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Behavior track and ultimately move him into a lesser security facility. >> it's a matter of degree of danger because anytime you take an inmate out of the facility, there's always the possibility of an escape. whether they escape from their cell themselves or having help from the outside. >> i'm glad to be leaving here. this is the worst prison in the state. the places that we're going to, all of us today, are much better. and it takes a lot of clear conduct to get there so, you know, you have to earn it. coming up -- >> trust is what i lost to society. to trust me in society. so this is a s...

Are put to death or die of natural causes. but for other inmates at this maximum security prison, good conduct can be the one-way ticket out.♪ these men are being transferred today to other prisons to finish serving out their time. kent hill has been looking forward to this day for a long time. >> it's taken me almost two years to get away from here. a lot of us have been waiting that long. so, this is a good day for us. >> our primary goal with them is when we have an inmate that we receive that is a behavior problem, it's to get that individual back on a positive behavior track and ultimat...

>> it's not the feel of being intimidated by another person. it's the sounds, the movements, the keys that rattle. the silence at night. the yells, the screams. you watch horror movies? this is a horror movie right here, and we live it every day. >> many of the inmates at folsom are serving time for violent crimes. over 700 are serving life sentences for murder. due to the hazards presented by its archaic design, folsom no longer qualifies as a level 4 maximum security prison. therefore, it's been downgraded to a level two medium security facility. >> a level two is only a classification score...

Entire career. walking through the first of many outer gates, there's no mistaking this for a minimum or medium security facility. stateville's reputation is well known. >> from what i hear, people killing each other and stuff like that. you got to go in with guys doing life and stuff down over here. hear a lot of bad things about this penitentiary. kind of scary. because you're going to be here and you see how it is, like, maximum security and stuff like that. so i'm going to stay to myself, man. hope for the best. let me get up out of here. >> inmate walton and officer white make up the oppo...

Hanging. >> hearing but not seeing what happens around you is a fact of prison life that torments prisoners even today. >> it's not the feel of being intimidated by another person. it's the sounds, the movements, the keys that rattle. the silence at night. the yells, the screams. you watch horror movies? this is a horror movie right here, and we live it every day. >> many of the inmates at folsom are serving time for violent crimes. over 700 are serving life sentences for murder. due to the hazards presented by its archaic design, folsom no longer qualifies as a level 4 maximum security prison...