it s been nearly a year since 18-year-olds michael stanley and alexander rankin arrived on the youth unit at wabash. hey. today they transition to the wabash adult population, where they ll trade a unit of 53 kids for a cell block of 200 adults. prison staff say on transfer days, kids often mask their fear with bravado. remember that the secret word is no. i got you, granny. uh-oh. i feel like i m going home. master control. south side, bed moves. who told you? basically see what is going on? for about a week. it s clear. we adults now. uh-oh. we re legal.
i ain t really mad about it, though. as it turns out, stanley won t be transferring to another prison with his best friend after all. he ll be staying at wabash instead. it s going to be cool, dawg. later today, stanley will walk through the massive prison gates to his new adult cell block. he ll make the move with someone else he knows, youth unit cell housemate alexander rankin. i hope the transition is smooth. i know being who i am, i m going to be talking to everybody. i ve got to be associated with everybody. and he does too. so hopefully he just follows my lead, because i know how i can tuck myself around. it s going to go pretty smooth. pretty smooth. coming up south side. bed moves. we adults now. uh-oh.
people don t know much about prison except what they see in movies and stuff like that. but the food is horrible. you got to wear a jumpsuit every day. you only come out of your cell a couple of hours every day. you got to be on guard all the time. you don t know what is going to happen. you don t have any freedom. freedom is the worst part. right here goes the door on the left. for the next few years, m cell block at wabash valley will be home for 18-year-olds alexander rankin and michael stanley. what do you think, man? small. it s small as hell. you re going to get the people in blocks, they want to fight, and got a lot of time.
basically, i m just getting packed, talk to my roommate. i guess i was the first one up to go. i ain t really mad about it, though. as it turns out, stanley won t be transferring to another prison with his best friend after all. he ll be staying at wabash instead. it s going to be cool, dawg. later today, stanley will walk through the massive prison gates to his new adult cell block. he ll make the move with someone else he knows, youth unit cell housemate alexander rankin. i hope the transition is smooth. i know being who i am, i m going to be talking to everybody. i ve got to be associated with everybody. and he does too. so hopefully he just follows my lead, because i know how i can tuck myself around. it s going to go pretty smooth. pretty smooth. coming up south side. bed moves. we adults now. uh-oh.
air real quick? it s extremely sensitive and crucial that you think for yourself and you do what you think is right and not what you think someone else wants you to do, that you know within yourself is wrong. while stanley and rankin face new challenges in their adult cell block, 12-year-old paul gingerich has similar issue, even in the juvenile system. the difficulty is just keeping him safe. typically kids are much larger, and they re the type of kids who like to mess or pick on the smaller kids. it is difficult. he is an easy target, even in a juvenile facility. do you think about wabash at all and what that is like? try not to. i don t know what i ll be expecting when i go down there. for now wabash will remain a