Page 46 - Maximum Security Prison News Today

Where the life and death conflict wasnt rooted in violence, it was rooted in compassion. and it involved an inmate named pizzaman. >> ee seen him in the gas station and supermarket. >> i used to work at a pizza place. thats right. youve the pizza man sort of stuck to me. i got the same tattoo on my chest. >> how did it tick in prison. >> everybody knows me and a lot of people from my town plus it was all over the news, my story, my case, you know. >> the reason john pizzaman maxis face was all o...

Of awareness in percy, and he actually stopped and was realizing how he was being perceived by other people. when percy got moved back into the general population dorm, he almost acted as though it was his choice, but i think he knew it was a demotion, and i think he felt bad about it, so he had to put on this front for the other guys. >> ive been over here before, it aint like i been over here. all these [ bleep ] know me. i been in prison 11 years. this is just another part of prison. im talki...

Special, and it gives us the time to have a little one around and that kind of thing and get to know jennifer and be an encouragement to her as well. >> terry learned about the prison program from karen rowmore, who always felt something for inmates. >> i just felt led to get involved because i just think of somebody in prison alone and, you know, only have 2% of the prisoners actually get visitors every week. so, that tugged at my heart, too, and i just began praying for the person that i neede...

And after the 36 hours, they kind of take the baby from you. thats the hardest part. you just have to hand the baby over and you go straight back to prison. then i went through the whole crying spell for, like, a couple weeks, nothing but crying, crying, crying. >> with we met rose six months later, she was serving a four-year sentence for theft and forgery, but when she first got to prison, she didnt even know she was pregnant. >> while i was in classification which is where you have to be for ...

>> what the [ bleep ] it look like? >> if im ever put in general population im as good as dead. >> but sometimes life has other plans. >> its either him or me at that point. >> this [ bleep ] was real. it was all there was. >> people often ask me if weve ever had a member of our production crew attacked or somehow hurt in a prison. and fortunately, the answer to that is no. security is always at the forefront of our minds. our crews are very experienced and know how to carry themselves in prison...

Id keep getting run over. >> i also want to reiterate the point that if it were not possible to do, it would not be done. it is possible because people do it. there are men in here who have been here for 30 years with no disciplinaries. everybody doesnt react to stress with violence. that is a fact. and you may not agree with it, but it is a fact. >> when we met percy bradley, he was serving a 20-year sentence for assault and robbery and had been at the center of numerous conflicts at holman. th...

Because you first have to say, yes, i have a problem and stop blaming other people for what you have done. thats a huge problem in here. >> percy obviously believed violence was a necessary tool in prison, but the fact was, over the last couple years, he had a clean record. so, he was able to move into the honor dorm, which was the least restrictive housing unit at holman. >> its full of inmates trying to change their life and learn different things, but its all a crock of [ bleep ]. >> tell me ...

So, i had no choice. either i let it go and i let him come back and steal everything i own or i deal with it. in this case, i deal with it. >> what kind of shoes were they? >> oh, they were just $42 pair of nike running shoes. but it didnt matter if this cost $10 or they cost $100. but if nothing else, the coffee alone was enough to do what i did. >> thats the way it is here? >> thats the way it is the way i live it. >> terry was very clear about how his actions were justified even though they w...

Happening here and im still in control. lets go. >> lock it down. all right? >> gordon greg culver placed the prison on lockdown confining every inmate to his cell. >> lock down. we are under a lockdown. >> all right, lockdown, gentlemen. take it in, lets go! >> several days later, the victim was released from the hospital and recovered in the prisons medical unit. >> we tried to get interviews with both the victim of the stabbing as well as the perpetrator of the stabbing. the victim was an ada...

>> i was mad at my boss and things went bad and he lost. he said i was -- he said i just -- >> disgruntled. >> oh, boy, exactly. >> maxi was given a 60-year sentence for murder but after meeting him, we realized he wasnt going to serve much more than the ten years he already had. he wasnt getting paroled. but his time was almost up. >> i got psoriasis of the liver and stomach hernia and they cant give me no treatments. >> why? >> thats what the chief doctor said because if they cut me open the c...