my rank is boss. i m not at the top top. but i m one of the people that call shots. i want to be the hnic. i want to be the hnic, be the top man, al capone. walter cooperwood is awaiting trial on charges, including attempted rape and aggravated robbery and grand theft auto to which he has pled not guilty. he s also picked up an additional charge of felonious assault while in jail. it was a riot in the detention center. heartless felons versus, you know, just everybody else. that s not a part of a gang. my friend punched somebody and split his eye. when he punched him, he fell and i started stumping him, he went to sleep, so that s a felonious assault charge. since that assault, cooperwood has been segregated on 23 and 1 status, meaning he
i would say half is heartless felons, other half is general population. general population gets preys on by the heartless felons. sammy mcclaren is a veteran officer of 24 years. and the jail s gang investigator. heartless felons is one of the many gangs we have in the county jail, but they re the one we have the most problem with. they become very violent and persistent and they don t mind to letting people know what their agenda is. mcclaren says the heartless felons originated in 1999, inside the county s juvenile facilities. they felt they were getting disrespected and they felt they were being mistreated and tired of people messing with them. so they formed a group, which we know now as the heart less felons and they demanded to have respect. i came in when i was 15 years old and we had no family, nothing, no money on our books, nobody to care about us or whatever.
he knows he s caught. he knows i got facts on him. he knows i got the evidence on him. he can go back in that cell, sit in that cell, doing what he s doing, eating his bologna sandwich, eating on those carrots and drinking that milk, thinking about what he done did. after reviewing officer mcclaren s report, warden ivy has decided that each of the three men will join a large number of heartless felons on 23 and 1 lockup status. put me in the hole because somebody somebody got slapped in my pod! and they look at me, and the rest of them, because we young and black and we move a certain type of way. we ain t did nothing. what s up? ain t nothing going on. what s going on with you? okay i appreciate the compliment. i respect you. okay, all right. after two days on 23 and 1, williams is coping as best as he can, but mclemore, who was also interrogated about his role in
is only let out of his single-man cell one hour per day. and now, due to the recent problems in unit 10-c, many other heartless felons may soon find themselves living under the same restrictions. we just need to go all the way to 23 and 1, one person out at a time what we need to do over there. because we got to we got to get a grip on this. it s getting out of hand. associate warden eric ivy in charge of jail security. containing heartless felons has become aegul part of his job. we re goinghawith the rest o try to device a plan as to how we re going to do this. all right. we all pretty much know why we re here, right? i want to make a statement with these guys. i really do. i think we start with tennessee, because the word 23 and 1 travels. you re not just going to go to lockup and come out of lockup. if you identify as participating in gang activity, you re going to be up there in 23 and 1. since news of the 23 and 1 lockup may not go over well with
that if i do end up going to prison, you know, i m going to be in prison with these people. so again, i try not to think about it. i ll cross that bridge when i come to it. but you know, it s just something you kind of have to, you know, deal with when it happens. i got three individuals here, i m going to need to talk to. the jail s gang investigator big sam mcclaren, has been on the case, and knows the three inmates tied to dicillo s assault. we found out they were gang members through personal correspondence, witnesses. these two are the ones that everybody listens to. we use confidential informants. we have proof that these individuals are still active. these are heartless felons. no ifs, ands or butts. mcclaren will now interview all three inmates. first up is delvon mitchell. awaiting trial on charges of burglary and kidnapping to which he has pled not guilty, mitchell is the inmate whom dicillo says tried to force his way into his cell and then slapped m in the face.