body s case was recently reviewed and problems with the original evidence prompted the court to offer him a new plea agreement, one that would drastically reduce his sentence. they gave me 28 years with time credit for 18, so it put me real close in getting out. so i should be getting out pretty soon. once the prison calculates time reductions for good behavior, body could be out on the streets within weeks. it takes its toll on you, to be for real. it takes its toll on you, but i mean what can you do about it? and, you know, 19 years of doing time, you learn patience if you don t learn anything. as kenneth body looks forward to the payoff of patient persistence, another longtime inmate has learned that patience has a reward of a different type. our first introduction to billy hankins was in this startling
have my heaters for smoking please forgive me, for i have sinned journey with me let s take a walk pain got me feeling like you really ain t listening between them, kenneth body and billy hankins have endured more than 40 years in prison. come down here about three times a week, you know, to stay fit and to release stress. it helps you work off pent-up negative energy that you accumulate during the day dealing with [ bleep ]. only the strong survive, i m sure you ve heard that before. it s especially true in this environment. you never know when it s going to pay to be the stronger man. with no chance for parole, hankins survival in prison is a lifelong commitment, but his friend is planning a life on the outside. due to new evidence coming forth on his murder conviction, body accepted a plea bargain with a sentence reduction that could free him in the very near future, but now there s a snag going through some difficulty
our first introduction to billy hankins was in this startling prison surveillance video that we acquired from colorado state penitentiary in 2000. now older and wiser, hankins is an inmate at limon. this is my 43rd birthday. i think i ve been locked up, the only birthday i haven t been locked up for was my 26th birthday. other than that, ever since 1982, from juvenile i ve been locked up all the way to adult. i think i ve had one birthday on the streets. in what, 25, 30 years? so what are the plans for your birthday? fellows are making some burritos, but the meal at chow sucks today. it s pizza made with some kind of turkey. so we would be making burritos anyway. your future? what s the big sigh?
to get lifted jump in the swamp with gators have my heaters for smoking please forgive me, for i have sinned journey with me let s take a walk this pain got me feeling like you really ain t listening between them, kennith body and billy hankins have endured more than 40 years in prison. come down here about three times a week, you know, to stay fit and to release stress. it helps you work off pent-up negative energy that you accumulate during the day dealing with [ bleep ]. only the strong survive, i m sure you ve heard that before. it s especially true in this environment. you never know when it s going to pay to be the stronger man. with no chance for parole, hankins survival in prison is a lifelong commitment, but his friend is planning a life on the outside. due to new evidence coming forth on his murder conviction, body accepted a plea bargain with a sentence reduction that could
like my mullet? hankins was never interviewed about the assault until now. i can t believe i had my hair like that. limon officials allowed our producer to show him the episode of lockup in which it appeared. the video said one day i snapped. i didn t so much as snap as i made a conscious decision to attack him because me and him had had a confrontation a month earlier, so i put him on my list. you know, people that got it coming when i get a chance to get them, and i gave him seven stitches in his chin. you know, you do things and you look back on them and i can t believe i did that [ bleep ]. i didn t let people do things to me that i thought were disrespectful. i would fight at the drop of a dime with anyone, anytime, anywhere, you know. which i wouldn t do now. the assault on the officer resulted in hankins spending ten years in the stark, 23-hour-a-day lockdown cells at colorado state.