Im tired of all these bars, watching my days and nights go by. A man my age, i should have a car, a house, wife, kids, job, big tvs, big couches. But i gave all of that up to live a life of gangbanging, drugselling, womanizing and streethustling. They always are asking for seconds. How are those eggs . Theyre not the best, but its better than nothing. Institutional eggs might not be considered comfort food, but few things at indiana state prison are meant to provide comfort. If anything comes close, its visitation. Youve both been here before, right . Yes, maam. Visitation is a valued privilege for inmates, but it can also be abused. Its the most common route for contraband to enter the prison. Theres going to be a visitor bringing contraband on a noncontact visit. An anonymous tip has internal affairs on high alert. If a pass takes place, were going to stop the contraband. If it is felony contraband, we may look at doing an arrest today on a visitor. Im known for gangbanging and calli
i know her but i m afraid she don t know me that much. it s going to be a big adjustment when i get out. it s something to work for when i get out. are you ready for your picture? yeah. visitation is a busy time for inmate paul komyatti. he works as the prison photographer. keeps my mind occupied. keeps me not counting the 6,147 hours that i have left in here. however you want to break it down. one of komyatti s assignments today is to photograph michael bollenbacher s family. but since visitation always poses a security threat, the family, including 2-year-old serenity, must first pass through security. you re a princess. pat you down. thank you. you re all done.
i ve got blood coming out and everything. my mom s like, look, you ve got to stop, you re going to kill him. komyatti was 16 when he joined his sister and brother-in-law in a plot to murder his father. it was decided, well, okay, we ll go ahead, get some ether, knock him out and inject air into his veins to simulate a heart attack. well, that didn t work. he woke up. got to struggling. got to hollering. i was at the end of the bed. i was holding his legs down. and so then my brother-in-law pulled out a knife and he got to stabbing him. i guess at least 34 stab wounds. and that was pretty much it. komyatti s brother-in-law then dismembered the body in order to dispose of it. so your dad was in a bag? eight bags. they buried the bags in the woods. komyatti says his mother did not participate in the killing but helped cover it up. me and my mom went to trial together. they found us both guilty of
arrives to capture the moment. i don t want to get that shot. she didn t take to him at first. she didn t want him to hold her. turn around here. look. we ll try later. we ll try later. fortunately, they get like a four-hour visit. so, hopefully, in the latter part of the visit, she ll be warmed up a little bit more to try again. but komyatti helps other families make the most of visitation. it s been 26 years since he s seen his own family. that s how long he s been in prison for participating in the murder of his father. my dad was an alcoholic. i was like a little kid, 7, 8 years old. i was crawled up under the kitchen table and he s got this belt with a buckle, putting marks all over my face and everything, all over my body,
freedom at a department of correction work release center. i ve been here a little over a month. the anxiety level was a little frustrating because i wasn t allowed to leave the center initially. that s a normal process. but at the same time, i just wanted to get out and take that first step on the sidewalk. to see the traffic lights, to have the cars going behind me. the best news for komyatti is that he s landed a job. he works at a rubber molding and fabrication factory. i m on a machine. and i ll inject rubber into a steel pipe. i ll put it in the oven, which is running at about 430 degrees. and it s on a carousel to roll around. i put that in the oven. the next pipe i pull, i put it on the soldering machine, take a pipe wrench, take the cap off, remove the rubber cord from there, put it in a box. put the cap back on and load it in the machine. when i load it, i ll pull the next one and just back and forth all night long. the first day was an unmitigated