what i m doing right now is re-dyeing this saddle. reconditioning it, refurbishing it. i cleaned it, restripped it of all the old finish on it. and i put new dye on it. dyeing it black. in here it take me four months. to do a saddle. i will be 70 in a couple months. i ll be in 24 years this june, doing life without. i got a violent crime. this is my sanity here. you know, getting up here, working. you can get your mind off of what prison is and just relax. i just enjoy doing this. it s therapeutic for me. donald pippin meets with dr. holbrook for the last time before he s released from holman. hey. mr. pippin, how are you doing today? good to see you. i wrote my aunt. she wrote back and said i had a place so i m going to stay with her. that s a for sure thing? yeah, that s a for sure thing. you can call her.
vehicles. hell, my rights, you know, they took everything. this is what i will be taking out of prison. everything i own will be in here, letters and stuff i bought a long time ago. this shower bag. that s the only thing i m getting out of prison, a leather bag and myself. but then a phone message comes into holman that can provide the answer to donald s search for a new home. hey, your father called today. who? your father. he said he didn t forget your birthday. he s made several attempts to send you a letter. he said happy birthday. he changed his mind. he s going to give you a second chance. if you re sincere about getting out and coming to work, coming to oklahoma. oklahoma? i ain t going to no oklahoma. that s where your father is and has his own business, right? right. he says you re more than welcome to come when you get out on the 4th. you re welcome to come home, but only if you plan on doing right. that s a stretch.
everything. i had a house about three blocks from the beach in navarre and i was doing pretty decent, you know. when i came, they stripped all that away, all my clothes, vehicles. hell, my rights, you know, they took everything. this is what i will be taking out of prison. everything i own will be in here, letters and stuff i bought a long time ago. this shower bag. that s the only thing i m getting out of prison, a leather bag and myself. but then a phone message comes into holman that can provide the answer to donald s search for a new home. hey, your father called today. who? your father. he said he didn t forget your birthday. he s made several attempts to send you a letter. he said happy birthday. he changed his mind. he s going to give you a second chance. if you re sincere about getting out and coming to work, coming to oklahoma. oklahoma? i ain t going to no oklahoma. that s where your father is and has his own business, right? right.
this is lockup: holman, extended stay. of the nearly 1,000 inmates at holman state prison, several hundred are segregated for breaking rules on the inside. for inmates with violent crimes and no parole dates in sight, their minds require distractions to stay sane. never a dull moment. whether it be the friend next door or the relative hundreds of miles away. i want him closer to home. and when these comforts are taken from them, the results can be explosive. administrative segregation, or ad seg, is where holman s most
meanwhile, back upstairs in ad seg, bobby s old neighbor, donald pippin, prepares to leave holman. in about 28 days, that it is eos, end of sentence. i get out of prison. in his criminal career, the worst crime donald committed was in jail. reg stayed in the cell and me and billy hid in the showers and reg s job was to get the attention of the guard and he beat on the door and he was a woman. and she turned her back. it was the easiest way out and billy grabbed her back of her arms just so she couldn t move. i put my hand on her shoulder and told her she wasn t going to get hurt, just give us the keys, you know. she gave us the keys and dropped the flashlight. she was scared. she was crying. [ bleep ] herself. but the fear made her do it, gave the keys up. although donald s discharge is days away, he has yet to find a place to live upon release. when i came to prison i had