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That is staggering. approximately 65 major institutions in the state of florida, thats major institutions. its not counting all of the work camps and work releases. and the county jails are overflowing with people right now. there is people waiting to come to prison. every day, the reception center, five days a week, buses coming in and out from the county jails. >> 30 miles away from pensacola, in the small town of milton on the florida panhandle lies a compound thats never on the itinerary of ...

He could spend the rest of his life in prison but he says his workout is designed to prepare him, just in case hes released. >> rotate around like im working on a loading dock or something. call it a workers workout. that way if i do get out, job aint going to kill me. im all ready for it. plus when you get to be my age, you got to stay in shape. that way, when the guys half my age want to mess with the old man, it aint my fault. >> there is always a new guy or two arriving on stones unit every ...

>> rotate around like im working on a loading dock or something. call it a workers workout. that way if i do get out, job aint going to kill me. im all ready for it. plus when you get to be my age, you got to stay in shape. that way, when the guys half my age want to mess with the old man, it aint my fault. >> there is always a new guy or two arriving on stones unit every week. for some its just a short walk from a special unit at wabash for minors who have been convicted as adults. the adult ma...

Do something for me. you know im innocent. why am i here? why have i spent six years behind this prison wall for something i didnt do. if youre real you need to show yourself to me. >> a short time later, lowery gets a call from the wardens office. hes moving out of the maximum security prison. >> i went from maximum all the way to the lowest custody. im in minimum. and theyre going, were going to ship you out to what they call the farm. >> with minimum security comes the freedom to occasionally...

And then he was hung. the inmates in the cells could only hear the hanging. they were not allowed to see the hanging. >> hearing but not seeing what happens around you is a fact of prison life that torments prisoners even today. >> its not the feel of being intimidated by another person. its the sounds, the movements, the keys that rattle. the silence at night. the yells, the screams. you watch horror movies? this is a horror movie right here, and we live it every day. >> many of the inmates at ...

The swelling, the nausea, the chronic pain, all reminders that his 60-year sentence at indiana state prison is coming to a premature end. >> i fell into, like, a light coma friday afternoon. i dont remember, you know, but i woke up in the hospital. >> maxi recovered in the hospital and was sent back to prison, but the latest scare prompted some changes. >> this is some paperwork i signed for them to take me off dying, like to give me cpr if i lose it again, because before i told them i dont want...

>> 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 cancer will spread and kill me faster. >> so what does this peen for you? >> a death sentence. >> even with death looming over him...

The time with me, so im pretty blessed. coming up -- >> after the 36 hours they take the baby from you and you just have to hand the baby over and you go straight back to prison. >> the harsh reality of being pregnant in prison. made a commitment to the gulf. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bps also committed to america. we...

I wasnt bothering nobody. >> percy bradley jumped out at me immediately when i first met him. he was a very angry guy and he was very vocal about advocating violence. >> i come to prison when i was 21 years old. im 21 years old, maximum security prison. ive been locked up 30 years and he said he liked me in a gay way. if i let him tell me stuff like that, aint no telling what probably would have happened. so i took a ten-pound weight and i bust his head. you know what im saying? thats what im ta...

>> 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 were extreme actions, because that was part of prison life, that he almost killed a human being because the guy stole his shoes. the irony to me was the fact that terry was i...