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Maximum security facility. until it's torn down, stateville's death chamber remains fully operational as an emergency backup system. with such a high concentration of violent criminals in the prison population, it was only natural that the violence would continue within the walls of stateville. over the years, a number of incidents occurred that still reverberate among the old-timers today. >> in the old days we had quite a bit of violence here. you got up in the morning, you'd take a couple of magazines, go out and carry your shank wherever you want. you didn't know what was going to happen. ...

Two other prisons in the past before being recaptured. this time, he hides in a mail truck. he's the first prisoner to escape from a federal maximum security facility in nearly 15 years. hours after mcnair's discovered missing, an officer with the ball police department sees a man running on the railroad tracks and gets out to question him. >> what it is, we've got an escapee. >> oh. where from? >> a prison. >> is it the man he's looking for? >> when i crossed the tracks down there, i saw you running. and i said, well, how lucky can i be? >> nope, nope, nope, nope. i'm not no prison escapee. >...

We conducted. we met him in the segregation unit of prison haselt, a maximum security facility. >> on 30 december, i killed my wife. >> okay. why and how? >> i killed her with a big knife. >> why? >> because i had no gun with me. >> okay. but why did you kill her? >> oh, why? i was very, very angry that she want to leave. for her, no problem, huh? but she wants to take my son. and she wants to move with the son to germany. >> schaeffer, a korean adopted by a dutch family, said he had outstanding charges in germany that could have led to a two-year sentence if he followed his wife into the coun...

>> i shot a man and i burned him up in a car after i had shot him. >> i've got to be here until i die. i got double life and i've got to stay here until i die. >> i don't know how you feel about it, but i'm ready to receive something from god. >> with my retirement pending, i was in jail for having taken someone's life. >> the day of an execution, the entire facility goes on lockdown. if there's no last-second appeal, the offender is then advised the execution is to commence shortly. >> denial is rife in the death penalty. i don't think my mother especially ever thought that i would be execute...

Tobacco in here or drugs and light it off that. >> disciplinary action is given to the inmates caught with illegal items. >> what we will do is these guys that have razor blades on their bunk, they said it was mine. okay, what we do is we write an incident form out and we send them down to the justice center, down to the 900 building. >> for inmate perry scranton, the dorm search is just part of being a prisoner. >> actually it don't feel too well. nobody likes people going through their personal property, but it's something that has to be done. it's their job. they have to make sure everythin...