keep it in a certain amount of control. another inmate at kentucky state penitentiary who is no stranger to cell extractions is victor hiatt. prior to interviewing him, our producer was duly warned. victor hiatt is a very, very dangerous individual. probably the most dangerous individual in this institution. i remember watching victor being led to the interview. and he had such an intense security detail that it almost felt like i was about to interview hannibal lector, quite frankly. he was cuffed behind his back. but i ll never forget, it was like a normal, fiberglass and metal cafeteria chair. there was nothing special about that chair. and he wasn t chained to the chair itself. the chair was not secured to the ground in any way. i start to think to myself, here i am about to interview this guy. i m knee to knee with the most
was back in 92. we have never heard a more extreme account of gassing as the one described by kentucky state penitentiary inmate, fleece johnson. i asked everybody on the wall to [ bleep ] in a bucket. send it down to me. and i would take, two, three, light bulbs, put it in some toilet paper, step on it, break it in some little fragments, so when i throw it on them, they wipe it, it will cut into them and get in their blood. and i was standing there with a big old bucket of it and throw it in their face. they would just go nuts. and so the corrections finally made a law that made it a felony. and then that s when i stopped. coming up on lockup: raw. the most violent confrontations behind bars. cell extractions.
dangerous man in the state of kentucky. and he s not chained to anything. all of a sudden all of my questions, everything i prepared for the interview, went completely out of my head. victor, tell me what, originally what your crime was that brought you to kentucky state penitentiary, how long that sentence is, and then how long of that sentence you have served? i m in for murder. life sentence. convicted in 2001. are you proud of that notoriety? i mean, we ve heard you are one of the most dangerous guys here. how does that that s what i hear. i m actually one of the most laid-back guys here. as all officers, i ve received threats from different inmates for bodily harm. he s the only one that s actually ever tried to follow through with it. come on in! i ll show you what a redneck can do! hiatt s refusal to cooperate with officers has resulted in numerous violent cell
everything s uniform. it don t matter about what type of car you drive, what type of house you live in, how much money you got. that s kind of irrelevant in prison because it s a pecking order society. it s the strong, you know, and that s how you survive. before i met him, all i had was this image of this gruff, ripped guy who could take on the whole team of officers, and upon meeting him, i just was shocked to find out that he s actually kind of a calm and collected guy who is not this monster that you see on these cell extraction videos. i didn t even know how to turn the computer on until recently. what was most interesting to me about roy is he was just learning how to use a computer. and he had been told by everybody that he was somewhat famous thanks to the internet and these cell extractions that were on lockup. it s kind of fascinating to be able to talk to some of these people that i meet online and stuff, you know, to help me to adjust back into society because the
lockup. best known for the amount of cell extractions he s had in prison, and these are very dramatic cell extractions. so much so that they re in the opening title sequence of lockup. we found out that roy had been released from prison, and he was only a couple hours away living with his parents, and roy and ray are very close. so we decided we would go out and visit with roy and talk to him about his brother and about how it is being out of prison. roy slagle, who had served his time at a different prison than ray, had been out for four months at the time of our visit. but after nearly 20 years of incarceration, much of it in solitary confinement, he was still struggling with the transition to the free world. you go from a pecking order type mentality into an economic society, and it s tough, it really is, because everybody is wearing the same clothes,