yes. family problems and all. there s anger right there. so i ain t going nowhere. yesterday, we had about eight slots that weren t full. since last night, about 9:30 when we brought another young offender in here, it went full tilt. we went from 17 to 24. we are now full. it s just one of those days, when it rains, we don t have enough buckets. just two cell doors down from this teenage flight risk is 18-year-old kenneth howell. trying to find some way of getting out. howell made his first move to scale the pendleton fences at the crack of dawn. almost made it over that time.
right out of their own cells. this was made by an arian brotherhood member in a security housing unit. they re in there with nothing, certainly nothing to cut through metal. this guy, he got ahold of some kind of cutting agent. the cell doors is all mild steel. if you take a spring clip like part of a fingernail clipper and that is spring steel, hardened skill and they ll sharpen that, they ll cut the weapons right out of their cell doors. they ll simply choose a section of the door and scribe on the door the same size as a weapon that they want to cut and they ll just keep scribing it until it cuts all the way through the mild steel. when gang members in the pelican bay shu make weapons, they re expected to use them. i was involved with the aryan brotherhood back in 1984 when i was at folsom prison. you know, we had some work that needed to be tended to.
members still find ways to make weapons, sometimes carving them right out of their own cells. this was made by an arian brotherhood member in a security housing unit. they re in there with nothing, certainly nothing to cut through metal. this guy, he got ahold of some kind of cutting agent. the cell doors is all mild steel. if you take a spring clip like part of a fingernail clipper and that is spring steel, hardened skill and they ll sharpen that, they ll cut the weapons right out of their cell doors. they ll simply choose a section of the door and scribe on the door the same size as a weapon that they want to cut and they ll just keep scribing it until it cuts all the way through the mild steel. when gang members in the pelican bay shu make weapons, they re expected to use them. i was involved with the aryan brotherhood back in 1984 when i was at folsom prison.
it wasn t easy to kill him in the sense that like you see it on the movies, how guys cavalierly kill people. wasn t like that for me. i remember planning it out. he was a senior member of the snm. but in the 80s, around the time of the prison riot, he was also a member of the nuestro familia. you can t do that. you can t be from two cliques. you just can t. word was put out to kill the guy. i happened to be in the jail with him at that time when the word was put out. there was consistency with the corrections officer, so we had the same officer coming in four or five days a week. then he d have two days off. he would then come back on. i studied him and his mannerisms and his behavior. once i arrived at the point which i felt comfortable, i made my move. it was after they opened up all the cell doors for evening chow. while everybody was eating, i took animal histories into his room. i sat down next to him on his
violence. showed up, saying that macbeth sent him. it was about shakespeare. it was really bizarre. because the inmates are not allowed out of their cells. so they re having this lively conversation through the pie flaps in their cell doors, but other than that, it was like being in a college classroom, listening to a literary debate. the general and he got, he got, i think he might have been prepared for that, so when it came, he would have been, like, my god, how you doing? you know what i m saying? through a program called shakespeare in the shu, inmates here have a brief escape from the relentless boredom of being locked down. indiana state university professor laura bakes started the program. i went door to door, cell to cell and had experiences like walking up at one cell and completely unannounced, mentioned shakespeare and the offender started quoting from shakespeare.