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>> today some female inmates are headed to a public library to shovel snow. >> the classification process to get into the community program is very strict. you can't have escape charges, parole violations, you know, fighting while you're in here. >> the program's director heather mcneil has known archer for years. >> cindy archer i've known since 1991 when i first started. she's been in and out. she was in here with her mother in '91. we're almost working together, which is kind of scary. >> can we have a cigarette together? >> no, we cannot. >> oh, please. i'm kidding. i'm kidding. >> it's no...

In from sid blumenthal -- >> sid blumenthal was not a government employee or official. it would be like you sending me something, jake. if i thought it had some interest to it, i might forward it onto somebody. but i would not expect you to be in a position to classify anything because you were not in that classification process. neither was he. so he sent me stuff that he heard from people. you know, he's an old journalist and thought it was of interest. some i sent on, some i didn't. i kind of made the judgment at the time. it was not in the category of anything that could be classified beca...

How much time do i have? >> some inmates struggle with how to serve time, a problem steven robbins has mastered. >> art is my sanity and my salvation. i mean, that's what keeps me stable. this is all paint. this is not acrylics. you have to let this dry. build up. that's how i do it. i don't try to put too much of a buildup on the paint because i want to control it. creativity, i got you, no problem. >> as one of the prison's more senior residents, robbins also sees himself as a bit of a father figure to some of the new inmates, as austin knight will soon discover. >> knight? >> yeah? >> ready...

Now, you've dealt with sensitive classified information all the time in your years at the pentagon. you're a retired u.s. admiral. aren't there different standards for different agencies, with you can classify it secret, another agency thinking it's not secret. what is your experience on this? >> the classification process is not binary. it's not black and white. sometimes information is classified inside an agency, sometimes outside the agency and everybody treats them accordingly. i can tell you that none of the e-mail traffic that we've been talking about was marked in a classified way at t...

Brushy mountain correctional complex serves as the initial intake center for new and returning prisoners throughout eastern tennessee. as many as 150 inmates per month arrive from county jail soon after sentencing. >> we might have a problem. >> whether they will stay at brushy mountain or be transferred to another state prison depends on the results of a classification process required of each inmate upon arrival. >> when we receive people from the county jail, we generally receive no records. we don't know who we've got, what they're capable of, whether or not they are going to need a lot of...