to alaska, they quickly realized they were about to enter a prison unlike any other. i would argue, spring creek correctional center is probably the most beautiful prison in the united states. we re located adjacent to resurrection bay. we have mountains. we have a river behind us. we have a glacier above us. the setting is just perfection. but inside the walls of spring creek, natural beauty gives way to the harsh reality of a maximum security penitentiary. we re at the end of the road for the state of alaska department of corrections, the worst behaved prisoners end up here. those who pose the greatest threat to other inmates and staff are segregated in house one, the lockdown unit. basically, minimum rights. minimum, they re in their cells for 23 hours a day. on the day we wanted to interview him, house one inmate antonio robertson was in an especially foul mood.
my life. i m a lover, not a fighter. because the fight allegedly took place inside a cell where there s no security camera coverage, jail officials cannot determine who started it. so both peppe and the other inmate have been sent to segregation, the 23-hour lockdown unit, for a period of five weeks. no one to play anything with, cards, checkers. anything, you know? isolation is not a nice place to be. they let you out for a shower, recreation a few times a week, and that s it. otherwise everything comes right to the cell. your meals are delivered here. caseworker comes by. nurse comes by. everything is delivered here. it s pretty dull. peppe s time in segregation might be even more stressful.
many of colorado s most violent convicts are sent to the limon correctional facility, a level four penitentiary on the eastern plains of the state. but when they get into trouble here, they go to administrative segregation, a lockdown unit where they spend 23 hours a day in their cells. segregation is basically the jail within the prison. and that s where some of the more colorful, disruptive types are housed. one of those inmates is jonathan hall. serving 40 years for murder. take that camera somewhere else. our crew first encountered hall while interviewing another inmate a few doors down. this is what i think of your story. i believe he threw well, he threw a liquid substance under the door. it smelled somewhat suspicious, so we re going to go report that. yeah, he threw pee under the door.
makes it easier to cope in here. because when i do feel like i m about ready to go and do something stupid or whatever, i just hold him in my lap, pat him, stroke him a few times, and you look at those big bette davis eyes and you think, hey, this guy depends on me. i ve got to take care of him. you know? while stone s cats might have helped to rein him in, it s hard to say what, if anything, will help josh harrison. after being caught with a knife, he has been confined to the prison s pre-seg lockdown unit located on the fifth floor of d cell house. and now he s in even more trouble. he s been asking about his cable all day. he has tv, but he doesn t have any cable. and he had mentioned that if he doesn t get his cable fixed by 5:30, he s going to burn the next officer down. meaning he s going to throw either urine or feces on the next officer or possibly the next worker that comes up there. while i was standing there trying to talk some common sense into him, he took his pipe f
are now locked up in our facility awaiting trial. ackerman, who prosecutors say was the ringleader of the murder, has been held in the men s lockdown unit where he has been confined to his cell 23 hours a day since he entered. the finger s been pointed. i ve been implicated in it. this is where i got to sit. thoughts of dimauro help occupy his time. this is rosana sitting on the back there. that s her on the beach of the coast of california. she took that part of my heart. just something you know that i ll never be able to let go. but dimauro doesn t share ackerman s passion. it wasn t intended on being a relationship. it was intended on being a one-night thing. we weren t together that long. just a couple months. so it wasn t something i was planning on going forward with.