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>> thats correct. obviously you have to be licensed. you have to have knowledge. you have to have experience. and were fully licensed and obviously been checked out several times in the last couple of days. >> steve: what has the reaction been from some of the parents when the kids come home after the party and they say, by the way, there was a gator in the pool? >> we dont get that part of it, but usually they find out about us by coming in to the attraction, seeing how safe it is, how we handl...

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 security purposes all inmates transfer...

>> john johnson has been on death row for 20 years. >> i was arrested in 1984, convicted of murder of my wife in 1985. when i first went to death row, i was somewhat shocked. you cant really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you dont really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. its like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we dont get run over. were all going to die...

>> 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...

In 1985. when i first went to death row, i was somewhat shocked. you cant really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you dont really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. its like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we dont get run over. were all going to die sometime. so thousands of people get killed in automobile wrecks in many other ways while were here waiting t...

Its a nice back piece, aint it? my brother did that. huh? getting the back piece on camera, baby, huh, showing off your work, son. huh? >> prior to coming to wabash, half brothers chas harper and dave carr had several short-term prison stays and carr, a tattoo artist has commemorated the experiences both on harpers brother and his own. >> the prison towers with the clown and the judge in between it is the clown. >> they tried to make the best of things with their neighbors, patrick gaskill and f...

>> john johnson has been on death row for 20 years. >> i was arrested in 1984, convicted of murder of my wife in 1985. when i first went to death row, i was somewhat shocked. you cant really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you dont really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. its like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we dont get run over. were all going to die...

Cage. >> john johnson has been on death row for 20 years. >> i was arrested in 1984, convicted of murder of my wife in 1985. when i first went to death row, i was somewhat shocked. you cant really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you dont really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. its like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we dont get run over. were all going ...

Death row for 20 years. >> i was arrested in 1984, convicted of murder of my wife in 1985. when i first went to death row, i was somewhat shocked. you cant really know in a prison cell until you get there. and you get to the point where you dont really think about it. every day when we get up, a lot of us, we work on our cases. its like getting in a car every day out there. every day we get up and get in that car and we hope we dont get run over. were all going to die sometime. so thousands of p...

Time. but to fill this time, riverbend has integrated a unique incentive program for the inmates. those on levels a and b are given more privileges, more rec time, jobs in the unit, educational programs, and increased visitation. darrell holtom, like the other level cs, gets no visitation and is locked down 23 hours a day. >> we were the first state to have any such operation such as this level system with our death row inmates, and we have received both national and international attention with...