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To one year in idu, the maximum amount of time. 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 ...

He tried to come out and stick my hand. >> you have to move there a little bit. >> but there are some inmates at isp who are constant threats to officers. luis antonio nieves is such an inmate. in 1992 at the age of 17, he went to the home of a neighbor in milwaukee, wisconsin. the neighbor, a 32-year-old mother of four, rebuffed his sexual advances. he stabbed her repeatedly in the face, neck, chest and legs, killing her. >> open two. >> since coming to prison 14 years ago nieves has received m...

Human being like anybody else. by the grace of god, we could all be here. you dont want to treat them with any disrespect. but you want to answer any questions they have. if they have any fears try to put that aside and make the process as easy as it can be. if you go ahead and fill this out for me, sir. >> reginald smith, a convicted robber, was recently released from another maximum security facility for crimes that include felony possession of a firearm and conspiracy to escape. he will spend...

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 ...

>> 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. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. lets develop more stars in education....

At indiana state a few years earlier. he was in for murder and had no hope of getting out. >> i got double life and i got to stay here until i die, and hopefully, i can stay right where im at. ive been on this chair 26 years. hopefully, i wont be there another 26, but theres a lot of us in here doing multiple life that wont ever get out, and im one of them. >> we came to find out that inmate barbers here are not unlike small town barbers. theyre popular and well-liked. they even cut staffs hair....

We visited indiana state prison just shy of its 150th anniversary. it was established in 1860, one year before the civil war and has housed the states most infamous criminals. john dillinger did time here in 1929. and four years later, masterminded the escape of 11 members of his gang. its been through changes over the years, but its still a prison with old school bars and old school convicts who dont want to be mistaken for inmates. >> convicts treat you the way you treat them. treat them with ...

We visited indiana state prison just shy of its 150th anniversary. it was established in 1860, one year before the civil war and has housed the states most infamous criminals. john dillinger did time here in 1929. and four years later, masterminded the escape of 11 members of his gang. its been through changes over the years, but its still a prison with old school bars and old school convicts who dont want to be mistaken for inmates. >> convicts treat you the way you treat them. treat them with ...

If you dont like this cat and this cat dont like you, you got some serious issues. >> cats play a big part in alleviating fear and conflict at isp, even in the one part of the prison that is so ominous people dont even like to mention its real name -- death row. >> well, its called "x" row. no one knows really why they call it "x" row. people say the "x" is towards the end of the alphabet, the end of the line. they "x" people out, extinguish life over here. i guess thats why they call it "x" row...

>> i dont know why i got shook down. probably because my dumb [ bleep ] brother just got hit with a seven-inch shank. that book that they just took, where i hid the cell phone. i gave that cell phone to him. if they write me up for that its [ bleep ]. >> this book is taken because he once put a cell phone in it. he would walk around with the book all day. nobody would ever know. >> at indiana state inmates arent the only ones shaken down. to ensure the facilitys safety, correctional staff police...