this guy was trying to stab me, and i broke that stick over his head and got the knife from him, but all i can say is he probably was lucky that the stick broke. personally i try to treat the offenders the way they treat me. they treat me all right, don t give me a problem, then i m not going to give them a problem. but i ll tell you what, if they cross me, i can be their worst enemy. james stone is one of the offenders that used to test cabanaw s mettle. my first eight years here was very violent. that s what i did for a hustle. guys that were having problems that were owed money and couldn t get it, they d come to me and say, will you collect this for us? i d say, yeah, but i get half. i d go up there and split their wig and say, you got a week to get the money, or the next time i m not going to be nice. over the years, stone has grown less violent and more committed to his prison job, which today will take him to the fifth floor of i cell house. the intensive detention unit.
conceal the drug use, but actually to make it appear that he was using drugs in order to be denied parole and stay in prison. during our shoot, ziggy was facing a disciplinary board hearing for altering his urine test. let me see the text in the write-up here. in his hour of need, ziggy turned to an unlikely ally, fellow inmate and convicted serial rapist mark higgins. higgins prison job is as an inmate adviser, a sort of layman defense lawyer. therefore, inmate hall is being charged with dsa, drug screen alter. i did this for a reason, was because i m coming up for parole here in less than three months, and i needed a way to delay that, to delay getting out. i m not ready to get out. lieutenant vance, the d-board
been convicted so many times before for theft, shoplifting, and just being a pain to the members of society and midtown memphis. ziggy had grown accustomed to life in riverbend s minimum security unit. he has what he calls a cushy prison job, editing the inmate newspaper. my punishment is not going to begin until i walk out those front gates because this is the world i ve gotten used to since age 12. but when i get out there, it s an entirely different world, and it s a changed world, and to be honest with you, i m very, very scared. our crew would soon learn just how scared. every once in a while you meet an inmate who has been in prison so long, that they ve really developed a comfort zone. but ziggy took it to a new level. he apparently was sabotaging his own parole hearing by tampering with his urine test, not to
chairman, has a tendency to have an attitude of don t know, don t care, when it comes to your personal problems. all he really wants to address is what s in the write-up. ziggy faces several potential penalties for attempting to alter his drug screen, including time in the hole, a loss of his prison job, and even a judgment that can make his whole plan backfire, a transfer to another prison. that s one punishment i really don t look forward to is being transferred somewhere else. ziggy s reluctance to leave prison became all the more puzzling when we learned some of what he d endured during his 30 plus years of incarceration. i was not born gay and every relationship i ve had has been a forced type, a, well, this is what i have to do type of thing, but i didn t enjoy it. as a younger prisoner, i would be made fun of quite a lot, because the lord gave me a big
chairman, has a tendency to have an attitude of don t know, don t care, when it comes to your personal problems. all he really wants to address is what s in the write-up. ziggy faces several potential penalties for attempting to alter his drug screen, including time in the hole, a loss of his prison job, and even a judgment that can make his whole plan backfire, a transfer to another prison. that s one punishment i really don t look forward to is being transferred somewhere else. ziggy s reluctance to leave prison became all the more puzzling when we learned some of what he d endured during his 30 plus years of incarceration. i was not born gay and every relationship i ve had has been a forced type, a, well, this is what i have to do type of thing, but i didn t enjoy it. as a younger prisoner, i would be made fun of quite a lot,