unit. after two inmates exchanged words, one threw his food tray at the other, triggering a brawl. following jail protocol, unit officers wait for the jail special operations crew or soc, to arrive. when a fight breaks out we call s.o.g. the unit officer, they re supposed to step back and clear the area. get everybody back to their cells. let the two combatants continue. only time we ll step in is if one of the combatants has a huge edge and the other is in danger. armed with less than lethal weapons, a s.o.g. officer arrives and orders the men to stop fighting. one inmate tries to comply. the other continues to fight. so the s.o.g. officer jolts him with an electrical shot from his taser. s.o.g. officers move one of the men out of the unit. having just been released from segregation, david ratliff is now on his way back. [ bleep ] what happened, man? i beat this dude s ass on the
this was taken probably about a year before everything happened. three years earlier, david ratliff sr. made headlines after a terrifying spree of violence ended in the devastation of his family. it was just all a nightmare. story you see in like a michael meyers movie. he was having a mental breakdown and i just i heard it in his voice. and the things he was saying. he felt that everyone was against him. and he shot and killed my grandma. my grandpa said that he also tried to pull the trigger on him as well, but the gun jammed. well, it doesn t stop there. he actually went on the run for a few days and no one knew where he was. people thought he fled to florida. we were in protective custody. we got escorted to my mom s house. we had cops outside. the police escorted us back
now a quarter, hey 26 and a quarter, do you wanna pay now, you wanna do it, 25 and a quarter- -sold to the man in the khaki jacket! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. david ratliff has just completed his 30 days of disciplinary segregation for fighting. the rec yard and general population is as barren as in general population, at least now he can walk it without handcuffs and shackles. feels good. it sure does. still jail, though, you know. so, it still sucks, but it s better than being just in jail and jail in jail. ratliff will be allowed much more time out of his cell and
he thinks i hate him. ratliff s mother, missy hayes, says he will not respond to his angry letters. personally i think it s manipulation at its finest. i know he feels hurt and lost and abandoned and all of that completely natural. that doesn t give him the right to be mentally or emotionally abusive to me. i think david has misplaced anger. he doesn t know how to handle what his dad did. he has never dealt with it. he put himself there. he s the only one that can pull him out of it. i cannot fix this. missy still lives in the home where her husband, david sr., fired the shots that forever changed her life. well, my mother was killed here. i was shot at the kitchen table. i m not going to let that take away from my home. he took enough. i love my home. i love coming home to my home. i m very proud of my home. this is my happy. this is my safety zone. believe it or not. you ve lost your mother in
he s in the house. he s shooting! he s shooting. i still didn t know that this was a gun that i was hearing. i didn t know that i had been shot. and my father came, grabbed me. we heard another shot. that shot was david killing himself. the tragedy sent missy s son, david ratliff jr. who, at the time was 21, on a downward spiral. 21-year-old man. how did you deal with that? not the right way. i started my drug use took a whole other level. i started shooting heroin, shooting whatever i could. i mean, that was it. i was numbing myself to complete numbness. kept coming to jail. kept getting other chances. what is your relationship with your mom now? after everything everything