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Visits. so every -- katie: how did that work? not to get too personal. you would go and visit and they would say heres a place you can go? >> you know what, katie, you go to prison, basically. there are trailers on the prison grounds. so i would have to leave -- if once i went in, it was 72 hours. and once i went in, there was no leaving unless i didnt come back. i couldnt go make a phone call. i couldnt go to work. so i had to sort of fix my life so i could go away for 72 hours without anyone b...

On one busy downtown street is a flashpoint of warsaws volatile past, mokotow prison. >> been to over 20 american prisons. theyre usually located in remote areas far from cities for security reasons. so were on these busy warsaw streets and we turn and these massive blue doors open up and we enter into this facility. and when we were inside and i was standing on prison grounds, i would look up and see apartment buildings surrounding us, businesses. >> the prison was built in 1904. it used to be ...

Institutional discipline. im going to recommend that you do the balance on your sentence. thank you, have a good day. >> culbertsons parole has been denied. >> so in other words, you got to serve two more years? >> um-hum. >> basically, wheres -- >> im sorry, its okay. >> it aint. i need to talk to the warden about them not -- >> stop, stop. >> please. please. >> you dont have to do anything. >> okay. >> go. >> parole hearings are not considered opportunities to visit. once the hearing is over, ...

>> while de completes his end of the process, for his wife, its just beginning. because conjugal visits are sometimes used as opportunities to smuggle contraband into corcoran officer must do a shore owe search of everything the family brings in. >> put all of the containers in sheer plastic so its visible. we look through it, especially if theyve been opened, make sure there is nothing secreted inside. >> almost time to go. i almost feel like an inmate myself being here. you cant come outside a...

A lapse of judgment. a crime is committed. it can result in years behind bars, and regaining freedom can seem impossible. >> we have a lot of freedom out here, you know. we have everything that a person would have at home. >> golden barnett, and nine fellow inmates share creature comforts that dont exist inside the castle. theyve become minimum-security inmates who live in a house on the prison grounds. >> trust is what i lost to society. to trust me in society. so this is a start, and its a gre...

For organizations or individuals of organizations. at one time he and his cellmate had 22 shanks hidden in their light fixture. >> brandon siverly would craft knives out of nearly any object he found on prison grounds. >> if it was big enough to put in your hand with a little left over, it was big enough to be sharpened into a weapon. usually i would just keep it on me because its no good if its hidden somewhere. if somebody comes on to you and [ bleep ], you aint got it on you, you cant tell hi...

>> one inmate in particular at wabash has developed a reputation for his prolific production of homemade weapons. >> brandon siverly has been in possession of multiple weapons multiple different times, which has eventually landed him in administrative segregation. not only does he make the weapons, but he also stores them for organizations or individuals of multiple organizations. at one time he and his cellmate had 22 shanks hidden in their light fixture. >> brandon siverly would craft knives o...

After a phone call from a local citizen about a possible escaped inmate, the c.o.s of san quentin have snapped into action. >> take your ass upstairs. >> inside the prison, all inmates have been locked up and the officers have done a prison-wide recount. prison officials have also been dispatched to canvass the area around san quentin. >> its possible that the citizen saw what they saw, could have maybe been two teenagers or something that live on grounds, prison grounds that were hopping the fe...

Tracy found herself outside the prison with a new responsibility. >> i was entertaining the children by sort of running around the car with alexi and having her chase me around. >> but powell soon got some unexpected help. >> two dogs appeared out of nowhere. they came up to the vehicle where we were standing by. they let us pet them and got really comfortable around the kids. >> looks hike someone else wants to come home with you guys, too. >> the kids liked the dog so they kind of stuck around...

And a shorter commute. >> i hear a lot of people say they dont want to move here because they never leave the prison. well, i come home and im home. >> not everyone in the family is so excited about living inside a state penitentiary. in fact, the whole idea makes marthas son, chris, pretty nervous. >> its kind of scary because they could break out and come and sneak in. i just think about it sometimes. >> actually, its very safe. its like a real nice -- just a good neighborhood. everybody is a ...