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An inmate. its no privacy at all. and i got to keep the baby in the hospital room with me for 36 hours. 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, s...

Was serving a 20-year sentence for assault and robbery and had been at the center of numerous conflicts at holman. though his violent behavior had tapered off, he had just been assigned to anger management after a disciplinary write-up for arguing with another inmate. >> how many disciplinaries? >> 57. >> how did that happen? >> its a [ bleep ] jungle. its a jungle. its been a jungle my whole 11 years. know what im saying. so, people say, you cant blame other people for what you do, cant blame o...

Every week. so, that tugged at my heart, too, and i just began praying for the person that i needed to minister to. its been a really neat transition just seeing jennifer from one point to now. its just a totally different person. >> watching these two women bring caden into the prison and seeing the love they had for both caden and jennifer was truly inspirational. and then terry, taking full responsibility for this child, knowing that she was going to give the child back to jennifer when she g...

Violence, it was rooted in compassion. and it involved an inmate named pizzaman. >> i would see him in the gas station and supermarket. people would say, 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 over the news was because on hal...

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 local tour buses. but once a week another bus, one nobody willingly rides, passes through the gates of the santa rosa correctional institution, floridas toughest maximum security prison. >> we get between 40 to 70 inmates a w...

Im still in the bat cave. you know what i mean? >> stone, who was convicted of attempted murder, wont be eligible for parole for another 25 years. 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...

>> there is violence in here unheard of. but it was right up my alley. >> this is no way to spend your life. >> in medieval times, law breakers were punished in unspeakably cruel ways, so perhaps it was no accident that the architect who designed the kentucky state penitentiary more than a century ago, built a structure that resembles a castle where dungeons might have served as torture chambers. for even the most hardened criminals in kentucky today, the first sight of the prison can be overwhe...

And, unfortunately, theyve said it to themselves many times. but when they get out of an institutional setting like the maximum security prison that were in today, there is a true barrier in front of them. >> to cut down on the number of offenders who end up back behind bars, the state of indiana has mandated an intensive re-entry program. >> re-entry really is about preparing individuals to return to their community. ive had offenders that were the toughest of convicts inside a system and their...

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 mean for you? >> a death sentence. >> even with death looming over him, maxi found comfort in the support and camaraderie of his fellow inmate. >> him being around us, i feel like this is what gives him hope. even if he knows hes dying, he knows that theres not much the medical people can do. >> more than a...

Premature end. >> i fell into a light coma friday afternoon. i dont remember, you know, 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 off of dying like to give me cpr if i lose it again because before i told them i didnt want them to do that. >> you told them do not resuscitate you. >> but now i had it changed at the hospital, on the street and in here. >> m...