yeah. i feel you. all right, man. all right, peace, bro. he s doing well. the only advice, the only thing i can tell him is just stand tall, be strong, let this thing work itself out. it s a hurting thing to see him behind bars and he s not free. there s always a question in your mind because you could potentially lose a loved one for the rest of their life. you just don t know. you re never prepared for this. coming up, a major development in carlton solomon s case. and we were together for a month and five days. what s your longest relationship? a month and five days. melvin gathers says good-bye. this hurts the most.
guilty. just understand, this is just a period of time in your life. this is not your whole life. just a bump in the road, man. yeah. i feel you. all right, man. love you, man. all right, peace, bro. i think the visit went very well. the only advice, the only thing i can tell him is just stand the only advice, the only thing i can tell him is just stand tall, be strong, let this thing work itself out. it s a hurting thing to see him behind bars and he s not free. there s always a question in your mind because you could potentially lose a loved one for the rest of their life. you just don t know. you re never prepared for this. coming up, a major development in carlton solomon s case. and we were together for a month and five days. what s your longest relationship? a month and five days. melvin gathers says good-bye. this hurts the most. i tried to quit with the patch; that didn t work. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking.
quickly. i was running for some facing six counts of armed robbery and several related charges, melvin gathers case has also been lengthy spanning two years now. most of his time has been spent in disciplinary segregation where he sometimes walks around the barren rec yard during his one hour per day outside his cell. what can you see from in here? grass. freedom. a sense of freedom. when i see the grass, i think of another chance. in the penitentiary, it s not granted that you see another chance. the only thing you see in the penitentiary and another facility to another facility. when i look outside, it flashes will i be able to touch the outside society freely again? it gets emotional sometimes, you know, because that s my life. that s the first leaf i seen in a long time, brother. [ bleep ]
what s up? you doing all right? i ve known his family for some time because we ve been in school together from middle school throu high school. by knowing his family, it helped in being able to talk and engage in conversation. sergeant kitchings hopes that officer greene s relationship with gathers will provide insight into gathers role with the game folk notion. a set of gangs under a common name, folk nation, black gangster disciples, manic, latin disciples. out of chicago, they fall under the umbrella of folk nation. we have documented cases of a leader of a gang sending out orders to members to assault other inmates. we ve had some members get caught up with smuggling contraband to the facility. they have assaulted staff before. so they get it can be a real big problem. melvin gathers, he is a second lieutenant in folk nation. he is considered one of the higher ranks. when its come down to his gang
i choose to disguise myself to give the law a little bit more of a challenge to identify me. prosecutors say this security camera image shows gathers on the right and his co-defendant on the left. both in disguise at the scene of their latest robbery. you got to the explain this to me. well you have to explain this to me. they saying that could be me. but it s not for sure that they know that it s me. that s my statement. and that s what s going to court. coming up you actually put an order out for someone to be punished from here. it was more so like a warning. melvin gathers plays a game of cat and mouse with dangerous implications. and i didn t do nothing. we got dirt roads and trouble. a young man from one of the nearby islands faces the worst trouble of his life.