headlines in his smalltown newspaper. >> this is my newspaper article. the heading says reign of terror comes to end. fourth circuit court judge mary harper sentenced folsom to 36 years behind bars and denied his request to be placed in a therapeutic community program. you're a very dangerous young man, harper said. >> folsom's charges revolve around the brutal beating of an acquaintance he believed had stolen his ipod. >> we ended up getting into his truck before we started arguing because it was cold. and i started banging his head off the window repeatedly. i was real high on cocaine. it really is like a fog. and i got really angry and i got -- i did some, you know, some pretty good damage, banging his head off the window. the judge, she was pretty strict, giving me them 36 years. and i hope that it was just her trying to slap me in the face to tell me to wake up, because truthfully, i was lost. >> folsom completed his g.e.d. at wabash's youth unit. he plans to pursue a college degree from prison and hopes to earn time off his sentence by