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>> i'm in here for causing trouble. i cut myself and stuff like that. >> show me where you cut yourself. >> want me to stick my arm out? >> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars. he spent the last two years in 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...

His nail bed is purple. that's pretty bad. like i said, he's done it before. >> just two weeks ago, officers and medical staff had their hands full with jacob during a meltdown in a time-out cell. tonight they frantically try to deal with his self-mutilation. >> where did you get this? is this from your mattress? >> no. >> is this from your mattress? what's it from, hon? you can tell me, i'm not going to say anything. what's it from? >> pillow. >> i thought we were trying to go home? what number are you on now? >> two. >> so now you just give up? >> he's not going to give up. okay, let's go wa...

Number of those diagnosed as mentally ill the only place they feel safe is the shoe. >> in population, sometimes mentally ill people get victimized. some mentally ill are perfect in the shoe. they do what they need to get in the shoe. >> one such action that gets inmates sent to the shoe is self-mutilation. >> that's about ten years ago, i cut from the ankle up to the hip bone done and then i cut across sideways and sort of it took about 12 hours to so sew me up. you got several layers before you get to the phone. you don't feel the pain. you don't know you're doing it. >>. carr is serving a...

Who had a long history of self-mutilation. >> i was anti-social. i didn't want to be around nobody. i didn't want nobody around me. i wanted to be by myself. everything made me angry, you know? i would take a lot out of it on myself and i would feel better. i would take a razor blade and cut myself up real bad and then then it would all be all right, you know? i did that scar ten years ago. i cut it from the ankle to the hipbone all the way through the bone and cut across sideways so the surgeons had to take about 12 hours to sew me up. you got seven layers of skin you have to go through befor...

>> i'm in here for causing trouble. i cut myself and stuff like that. >> show me where you cut yourself. >> want me to stick my arm out? >> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars. he spent the last two years as 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...