forgive us our trespasses. sean phillips weighed 437 pound and says he was slowly killing himself with food. after medical staff put him on a diet and exercise program, he says he lost 175 pounds. but phillips still carries a heavy weight. he is awaiting trial for murder. he is accused of seeking vigilante justice against a man he believes sexually assaulted a close relative, a young girl. phillips admit he and three accomplices drove the man to a remote wilderness area and began beating him. i m not going to mince words. i beat the crap out of the guy. we beat him up in the field. i said don t come back ever again. phillips says one of the accomplices took it upon himself to stab the victim. the dude that was with me did it. he stabbed him. and slit his throat. i was in the truck.
we get in there with it and just cut them loose. try not to let people die in this place. still, some inmates will always view suicide as the only way out. but sean phillips believes that his incarceration at the bear county jail might have been the one thing that actually saved his life. i was literally, when i came in here, pretty much knocking at death s door. phillips is currently awaiting trial on a murder charge to which he has pled not guilty. when he was first booked into the jail, the 5 10 inmate weighed 437 pounds. i was a type 2 diabetic. i was taking insulin twice a day. i couldn t even walk half a block without almost having a heart attack. but in the year and a half he has been here, phillips has reduced his weight by almost 1/3.
howard hubert is a board certified physician s assistant at bear county jail. sean phillips is one of my favorite cases to talk about. sean came through the door weighing 437 pound. i said do you went to get the diabetes and blood pressure under control? he said of course. i said here it the plan. i m going to put you on an 1,800 calorie a day diabetic diet, taper your diabetes meds blood pressure meds. i said if you exercise a lot, we ll take the medications away he was consuming, 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 calories a day. here in the jail we can control diet a whole lot. i m on diet tray. i don t get as much of a portion as everybody else does. they steam a lot of my stuff. sometimes they steam them to death. you get steamed vegetables and they come up looking like mush. but you know what it is food. how much weight have you lost? 175.
i was 437 when i came in. i am now 265 pounds. phillips has had several prior convictions for burglary and theft. these are some of the previous photos of mr. phillips that we have. 2001, 2003. from 200 pounds to morbid obesity, his mug shots tell the story of his exponential weight gain. my self-esteem out there in the free had plummeted. i d stopped giving a care about everything. i was drinking anywhere from a bottle to a bottle and a half of jack a day. i started eating and eating as a comfort. but there was one person at the jail that would have a profound effect on phillip s life. hop up here and see where you are at here today. dr. hubert downstairs is the one that got me to change. look at this. excellent. have a seat up on the bench. he told me that he saw something better in me.
give parents all the information. we have got a transparent report card. we can see what s happening in every school in every district across the state of wisconsin. and i think that s the best measure of accountability to see are the kids actually learning things? you know, the amount of hours your kids sit in the classroom or as i say buttst in the seats isn t necessarily good indicator as to whether they are getting a good education. it s the quality education and whether or not the students are learning and that shows up in the report cards. steve: absolutely. what about if you have the state or local folks figure out what the correct metric is, the number of hours that a kid should be in the classroom. for instance in kindergarten you are suggesting the current state minimum time 437 hours for elementary school more than double that and secondary schools it s higher than that but what if at the local level, let s say you re not flush with cash and you are trying to save money. may