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Cell. and then this here is the rope. it is about 11 feet long. if he were to get out of the cell and a body like object in his cell, staff might walk by and especially fli the lighting is bad in the cell and just at first glance looking through a cell door and you see this and it could be possibly somebody laying there when its this. >> the inmate, and whose cell the items were found is a nigerian born prisoner. he is serving 38 years for the armed robbery and battery of two other nigerian immi...

>> 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 but it is never the solution. >> trotter has been in prison for 26 years. ...

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 gill more is the link to the rest of the world for the inmates. >> i came from the south. i was...

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 confinement units case manager. one of her respons...

Eligible for patrol for another 25 years. he could spend the rest of his life in prison. he says his workout is designed to prepare him just in case he is released. >> rotate around like im working on a loading dock or something. call it a workers workout. that why if i do get out, job aint going to kill me. im ready for it. when you get to be my age you got the 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 a...

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 that cell ...

That. >> 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 murder, one battery, four counts of criminal confinement, and one count of rioting. and i was sentenced to 142 years. i was like, wow. most violence is spontaneous. thats what that was. it was spontaneous. one incident ...

>> you dealt in that with a loud manner. i remember. >> i got a tame tongue. not an untamed tongue. seriously. >> you think highly of yourself. >> thats the difference. >> 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 ...

Dangerous and disruptive are housed in the secured confinement unit. most inmates here have assaulted staff or other offenders and are now held 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 gilmore is ...

>> you dealt in that with a loud 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 ha...