Robert Bealer News Today

One prison is their final destination, wabash valley. kids spend their times behind the walls in the wabash unit. kids at wabash rarely leave the unit due to the danger posed by the adult prisoners just outside their door. >> at night when you dont have anything to do that is when it gets to you. you think of all of the king you could have been doing on the outside, everything that you are missing out on. >> the kids incarcerated in indiana did not come in a one size fits all package. colt is a ...

Its a surreal landscape when you meet the young kids serving hard time in americas pris oons. inmates like robert bealer and the juvenile system most of his life, dad killed in front of him, seven family members behind bars. kids like paul gingrich, never even in trouble with the law, suddenly locked up at age 12. now serving 25 years in prison. you cant spend time with these kids and not ask the question. where did it all go wrong? >> growing up, i never really realized the path that i was head...

Robert feeler, its like a second home. >> always been in trouble. always been in juvenile. ive been in placements. i went to vegas with the boot camp. i mean, i always been in trouble. >> bealer landed in prison on charges of battery and threatening to kill a police officer. hes currently in segregation for starting a fight. >> okay, so name off for me all the people in your family who are in prison? >> my brother, my cousin, my brother kenny, my cousin jamaals in g. my uncle williams, hes in --...

Sentence. >> my name is robert bealer. im in wabash valley. im in ccu for a fight. hes at the start of a three-month stint in segregation. >> we was playing cards, got into it and he smacked my face with the cards. so i ran up on him from the back, hit him a couple times. then hes on the ground. i start kicking him. >> so what brought you to wabash in the first place? >> i wanted to see my brother, hes in the juvenile block. so i got into trouble just to come here. >> you got in trouble on the o...

Its a surreal landscape when you meet the young kids serving hard time in americas prisons. inmates like robert bealer and the juvenile system most of his life, dad killed in front of him, seven family members behind bars. kids like paul gingrich, never even in trouble with the law, suddenly locked up at age 12, now serving 25 years in prison. you cant spend time with these kids and not ask the question, where did it all go wrong? >> growing up i never really realized the path that i was headed....