Lockup Raw News Today

Sixteen years ago, MSNBC aired a reality series called Lockup Raw: The Criminal Code. The reality show about prison life introduced the world to an...

♪ when i close my eyes and watch you lying there ♪ ♪ when i close my eyes and watch you lying there ♪ next on "lockup: raw" -- >> i chose to be executed by firing squad. >> fear, despair and violence. "lockup" crews travel to death row. >> as im applying the handcuffs, he grabbed my arm and pulled it in real quick and he ran a razor blade down my arm. t prenatal care. and administrative paperwork... your days of drowning people are numbered. same goes for you, budget overruns. and risi...

Coming up on "lockup: raw." >> writing music in prison is just my life. >> how one inmate copes with the stark conditions of prison life. and later -- >> mentality of most inmates is im on death row, theres nothing you can do to me. >> violence and hopelessness on death row. ♪ ♪ more kinds of crab than ever, new dishes, and all your favorites. only while crabfest lasts. red lobster. now this is seafood.

Like acid, i just -- its just a putrid thing that theres nothing sexy about a kid. you know what i mean? and to hear it, to know it, i know im here for it, that charge. but that just still sickening. >> coming up on "lockup: raw." >> i was convicted of four counts of first degree murder. my children. >> how the code extends to the loneliest place in prison. death row. and its also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams theyre handing us more than mail theyr...

Theres always consequences for every decision you make. >> when i went in there, i was like -- i was scared. i was like, man, theyre talking [ bleep ]. but its all right, though, because im coming out. theyre in there. >> some of these kids futures are very bright, very bright. and some of them, you just cant get to. and some of them is going to be in corcoran. coming up on "lockup: raw" -- >> when they sentenced me to death 23 years ago, i thought i was going to be dead before five years was ...

To try to become somebody. that guy right there, hes strong. you know, hell beat you up or hell stab you, just to get a name. >> and then live in a box. >> yeah. unfortunately, things happen and theres no way for me to get out. this is me. im going to die in here. next on "lockup raw" -- >> i come from a nice family, a good family compared to a lot of the families i hear about in here. >> an inmate who grew up on the right side of the tracks commits a shocking crime in front of dozens of witne...

So now, the once-dedicated warrior tries to focus his energy on spirituality. >> thats one thing that i struggle with now. i understand how hypocrisy of my words speaking to you right now. you do all this, you know its wrong. yeah, hey. i got some atonement i guess you could say to make up for it. things are looking rough i could say if i do believe in afterlife. >> would you kill someone today? >> oh, yeah. sure. >> you didnt even hesitate, christian. >> you want me to lie? >> no. >> pretend? y...

>> we never heard a more extreme account of gassing as the one described by kentucky state penitentiary inmate fleece johnson. >> i ask everybody on the wall to [ bleep ] in a bucket. send it down to me. i take two, three light bulbs, put it in toilet paper and step on it and break it up in little fragments, put it in there so that when i throw it on them and they wipe it will cut into them and get in their blood. >> and i was standing there with a big old bucket of it and just throw it in their...

>> eventually transferred to san quentin state prison, the man who was arguably californias most violent inmate completed his sentence and was released in 2007. >> you have people locked up in this type of environment, then release them to the street, what do you expect? next on "lockup: raw." >> theyll come across their enemy, slice them across the neck. >> the ingenious weapons inmates use to attack. you dont let anything

Rule 38 violations are just one more thing to take in stride. >> whether male or female, when you come in, they always going to try to see how far they can push your button. theyll gun you down. i mean, theyre not going to get me so out of whack where i would have to go take prozac or something. i dont play that. if i catch them, im going to write em up. i just dont play that. next on "lockup: raw." >> these offenders are the worst of the worst. >> its aggressive, dangerous, its violent. you k...