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There was three prison guards got killed down there at the time. they give me the electric chair for one of them murders. they said everybody stabbed this one lieutenant. >> in 1972 the u.s. supreme court abolished capital punishment. basset's sentence was commuted to 150 years with the opportunity for parole every year. though he's been repeatedly turned down for parole, he remains one of stateville's model prisoners. he's worked in the industries department for more than 15 years. >> let's make sure it gets out to the right place. we have to number everything. >> i like it. i'm the type of g...

Year. though he's been repeatedly turned down for parole, he remains one of stateville's model prisoners. he's worked in the industries department for more than 15 years. >> let's make sure it gets out to the right place. we have to number everything. >> i like it. i'm the type of guy likes to stay busy. i can't just lay around. i like to work. they call me a workaholic, really. they be trying to slow me down. >> i hire him as a janitor and slowly we train him and working with different equipment and assemblies and stuff. and i never have a problem with him. >> basset and a handful of other si...

Bookcases and tables. the only men who work here are long-time model prisoners. one of those men is william earl basset. basset has been incarcerated since 1963 and in stateville since 1966. originally he was serving a maximum of ten years for burglary and forgery at another illinois penitentiary called menard. >> i had a short parole coming but a guy was messing with my food in the dining room and i just -- i went off, tried to get him and got involved in a prison riot down there. there was three prison guards got killed down there at the time. they give me the electric chair for one of them ...

Undergrad. >> bill: how did that happen? what was the explanation of that. >> what they are going to tell is you that there is overcrowding. that these guys were model prisoners. they seem to forget their records. forget the people whose lives they took. they are on a blood bath. >> bill: it's not even that i mean, the police believe that these guys killed these two 61-year-old oklahoma people. >> they were found dead in their recreation home. the place burned down to get rid of the evidence. and i will tell you my theory. the girlfriend welch is a long haul truck driver. now we know that they...

Undergrad. >> bill: how did that happen? what was the explanation of that. >> what they are going to tell is you that there is overcrowding. that these guys were model prisoners. they seem to forget their records. forget the people whose lives they took. they are on a blood bath. >> bill: it's not even that i mean, the police believe that these guys killed these two 61-year-old oklahoma people. >> they were found dead in their recreation home. the place burned down to get rid of the evidence. and i will tell you my theory. the girlfriend welch is a long haul truck driver. now we know that they...