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Attempted murder, wont be eligible for parole for another 25 years. he could spend the rest of his life in prison. but he says his workout is designed to prepare him just in case hes released. >> rotate around like im working on a loading dock or something. its all in a workers workout. that way if i do get out, the job aint going to kill me. im going to be ready for it. plus, when you get to be my age, you have to stay in shape. that way when there are guys half this age want to rest with the o...

Manner. i remember. >> i have a tame tongue not an untamed tongue. >> thats the difference. >> you think highly of yourself. >> i would like 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 were at. it is up to me to make that recommendation. some staff here in this unit have recommended you be released and some havent. >> id like to know who have...

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 confine mt. 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 ...

That. >> trotter maintained he was defending another inmate from abusive staff. >> some of them were stabbed. some of them were beat up. some of them overexaggerated. >> the judge in trotters case saw nothing to laugh about. >> i was found guilty of one count after tempted murder, one battery, four counts of criminal finding and one count of rioting. i was sentenced to 142 years and i was like, wow. most violence is spontaneous. thats what that was. it was spontaneous. onen incident led to somet...

>> trotter maintained he was defending another inmate from abusive staff. >> some were stabbed and some were beat up and some went to court and overexaggerated their wounds. >> the judge in the case saw nothing to laugh about. >> i was found guilty of one count of attempted battery, and count of rioting and sentenced to 142 years. i was like, wow. most violence is spontaneous. thats what that was. it was spontaneous. one incident led to something else led to something else led to something else ...

At indianas wabash valley correctional facility, inmates that have committed violent acts are deemed safety threats are housed in windowless single man cells in the confinement unit. they are allowed one hour a day for recreation. >> sometimes we come out here and say blessed. its sunny today. >> when weather permits, inmates may spend that hour outdoors although they are contained in a single man metal enclosure. >> i airport good at basketball but in africa we play soccer. today, im happy to c...

Unit will be glad to go get the apple and take it to him. but he would react to that by banging and banging and throwing things to the point where the response team would have to go in and take him to the ground. hes a strong little dude, too. >> hell throw stuff. hell smear food, feces. hes done a little bit of everything. >> when hes like that, even mrs. gilmore here cant calm him down. i think im a momma substitute to him. >> he recently found himself in a different kind of trouble. when an 1...

>> 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 security purposes all inmates transferred there have to be excorted by two officers and transported by van. >> 60 days is the beginning of summer. i will be missing this summer this years pretty much. t...

This happened less than a mile 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 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...

Detector. we think the perimeter is 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. internal affairs investigators frank littlejohn has been called to the unit to determine if escape paraphernalia has been found inside a cell. >> last night an officer observed a sculpture object or like a dummy which is escape paraphernalia. so they conducted a shakedown of the cell. and in ...