it s like trying to fit five families in a house. you know, it just don t work. and you have, you know, animosity and people getting up in each other s faces and trying to kill each other. whenever you have that many personalities clashing, it s gonna happen. narrator: and less than 24 hours earlier, ben thompson, serving time for burglary, was at the center of one such clash. yesterday, i guess it was my eighth day here. chow! make sure you got your. they holler chow. i get up and get my tray, and i hear somebody say something to me when we re in line, but i didn t really pay attention. i was half asleep. and i walked back to my place, and i m sitting there, and this guy he says, either you re gonna give me some of your food or you got to get up. and i said, hey, if you touch my food, we re gonna have a problem. and he proceeded to touch my food.
it s like trying to fit five families in a house. you know, it just don t work. and you have, you know, animosity and people getting up in each other s faces and trying to kill each other. whenever you have that many personalities clashing, it s gonna happen. narrator: and less than 24 hours earlier, ben thompson, serving time for burglary, was at the center of one such clash. yesterday, i guess it was my eighth day here. chow! make sure you got your. they holler chow. i get up and get my tray, and i hear somebody say something to me when we re in line, but i didn t really pay attention. i was half asleep. and i walked back to my place, and i m sitting there, and this guy he says, either you re gonna give me some of your food or you got to get up. and i said, hey, if you touch my food, we re gonna have a problem. and he proceeded to touch my food. narrator: thompson rises from
it s like trying to fit five families in a house. you know, it just don t work. and you have, you know, animosity and people getting up in each other s faces and trying to kill each other. whenever you have that many personalities clashing, it s gonna happen. narrator: and less than 24 hours earlier, ben thompson, serving time for burglary, was at the center of one such clash. yesterday, i guess it was my eighth day here. chow! make sure you got your. they holler chow. i get up and get my tray, and i hear somebody say something to me when we re in line, but i didn t really pay attention. i was half asleep. and i walked back to my place, and i m sitting there, and this guy he says, either you re gonna give me some of your food or you got to get up. and i said, hey, if you touch my food, we re gonna have a problem. and he proceeded to touch my food. narrator: thompson rises from
it s like trying to fit five families in a house. you know, it just don t work. and you have, you know, animosity and people getting up in each other s faces and trying to kill each other. whenever you have that many personalities clashing, it s gonna happen. and less than 24 hours earlier, ben thompson, serving time for burglary, was at the center of one such clash. yesterday, i guess it was my eighth day here. chow! make sure you got your. they holler chow. i get up and get my tray, and i hear somebody say something to me when we re in line, but i didn t really pay attention. i was half asleep. and i walked back to my place, and i m sitting there, and this guy he says, either you re gonna give me some of your food or you got to get up. and i said, hey, if you touch my food, we re gonna have a problem. and he proceeded to touch my food.
make sure you got your. they holler chow. i get up and get my tray, and i hear somebody say something to me when we re in line, but i didn t really pay attention. i was half asleep. and i walked back to my place, and i m sitting there, and this guy he says, either you re gonna give me some of your food or you got to get up. and i said, hey, if you touch my food, we re gonna have a problem. and he proceeded to touch my food. narrator: thompson rises from his seat. seconds later, the other inmate, keith reeves, appears to put a hand in his face, and thompson strikes back. i punched him in the mouth like four times, and then he tried to take another tray and pour it overtop of my head. and then i got him in a headlock, and i just choked him out. narrator: other inmates step in to break up the fight when an off-camera officer arrives and threatens to use pepper spray. after initial interviews with both inmates, staff identified reeves as the aggressor and