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.
it s a glamor job but 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 him. 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, ain 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
we first met stone three years earlier during our extended stay shoot at indiana state prison. it s a glamour job but 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 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 has developed a workout routine he can do inside his cell. water bottles. all water bottles. getting it closed is the problem. one set of everything every day until i burn out. i don t do a certain amount. i do them till i can t do them no more. and i record how many i do of each thing each day. then the next day my goal is to do one more better than what i did the day before. you can t get it out there at rec. there s too many people out there in that little closed area and the weights out there ain t real weights. i like something lifting where you concentrate on the weight, work your body. not work out with training wheels. put it back here behind my arms like so. after you get to a number that s just unbelievable, then you start walking around wearing a cape because you re like superman which i ain t reached that level yet. i m still in the bat cave.
out of trouble for this many years. because i don t want to stay here. i don t think anybody wants to stay here. i got plans, i got goals and i m looking to get out and go for them. 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