the cuyahoga correction center is located in the heart of downtown cleveland. inside the walls it s a gang known as the heartless felons that keeps big sam mcclaren busy. the heartless felons is a big problem. one, there s so many of them. step back. i wouldn t be surprised if we didn t have 400 heartless felons here. they have a thing they called the tenderizer. you can put a tenderizer on meat to soften it up, anybody they have a target for, they tenderize them. picking at you. walk by and slap you, get you angry, you either going to fight back or you re going to give in. this is what they re good at. i call it a tenderizing process. they come in and say i want your commissary, gave it here. i want your food tray, give it here. you don t do anything about it, they got you. lockdown. lockdown.
there are more than 2,000 inmates and 700 staff people at the cuyahoga correction center in cleveland. one person makes his presence like no other. eric ivey is our operations warden. he daily is in jail. and i mean, he s in the jail. he will make rounds nearly from the time he gets here in the morning, till the time he leaves. how you doing, bro? good. he is an individual who has a military background. he s very polished. you got the sheet on the bed but you ain t got your blanket on there. tie that up for me, sir. yes, sir. i appreciate it. thank you. he is also somebody who can get to the level of any inmate in here. gave me you want me to address those issues? we will. we re going to deal with you the way you deal with me. i m going to always respect you i m going to start off that way. because if you respect me then
there are more than 2,000 inmates and 700 staff people at the cuyahoga correction center in cleveland. one person makes his presence like no other. eric ivey is our operations warden. he daily is in jail. and i mean, he s in the jail. he will make rounds nearly from the time he gets here in the morning, till the time he leaves. how you doing, bro? good. he is an individual who has a military background. he s very polished. you got the sheet on the bed but you ain t got your blanket on there. tie that up for me, sir. yes, sir. i appreciate it. thank you. he is also somebody who can get to the level of any inmate in here. gave me you want me to address those issues? we will. we re going to deal with you the way you deal with me. i m going to always respect you i m going to start off that way. because if you respect me then we re going to get along.
the cuyahoga correction center is located in the heart of downtown cleveland. inside the walls it s a gang known as the heartless felons that keeps big sam mcclaren busy. the heartless felons is a big problem. one, there s so many of them. step back. i wouldn t be surprised if we didn t have 400 heartless felons here. they have a thing they called the tenderizer. you can put a tenderizer on meat to soften it up, anybody they have a target for, they tenderize them. picking at you. walk by and slap you, get you angry, you either going to fight back or you re going to give in. this is what they re good at. i call it a tenderizing process. they come in and say i want your commissary, gave it here. i want your food tray, give it here. you don t do anything about it, they got you. lockdown. lockdown. that sort of activity has already led to unit 10-c being put on lockup status. now one floor below in unit 9-c
cabinet position for christie, revealing only that some decisions have already been made. now back to lockup. announcer: due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. inside cleveland s cuyahoga county correction center, walter cooperwood, an admitted boss of the heartless felons gang, is allowed one hour a day to spend outside his cell. he was put on 23 and 1 lockup status for fighting. let s get something straight right now but recently warden ivy put the entire unit on lockup after members of the heartless felons began preying on other inmates. this is my house, understand that? this mine. turn around and face the wall. it s his house. he can have it.