refer to him as supreme. a lot of people call me supreme. supreme is the most high. i have a reputation that i must hold. officer last has observed gathers influence over other inmates. if they re all yelling and screaming, he can stop them. if they re all quiet and he s mad, he can start them, as well. i can direct an inmate, a brother, a person, even a non-disciple. if i was to send word to the street to handle anything that needs to be taken care of, it will get handled. several weeks earlier, an inmate tied to folk nation assaulted an officer in the jail. now sergeant kitchings wants to find out if gathers was involved. rumor has it on the street that he s been putting out orders to assault officers. hopefully we re able to confirm or deny that information today. good evening. how you doing, man? go on and have a seat, melvin.
the officer had suspended 30 minutes of gathers daily recreation time for refusing an order to return to his cell. he took 30 minutes of recreation of me. that s 30 minutes out of my day that i only can come out out of two hours. i feel like that s a big take. he was upset about it. he threw his cup full of juice on the officer. the officer backed away and hit his personal alarm. and inmate gathers hauled him behind the desk and physically started to assault the officer. it was really the wrong place, the wrong time for him. his actions disturbed me. i reacted. gathers finally complied with orders as backup arrived at the unit. with a complex case ahead of him, gathers could face a long stretch in jail. he and a co-defendant face 13 charges including six for armed robbery. prosecutors say they held up three businesses during a four-day crime spree. gathers pled not guilty but has
somewhere down the line, some thing shifted in his life. how it shifted, i don t know. i wasn t in the presence. why it shifted, i still don t know. i didn t know. i wasn t in the presence. but some things changed with him, but he s my son. he is my son. be right or wrong, he s still going to be my son. i know my dad knows in his heart that i ain t though killer. i know he knows that. i just really want to talk to him. that s the thing in my mind, have my dad think that. though carlton sr. couldn t meet with his son, in a few days he will return to visit him. but with carlton jr. denied bail, it could be years before he touches him again since murder trials rarely move quickly. i was running for some facing six counts of armed robbery and several related charges, melvin gathers case
allowed out at the same time, they inevitably draw each other s attention. [ laughter ] this the only unit this has male and females in it. and after a while, you can t prevent everything. i can t go past this blue. we try our best to stop inmates from going up to the door, but they watch us just as much as we watch them. and if we get distracted by something else, they ll run up. human nature. talking to somebody, especially when you re in a concrete room by yourself, you re going to find somebody to talk to. i love you. what s up? sometimes inmates communicate through the vent system. and since mcdonald s new boyfriend lives in the cell above hers, that gives them a direct line of communication. what you doing? speaking to you. they say that we re not supposed to communicate with the females. but it s to the point where you don t control it. we re in a vent together. you going to tell me to stop speaking in my room? mcdonald s new boyfriend is melvin gathers. you
because [ bleep ] had nothing to do with it, you know? if found guilty, solomon would be eligible for the death penalty. when i see these walls and i hear these people, i don t never thought any of this would ever happen, ever. carlton solomon is one of several inmates from john s island. most are familiar faces to officer greene who was born on the island and still lives there. john s island is a rural community. everybody is close knit, everybody knows everybody. i see people from home in here all the time. so if i see them at home, at the grocery store, they re like, i m out. you won t see me in there again. the when i see them again, it s like, let me tell you what happened. the melvin gathers, who is awaiting trial for alleged armed robberies is, also from john s island. what s up? you doing all right? i ve known his family for some time because we ve been in school together from middle