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You know what i mean? >> stone, who was convicted of attempted murder, won't be eligible for parole for another 25 years. he could spend the rest of his life in prison but he says his workout is designed to prepare him, just in case he's released. >> rotate around like i'm working on a loading dock or something. call it a workers' workout. that way if i do get out, job ain't going to kill me. i'm all ready for it. plus when you get to be my age, you got to stay in shape. that way, when the guys half my age want to mess with the old man, it ain't my fault. >> there is always a new guy or two ar...

14-foot fence covered with razor ribbon. shaker alarm on the motion detector. motion detector in between the fences. we think our perimeter is very, very secure for us. >> security is tight inside the perimeter as well. especially in the secured confinement unit which houses the prison's most violent and disruptive inmates. today internal affairs investigator frank littlejohn has been called to the unit to investigate a report that possible escape paraphernalia has been found inside a cell. >> last night an officer had looked inside of a cell and observed a sculpture object like a, we refer to...

>> let me give you a quick look around my cell. let me show you what's going on with my cell. this is my bed here, you know, what i sleep on. this is my cellie rack right above me. this is where another man sleeps. understand? out here to the left is my window. that my window. that's the gate that teases me with freedom. and right there is the highway, i think. see the cars going by, going places i can't go. you feel me? so just trying to paint a picture for you so you can understand what i'm going through. >> carlton wright's picture will change very little in the next 24 years. that's when h...

After graduating from one of the police's educational programs, gaskill is about to leave the housing unit to spend 60 days in confinement with inmate-made alcohol. >> the sanctions i imposed for making the intoxicants were a written reprimand do not make or possess intoxicants. decredit from credit class one to credit class two and 60 days disciplinary seg. there is administrative segregation. >> although the confinement unit is an eighth of a mile away for security purposes all inmates transferred there have to be escorted by two officers and transported by van. >> 60 days is the beginning o...

And the community, obviously, is happy to have someone like him off the streets. as a father and member of the community, it's difficult to keep that separation between my professional and personal self. i try to focus on the fact that he is not a management problem. he's actually, i'll use the term, he's a model confinement to me. never gives us any problems and does everything asked of him. the requirements of my profession is to treat him no differently than i would a petty thief and that takes practice. it really does. >> morris was arrested when he was 16 and has been at the jail for thre...