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Zabala is most obvious. >> you walk out into this courtyard that was beautiful. they had this very large fountain. and i was a little shocked, turned my head and saw peacocks. the further we got on to the prison grounds, everywhere you look there were birds. >> then you look a little closer and you see flowers. beautiful flowers in bloom. and gardening. inmates planting other plants. laundry hanging out. and it is almost soothing when you walk through there. >> chickens, peacocks, all these bird...

Centuries. in one busy downtown street is a flash point of warsaws volatile past. the prison. >> youve 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. ...

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...

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...

>> 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 correctional officer. so, if somebody escapes, theyre really not going to run here. theyre going to run somewhere else. >> yay. look at that big smile. >> for inmates, the feeling of community can be found in one of the several houses of worship on the prison grounds. ♪ this is the garden chapel. w...

Relationship. we literally have inmates here that have been here for 30 years or more, the entire career of some of our staff. they came in here together. >> whats up, old guy? how you doing? >> as long standing as some of these relationships may be, theres always a steady flow of newcomers. among inmates and staff alike. michele ellis is a rookie officer in training. this is her second week working on prison grounds. >> my husband, you know, was kind of skeptical at first. i think he knows this...

It is a maximum security setting. and a lot of them are here for a very, very long time. and its a more mature level of relationship. we literally have inmates here that have been here for 30 years or more, the entire career of some of our staff. they came in here together. >> whats up, old guy? how you doing? >> as long standing as some of these relationships may be, theres always a steady flow of newcomers. among inmates and staff alike. michele ellis is a rookie officer in training. this is h...

Deeper," will this be a motivating factor in some sense for those advocacy groups out there that have maintains this is just a miscarriage of justice? what do those words, what will they mean to those groups and people who have followed this, ben? >> you know, the reality is that this affirms what many have come to believe, which is that, you know, it is time for us to question the death penalty in a way thats final. weve seen it abolished in three states the last two years, illinois, new jersey...

Groups out there that have maintained that this is just a miscarriage of justice? what are those words? what will they really mean to the groups and people who have followed this? >> you know, the reality is that this just afirms what many have come to believe. and which is that you know, it is time for us to question the death penalty in this country in the way thats final. it is abolished in three states in the past two years. ill illinois, new jersey, new mexico. if we could just abolish it i...

Motivating factor in some sense for those advocacy groups out there that have maintains this is just a miscarriage of justice? what do those words, what will they mean to those groups and people who have followed this, ben? >> you know, the reality is that this affirms what many have come to believe, which is that, you know, it is time for us to question the death penalty in a way thats final. weve seen it abolished in three states the last two years, illinois, new jersey, new mexico. if we can ...