sometimes. i m really nervous. i m really nervous. two years ago, officer karen tally was brutally assaulted and nearly died. today is her first day back behind the walls of b-cell house. karen originally started work at the prison in 1997. in the michigan city area there s not a lot of jobs and i had two small children and i had to find a job that could pay the bills, you know? and be able to support them. at the time officer talley was responsible for supervising b-cell house. an important part of her job was securing the inmates back in their cells with a system called rolling of the bar, an archaic locking device left over from an earlier era. that day it ran late and i said come on guys get in your cell, if you miss roll lines, you know what happens. i figured all of them would be in. i rolled the bar. bigger than anything here s three of them didn t make it.
you ve got to pick a line draw in the the sand and stick to it. you can t vary everyday. you can t be their buddy tomorrow and be hard on them the day afterwards. you have to stick to your guns and just hold true to what you believe in and just do your job. you don t have to be supercop, you just have to do your job. what s up mississippi, how are you doing? everything going good. yeah. all right. lieutenant edward howard currently runs c-cell house. c-cell house is the largest cell house in the state of indiana, second-largest in the nation. we have 3860 fenders here. i ve been here 13 years. i ve spent half of my time in this cell house. from an officer to a sergeant to a lieutenant and i ve always said if you can run this cell house you can run anything here. how are you? fine and yourself? good how are you doing? staying out of trouble. i see you re making your hollywood debut. is that what it is? my secret to running the c-cell house is respect, communicati
needed to do. do whatever i needed to do. i m more than willing to be in all the programs that i can find out there. do whatever i have to do to be part of my family s life and make up for the wrong that i done. done. prison saved my life. i hate to say that but prison save mid-life. how are you doing today? joseph monagan is serving a 60-year sentence for a murder he committed as a teenager. he wound up in d-cell house, a housing unit with a tough reputation. everybody kept telling me you need to come out of d, you need to come out of d. but i was so wild that i felt like, you know just coming out, going to like that was the thing to do. and a couple of the old school brothers, they kind of cornered me, they said we ve seen potential in you because it seems like you re leading this pack. they said you re going to