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Here because they've got the wall around the outside. in between the stone wall and this building, we've got razor wire, chain-link fence plus the towers on the walls. so they don't really have an avenue to go out. we have certain inmates we have to move once a month from cell to cell to make sure they're not trying to tunnel out or something of that nature. >> i guess they believe that i'm an extreme escape risk because of my military background and because of my escape attempt. they -- at one time i was down in nashville at river bend and they found some homemade explosives in my cell, and t...

Is is allowed to see other members of his family. his youngest daughter echo, along with her mother mary jo, have just arrived at the jail for a visit. mary jo and jimmy are divorced but maintain friendship. both women are here to get some questions answered about jimmy's recent escape attempt. >> he thought it was an opportunity for a lifetime. it will probably cost him the rest of his life. >> who are you here to say? >> james maxwell. go ahead and go up, j-2. >> are you thinking it's so stupid. i just can't understand his thought process. he's a grown man. i guess he knows what he's doing. ...

Football fields. among its unique features, are long, steadily ascending hallways that connect various housing units. >> the longest hallway is a quarter mile long in our facility. as you go up, it's elevated. >> each level corresponds with a specific housing unit so if there's ever a problem staff would immediately know which unit to alert. >> because it's so long, it's a quarter mile long, it helps going up, it helps us to see. we can have a visual on the inmates all the way down the hallway. >> the hallway has been traversed numerous times by inmates, including jimmy maxwell and his son, br...

He navigated the cat walks. he is the only survivor so it is not surprising i guess, that he is taking all the credit. >> he is going to paint himself in the best light possible. he's a con artist. look what he did in the jail how he connelled all these people ask manipulated him. so sure. he will paint himself in the best light possible. now he has the opportunity to get back at those who failed him during the escape attempt. >> interesting that he seems to be standing up for gene palmer since he didn't know about it. the practice run that these guys made the night before the escape, they end...

During the escape attempt. >> interesting that he seems to be standing up for gene palmer since he didn't know about it. the practice run that these guys made the night before the escape, they ended up in a manhole near the prison and decide that had wasn't the right one to escape from. so they went back and did it the next day. the fact that they could do that, have the confidence to do that is pretty unbelievable.