to protect him. it means he ll be locked inside his cell 23 hours a day and allowed out only for a shower or supervised rec time. check the cell out over, make sure there ain t nothing in here. this is like a dungeon in a dungeon. i guess that s the price you pay before you either kill somebody or get killed. ronnie s story was not an unusual one for us to encounter. we ll start following somebody s situation and then it will completely go in another direction because prison life is pretty unpredictable. and what happens is, these guys basically not only have to face the consequences of their actions outside prison, but they often have to deal with them inside prison, as well. while prison officials developed a plan for shephard s safety, we were allowed to give him a videocamera to record a
because why should i feel sorry for myself when actually a lot of people were hurt? and the people whose lives can t be returned and the victims and their relatives, as well? and it just made me feel very sorry. these are things that can t be undone. but ever since then, i believe that the soul is immortal. and that helped me to come to terms with the idea that perhaps even the dead will be born again into a new life. but kuna was still making the most of his life. even behind the ancient walls of mirov prison. he had recently remarried. this time to a woman he met through an inmate pen pal program. translator: actually, with this hell i ve gone through, my life values were completely reversed. i realized that some kind of property and money and all that means nothing, compared to a healthy love. a person s health and love of life. i was aware of that. even when those things were happening. but you realize it in here.
tough [ bleep ]. i m going home. that s it, period. why would i lay in here and let you kill me, over something dumb? or do something to you over something dumb? shepard eventually met with prison officials to discuss his safety and even the possibility of transferring to another prison. what s up, cap? how are you doing, mr. shephard? how has everything been since you ve been up here? it s all right. i mean, it s solitary confinement, really, but if that s what i got to deal with until i go home, that s what i m going to do. because i m up on 900 days. and if it takes me staying in that cell until i go home to avoid all the craziness going on out there, do this or do that or get this or end up having this done to you, all that, they can keep all that. i m going home. okay. i will get with internal affairs. make sure we follow up and make sure all the paperwork is done appropriately.
ten-year sentence for burglary. i started drawing when i was 6 or 7 years old. my cousin, he drew a picture of batman. and i was like, what is that? you know? it was like a magic trick. and then he started teaching me how to draw and after that i just, i never stopped. unfortunately, goodman s love of art wasn t enough to save him on the outside. i started using drugs. i started being self-destructive. didn t care, you know, about who i am as a human being. was basically homeless. and was struggling with life in general. but in prison goodman rediscovered his passion. a friend of mine told me, since you re in prison, why don t you try to create work that s pertaining to your life? i was kind of like just fighting it. i m in prison.
beautiful little village of mirov. it was like being transported to another time. it was beautiful and quaint. there were none of the trappings i m used to, billboards, advertisement, fast food places. then on top of a mountain was this gorgeous old castle and that was mirov prison. inside this fairytale-like 13th century castle we had an encounter with a man whose life was anything but a fairytale. his name was vladimir kuna. i heard a lot about vladimir kuna when i got to mirov prison. he was one of the most notorious inmates housed there because he was such a high profile inmate he had to be taken into a specific cell before we were able to go in and interview him. so there was this big buildup about his notorious crimes. the violence. he was like a character out of goodfellas.