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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...

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 that kind of didn't help my case at all. and i've been on max for 12 years. sometimes...

His exact words were: i can't keep the bad thoughts out. that right there is what's going on. finally freed. andrew tahmooressi walking out of mexican prison and back on american soil. sergeant tahmooressi going "on the record" days after his release telling you everything including his daring escape attempt. >> what happened after they caught you trying to escape? did they then lock you down or what was their response to it? >> their response was after i had given up, after i have surrendered, i laid on -- well, i laid on the ground. i laid on the ground and then comes over running and starts...

That's a stupid question. you know the question i'm asking you, brother, how are you doing? his exact words were: i can't keep the bad thoughts out. that right there is what's going on. finally freed. andrew tahmooressi walking out of mexican prison and back on american soil. sergeant tahmooressi going "on the record" days after his release telling you everything including his daring escape attempt. >> what happened after they caught you trying to escape? did they then lock you down or what was their response to it? >> their response was after i had given up, after i have surrendered, i laid o...

In any danish prison, you wouldn't feel it more different than if you were in a danish school. >> still, nothing can take the place of freedom no matter how comfortable the cell. and so on august 27, 1995, 12 prisoners try to regain their freedom in a remarkable escape attempt. maurel peterson, a guard on duty that day, said the inmates were having their summer get-together. >> the attitudes among the inmates that day were extremely well. >> the barbecue winds down, and prisoners file back into their cells. ryan bo larsen, a prisoner serving 3 1/2 years for armed robbery is in the yard. the se...