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Aside from getting caught, i dont regret it one bit. id do it again tomorrow if i could. im 35 years old now. hopefully if everything goes the way i hope it goes, ill get my case overturned, ill write a book and make a movie and become a millionaire. coming up -- >> im in here for causing trouble, i cut myself and stuff like that. >> an inmate struggles with self-mutilation. >> i was on razors but they put me on razor restriction. i find stuff in here like staples and plastic.

Else? promise? okay. and then once you leave time-out -- you heard, once hes calm -- >> in about ten minutes im going to send him -- >> let him come down, and then ill give him some one-on-one. ill see you in a little bit, okay? all right. >> randall sawyer is the charge nurse in pendletons medical unit. here, staff sees more than 150 offenders a day for everything from daily med distribution to serious offender battery. self-cutting is also no surprise. >> a lot of them will cut on themselves f...

>> of all the offenders behind bars at pendleton juvenile, 19-year-old jacob shauntee is one of the most perplexing for staff. >> every time staff does something, you dont agree with it, this is what you do, you cut or tie or something, dont you? every time. because you just want everything to be fair, right? sorry, buddy. >> get this one right here on top. >> hes done it before, and its shocking. his nail bed is purple. thats pretty bad. like i said, hes done it before. >> just two weeks ago, o...

>> youre communicating things are not okay for yourself. >> if i dont cut myself at least once a week im not right. >> some people here think theres nothing good in them at all, that theyve messed up totally and theyre totally worthless. >> i know the problems i have need to be fixed. ive got a 6-year-old daughter now. how am i going to explain to her when daddy getting upset he cuts and burns himself? >> inmates deemed not to be a threat to others are assigned to wabashs residential treatment u...

Penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars. he spent the last two years as cell house 220 also known as the hole. >> this is your maximum security unit inside of a maximum security prison. heres where we house all the inmates that couldnt be handled at another institution or couldnt be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> during his time in prison and especially in the hole, murray has found a coping device in self-mutilation. >> ive been in h...

Get in the shu. >> one such action that gets inmates sent to the shu is self-mutilation. >> i did that scar about ten years ago. i got it from the ankle all the way up to the hip bone, all the way down to the bone and i cut across sideways so the surgeons had to take about 12 hours to sew me up. you got seven layers of skin you got to go through before you get to the bone. and when youre going through one of them phases, you dont even feel the pain. you dont even know youre doing it. >> joe carr...

Participate in the health care exchange. i love talking chairs. as red eye regular and kevin williamson puts it, quote, if smoking is a condition, then drug addiction is a condition, self mutilation is a condition, a pension for base jumping is a condition, juggling amp pules o sif l syphilus, practically anything qualifies as a condition under such a plastic understanding. wood chucks are just like celebrities. >> that looked like you in the green room. >> thats right, but it wasnt ice cream....

Gravel road which the cops rolled up on me, which was a bad deal. >> moon had made it all the way to the southern tip of illinois before he was captured, a distance of almost 400 miles. >> the police didnt know who i was to start with. when i gave them an alias and wrote me a ticket for driving the vehicle with the wrong plates and alluding an officer. if i had $200 i could have bonded out. but i had my -- they found out who i was eventually. aside from getting caught, i dont regret it one bit. ...

Just a lot of crazy stuff, you know. i call it bugs. always somebody bugging out, always somebody causing trouble in the cell house. its hard. its really hard. they got me on a lot of medication. >> inmates in cell house 220 get an hour of recreation in the morning and a ten-minute shower several times a week. >> one of the worst things in this cell house is the compound day-to-day events, typical stress incidences that add up. and some of the things youre subject to, stabbings, hangings, self-m...

A millionaire. coming up -- >> im in here for causing trouble, i cut myself and stuff like that. >> an inmate struggles with self-mutilation. >> i was on razors but they put me on razor restriction. i find stuff in here like staples and plastic.