department of corrections. the worst behaved prisoners end up here. those that pose the greatest threat to other inmates and staff are segregated in house one, the lockdown unit. basically, minimum rights. though are in their cells for 23 hours a day. on the day we wanted to interview them, house one inmate antonio robertson, was in an especially foul mood. [ bleep ], [ bleep ] hey, calm down. calm down. every one of you [ bleep ] i want to start with i want to tell her, dude, you got tell her we need more food. what do you want to know? roberson, serving a 60 year sentence for murder, had spent most of the last two years in house one. why are you in there? in house one? it s a long story. i been being assaulted and so i assault people back. okay? i m about taking care of my stuff. i refuse to let myself be assaulted and not fight back. roberson not only fights with other inmates.
maximum security penitentiary. we are the end of the road for the state of alaska, department of corrections. the worst behaved prisoners end up here. those that pose the greatest threat to other inmates and staff are segregated in house one, the lockdown unit. basically, minimum rights. though are in their cells for 23 hours a day. on the day we wanted to interview them, house one inmate antonio robertson, was in an especially foul mood. [ bleep ], [ bleep ] hey, calm down. calm down. every one of you [ bleep ] i want to start with i want to tell her, dude, you got tell her we need more food. what do you want to know? roberson, serving a 60 year sentence for murder, had spent most of the last two years in house one. why are you in there? in house one? it s a long story. i been being assaulted and so i assault people back. okay? i m about taking care of my stuff.
[ bleep ], [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. calm down. calm down. every one 6 you [ bleep ] [ bleep ] i m going to start with you guys are [ bleep ] we need more food. what do you want to know? robertson, serving a 60-year sentence for murder has spent most of the last two years in house one. why are you in here? in house one. it s a long story. i been being assaulted, so i assault people back. okay? about my stuff. i refuse to let myself be assaulted and not fight back. robertson not only fights with other inmates. he fights with staff as well. i was disrespected. i decided to make the guys do a cell extraction. masks on. days before our interview, the prison s correctional emergency response team had to forcibly remove robertson from his cell for refusing to follow orders. these cell extractions are videotaped by the prison for
legal reasons. this use of force is authorized by the superintendent extraction team officers always prepare for anything the inmate might have in store for them. we ve been advised by the house staff that he has prepared feces and urine for us. because they disrespected me, all this cuff up, robertson. see they want to talk all that mess. and in front of all these prisoners, and may be a little like if you want to cuff up. i said no i don t want to cuff. no i m not going to cuff up. you disrespected me. we re going to do this. cuff up. with robertson still refusing orders, the extraction team disperses pepper spray into his cell. but it appears to have little effect.
from his cell and cuffed. robertson is then taken to a holding area to rinse the pepper spray from his eyes and face. oh, my gosh. are you guys going to leave me here forever? no, no. you could at least be proud that i fought back, i wasn t like a girl. [ bleep ] everybody okay? nobody really got hurt. well, i didn t get hurt. because i ain t trying i m not trying to really get hurt until i m ready to get hurt. but if i do get hurt, well that s just one of the consequences of doing battle. not far from robertson s cell