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He could spend the rest of his life in prison but he says his workout is designed to prepare him, just in case he s released. rotate around like i m working on a loading dock or something. call it a workers workout. that way if i do get out, job ain t going to kill me. i m all ready for it. plus when you get to be my age, you got to stay in shape. that way, when the guys half my age want to mess with the old man, it ain t my fault. there is always a new guy or two arriving on stone s unit every week. for some it s just a short walk from a special unit at wabash for minors who have been convicted as adults. the adult maximum security prison. miles folsom has been in the youth unit for the past two years. but today is his 18th birthday. and his first day in the big house. he is serving 36 years for armed robbery, criminal confinement ....
Fourth circuit court judge mary harper sentenced folsom to 36 years behind bars and denied his request to be placed in a therapeutic community program. you re a very dangerous young man, harper said. folsom s charges revolve around the brutal beating of an acquaintance he believed had stolen his ipod. we ended up getting into his truck before we started arguing because it was cold. and i started banging his head off the window repeatedly. i was real high on owe cane. really it was like a fog 73 and i got really angry and i get i did some pretty good damage banging his head off the window. the judge, she was pretty strict, giving me them 36 years. and i hope that it was just her trying to slap me in the face to tell me to wake up, because truthfully, i was lost. folsom completed his g.e.d. at wabash s youth unit. he plans to pursue a college degree from prison and hopes to earn time off his sentence by holding down a job. really my biggest concern ....
Me. and it s not fake. i can always tell when it s fake. i believe, personally, that he will be ready for general population before long. however, there are so many more people above me that will also have the input, and have known him so much longer than i have. so i ll have to respect whatever their recommendations will be. i d rather not see him come out. i don t think he s changed. he s going to hurt somebody. lieutenant gary mcmillan has been at wabash for the past 16 years. this is my opinion. he s a pretty violent individual. they may look at it like everybody s still a potential threat. but am i a threat? no. coming up really my biggest concern about being inside is just getting in trouble. fresh from wabash s youth unit an 18-year-old inmate spends his first day in the big house. i used to be a very violent person. i hope no one tries testing me. ....
He was transferred to wabash. for the first several weeks, jinkster lived with another inmate. but then jinkster moved out to the country. he was adopted by stone s parents. jinkster is something else. he s not used to carpeting. and cloth furniture. everything was claws. i mean, he clawed up carpet, everything else. but, it was worth it because it was jim s. some people might not quite understand it. but my family we view our pets as family members. so you know, this was sort of like jim s kid. talk about your daddy. yeah. it s really, really hard for me to talk about jim. i love him so much. when he was a little boy, he loved to go for these walks. and we d go for a long walk. he d give out and i d put him on my shoulders and bring him on in. ....
Somebody s got to do it. when stone first came to prison he was an admitted thug, who fought frequently. where you going, big buddy? but the james stone we met considered himself a changed man, thanks to indiana state prison s cat adoption program. he s my little buddy. i depend on im. he s more dependable than anything i got in here. i mean, he takes a lot of the anger and temper away. makes it easier to cope in here. stone has been at wabash for a year and a half ago now. i talk to guys that come in here from all the other prisons that recognize me say hey, you re the cat man, aren t you? i m like, dude, really? best thing i can do is say i m him, meow, see you later. the transfer occurred after a staff member reported stone had threatened him. stone denies the allegation but a much bigger concern was leaving his cat jinkster behind. they don t allow cats down here so i couldn t bring him ....