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He's been in he's received a few conduct reports, nothing severe. i had heard that he has a mouth on him and that he's pretty disrespectful towards staff and other offenders. >> that's the only option? i can't take another one? >> no. >> so what was the point of seeing -- there was no point of really seeing it, then, right? >> pretty much. >> you don't like it? >> this is wabash, man. they do what they want to do. >> i'm not like a lot of inmates. i obey the rules here, you know, but sometimes they really want you to be compliant, you know, like puppets. >> don't do this, don't do that. do it ...

>> joshua coffey has served more than four years of his six-year sentence at the wabash valley correctional facility. his job in the kitchen helps him stay focused and out of trouble. >> that's crazy. i came in at 4:30 this morning, and i'll leave about 5:30. so i work 13 hours. >> stacking the line! >> the reason i do it is to get out of my cell, you know, come down here, get a little freedom. you know, eat a little better. the food that they serve doesn't taste bad, but its appeal is horrible. some of the food they serve us looks like cat food. and i'm not even joking. i swear, if you put th...

>> wright's aggressive behavior soon created problems with other inmates. >> i'm not looking for trouble, but at the same time, i'm definitely not ducking them either. you feel me? you know, this is the penitentiary. you've got to stand tall, ten toes down. you know what i mean? you can't take no losses. you know what i mean? it's the wrong place to be a bitch. you feeling me? it's the pressure. you feeling me? you get killed for stealing on the streets, so why not in prison? >> as wright continued his tirade, staff became concerned it would lead to a fight and sanctioned wright for taking mat...

But that's what i'm doing, man. i'm surviving. i've got too much time to start crumbling now. >> gerald ritchie is also in one of the confinement units, and he's not happy about it. >> it's horrible. they had punishment in mind when they built this place. that's a fact. let's make these guys understand that, hey, if you come to prison this is how you're going to live. this is how you're going to live and we're going to take these rules to the nth degree. >> ritchie says that even though he's in confinement for being one of three white inmates caught assaulting a black inmate, the fight was not...

Half black, the battle he had to fight to get just where he's at, i figured it was a bold statement. >> while siverly might respect obama's battles, he is firm and he won't help black inmates in wabash with theirs. >> i'm not racist, but then again, i know where the lines are in here. so i know that if something goes down, just because i'm not racist doesn't mean if there's a race riot that they're not going to stab me too. i'm not going to arm a black so that a race riot can pop off at any time and all the blacks in the dorms got a knife and, you know, one or two white people's got a knife, s...