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institutions. in a few days curtis will travel with the boxing team to a nearby state penitentiary where he will compete for the title in his weight division. >> to get in the ring and fight, you got to be stone warrior to fight, especially in prison fight, because i think it is more harder than professional fights. if i take this belt if i win, i'm the man. i mean, anybody, nobody beat this cat for three to four years, and if i beat him, i'm the big man on the compound. everybody tell me that. >> one way curtis draws inspiration is through his family. two days before this fight, curtis' mother, sister and niece traveled to elayn hunt to wish him their best. >> i try to visit every other weekend. in the beginning it was real hard because i knew i had to
>> you all right? >> i'm all right. >> another way officers stay prepared is through arms training. full scale drills give tactical squads the chance to keep them from reaching the outer perimeter. >> very tight team, a chase team, made up of correctional officers. we have dogs that's been trained on tracking. >> trained dogs play an important role in elaine hunt. this one tracked down an officer posing as an escaped inmate. >> i have just been the real deal. dog caught within five or six minutes. subject wouldn't have got off the grounds. >> one of the newest dogs at the prison is canine robbie. >> robbie. heel. >> robbie is not trained to kill. he is trained to help apprehend
now i pack it on my back. they got me looking like goemer pile. >> one of the distinct features of the program at elayn hunt is that it allows female inmates from a nearby women's correctional facility to participate alongside the men. >> louisiana correctional institute for women sits about a quarter mile to half mile down the road from us. it's easy for us to get the females here and get them back to the women's prison at night. >> bravo company is one of the six impact platoons. among inmates that makeup bravo is female trainee teresa warren. >> 22 years old. been in impact three months now. my charters are access device fraud, identity fraud, computer fraud, forgery. i was sentenced seven years did a plea bargain. i asked for impact.
allowed to show inmates from elayn hunt. rayborn is the first to enter the ring. the fights are limited to three three minute rounds. round one comes to an end. derik appears sluggish, raising doubts about his conditioning. the bell rings for round two. both fighters come out swinging. as the second round comes to an end, they don't seem to notice
every day at elayn hunt correctional center in louisiana, the kitchen staff is challenged with cooking for the 2100 inmates and 750 correctional staff members that work here. over the course of a year, some two and a half million meals are prepared by inmates in this kitchen, serving staple foods and sides like corn bread and chocolate chip cookies can be expensive, but elayn hunt manages to keep costs down, in part because they grow much of their own food on site. >> i am proud to say we have one of the lowest food costs per day in the state. food costs 1.31 a day, not one meal, but three hot meals a day. >> while general population prisoners eat in mess halls inmates locked up for rule infractions have meals brought to their cells.
will need life insurance. tell them what i say. what you going to do tonight? >> smash something. >> what we going to do? >> smash something. >> you heard it live from hunt correctional facility. >> i'm the outlaw. bringing the pain. i am ready to beat somebody up. i mean, i ain't fight in a while. i'm ready to go fight now. >> anticipating his own fight, curtis is more reserved. >> guy i supposed to fight pretty good, having the belt three, four years ain't nobody beat him yet. so i got my hands full. i been training like a mad russian. i think i got a good chance to beat him. >> when the bus arrives, hunt's 22 member boxing team sets out for angola state prison the site of today's title fight. due to filming restrictions placed on the camera crew by the prison officials we are only
change a criminal's ways, the prison says it's research shows more than 62% of elayn hunt impact graduates are out of prison and working in the community. >> we don't want them to come back, you know, we're trying to initiate programs that will help keep them out of prison and stop coming back. coming up. an inmate tries to box his way out of prison. >> get me out of jail. i'm willing to fight for free for two years. oh! [ baby crying ] ♪ ♪ what started as a whisper ♪ every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. ♪ slowly turned to a scream ♪ there's an insurance company that does that, too. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ amen, omen ♪