here today. it s taken a long time, i know that. janice, kordell, you wanted to do this for many years. inmates like kordell boyd are given the opportunity to meet face to face with the families of their victims. i sent a letter to one of the victims of the family. and one of the daughters received it. so they came down here. and we mad a mediation. i talked to her, she talked to me. so many times that what you say, and if i cry it s okay. but i have relived this a billion times. whether i like it or not you ve been a part of my life for 15 years. at the beginning i didn t feel i was privileged to even talk to people. i killed their family members? come on. but god stored something in my heart. and i felt like i have to. and just to show that i m a human being and i didn t intend to kill no one. was mother trying she was praying. she said something that s
prisoner, bit his finger off. i didn t get his eye ball. technical difficulties. i was trying though. i was giving it the old college try. the one thing that s predictable about mr. bright is he s unpredictable. sergeant kept putting bullies in my cell. one of them eventually wasn t trying to get along. so i knocked his teeth out. he came into the housing unit and it escalated from that point. i m in the hole. i m getting antagonized by low self-esteem, protective custody inmates. they dance around like the three little pigs singing who s afraid of the big bad wolf song. in early 2006 bright went on another rampage and tore up his cell. the tantrum was so violent he almost lost a finger. i ve tried to quit. and the inmates and the staff won t let me. they will not i ve tried to lay down and be a punk. and it makes me despise myself. he started recently this conspiracy theory that everybody s out to get him. and he believes in those no matter what we try to do.
this is a really tight teamwork. making sure we have each other s back. and we maintain the tactical advantage at all times. basically dominate our tactical environment. frustration over being locked down 23 hours a day causes many inmates in solitary to act out. they start screaming. it can be pretty hectic in here. there s been times i ve seen this entire floor out here covered with three, four inches of water. people popping sprinklers. trashed, literally, this entire floor in here. this is what they call cell warriors. they re behind the doors so no one can get at each other. they try to stir each other up. raped on the yard ten years ago! how about that! let s deal with the facts! let s deal with facts! you are a jailhouse punk! you ve got to get out of the
also given the chance to develop marketable skills. for adult prisoners, we have the alaska corrections industries which is the furniture shop where they learn the skills of woodworking. but they really learn the skills of going to work every day, giving a full day s job. some of these guys are the highest-paid guys in the institution. we start off at 85 cents an hour and it goes from there. greg houck has supervised the alaska correctional industries furniture shop for the last five years. we sell to private businesses, oil fields, related industries. close to $500,000 a year for the sales. since i ve been here, for five years. how long before you have all this cut, sewed up? by 10:00 tomorrow morning, cut up, sewed up. probably about another three hours. it s one of the most productive jobs here. one of the only places you can make something and somebody else
but it was kind of twisted. three days later i nuked the cat. stuck him in the microwave and turned it on. and then i yeah. 2 1/2 minutes wasn t long enough. while the violent nature of prisoners like carl ables can pose a challenge to rehabilitation, one way that spring creek tries to help inmates reform is through mediation sessions. i want to welcome all of you here today. it s taken a long time, i know that. janice, kordell, you wanted to do this for many years. inmates like kordell boyd are given the opportunity to meet face to face with the families of their victims. i sent a letter to one of the victims of the family. and one of the daughters received it. so they came down here. and we mad a mediation. i talked to her, she talked to me. so many times that what you say, and if i cry it s okay. but i have relived this a billion times.