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Cell house 220, also known as the hole. >> this is your maximum security unit inside of a maximum security prison. here's where we house all the inmates that couldn't be handled at another institution or couldn't be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> during his time in prison and especially in the hole, murray has found a coping device in self-mutilation. >> i've been in here so long it kind of releases stress. >> how do you cut yourself? >> i was on razors but they put me on razor restriction and i find stuff in here, staples, plastic from deod...

Toothpaste and had broken it off to make a sharp edge and had started cutting his arm with it. reopened his scars where he perviously cut himself up. >> take his toothbrush, too. >> so now what? >> nothing. go back to my cell and wait another couple months. i guess. >> "lockup" crews have encountered many other self-mutilators. >> some people self-injure as a manipulation because they want to get moved. some people self-injure as a cry of help. some people self-injure to get even. you know, i'm going to hurt myself and i'm going to show you kind of thing, so anger. >> our crew got a glimpse of...

Personnel went to that location in november 2002. and according to a contemporaneous cia e-mail, told cia officers had never been, quote, in a facility where individuals are so sensory deprived, end quote. again, source, cia e-mail, sender and recipient redacted, december 5th, 2002. throughout the program, multiple cia detainees subject to interrogation exhibited psychological and behavioral issues, including hallucinations, paranoia, insomnia, and attempts at self-harm and self-mutilation. multiple cia psychologists identified the lack of human contact experienced by detainees as a cause of p...

Running in on them, and cussing. just a lot of crazy stuff, you know. i call it bugs. always somebody bugging out, always somebody causing trouble in the cell house. it's hard. it's really hard. they got me on a lot of medication. >> inmates in cell house 220 get an hour of recreation in the morning and a ten-minute shower several times a week. >> one of the worst things in this cell house is the compound day-to-day events, typical stress incidences that add up. and some of the things you're subject to, stabbings, hangings, self-mutilation, those type of things and the actual assault itself. i...

Gravel road which the cops rolled up on me, which was a bad deal. >> moon had made it all the way to the southern tip of illinois before he was captured, a distance of almost 400 miles. >> the police didn't know who i was to start with. when i gave them an alias and wrote me a ticket for driving the vehicle with the wrong plates and alluding an officer. if i had $200 i could have bonded out. but i had my -- they found out who i was eventually. aside from getting caught, i don't regret it one bit. i'd do it again tomorrow if i could. i'm 35 years old now. hopefully if everything goes the way i ...