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>> they have some machine weights there. you get to go out with a few guys you live with in your unit. like a group. you get an hour tier time, i hear, to play games, cards or just conversate with someone there. >> so they can actually recreate and congregate with other inmates. if you visit at level 5, level 5 is much more of a quiet unit and they become much calmer. they become much more cooperative. they become much more willing to comply with the level system. >> lean forward. you're leaning back too far. there you go. all right. like part of the family. >> why is that?

Many have worked their way up through the prison's level system to earn the many privileges and opportunities they enjoy here. >> the inmates get together, and they do classes, and there's a psychologist there, and they talk about why they're in the prison. so when they get out, they're able to live a normal life. >> each dorm in level 2 holds 55 men who sleep side by side in bunk beds. >> make myself at home. my corner, my corner of the cave. it is a common area that we have here, which isn't much. so it seems like the system keeps getting more crowded and more impossible to manage sometimes,...

Them and just throwing items from his food port. >> they have some machine weights there. you get to go out with a few guys you live with in your unit. like a group. you get an hour tier time, i hear, to play games, cards or just conversate with someone there. >> so they can actually recreate and congregate with other inmates. if you visit at level 5, level 5 is much more of a quiet unit and they become much calmer. they become much more cooperative. they become much more willing to comply with the level system. >> lean forward. you're leaning back too far. there you go. all right. like part o...

Killed in automobile wrecks in many other ways while we're here waiting to be executed by the state. >> the fate of each man on death row will play out in its own time. but to fill this time, riverbend has integrated a unique incentive program for the inmates. those on levels a and b are given more privileges, more rec time, jobs in the unit, educational programs, and increased visitation. darrell holtom, like the other level cs, gets no visitation and is locked down 23 hours a day. >> we were the first state to have any such operation such as this level system with our death row inmates, and ...

They're not flooding and burning and everything. so they're more polite. >> unit 448. unit 552. >> at times as few as five officers oversee the 330 inmates on level two. >> you notice every inmate in the corridor, their shirts are tucked in, their belts are not sagging, no sunglasses, no hats or no nothing. we let them know up front what we want. >> all level 2 inmates are within a maximum of five years from their release date. many have worked their way up through the prison's level system to earn the many privileges and opportunities they enjoy here. >> the inmates get together, and they do ...