they have all been through here. this is charles dikes fourth time in prison. he s facing five years for auto theft. i just finished a 12 year sentence in the northeast. i wasn t out a month and caught new charges. i lived my whole life as a criminal. most people, they fight with that every day. they say i m going to get out, i m going to do this. i m going to get out and do that. they can t come to grips with themselves and realize what they have become is this. this is what they breathe, they eat, they feel. just because they go home, don t mean they leave. their mind is still here. today dikes is being transferred to another state prison and has no regrets. what s your number? 375382. what s your birthday? 1/21/77. they told me i was leaving, come back, pack my stuff, and now i m sitting here ready to go. ready to get out of here? yeah. why is that?
it s a part of our everyday life. the roots run equally as deep for some of the inmates. everybody in my family has been through this place. brothers, cousins, uncles, grandfathers, fathers. they have all been through here. this is charles dikes fourth time in prison. he s facing five years for auto theft. i just finished a 12 year sentence in the northeast. i wasn t out a month and caught my charges. i lived my whole life as a criminal. most people, they fight with that every day. they say i m going to get out, i m going to do this. i m going to get out and do that. they can t come to grips with themselves and realize what they have become is this. this is what they breathe, they eat, they feel. just because they go home, don t mean they leave. their mind is still here. today dikes is being transferred to another state prison and has no regrets. what s your number? 375382. what s your birthday? 1/21/77. i m packed up and ready to go. ready to get out of here? ye
this place sucks. xm! if you don t try to better yourself while you re here, then you re stuck. you don t learn nothing from coming to prison unless you put your feet in the concrete and go to work. that s all i know. i mean, this is what i know. my fate s real, you know. if i get out this time, god only knows what will happen. i ll more than likely be back. because brushy mountain is an intake and processing center for tennessee s prison system, dikes, like most of the inmates, eventually transfers to other facilities. i was 18 years old some, like brian lautenslager, are part of a permanent population slated to serve their entire sentences at brushy. i ve been in prison all together 18 years. i come in when i was 18, got out
receding now. alicia acuna is live in minot for us now. reporter: hi, jon. the river did crest over the weekend, and the folks of minot are left with a raging river that is now going through their city and almost splitting it entirely in half. the banks of the souris are actually normally beyond that tree over there. this is usually the railroad tracks, parking and then if you take a look over here, this is a train depot. they have encircled it with an earthen dike and tried to protect it even more with the plastic because what s very important right now as it takes about two weeks for this water to really go down in any significant way is that it goes down, that the water doesn t pull the earthen dike in with it. that could create numerous problems in this aftermath. so right now the army corps of engineers, the national guard, they re all patrolling out there these earthen dikes that are out here because they need to maintain the stability of the
aren t work. it will be two week before they can get back into their homes. right now the governor is here in minot talking to people about making sure they get their federal assistance paperwork turned in and they get all the information they need because about 0 per of the people who live in minot don t have flood insurance. that s also a big issue they will address in the north dakota leg layture later this fall. take a look at what looks like a raging river. this is normally a street, railroad, parking lot. that s the train depot that they put a ring dike around. there is a 24-hour patrol of the dikes to make sure they maintain their integrity. if the water goes down there is a danger the dirt will fall into the river. just want to show you that tree way back there, gretchen, beyond that is the normal bank of the