looking for what you d call body language, posturing. if there s a problem, they will posture. if you re watching you can head off stuff before it starts. that s the one i was looking at. i think he s all right. he s just messing around, probably. you re always making sure that you have an escape route if you need one. if that s locking myself in a cell or whatever. spring creek enforces a zero tolerance policy for inmate infractions. our department use of force policy is called p-a-i-d, p.a.i.d. it s passive aggressive, intermediate and deadly. we always try to start with passive. you talk to a prisoner, show a presence of staff. hopefully that will talk him down. on this day, an argument in the lunch line has led to a full-blown fight between two inmates. officers place them under arrest. you need to respond to me so i know you re all right. let s go a little bit more.
basically attacked by people that can t stand them. we re forced to accept them. because we do if we don t, you can get in a fist fight. in alaska, you can go in the hole for a year. good morning. good morning. you want to check this out? yes. the open atmosphere at spring creek helps inmates like sam green williams survive their time in prison. yeah, i m a homosexual. and you know, i have made a long-standing ground of who i am. and you know, i m not afraid to be me. you know. and i ve fought to be me. and being in prison, to me it s nothing different, you know. it s just i m in prison. green-williams is serving six years for his third case of felony drunk driving. like a diary, his tattoos record his rocky past. this one represents changes in myself, you know. this one has three faces that go down. if you turn it upside down it has three faces that go the other way. this one, a name, past relationship. dv8. of course you know what the word deviate means, straight
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. 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?
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 lockdown in there. it can get stuffy in there. a lot of words are said back and forth between inmates you know. so you come out here, work out,