they go along with being mentally ill. where a lot of people in general population don t understand that. i wish they had more programs like rtu all over, you know, the country because a lot of mentally ill people are ending up in prisons. for inmate joseph garner, processing his horrific crime has been the hardest part of his punishment. i have been down 9 1/2 years. i got 22 1/2 more to go. i ve been my crime is murder, and i cannibalized during the process. on christmas night, 1996, joseph thought his father was preventing the second coming of christ. i tackled him from behind and somehow got around behind him and slit his throat. and i remember him saying, please don t kill me. and that s when i realized, oh, my god, what am i doing? i said whatever is done has already been done. by this time, i m totally wigged out and i pulled his brain out,
you know, and took a bite out of it. joseph garner s treatment in the rtu helped him assimilate into the level four general population, but still he struggles with his crime. oh, it s it s heinous. if i had i believe in an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. if i had my way, i believe they should take my life. even though there were extenuating circumstances that were both mitigating and aggravating, still having crossed that line, it would, therefore, be that much easier to go back across. that s always the case. there s less inhibition to take another life now, especially even my own. i have threatened that several times. in the stressful and often predatory environment of this maximum security prison, the rtu is helping mentally ill inmates live a relatively balanced life. and hang on to a thread of hope for the future.
before our producer could bring him back to the details of his crime. what he told us was both shocking and disturbing. open up my i pulled his brain out and took a bite out of it. like frank street, garner was housed in the residential treatment unit, but it was clear that not only does he still struggle with what he did, he worries about what he still might do. oh, it s heinous. if i i believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. if i had my way, i believe they should take my life. even though there were extenuating circumstances that were both mitigating and aggravating that my judge was very pointed to point out, i still think, having crossed that line, it s therefore that much easier to go back across. there s less inhibition to take another life now, especially even my own. i ve threatened that several times.
got some new socks. that s what everybody s socks are looking like, like that. that s all i have to say. in the wake of interviewing frank street and hearing the graphic details surrounding his mother s murder, the lockup team never imagined we d encounter another inmate at wabash with a similar story. then we were introduced to 47-year-old joseph garner. i ve been down 9 1/2 years, have 22 1/2 more to go. i ve been my crime is murder, and i cannibalized during the process. garner killed his father on christmas eve 1995. at the time, he believed his dad was preventing the second coming of christ. again, we ll warn you, his
they go along with being mentally ill. where a lot of people in general population don t understand that. i wish they had more programs like rtu all over, you know, the country because a lot of mentally ill people are ending up in prisons. for inmate joseph garner, processing his horrific crime has been the hardest part of his punishment. i have been down 9 1/2 years. i got 22 1/2 more to go. i ve been my crime is murder, and i cannibalized during the process. on christmas night, 1996, joseph thought his father was preventing the second coming of christ. i tackled him from behind and somehow got around behind him and slit his throat. and i remember him saying, please don t kill me. and that s when i realized, oh, my god, what am i doing? i said whatever is done has already been done.