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>> they call me countess because i look more female-like more than any of the other ones here. >> for me, being here, i guess the sooner i die, the better for me. aside from getting caught, i don't regret it one bit. once i was away from here, i felt pretty good. i'm not going to lie. the crime rate in the historic town of ft. madison, iowa, is almost nonexistent. and yet many of the state's most violent offenders call this small town home, sort of. they live at the iowa state penitentiary. behind this maximum security facility's 40-foot stone and concrete exterior is a population of drug abus...

>> 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...

But they can do another crime. for example, if they escape with their prison clothes, keeping the prison clothes is a crime. unless they send the clothes back. and in the past we have someone who escaped, jumping out of the window. after two, three days, we get the clothes back washed and cleaned. so he didn't make any crime. >> and even though belgium has one of the world's lowest crime rates, we met our share of murderers there as well. but shawn schaeffer's interview was one of the more unusual ones we conducted. we met him in the segregation unit of prison haselt, a maximum security facili...

A massive manhunt is on to capture him. the fugitive, richard lee mcnair, is a dangerous criminal, a highly intelligent martial arts expert who's escaped from 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...

Basically smuggle tobacco in here or drugs. they can light it off of that. >> disciplinary action is given to the inmates that are caught with illegal items. >> what we'll do is like these guys that have razor blades on their bunk, ask somebody, yeah, it was mine. okay. we write an incident form out and we send them to our adjustment center down in the 900 building. >> for 37-year-old inmate terry scranton the dorm search is just part of being a prisoner. >> well, actually, it don't feel too well because nobody likes people going through their personal property. but it's stuff that has to be d...