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The greatness of a man can be determined or shaped by the footsteps that he follows in. This is certainly true of Rev. Kendrick L. Morris. He had big footsteps
and every single time you come back you get frustrated. we go through the same cycle again -- hold on a minute. we go through the same cycle to readjust you back into the way we do things. you get angry because you are not in a certain cell, right? put your eyebrow down. it's the truth. i'm just telling you your life. you end up in the restraint chair because you're doing something you have no business, cutting your arms. right? so i don't know, you playing your game? >> please let me have a chance. >> i'm not the deciding factor. we're done. got it? good. >> listen, sergeant -- >> got it. >> sergeant. look at me. >> all right. >> kendrick morris, who is awaiting sentencing on two sexual battery convictions, has also been in confinement for most of his three years at the jail. but unlike jackson, he does his time quietly.
this crime that he was convicted of happened less than a mile from where i live. and the community, obviously, is happy to have someone like him off the streets. as a father and member of the community, it's difficult to keep that separation between my professional and personal self. i try to focus on the fact that he is not a management problem. he's actually, i'll use the term, he's a model confinement to me. never gives us any problems and does everything asked of him. the requirements of my profession is to treat him no differently than i would a petty thief, and that takes practice. it really does. >> morris was arrested when he was 16 and has been at the jail for three years now. he is housed in the confinement unit. because of the nature of his crime. >> if word got out that he had brutally assaulted an elderly woman and a young girl and beat the young girl into a vegetative state, he would probably suffer a similar fate. it's a situation we cannot risk.
you. keep that money coming. so you write sexual stuff to them to keep them coming. think about how fun it would be to be at your house and in your bed with you. i know that boy [ bleep ] is so good and you would love to let me have it. >> jackson is once again looking for a canteen benefactor. he's placed a personal ad. if he gets a response he will send his letter off in the mail. >> says i'm getting $30 per pen pal, i've got 10 or 15 pen pals, i'm banking. i'm banking. coming up -- >> this is your daily visit. let me see your arms. don't mess with it. >> kenneth jackson takes pleasure in cutting. >> just like having the most orgasm you've ever had. >> knowing that my mom is still there, everything is fine. >> and kendrick morris meets with one person -- >> hey, honey. >> -- who believes in him. >> i'm proud of you. either way i'm proud of you.
>> he doesn't give us any problems as far as management. he's moderately respectful, doesn't act out. >> morris says it's regular communication and visits with his mother that help him cope with his solitary existence. >> just knowing that, you know, my mom's still there everything's fine. we can still talk to each other, say i love her and everything, and she can see that i'm fine. >> good afternoon. >> morris's mother, lisa stevens, who owns a custom cake and dessert company in tampa, visits him two or they times a week. >> he's not a monster. he's my son. i love him dearly. i know he didn't do the crimes he was convicted of. and we're praying for the day when we can walk out of here together. and we can put all this behind us. >> the jail requires visits to take place over telephone and
if i keep on going that shows how strong i am. >> i'm proud of you. either way i'm proud of you. >> i'm proud of you too. how are things going? how are you taking it? mom. >> morris could spend the rest of his life in prison. the prosecutors in his case are asking for two consecutive 60-year sentences. he and his mother are hopeful he'll be exonerated on a future appeal. but they're not completely in agreement on how morris spends his future, especially when it comes to his desire to be a tattoo artist. >> i don't want to go through that again. >> i want to make a name for myself doing tattoos. >> but your focus is only tattoos. your art extends beyond that. your art is bigger than tattoos. >> that's one thing i can work on right now. so right when i get out i can go work on tattoos. but you know i want to make video games and all that. and i want -- >> that's my point. how do you go from tattoos to computer engineering?