our crew caught up with him on a monday morning trying to resolve an incident. it was a use of force that i got a call about yesterday. this guy acting out, cell cleanout day. he refused to give the broom back. actually ended up taking him out of the cell, putting him outside. he often has uncooperative inmates moved to outdoor holding cages this will they calm down. this time it caused more problems. once we got him outside. he refused to come back inside, refused to be uncuffed. he s high strung. agitated a lot. floods his cell. he does things basically to irritate the staff. sometimes he has rhyme or reason for it, sometimes he doesn t. our crew followed along as culliver went to confront the inmate, james broadhead. the officer gave me the broom. getting ready to clean my cell. the broom had too much straw on it, right. so i asked him, can i get another broom. he told me nah.
there s a corrections officer and an inmate together, they ll pretty much watch their ps and qs. they ll tell you into the camera what the other guy wants to hear. but when we met carter hill, we got some real brutal honesty that day in the kitchen. i don t know if y all are going to print this, but right now, like when i first came in 82, we had guards. later on, became the cos. now i look at him and he got gang members in green suits. but hill was willing to make an exception for officer epperson. this man here, he s fair. he treats me like a human being. that s a rare occurrence around here. this man here, he s all right. all right? all right. i m all right. i live here. i can t say too much more than that. but he all right, you know? i give these inmates nothing more than what the state says they have coming. if i can give it to them, i give it to them. if they don t have it coming, they don t get it. but because i give him what he s got coming, nine times out of
flies with sugar than salt. but then you have to realize i got possession of a knife case in september. but then you have to realize too, the inmates that are here, they re not here for going to church. a lot of them have preyed on other people. warden culliver tells it like it is. he s an ex-correctional officer that became a warden and was down there in the trenches. you re all right. you look ragged, man. every time i see you, you look ragged. you don t try to do no better. you ve been out here working all night. you need to shave [ bleep ]. i have. i m a slave up there in that kitchen. please. he cared about his inmates and he wanted them to do well and it pissed him off when they screwed up. how? you just came back out of lockup. that was nothing. culliver became warden in holman in 2002 when the
stay down! alarms signaling a major disturbance are common at corcoran. inmates who don t hit the ground risk getting taken down by staff. see that? you had everybody hitting the ground. you had the correctional officers telling them what to do. everyone was yelling and screaming. and it was intense. when officer tells you to get up, you can get up. until then you don t move. get up. get up. back in the order you were at. there were a couple kids that were shaking. it wasn t the field trip they thought it was going to be. i ll get you something. feeling a little sick. oh, okay. the next stop does nothing to calm nerves. the prison gymnasium has been converted into a dorm because of overcrowding.
thing. he says, do you know how long it s been since i ve seen a tree? the last time i saw a tree? oh, it s been years. years. it s been years since i saw a tree. when was the last time i interacted with some people? years. but some of the staff here believe brown earned his shu term. serving a 40-year sentence for rape, brown landed in the shu when he assaulted an officer at another prison. me and another guy was frustrated one morning. we went to breakfast and an officer had really been aggravating me. the guy that was with me, he beat one police up and i beat another police with a brick. and i hurt him pretty badly. so do you think anyone deserves to be in here? in here? of course not. of course not.