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Will not allow anybody else to disrespect them. like what happened six months before. >> when you go into a prison, you have one thing that is not taken from you, your dignity, your respect. you have to stand up for yourself, or youre going to become a greater victim. >> the ravaged yard is eventually cleaned up, but the psychological carnage still haunts those who were there. >> people were walking around really depressed because they were still looking, smelling, seeing how much human sufferin...

Do something for me. you know im innocent. why am i here? why have i spent six years behind this prison wall for something i didnt do. if youre real, you need to show yourself to me. >> a short time later, lowery gets a call from the wardens office. hes moving out of the maximum security prison. >> i went from maximum all the way to the lowest custody. im in minimum. and theyre going, were going to ship you out to what they call the farm. >> with minimum security comes the freedom to occasionall...

Really depressed because they were still looking, smelling, seeing how much human suffering took place that day. it did affect us. it affected us psychologically and emotionally. coming up, jailbreak. two women ride under a bus in a daring escape. >> i could arent believe what i was seeing. and later inmates run free when a prison wall comes crumbling down. >> nobody has seen anything like that before. >> when "caught on camera: inmates and outlaws" continues. can a business have a mind? a s...

Fall of communism in 1989, it housed a countless number. of freedom fighters, many of whom were tortured and killed in mass executions. the monument on the prison wall honors the victims. >> there are probably over 1,000 people who had been tortured and executed at this prison during the various regimes. there were a number of staff members who made a comment to me that they felt theyve seen ghosts there, they have felt ghosts there, that theres just a weight of what has transpired at that parti...

The monument on the prison wall honors the victims. >> there are probably over 1,000 people who had been tortured and execed at this prison duri the various regimes. there were a number of staff members who made a comment to me that they felt theyve seen ghosts there, they have felt ghosts there, that theres just a weight of what has transpired at that particular prison. >> today, mokotow houses prisoners because of their crimes instead of their beliefs. it is a maximum security prison with more...

I think for a lot of victims in this case the idea that he would never take a breath again outside of a prison wall, the idea that their particular crime was captured in that sentence, i think theres a feeling of justice amongst them. >> i understand physically how the defense table, prosecutors tables are set up in that courtroom but did you ever get the opportunity to look him in the eye and if you did what did you think and what did you feel? >> i did. thats a great question. through much of ...

>> people were walking around really depressed because they were still looking, smelling, seeing how much human suffering took place that day. it did affect us. it affected us psychologically and emotionally. coming up, jailbreak. two women ride under a bus in a daring escape. >> couldnt believe what i was seeing. and later inmates run free when a prison wall comes crumbling down. >> nobody has seen anything like that before. >> when "caught on camera: inmates and outlaws" continues. (vo) af...

Determining exactly what happened. >> what happened would take time to piece together. all authorities knew at this point was that at 5:30 a.m. on saturday, june 6th, routine bed checks turned up only lumps of clothing under the sheets. the two prisoners were missing. >> you this werent actual dummies, but they were -- they had clothing on, and it looked like people were sleeping in the bunks with a sweat shirt hoodie on. >> how could they have disappeared? after all, this is a maximum security ...

Emerged. not over the prison wall but underneath. >> the search revealed there was a hole cut out through the back of the cell through which they escaped. >> reporter: a hole in the back of the cell. this is what it looked like. the men cut their way right through cell wall and steel that was a quarter inch thick. the he escapees, the prisoners their first taste freedom in years when they popped out of that manhole right there. this is the closest that were allowed to get to it. and it was a pre...

Wheelbarrow. they had a rail system developed two little cars and motorcycle hooked to a third car. they would pile the dirt on those cars as they dug into the tunnel, the air conditioned, lighted tunnel. they would bring the dirt out, bucket by bucket. wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow. they had a power wench to lift the buckets and then to lift out the 2,000 tons or more of dirt. they dug not only a mile long tunnel from that property that they had acquired under the prison wall, but they managed to ...