like those at many other maximum security prisons, hundreds of inmates at indiana s wabash valley correctional facility seek to make a statement about themselves through tattoos. some might use their ink to keep other inmates at a distance, to advertise their gang affiliation or the heinous act that brought them here. 37-year-old bill abbott got two of his more prominent tattoos prior to coming to wabash. little did he know how ironic they would become. my horns. why? what did you do bad? it was my way of life at the time. not no evil or devil worshipping or nothing like that. i ve always been told by all the christian family that i ve known that if you re not serving god, you re serving the devil.
was sentenced to 20 years. while at wabash, however, he received an additional received an additional four-year sentence for possession of a dangerous device, a seven-inch-long shank. that s a baby. that s a baby. before that, i always tried to make mine at least 10 inches long. that way i had plenty of handle room and plenty of blade. siverly s history has resulted him in being housed in the highly restrictive secured confinement unit. while he doesn t like it, he does understand it. from their standpoint, how can you have somebody who keeps repeatedly getting caught making mass quantities of knifes in population and keep population safe? even if that person s not stabbing people, he s making the knives that are stabbing people. with few possessions and little if any contact with other inmates, siverly has refocused his energy from weapons to art. president barack obama,
i ve heard all the war stories. officer jarrod mcmillan has been on the frontline at wabash for four years now. the war stories have come from his mother and father, both of whom are also on wabash s correction staff. it s the kind of environment that you don t want everybody in. i wouldn t let my daughter here but she s not meant for this. he s a little tougher. and my wife is real tough. they can handle it. but the younger officer mcmillan was recently put to the test. as he was escorting one inmate, another inmate unleashed a violent attack. he stuck his arm out with a bottle full of feces and urine and started flinging it everywhere, i had it on my face, my uniform, my pants. it was in the corner of my mouth. he actually got it in my mouth. i had to wait for somebody to come take pictures of it. so he could be prosecuted for that. then i went up front and took a
and now that night turned into this life. and the life burks lives in wabash has recently gotten considerably more uncomfortable. he has been placed in the custody control unit for assaulting an officer and will likely soon transfer to the even more restrictive secured confinement unit. but burks still has a dream for the people i don t know who the future be, you can google meech. he plans to someday get out of prison and seek fame and fortune as a rapper known as young meech, da future. if burks had a fan club in the control unit, james greenburg might very well be its president.
for four years now. the war stories have come from his mother and father, both of whom are also on wabash s correction staff. it s the kind of environment that you don t want everybody in. i wouldn t let my daughter here but she s not meant for this. he s a little tougher. and my wife is real tough. they can handle it. but the younger officer mcmillan was recently put to the test. as he was escorting one inmate, another inmate unleashed a violent attack. he stuck his arm out with a bottle full of feces and urine and started flinging it everywhere, i had it on my face, my uniform, my pants. it was in the corner of my mouth. he actually got it in my mouth. i had to wait for somebody to come take pictures of it. so he could be prosecuted for that. then i went up front and took a shower. they don t make enough soap to wash something like that out.