you know what i m saying? won t be long i ll have him on some watermelon hooch. like stone, inmate christopher trotter has been behind bars since the mid 1980s. i came into prison to serve a four-year prison sentence for petty theft. i came in with four years and ended up with 142 years. that s what could happen in prison if you make the wrong choice. it has consequences. the wrong choice trotter refers to was being one of the instigators of a 1985 riot at another indiana prison. seven corrections officers were stabbed. two others and a counselor were held hostage for 15 hours. it was a pretty massive riot that they had at that time and chris trotter was one of the main players in that. and since then, trotter has done
and makes it sort of hard to keeping yourself in shape. you see a lot of guys that s been here after two or three or more years and they get that couch potato look on them, you know, hang gut and all that there sagging everywhere. me? i like to try to keep myself in shape. at indiana s maximum security wabash valley correctional facility most inmates work out either on the outside recreation yard or inside on weight machines. but not james stone. i got 16 workouts i do in here. using the bag and the box. after 26 years in prison, stone has developed a workout routine he can do inside his cell.
but folsom s goals are dependent on his ability to stay out of trouble, which in prison isn t always easy. i stay reserved no matter what. i mean you never want to put yourself on the line, because you know when something hits the fan then you re left out to dry. you know, you re just hanging there. i mean these people they don t care nothing about you. there is one inmate whose advice folsom values. one of the few i talk to, i call him stone. he has been down a long time. if you look at his record that is not someone who wants to stay out of trouble you would want to hang around with. but i mean really the guys that have been in trouble before that have been down 20 or 30 years they came in at my age. they took the wrong path at that time and they don t want to see me take the wrong path so they re guiding me the right way. going to stoneyland. taking you to stoneyland. look at that little vein. what the hell? you got a vein popping out, dude. you know that? your brain.
there s no hard labor here. and makes it sort of hard to keeping yourself in shape. you see a lot of guys that s been here after two or three or more years and they get that couch potato look on them, you know, hang gut and all that there sagging everywhere. me? i like to try to keep myself in shape. at indiana s maximum security wabash valley correctional facility most inmates work out either on the outside recreation yard or inside on weight machines. but not james stone. i got 16 workouts i do in here. using the bag and the box. after 26 years in prison, stone has developed a workout routine he can do inside his cell. water bottles. all water bottles. getting it closed is the problem.
somebody s got to do it. when stone first came to prison he was an admitted thug, who fought frequently. where you going, big buddy? but the james stone we met considered himself a changed man, thanks to indiana state prison s cat adoption program. he s my little buddy. i depend on im. he s more dependable than anything i got in here. i mean, he takes a lot of the anger and temper away. makes it easier to cope in here. stone has been at wabash for a year and a half ago now. i talk to guys that come in here from all the other prisons that recognize me say hey, you re the cat man, aren t you? i m like, dude, really? best thing i can do is say i m him, meow, see you later. the transfer occurred after a staff member reported stone had threatened him. stone denies the allegation but a much bigger concern was leaving his cat jinkster behind. they don t allow cats down here so i couldn t bring him with me.