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. explaining to him that it s not the case. but the bottom line is he s dangerous. extremely dangerous. and he s earned his place here.
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?
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 s just escalated from that point. while i m in the hole, i m getting app tag niced by the 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. explaining to him that it s not the case.
for adult prisoners, we have the alaskan corrections industries, which is a 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
the word deviate means, stray from the norm, other than the standard. this is kind of like me. back in the day. and this is me pulling my own strings. i became a puppet to myself. this one i ve had forever. the dragon references wisdom. you know. i choose to find that within myself. i like to read. i get wiser as the years go on, i hope. this is where i make me, the beautiful me. these are all things i require to make my day go by. i keep another mirror so i can see behind myself. serving a four-year sentence for burglary, polando williams first landed in jail as a prostitute. i found out that i could dress up like a girl and go out there, so i get to act out all these repressed characters that i got to have. so prostitution became it was fun. i get to i got to playact, i got to you know, i m going to have some drama and bad times but hey, it was fun. i like guys who like girls so that makes me an oddball homosexual. i want a guy who wants me to be