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He testified against him, and in a phone interview with anderson cooper called matt evil. >> if you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that's the face that you would see. >> bates remembers matt shoving a knife sharpener in his victim's ear and breaking his fingers before killing him. >> i have seen him kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss, in my presence. in a fit of rage, he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. >> matt worked for rickerson and was fired for poor performance just weeks before rickerson's murder, according to...

A phone interview with anderson cooper called matt evil. >> if you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that's the face that you would see. >> bates remembers matt shoving a knife sharpener in his victim's ear and breaking his fingers before killing him. >> i have seen him kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss, in my presence. in a fit of rage, he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. >> matt worked for rickerson and was fired for poor performance just weeks before rickerson's murder, according to testimony at trial. >> i don't u...

She was overly friendly. >> reporter: joyce was particularly friendly with the cop-killer david sweat. >> good worker? >> very good worker. >> reporter: sweat had been promoted to, "instructor," teaching inmates how to sew. which landed him the top prison wage, 40 cents an hour. the position also put him in a close professional relationship with joyce. then she allowed their relationship to become personal. she says that was natural. >> when you're workin' with your instructor, it's like your right-hand man, so -- i mean, we were talking every day about work. >> there was a friendship that had...

Chit-chat between civilians and inmates. >> nobody comes up and says, time's up? >> you can talk five minutes, you can talk ten minutes. it really doesn't matter. >> so the conversations between you and some of the inmates went beyond teaching them how to make clothes. you talked to them about their lives? >> yes. >> and their families? >> yes. >> and the things they were interested in? or not interested in? >> yes. i guess i was more relaxed around them, knowing a little bit about them. >> she was nice. she wasn't strict like a lot of the other civilian employees in there. >> eric jensen serv...

Unexpectedly. like a titanic gray fortress. with its high walls, armed sentries and grim watch towers. clinton correctional facility radiates austerity. maximum security. >> it was like a dungeon. >> for most of its 3,000 prisoners like eric jensen, entering clinton correctional facility was like entering hell. >> when you first go in there through the gates, you come through on the bus, and the gates shut behind you and you just look up and can you see like the walls surrounding you and you feel, you feel helpless in there. >> for officers like jeffrey dum as, working at clinton correctional ...