i shot one with a gun, shot one with a bow. but in the state of tennessee, you cannot shoot people regardless, in your house, on your property, or anything. if they re trying to come and rob you, they say to run. they say try to call the law or whatever. you cannot defend yourself in the state of tennessee no more. with some inmates when you hear their story, you don t know what s the truth, what s not. well, as we dug a little further into the story, it was like peeling layers of an onion a little bit. see, i had been up about seven or eight days at this time, too. if you ve ever been up that long, you know you re hallucinating. you know what i m saying? it turns out he was high on crystal meth. basically what i thought when they come in. i mean like i had friends running in and out all the time, you know. it was a bachelor house, you know what i m saying? and basically i thought they were just coming to rob me. i think things got out of hand for poor jason. shot one with
masturbate in the shower, i m not going to lie. all men s done it. all men in prison probably do it. after so many years eventually you re going to play with yourself or something. while davis and bishop were open and friendly during the interview, cameraman steve field was reminded that in prison, things aren t always as they seem. after we finished up the interview, we said our good-byes and jason davis extended his hand through the bars to shake, and i didn t think about it, but i shook his hand, and he grabbed me, and it was almost like he was trying to crush my hand, to the point he really wanted to hurt me. and it was that one moment, that one little moment where i thought uh-oh, what have i done? what have i done? that incident with jason davis always stuck with me and i always tried to figure out what the heck that was all about. was it to show me that he was in charge? i m with the camera, but he wanted to let me know, this was his house, and it may have just been a very m
prison is tailor-made to fit anybody. whether you re young, old, professional, non-professional, on skid row, white collar, blue collar, it s tailor-made to fit anybody. so don t think it won t happen to you. you commit this crime and you won t come in jail or go to prison, because you will. we met gwendolyn collins at the miami-dade county jail. my charge is second-degree murder. attempted or second-degree murder. the person is deceased. still awaiting her trial, she didn t want to discuss the details of her crime, but she was quite frank about everything else. what were you doing before you came in here? did you have a job? yes, i had a job. i was a professional escort. i had i was running my ads in playtime magazine and sex action magazine.
convicted. innocent of their crimes. they long for the day when they re free again. that s what made the case of richard z. hull so baffling. when we met him, ziggy was fighting to stay in prison. life out on the street wasn t all that great. so i just looked around me and say, hey, this is where it s at. we met ziggy at the river bend maximum security institution in tennessee, the last stop in a long life of incarceration. i ve been locked up virtually since age 12 in institutions and reform schools and prisons and penal farms, and i m in here this time for prying into an empty drawer in the lobby of a hospital. i received a life sentence under what they called the habitual criminal clause because i ve been convicted so many times before for theft, shoplifting,
i am in effect a child molester. according to police investigators, mckowen admitted to molesting 22 boys, both during and after his time as a priest. the statute of limitations had run out on all but one. it got him a 25-year sentence. i certainly had some anxious moments when i walked in because of the way child molesters are traditionally treated in prison, which is not very good, you know. but the truth is, i have not been mistreated at all, either by inmates or staff. mckowen is lucky, as sex offenders go. he s assigned to the prison s one minimum security wing where most of the inmates are more interested in going home rather than getting in trouble. it s not the only positive thing mckowen sees in his incarceration. i was a catholic priest for a long time.