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Housed in the secured confinement unit. most inmates have assaulted staff or other offenders and are now held inside windowless single-man cells 23 hours a day. they take their meals alone and even phone calls, which are allowed once a week, are made from the isolation of their cells. >> in this confinement unit we have to deliver all of their services. i try to make contact with every one of my offenders at least once a week. thats all 144 of them. >> case manager beverly gillmore is the primar...

Different games. -- different gangs. so the department adopted a policy to have assigned seating to where the staff controlled the flow of the offender population in the dining hall. >> as the inmates come in, were going to have them sit two rows at a time. once they fill up those two rows, were going to step back and give them an additional two rows to sit down. i think its a little easier because we can keep them all in front of us. before they would be behind us, coming in and out, back and f...

Staff or other offenders and are in windowless single man cells 23 hours a day. they take their meals alone and phone calls made once a week are made from the isolation of their cells. >> in this confinement unit we have to deliver all of their services. i try to make contact with every one of my offenders at least once a week. thats all 144 of them. >> case manager beverly gillmore is the primary link to the rest of the world for the inmates. >> i came from the south. i was so protected and so ...

Housed in the secured confinement unit. most inmates have assaulted staff or other offenders and are in windowless single man cells 23 hours a day. they take their meals alone and phone calls made once a week are made from the isolation of their cells. >> in this confinement unit we have to deliver all of their services. i try to make contact with every one of my offenders at least once a week. thats all 144 of them. >> case manager beverly gillmore is the primary link to the rest of the world f...

Together. ive taken all that stuff away. >> what theyre doing, its just going to become a boiling pot. youre just going to boil this [ bleep ] bought and eventually its going to blow. it happens. this is prison. >> one of the most noticeable changes occurred in the dining hall. at most of the other prisons profiled on "lockup," inmates sit wherever they want. in the dining hall. but limon has placed strict controls on seating. >> lot seating was designed because we had offenders designating them...

When i came here. and when i started learning more about the needs of offender population i thought why cant i be an advocate for them? on a daily basis they will send letters to me or notes requesting information, maybe complaining, or some of them just telling me have a nice day miss gilmore. and thats nice. because its better than getting cussed out. >> one of gilmores inmates is lukuman aderibigbe. >> ill say, hey, lukuman, are you okay, mon? and hell go, oh, miss gilmore, you okay, mon? i e...

And then once they get here, all the excitement starts. >> every week, dozens of new inmates arrive at limon correctional facility. a level 4 prison located on the barren plains of eastern colorado. [ livestock moos ] the prison sits on 320 acres and houses inmates in six different living units. >> the type of offenders that we have at limon are violent offenders. 64% violent. 244 are serving a life sentence. limon has had a reputation of being a violent prison amongst the offender population. t...

>> lot seating was designed because we had offenders designating them for race or different gangs. so the department adopted a policy to have assigned seating to where the staff controlled the flow of the offender population in the dining hall. >> as the inmates come in, were going to have them sit two rows at a time. once they fill up those two rows, were going to step back and give them an additional two rows to sit down. i think its a little easier because we can keep them all in front of us....

So the department adopted a policy to have assigned seating to where the staff controlled the flow of the offender population in the dining hall. >> as the inmates come in, were going to have them sit two rows at a time. once they fill up those two rows, were going to step back and give them an additional two rows to sit down. i think its a little easier because we can keep them all in front of us. before they would be behind us, coming in and out, back and forth. its just easier for us to keep ...

Of offender population. >> getting back to the prison records, officials say they number in the thousands so its going to be extensive and take a while. >> thanks very much. some breaking news now here on "studio b." fox news has confirmed new court documents show the parents of trayvon martin have settled a wrongful death lawsuit reportedly worth a million does. the homeowner association is said to have played the claim out. you recall martin died of a gunshot wound a little more than a year ...