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This is not my home here. i'm not calling this my home. my home is with my children. >> an unfortunate fact of life at valley state is 85% of these women are mothers. they display their photos on cell walls or lockers. >> this is hunter and sierra. >> these are my girls. i love them so much. >> one of the more sobering differences between men and women's prisons is that many of the inmates who end up here never see their loved ones again. >> in the women's case they're very frequently abandoned. there are not men in their lives that cared about them enough to stay with them during this difficu...

With nonlife threatening injuries. the department of corrections determined based on the facts that there would be a lock down, a lock down of the block that included the inmates involved in the brawl, in the fight. that lock down was done, and they tell me that on a general basis, they determine whether a lock down of a prison occurs based on the facts of the actual situation. now, this is in response to a lot of reporting saying that if there had been a full lock down and search of all the cells, that they would have found with richard matt and david sweat the holes they were carving in thei...

Of david sweat's story can authorities really believe? >> they have to you know sort of weave through that. they just don't know. they know he is a convicted cop killer. they know he's escaped from prison. but they are listening to what he has to say. they want to hear what he has to say and he certainly is talking quite a bit from his hospital bed. what he has led authorities to certainly believe is that it was much easier to break out of this place than anyone could have imagined. after two days of questioning david sweat in a lockdown section of albany medical center investigators say they ...

Are allowed to have and what they are not allowed to have. what they are allowed to have on their cell bars, cell doors, on the walls, anything like that. so when you first walk in a cell you're looking for compliance with those basic rules and you're looking for any possibility of contraband and where the contraband can be held. typically, you don't really allow anything on the cell walls because the reason people put up large pictures on a cell wall is to hide a hole that they have made in the wall behind the picture. so you don't want these pictures on the wall. when you have something cove...

There were too many homes. she decide they decided they had would escape through a different manhole the following night. sweat said the two used nothing more than hacksaws. no power tools to cut their way out. these are some stunning new details if, of course i have to emphasize that sweat is telling the truth. >> reporter: if. you have to under score that. we're talking about a convicted cop killer a guy who escaped from prison. he doesn't have a lot to lose. he is talking from his hospital bed. what he is saying is that it was certainly much easier to break out than you might think. after t...