and hillary clinton will not tef this week on a hearing on benghazi. she is still recovering from a fall and a concussion. first, let s get you back to our program. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates, lockup. as is the case at many maximum security prisons, some inmates locked up for rule infractions at alabama s holman correctional fassellety complain about unfair treatment. warden grantt culliver says they re not only fair, but reflect what the public expects of the prison system. once a year, every prisoner in holman comes up for a progress review before warden culliver and supervisor james powers. this is your annual progress
because of the foreboding appearance that it has. it s a serious place where serious things happen. this is a prison. the castle sits on 90 acres and has seven cell houses for its 900 inmates. nearly 40 inmates are secluded on death row. fewer than a dozen of them live in a minimum-custody facility. more than 200, those considered the most dangerous, are locked in solitary confinement in the segregation unit. basically, there are very few inmates that come directly to the kentucky state penitentiary. for the most part, inmates come to the penitentiary via other facilities that those inmates have either committed serious rule infractions, have long-term segregation sentences and/or have failed to adjust at other facilities and that s basically how they wind up here. we have some searches to do. glenn haverlan became warden
while general population prisoners eat in the mess halls, inmates locked up for rule infractions have their meals brought to their cells. all right, let s go if you re on chow carts. you got an apron on, you need to take your apron off. sergeant kimberly smith oversees the transport of food items to and from the kitchen. we re on our way to the unit three compound where the inmates do not come out of their cells to eat. they actually eat in their cells. all five chow carts will be taken to the gate on unit three and all the inmates will be given a tray through their hatch on their cells. once they have eaten, they will pick everything back up, everything will come back into the chow cart and brought back to the kitchen. it will be recleaned and sanitized to be used again for the next feeding. pretty decent. one of sergeant smith s most important jobs is keeping track of the many cooking utensils inmates use to prepare food.
every day at elayn hunt correctional center in louisiana, the kitchen staff is challenged with cooking for the facilities 2,100 inmates and the 750 correctional staff members who work here. over the course of a year, some 2.5 million meals are prepared by inmates in this kitchen serving staple foods and sides like cornbread and chocolate chip cookie can be expensive but they manage to keep costs down in part because they grow much of their own food on site. i m proud to say that we have one of the lowest food costs per day in the state. food casts $1.31 a day, not just one meal, but three hot meals a day. while general population prisoners eat in the mess halls, inmates locked up for rule infractions have their meals brought to their cells. all right, let s go if you re on chow carts. you got an apron on, you need to take your apron off. sergeant kimberly smith oversees the transport of food
processing, inmates are given housing assignments ranging from general population to more secure units. open front. because the prison has a zero tolerance policy for rule infractions, any form of misconduct can send a prisoner to extended lockdown where inmates spend up to 23 hours a day confined in their cells. d1 cellblock is the maximum security area of the institution. this is where we house the worst of the worst inmates, inmates that can t get along with other inmates within the institution. ryan stinson convicted of nine counts of burglary and possession of stolen property is in extended lockdown for breaking one of the prison s cardinal rules. i m in here for aggravated sex offense. copulation with another inmate. we was in a cell with each other and i did sexual favors for him. one night the sarge come down and caught us and locked us up.