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We get together. we have a nacho slam and make a cake. we say its a celebration. i say its to realize we wasted another month in here. its something to look forward to. >> who makes the cake? >> my buddy kamikaze makes the cake. he is serving 30 years for methamphetamine. >> he is no ordinary cook. among wabash inmates hes a culinary genius, turning snack food into something special. but doing a prior prison term he learned to be a difficult sort of cook. >> i went around to other people who wer...

Heres whats happening this hour. the all-clear was given tuesday in north dakota, the scene of a fiery cargo train rerailment. fire officials are investigating the incident. no one was injured. and theres more snow headed to the midwest and northeastern u.s. snow is already falling in the rockies and northern plains, which will make its way eastward. some areas could see more than 8 inches this week. have a great new year. now back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion...

During our stay at the penitentiary of new mexico, our producer conducted an interview with a serial rapist, who would soon be completing his prison term and returning to society. the inmate agreed to the interview on the condition of anonymity. what he had to say is disturbing, but provides a rare insight into the mind of a serial rapist. >> after performing the rapes, the physical rapes, i would literally scare these women to death. what i would do is go into a victims purse, i would find addr...

Hell keep coming back. >> all right. take it easy. >> yeah, thanks. >> a few days later, hudson learned he will not be returning to the jail anytime soon. his judge has given him a sentence of 1.5 to 15 years in prison for felonious exalt. >> ive been here going on almost four months. its stressful, depressing. its a relief when you know what youve got to do and you can start planning things. you know? >> hudson will soon be transferred to state prison. he has had well over 100 jail stay, and th...

>> here, its colorado state penitentiary. and this time estrada is in for murder, a crime he committed after being released from his first prison term. >> in here, you take things a lot more serious. somebody calls you a punk, somebody calls you a bitch, someone says im going to kill you, in here that means, you know, you hold people to that word -- to them words, man. when i got out and guys were saying that about me, im going to kill john, im going to do this to him. the first thing in my mind...

>> here, its colorado state penitentiary. and this time estrada is in for murder, a crime he committed after being released from his first prison term. >> in here, you take things a lot more serious. somebody calls you a punk, somebody calls you a bitch, someone says im going to kill you, in here that means, you know, you hold people to that word -- to them words, man. when i got out and guys were saying that about me, im going to kill john, im going to do this to him. the first thing in my mind...

Someone who is a loyal soldier, someone who has put in work for peni, some one who has proven their right to be there. >> a lot of years in those tattoos, a lot of work, too. >> many, many man hours. many man hours. >> james first went to prison at age 18 on a robbery charge and then became initiated in the gang. >> i always wanted to do well and succeed to make my home boys proud of me, because theyre like family. >> after being released from prison on the robbery charge, james was back in, a y...

Someone who has put in work for peni, some one who has proven their right to be there. >> a lot of years in those tattoos, a lot of work, too. >> many, many man hours. many man hours. >> james first went to prison at age 18 on a robbery charge and then became initiated in the gang. >> i always wanted to do well and succeed to make my home boys proud of me, because theyre like family. >> after being released from prison on the robbery charge, james was back in, a year and a half later for assault...

In office. he commuted, cut short a prison sentence. all of them for crack cocaine offenses. those offenses would actually bring much lighter sentences were they adjudicated today. youre probably wondering what? is that such a good thing. lets talk about why this is significant. before something called the fair sentencing act came into being in 2010, someone caught with five grams of crack got the same mandatory prison term of someone who was caught with 500 grams of cocaine. people caught with ...

Him violent in the past. and outrage over a texas judges decision allowing a 16-year-old to avoid a lengthy prison term after killing four people while driving drunk. part of the defense, the teenagers rich and permissive parents made him think he could get away with anything. im tamron hall. the news nation is following the vote on the bipartisan budget deal set to happen in just a few hours from now. right now the house is in the midst of several preliminary votes on the murray-ryan agreem...