at indiana state. he had to leave him behind when 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
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 and burglary.
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 about being on this side is just
sometimes i do lose my cool and i ll snap off at someone but then i m cool. we first met stone three years earlier during our extended stay shoot at indiana state prison. it s a glamour job but 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 him. 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?
stone received jinkster as part of the cat adoption program at indiana state. he had to leave him behind when 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.