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Rarely more than 50 prisoners together. oftentimes there are fewer. unlike many other prisons around the country where hundreds of prisoners congregate, at stateville, whether it's in the prison yards, dining hall or any other location, the number of inmates is always limited. these same limitations also apply anytime prisoners are moved from one area of the prison to another. >> in the past we used to move 200, 300 inmates at a time. now it's no more than 50 inmates at a time whether they going to chow or whether they go on the yard. that's the total. 50 inmates. >> a second component of stat...

Accept that same behavior while they're incarcerated with us. >> changing the way things had been done for decades wasn't going to be easy, but it was going to happen. that was the mandate. the first step came in leveling the playing field. >> you hear the saying, power is in numbers. and that's really true. you put 150, 200 class x murderers in a room together and that's a lot of power. you take that number down and knock it down to 50 and you put a couple extra officers there, and it really kind of balances things out. >> today, anywhere you look within stateville there are rarely more than ...

The country where hundreds of prisoners congregate, at stateville, whether it's in the prison yards, dining hall or any other location, the number of inmates is always limited. these same limitations also apply anytime prisoners are moved from one area of the prison to another. >> in the past we used to move 200, 300 inmates at a time. now it's no more than 50 inmates at a time whether they going to chow or whether they go on the yard. that's the total. 50 inmates. >> a second component of stateville's institutional reforms involved limiting the amount of personal property an inmate could poss...

Together. oftentimes there are fewer. unlike many other prisons around the country where hundreds of prisoners congregate, at stateville, whether it's in the prison yards, dining hall or any other location, the number of inmates is always limited. these same limitations also apply anytime prisoners are moved from one area of the prison to another. >> in the past we used to move 200, 300 inmates at a time. now it's no more than 50 inmates at a time whether they going to chow or whether they go on the yard. that's the total. 50 inmates. >> a second component of stateville's institutional reforms...

Oftentimes there are fewer. unlike many other prisons around the country where hundreds of prisoners congregate, at stateville, whether it's in the prison yards, dining hall or any other location, the number of inmates is always limited. these same limitations also apply anytime prisoners are moved from one area of the prison to another. >> in the past we used to move 200, 300 inmates at a time. now it's no more than 50 inmates at a time whether they going to chow or whether they go on the yard. that's the total. 50 inmates. >> a second component of stateville's institutional reforms involved ...