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With. this guy looks like a good candidate. >> but he doesn't play well with others. and so he's -- stays here. >> i've been in a fight in bravo mod. i've been in a fight in charlie mod. i've been in a fight in delta mod. i've been in a fight on the rec yard. >> it very seldom has anything to do with staff but it's other prisoners. >> you know how it is in prison, a guy talks smack, you've got to hit him. >> got in a fight with a prisoner, bit his finger off. >> i didn't get his eye ball. technical difficulties. i was trying though. i was giving it the old college try. >> the one thing that's ...

I have an anxiety problem. there's less of that in here. there's really no threats in here. >> ernest rogers has bipolar disorder. he is serving an 85-year sentence for robbery and attempted murder >> i just lost it. i wasn't on my meds or nothing. the judge said due to my mental illness, you know, he said although i didn't kill anybody, i -- it wasn't from the lack of effort. >> despite the violence of their crimes, stone insists on treating all of the inmates in echo mod with respect. >> i've worked with mentally ill people for the last 35 years and i've never been injured, never been attack...

>> i like it here because it's way quieter. i have an anxiety problem. there's less of that in here. there's really no threats in here. >> ernest rogers has bipolar disorder. he's serve an 85-year sentence for robbery and attempted murder. >> i just lost it. i wasn't on my meds or nothing. the judge said due to my mental illness, you know, he said although i didn't kill anybody, i -- it wasn't from the lack of effort. >> despite the violence of their crimes, stone insists on treating all of the inmates in echo mod with respect. >> i've worked with mentally ill people for the last 35 years and ...

One prisoner's actions even led to the death of his cellmate. we warn you, the details of his crimes are graphic. >> what's difficult for me is when you remember what some of these guys have done, and you think, i've just treated that person civilly. why would i want to do that? it's a little hard to think about that sometimes. they're still people. they still deserve to be treated with respect. >> located in a corner of the sprawling correctional complex is an isolated mod which houses a special segment of the inmate population. >> this mod's called echo mod. it's the mod that's designated fo...

Spring creek correctional center in alaska live in a unit called house one. >> if somebody violates the rule, then they go to segregation for punitive. not many people want to spend a lot of time in punitive. >> this is probably the most difficult prison to control are in this mod. you see why. very little things set them off sometimes. >> setting off the smoke alarm. >> basically, bravo mod is a little less violent, a little less secure, then you get into alpha and delta, where they're given more -- more benefits, a little more freedom, in an effort to get them adjusted so they can go back in...