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Both facilities are run by a former secret service agent determined to bring the experience he learned guarding a vice president to the job of overseeing thousands of inmates. >> traveling around the world with vice president cheney really taught me more than anything a lot of the self-discipline qualities that i need to succeed here, and much of what i learned there helped me in running the jails. we run a pretty orderly operation here. the inmate behavior for the most part is not to a level th...

Former secret service agent determined to bring the experience he learned guarding a vice president to the job of overseeing thousands of inmates. >> traveling around the world with vice president cheney really taught me more than anything a lot of the self-discipline qualities that i need to succeed here, and much of what i learned there helped me in running the jails. >> we run a pretty orderly operation here. the inmate behavior is not to a level that causes us concern. we look at other jails...

They sit in that cell the entire day and at 9:30 at night we return the mattress with their sheets and blankets. >> the other part of what they do is the loaf. which is this vegetarian ball they bake. they make the inmates eat it three meals a day, six days a week. >> it is a nutritional loaf. it is vegetables, mixed with flour and yeast and oil to hold it together, baked in a loaf about four inches wide and six inches long. >> kind of like chunky water. >> weve seen segregation in various facil...

Treat disciplinary segregated inmates very effective in controlling inmate behavior. when i started in 91-92, we probably had eight to ten fights a day. now if we have eight fights a week, that is a large number. >> when we met courtly curtis, he was a general population inmate who would later be sentenced to one year in jail for obtaining money under false pretenses. during the course of our shoot he got into a fight with another inmate over football. >> it was horse-playing. it was horse-playi...

Behavior. they got them there. >> we have found the way we treat displenary segregated inmates very effective in controlling inmate behavior. when i started in 91-92, we probably had eight to ten fights a day. now if we have eight fights a week, that is a large number. >> when we met courtly curtis, he was a general population inmate who would later be sentenced to one year in jail for obtaining money under false pretenses. during the course of our shoot he got into a fight with another inmate o...

Because they dont want the inmates to repeat their behavior. they got them there. >> we have found the way we treat displenary segregated inmates very effective in controlling inmate behavior. when i started in 91-92, we probably had eight to ten fights a day. now if we have eight fights a week, that is a large number. >> when we met courtly curtis, he was a general population inmate who would later be sentenced to one year in jail for obtaining money under false pretenses. during the course of ...

Starting with a letter to his rape victim of 26 years ago. >> i would give anything to be able to turn back time and remove the harm that i caused in your life. the things that happened the night that i met you were completely my fault. if there is anything that you have felt bad about on your part, please let it go. it was totally on me. >> i think a lot of the guys here have been able to see a way of changing their lifestyles. i have hope one day that theyll get back outside. >> 40% of the cri...

Again to rehabilitate himself, starting with a letter to his rape victim of 26 years ago. >> i would give anything to be able to turn back time and remove the harm that i caused in your life. the things that happened the night that i met you were completely my fault. if there is anything that you have felt bad about on your part, please let it go. it was totally on me. >> i think a lot of the guys here have been able to see a way of changing their lifestyles. i have hope one day that theyll get ...

Vice president to the job of overseeing thousands of inmates. >> traveling around the world with vice president cheney really taught me more than anything a lot of the self-discipline qualities that i need to succeed here, and much of what i learned there helped me in running the jails. we run a pretty orderly operation here. the inmate behavior is not to a level that causes us concern. other places violence is widespread. that is not a problem we typically deal with on a daily basis. >> but eve...

Determined to bring the experience he learned guarding a vice president to the job of overseeing thousands of inmates. >> traveling around the world with vice president cheney really taught me more than anything a lot of the self-discipline qualities that i need to succeed here, and much of what i learned there helped me in running the jails. we run a pretty orderly operation here. the inmate behavior is not to a level that causes us concern. other places violence is widespread. that is not a pr...