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An inmate who killed a corrections officer fights to be freed from 16 years of solitary confinement; convicts struggle to parent their children from prison....
>> let's go. >> be right with you, ma'am. >> come on, billy, run to me. >> don't come back. >> that's -- >> i don't want to see you any more. >> no, i ain't coming back. [ laughter ] >> i'm going to do the honors. >> man. >> cigarettes in the car. >> can't have it now. >> i don't care. >> take a picture. >> finally. all right, everybody in. >> while jones savers his first moments of freedom, back inside
Hold services at some prisons. wabash has banned such gatherings. >> the gang members are using their meetings to have their gang meetings within the service itself. >> murray has decided to file a grievance to appeal the ban. >> it is not a gang, it does not promote gang mentality or any criminal elements at all. it's a religion based on the virtue and knowledge. >> the ban hasn't stopped murray from recruiting other members. >> marcus has been teaching us about what the hammer means, what the different gods and goddesses are.
On somebody. and that's not me. >> periodically, mcquay files requests to be moved back to general population, where he would have considerably more privileges. >> i still believe that leonard mcquay has an ulterior motive. >> the first person he needs to win over is the administrative segregation case manager. >> we all get along with leonard, he is very, very likeable. very caring, so friendly, but he's so overly friendly. it's so vague. it's not for real. >> since coming to wabash, mcquay has been involved in several incidents that have enforced his violent reputation. >> a few years ago, m...
Over the world, five times a day. >> he's been in administrative segregation at wabash's secured confinement unit. >> hold the koran up, read this every day. mcquay says his koran has helped him grow spiritually, the other books in his cell have helped him grow physically. >> every day i do me some curls. i do these. i do shrugs. back arms like this. like this. probably about 55 or 60 pounds. >> mcquay has spent years trying to earn his way back into general population. but his history as a violent