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Battle against covid19 behind bars Election fever had reached a peak on August 9, the day before the general election. Inside the Port of Spain (PoS) Prison, convicted inmate Neil Samdeo’s temperature was rising. Samdeo, a diabetic, coughed through the night in the cell he shared with three other inmates. He covered himself with a sheet, an unusual act in a sweltering, overcrowded prison with poor ventilation. Feeling dizzy the next morning, he went to the infirmary. He was sent straight to t...

Maximum security prison, san quentin. three weeks later, news that took everyone by surprise. >> 54 year old andrew urdiales body was found friday night. >> urdiales was found unresponsive in his cell. >> bewere informed that there was irrefutable evidence that he intentionally killed him is self, and that was in the form of a note, but i have not seen it. >> prosecutor matt murphy told us urdiales had hanged himself. we reached out to the prison asking to see the note but never heard back. what...

Hes in the seriously mentally ill ward, but ive got access to him, and hes available to be interviewed." >> andrew goldstein, battling schizophrenia and off his meds, made headlines in 1999 when he hurled an aspiring journalist named kendra webdale onto the subway tracks in front of an oncoming train in new york city. she was killed instantly. any reservations about sharing a byline with somebody on the inside? >> on top of it being the only way that the story could be told, it had a certain nov...

To life. youre like, "what the [bleep] did i do here? this is -- this is disgusting." and then, you know, you go through some tribulations, and i found something that i was really passionate about. >> john lennon discovered his passion in a creative-writing course to write about the deplorable stories of poverty, literacy, and mental illness that he saw all around him in inmates. >> i was getting the story, and i was grabbing these characters and just bringing them to life. u youre immersed in w...

Do. >> and yet years passed before lennon truly felt this way. in prison, friends of alex were looking to avenge his murder. im hit up, lung punctured, cause when it happens its slick, its fast. it was "whats up?" you know -- right under the arms, six times, and i embraced the dude. we know each other. hes from the projects. i grew up with him, too. >> he was doing it because he knew alex? >> yes. >> so it was like payback. >> yes. well, that wasnt the first form of payback. another friend of al...

Pornography. he admitted that he got off a little bit off on it and that was right before he kills ella. >> they had forensic evidence of semen. >> i dont know if ella was a victim of sexually assault. >> he keeps that very cloudy. he was sadistic. he said yes, i assaulted my sister and told me about it. around the age of 16, oh, i was lying to yall the whole time. >> when we come back, i traveled to texas to separate the truth from the lies, face-to-face with paris lee bennett in maximum securi...

He liked me. but you have to be married to even be alone, so well get married. rayna celebrated the surprising nuptials in a traditional way. she and her husband spent their alone time in trailers for families. >> to me it felt like a cabin in tahoe or something. i didnt sit and think, ooh, im in maximum security prison. >> rayna tried to help lennon get his articles on inmate issues accepted by national papers. >> social-justice issues are really something close to my heart, so i loved making t...

Eliminating patients access to life-saving care and destroying jobs all in exchange for bigger profits for insurance companies. tell congress, put patients first, not big insurance. >> you know, you come to prison, i dont know who the [bleep] i was, you know? i was always trying to be something i wasnt, clearly. and then youre in prison for 28

Killed savagely and without mercy. "inside evil" is the name of the series. does this qualify as an evil act? >> in 2001 he was the embodiment of evil. i cant tell you what hes like now. >> meet sing sing inmate number 04a0823, john joseph lennon. no connection to the musical icon -- just a name loaded with talent and tragedy. >> i came to prison, you know, somebody that -- somebody that was, frankly, a disgusting

Prisonpenpals.com. im fully aware of how cheesy that sounds. >> she couldnt get the profile of inmate 04a0823, john lennon, out of her mind. >> in his ad, he had the word "sober" in there, and to most people i feel like with any 12-step exposure, that means this big transformation. >> she was probably the kindest person i had ever met. just decency and just sweet. she was a cool girl. >> hed done this kind of, you know, ultimate bad thing and he still had his family in his life. that meant somet...