this is daily, seven days a week, every day. to prevent escape, inmates return five times a day to be counted just as it was done a century ago, one man at a time. bb one. stand count. bb two. stand count. 76 and counting. up next the concept is to do time. don t let time do you. surviving hard time inside folsom. it s kind of a struggle between, you know, evil and good, evil and good. 0
amen. each inmate at folsom must find his own way of surviving physically and emotionally in this environment. it s like being sit down in front of a mirror and made to look at yourself all day every day, and usually having gotten yourself in here, there s not going to be anything in that reflection you want to see. a lot of people don t know how to do time. a lot of people come here thinking they can play. that s their perception, you know what i m saying? but the concept is to do time, and don t let time do you. after you get used to it, you know, you get programmed to how the system runs. but at first it s kind of hard, you know. inmates refer to this process of survival and rehabilitation in prison as their program. basically you ve got to do something, you have to have some sort of program, you know what i mean? everybody here know how to program. you know what i m saying? this is a programmable tier.
the main thing for me from day to day is to work to improve myself because it s a correctional facility, and i m here for correction, and it s kind of hard to be in a situation like this because not everybody here is for corrections. not everybody here understands the meaning of correction. so when you re trying to change your life, you have maybe others around you that don t want to change their lives, and it s kind of a struggle between, you know, evil and good, evil and good. it s tough being your own person in an environment like this not to be sucked into a negativity. the saying misery loves company is so fit for this environment. kindness, compassion, caring, inside the institution it s a weakness. they don t care about somebody s feelings. that s why they re in here, you know. that s why they re in here, because of what they did on the outside and what they did to somebody else. part of their program for self-rehabilitation means contemplating their crime.
intimidated by another person. it s the sounds, the movements, the keys that rattle. the silence at night. the yells, the screams. you watch horror movies? this is a horror movie right here, and we live it every day. many of the inmates at folsom are serving time for violent crimes. over 700 are serving life sentences for murder. due to the hazards presented by its archaic design, folsom no longer qualifies as a level 4 maximum security prison. therefore, it s been downgraded to a level 2 medium security facility. a level two is only a classification score. within two, three seconds, that same individual in level two could stab another individual, could assault a staff member, and he has now become a level four individual within ten seconds of his lifetime. people that don t work in a prison don t realize how dangerous it is in here.
amen? amen. each inmate at folsom must find his own way of surviving physically and emotionally in this environment. it s like being sit down in front of a mirror and made to look at yourself all day every day, and usually having gotten yourself in here, there s not going to be anything in that reflection you want to see. a lot of people don t know how to do time. a lot of people come here thinking they can play. that s their perception, you know what i m saying? but the concept is to do time, don t let time do you. after you get used to it, you know, you get programmed to how the system runs. but at first it s kind of hard, you know. inmates refer to this process of survival and rehabilitation in prison as their program. basically, you ve got to do something, you have to have some sort of program, you know what i mean? everybody here know how to program. you know what i m saying?