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Victims is no place for them. >> isp sits on 11 acres and houses only 566 inmates. more than half are serving life sentences. jack nutter is isps longest serving inmate. >> this is a picture of me at 18 when i first came in. i was sitting down on death row. >> nutter is serving a life sentence for the murder of a deputy sheriff. >> i hate it. i was young and i lost all that time. in january of 56, me and four other kids were all going to california. i stole a car and we got stopped in independen...

Right to live in one of the prisons minimum security dormitories. >> in here, you look around, youll find no bars. you have windows like on the street. its a state of mind. you look at the bars 24/7 and you cant never get away from the fact that youre locked up. its a lot better. you have a lot more freedom of movement. the reality is im going to die in here and once i come to realize that i slowed down on the things that i was doing. i tried not to dwell on whats on the other side of the walls ...

Believes me to be. >> both the wisconsin and iowa departments of corrections have filed attempted murder charges against nieves. he refuses to discuss any of his cases. up next -- >> as i was walking away, i turned around, i looked and one of the hunters shot me. he missed me. i turn around and i shot him. then i just start shotting all of them. >> we meet isps most notorious inmate. [ male announcer ] book ahead and save up to 20 percent at doubletree.com, so you can sit back relax and enjoy....

They know that. >> at isp, self-improvement is also available to those whose release dates are decades away. >> i tell my mother all the time, dont think of me as being in prison. im in here trying to better myself. shes really worried about me because i am a sex offender and its really hard on sex offenders in prison, in this environment. i have a class "a" felony child molestation. we had sex one time, she came up pregnant and had a baby. when we found out she was pregnant, i turned myself in....

College. college? i never heard of that, not where im from. i signed up for college. >> monagan now tutors other inmates. >> if that person youre trying to teach does not want to learn, hes stubborn, he stonewalls, thats when guys like me come into play because i was stubborn and stonewalled. i know what it feels like. im willing to endure all those hardships that it takes just to help you get your ged or whatever it is that youre trying to get, if youre trying to bring your grades up, thats wha...

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A fight went down in my cell house and i was accused of being involved with it. the individual needed to be taken to an outside hospital and because of that, i was sent up here. im not disappointed in anything ive done. ive made the decisions that ive made, you know, were caged like animals for 23 hours a day. were given food thats of poor quality. there isnt enough of it to keep us full in between meals. and thats just how we live our lives. up next -- >> my life almost ended right upstairs. ...

>> you have to move there a little bit. >> but there are some inmates at isp who are constant threats to in 1992 at the age of 17, he went to the home of a neighbor the neighbor, a 32-year-old mother of four, rebuffed his he stabbed her repeatedly in the face, neck, chest and legs, killing her. >> open two. reports including two near-fatal batteries of female staff. his nickname is the monster. >> im a laid back, quiet type of individual. i was born in puerto rico. when i was 10 i moved to new y...

Indiana state prison is the only facility in the state with an execution chamber. not every inmate facing the death penalty in indiana is on death row at isp, but many of them could be put to death there. the death penalty was reinstated in indiana in 1977, nearly two dozen men are housed on isps death row. >> how are you doing? okay. let me know if you need anything. >> we get this perception that these guys are total monsters but there is a chance that every individual can, in the heat of the ...

Murder, killing a police officer. i was sentenced to death. i have been here 50 years. im 68 years old. >> over the decades he has been at isp, nutter has watched the inmate population change drastically. >> when i came in it was bank robbers and forgers and car thefts. now its mostly drugs and kidnapping and things like that. >> an awful lot of them are here by a virtue of their conduct at other prisons. this is the end of the road for them. >> estelle has been at isp for 20 years. >> i got two...