Page 49 - Confinement Unit News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

This is my bed right here. you know what i mean? this is my cellie rack and his bed where another grown ass man sleeps at, you understand? out here to my left is my window. and this is my window, and that is the gate teasing me with freedom. right there is a highway i think. you see the cars going by, and going places that i can't go. you feel me? so i'm trying to paint a picture for you so you can understand what i'm going there. >> carlton wright's picture will change very little in the next 24 years, when he is eligible on the 50-year sentence for robbery, bodily injury and criminal confine...

Manner. i remember. >> well, i got a tame tongue, not an untame tongue. seriously. >> you think highly of yourself, do you know that? >> that's the difference, though. that's the difference. >> i would really like to be able to see christopher trotter go back to general population, because of the length of time he has been in segregation. but should he go? i'm so thankful i'm not making that decision. >> bottom line here is where we're at. it is up to me now to make that recommendation. okay. like i said, some staff here in this unit have recommended you be released. some haven't. >> i'd like ...

For some it's just a short walk from a special unit at wabash for minors who have been convicted as adults. the adult maximum security prison. miles folsom has been in the youth unit for the past two years. but today is his 18th birthday. and his first day in the big house. he is serving 36 years for armed robbery, criminal confinement

Considered to be the most dangerous and disruptive are housed in the secured confinement unit. most inmates have assaulted staff or other offenders and are in windowless single man cells 23 hours a day. they take their meals alone and phone calls made once a week are made from the isolation of their cells. >> in this confinement unit we have to deliver all of their services. i try to make contact with every one of my offenders at least once a week. that's all 144 of them. >> case manager beverly gillmore is the primary link to the rest of the world for the inmates. >> i came from the south. i ...

>> but change is on the horizon. 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 excorted by two officers and transported by v...