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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 moment, do something theyre not proud of and regret very much. ultimately the worst thing i think they have to...

Im more than willing to be in all the programs that i can find out there, you know, and do whatever i have to do to be part of my familys life. and make up for the wrong that i done. >> prison saved my life. i hate to say that but prison saved my life. how are you doing today, ken? >> joseph is serving a 60-year sentence for a murder he committed as a teenager. when he entered isp, he wound up in "d" cell house, a housing unit with a tough reputation. >> all right. everybody kept telling me, you...

Week from indiana state prison, the majority of inmates will spend the rest of their lives here. willard lucas has spent 29 years at isp. >> im in here for kidnap/murder. i caught a guy in bed with my old lady and i blowed my top. and i kind of hurt him. ive got to be here until i die. i got double life and i got to stay here until i die. and hopefully i can stay right here where im at. but theres a lot of us in here doing multiple life that wont ever get out. and im one of them. >> open table. ...

>> 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 what im here for. anything less than that, you can keep the change. up next -- >> with...

Others cannot. >> i need to know when i get out on main street god will be out there with me. >> amen. >> i need to know. >> thats right. >> amen. that hell be with me on the rec yard. >> amen. >> the men tell me that they come here because they have found hope. the church continues to grow because it does offer real hope to those who live in a hopeless kind of negative destructive environment. its an oasis for men who live in a desert. ed buss has implemented a number of changes at the prison i...

At isp. >> im in here for kidnap/murder. i caught a guy in bed with my old lady and i blowed my top. and i kind of hurt him. ive got to be here until i die. i got double life and i got to stay here until i die. and hopefully i can stay right here where im at. but theres a lot of us in here doing multiple life that wont ever get out. and im one of them. >> open table. >> open table. 11 in the corner. >> calvin holmes has been in prison for 25 years. >> i have a total of 102 years and two life sen...

>> 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 what im here for. anything less than that, you can keep the change. up next -- >> with my retirement pending, i was in jail...

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. it was just that easy. within...

Was someone we knew. we met willard lucas inside the prison barbershop when we shot 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 ...

We met willard lucas inside the prison barbershop when we shot 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 bar...