you re done. good to go. all right. i felt like just cooperating. i don t know. just seemed like the better thing to do at the time. my bunky, i m done with him. we can t associate anymore. while battaglia s relationships in the jail might have landed anymore segregation, william bernard s have resulted in violence. he was recently assaulted in his housing unit. inmate gomez mow lapolanco assaulted inmate bernard. he was on the ground and out of it. once it was called out, we were probably inside less than a minute after the fight was called out. bernard was laying on sitting on the ground, he looked dazed. once the officer saw it, they both ran away. gomez polanco ran to a cell that wasn t his and rivera ran to his cell. it was a little chaotic but for the most part i tried to be
used to cut his hair. my barber, he stabbed somebody 27 times. they wound up taking him out of the unit. then he bailed out of there and got in a fire fight with police officers and got shot 27 times. my bunky before kidnapped somebody at gunpoint. was doing all types of drugs. he was doing robberies. so you just you don t know who you re sleeping with. one of the times bernard does leave his cell is to perform his duties as united maintenance worker, but he says even that led to trouble when another inmate got angry because bernard threw away the lid to a soup bowl. he came up behind me and just smacked me and smacked all the stuff out of my hands so it was all over the floor. because of his fear of being a snitch, bernard says he does not report his harassment to staff. and he says it was another set of problems in the free world that put him in this predicament.
more than likely not because of the small amount that was coming in. and being that the return address is phony there s no way to determine who actually sent it in. but battaglia does not know that yet. if they find me guilty i m going to be upset because i can t risk another charge. instead of criminal charges back tag leia and his cellmate, who requested to remain anonymous, will each be investigated and receive disciplinary hearings. how are you going to fight this case? my words. i m going to tell the truth. the first place i would look is the bunky. coming up when you moved into the cell with battaglia, are you aware of him doing that? battaglia s bunky speaks out. and william bernard is the subject of a jailhouse rumor. he said that you re a [ bleep ] snitch. and the rumor leads to violence.
15. that s frustrating these dudes. on a good day, too much idle time can invite mischief. there is a lot of sex in prison. they masturbate, curse you out, call you all types of names. idle hands is the devil s playground. on a bad day too much time can lead to demand. i m making a weapon right now. i m melting the plastic down into a shape. there was a slashing over in badger section. involved hispanics. i got into an altercation with my bunky. i ended up stabbing him. i found two razors and these can be melted into a real good slashing instrument. it s aggressive. it s dangerous. it s violent. from the day i stepped in here, i ve been looking for a way out. it s action, it is real action. the inmates that are here, they re not here for going to church. at kentucky state penitentiary, some inmates can
shocking. you had to wonder what was going through that guy s head to do that to himself. he stood out. when i first saw jonathan walking down the corridor it was like, whoa, i ve seen some some odd-looking dudes in prison, but i think he was one of the oddest. richardson is serving a 55-year sentence for a murder he committed at the age of 19. when we met him, he was assigned to the secured housing unit or shu for the violence he committed behind bars. in this never before seen interview, he explains what happened. i got into an altercation with my bunky, i ended up stabbing him. he had wanted certain sexual favors.