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>> again, theres a book out that every corrections personnel goes through the academy reads, its called "the games that criminals play." it tells them how the cons con you by simple things like that. i have a problem with my electricity. i can call it dont fix the maintenance department here just let me into the catwalk. oh, by the way would you like a cup of coffee while youre waiting? thats the game. >> since when do these guys get a hot plate and hamburger meat delivered so they can cook it i...

>> again, theres a book out that every corrections personnel goes through the academy reads, its called "the games that criminals play." it tells them how the cons con you by simple things like that. i have a problem with my electricity. i can call it, dont fix the maintenance department, here just let me into the catwalk. oh, by the way would you like a cup of coffee while youre waiting? thats the game. >> since when do these guys get a hot plate and hamburger meat delivered so they can cook it...

But if he was indeed caught and captured in that residential area quite a difference than the situation with richard matt. >> reporter: right. and again, we are having a difficult time partly because of the distance and also because of the thick tree cover, these big trees that weve seen everywhere as weve been covering the story for the last three weeks. but it does appear like this is a residential poplar road here in covington -- is that the neighborhood where we are right now? i think its co...

Police officer ors law enforcement agents out there, he faces no additional penalty. and i think we need to recognize that there are violent criminals who will do whatever they need to do to get out of prison especially the ones who have nothing to lose. >> that point that you just made had god forbid these two killed somebody while they were on the run, the two people who were accomplices of theirs could have been held responsible for murder and they were not. now the question is the death pena...

Able to cook food in his own cell and watching television work in a tailor shop and having relationships with a civilian employee who worked in that tailor shop who is facing charges of aiding enabetting these two mens escape. he had a good life behind bars at clinton. he wont get that kind of life behind bars when hes returned to a maximum security facility after treatment of his injury. >> judge jeanine pirro joins us on the phone. were talking about how this guy has nothing to lose. he certai...

>> i dont think so. i think at that particular point, the authorities knew that they had to take her into custody. that if theyd had left her out in that community area, something else might have happened. >> well, what about the fact that, you know, youve got these two prison guards, okay, palmer and joyce mitchell. theyre both arrests. but they assisted the escapees. as someone who has investigated prison breaks as you have, is ther bigger problem at this so-called maximum security prison? >> ...

>> what about the fact he shot this .20 gauge at the camper that was being pulled by a trailer? i mean, what did he expect to accomplish with that? >> i know theyve called it an attempted carjacking. could have very well been. i think that comes right just down to the desperation that he was in at that point in time. i think he realized he had to get out of that area. law enforcement was getting close, and basically when he fired that shot, that was the beginning of the end for him. >> all right...

Guards, the other guards. theres a lot going on in a prison. i lived in a prison for ten years, maximum security prison for 11 years and not going to be much going on now that, you know, that doesnt go on. yes. they used to bring in drugs and they would bring in cell phones and liquor and open doors for us to get to places so we can make wine in prison. theres a whole -- >> making wine in prison? oh, my gosh. >> they make wine, make wipe. i mean, you know, i often talk about that in my program. ...

That every corrections personnel goes through the academy reads, its called "the games that criminals play." it tells them how the cons con you by simple things like that. i have a problem with my electricity. i can call it, dont fix the maintenance department, here just let me into the catwalk. oh, by the way would you like a cup of coffee while youre waiting? thats the game. >> since when do these guys get a hot plate and hamburger meat delivered so they can cook it in their cell? when i was i...

They dont have a plan b or c that is working for them. so going to cabin to cabin, we could all come up with that. he is making it up minute by minute day by day. but if he does find a radio in one of these cabins and hears on the news its very likely he knows whats happened to his buddy. he has got to make some decisions. hes got to either pick up his pace and try to get to the canadian border and get across or just continue to lay low and hope that if he can bide his time, i think hes figuring...