmate-made alcohol. >> the sanctions i imposed for making the intoxicants were a written reprimand do not make or possess intoxicants. decredit from credit class one to credit class two and 60 days disciplinary seg. there is administrative segregation. >> although the confinement unit is an eighth of a mile away for secur...

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 name christopher trotter. >> beverly gilmore is the confinemen...

>> $2,600. he just hung up. >> barnes next reaches out to a family member. >> well can you just call my dad and look for someone who has collateral. i appreciate it. ill check back in with you tomorrow. all right. i need somebody with collateral. >> until he makes bail barnes will reside in one of the low-security housing units but some inmates pose a greater threat to security. they are in the confinement unit where they are locked down 23 hours a day, today, about 180 of them will be moved to ...

>> barnes next reaches out to a family member. >> okay, well, can you just call my dad and tell him to look for someone who has collateral. i really appreciate it. ill check back in with you tomorrow. all right. i need somebody with collateral. >> until he makes bail barnes will reside in one of the jails low-security housing units. but some inmates pose a greater threat to security. theyre housed in the confinement unit where theyre locked down 23 hours a day. today 180 will be moved to a new c...

From where i lived and the community is happy to have someone like him off the streets. as a father and member of the community its difficult to keep that separation between my professional and personal self. i try to focus on the fact that he is not a management problem. he -- he is a model confinement inmate. never gives us any problems and does everything asked of him. the requirements of my profession is to treat him no differently than i would a petty thief and that takes practice. it reall...

As a father and member of the community, its difficult to keep that separation between my professional and personal self. i try to focus on the fact that he is not a management problem. hes actually, ill use the term, hes a model confinement to me. never gives us any problems and does everything asked of him. the requirements of my profession is to treat him no differently than i would a petty thief and that takes practice. it really does. >> morris was arrested when he was 16 and has been at th...