with as many as 48 violent teens kept in a confined area of the facility, the segregation unit has a society all its own. where cell phones and ipods are replaced by a fast-paced secretive practice known as cadillacing. sometimes it takes a while. you have to mash your mat up and put a string around it. get some toilet paper wet, get some cotton or paper around it, making it square, wrap a string around it and slide it out your door. so you can attach food and notes and things like that. strings come from the mattresses. they re hard strings so they can t cut you. they can t choke people. mostly they re used for trafficking. coming up the day that you walk through that front sally port and you are totally comfortable and not a little apprehensive coming through the front gate, might be time to look for another line of work.
clear conscience. in this room is the area that s where the drugs are actually administered, through this port here. also in this room, obviously, is a red phone. if there s a stay of execution or a change in order whatsoever, then it would be communicated through the red phone. once the execution s completed, the body of the inmate is brought through this door here out this door into the sally port where there would be an ambulance waiting to remove the body. i ve been in prison since 2000. i was arrested in june for murder. i was convicted of one homicide in 2002, another one in 2003. and a double homicide in 2005. and a have ongoing appeals and litigation concerning those. can you say under what circumstances this person was murdered? this man beat this woman to death with a sledgehammer because he wanted to have sex with her and she didn t want to.
that day the sheriff believes guerrero gets his wish. he goes back to jail. in ohio, two women fight to get out of jail. female inmates in a shocking jailbreak. i thought it was some kind of movie. i couldn t believe what i was seeing. by holding onto the bottom of a moving bus. only a stunt person would be able to try something like this. july 11th, 2005. downtown columbus, ohio. the franklin county courthouse. dozens of dangerous prisoners a day are transported from the county jails to the courthouse and back in a reinforced sheriff s bus. the bus sits in a locked and gated secure sally port. it s monitored by surveillance cameras, and it s equipped with steal bars on the doors and windows. amy morris was a homicide detective with the columbus police department. i ve never heard of anybody escaping from the franklin
thomas was trying to get officer whit in it looks like a choke hold. officer whit is able to push away from that. you see officer whit go to the phone trying to call for help. that phone is officer whit s lifeline, but before whit can make the call, thomas maneuvers behind him to take control, and that s when the fight takes a potentially deadly turn. he definitely did try to go for the gun. but the gun is not in the holster. mr. thomas thought that officer whit still had his weapon. earlier that night whit brought thomas in through the station s secure sally port. prior to bringing him into the booking area, he removed his handgun and put it in the gun locker. but thomas did not see the officer put his gun away, which is why he continues to go after it, forcing whit to turn and defend himself. the violence escalates. it was an all out fight. there was a lot going on. it looked like he was hit full force. officer whit isn t able to call for help, but dislodging the
this paper is submitted to social services. it goes into a box out in the sally port. and it gets picked up around 5:00 this afternoon. sit and wait. paul says a job would be a welcome distraction from the reality of the latest development in his case. i got my indictment. i m thinking, you know, maybe there was going to be two charges that i m going to have to look at. and when i looked at it, they had brought up five felony charges. hall s indictment includes first-degree murder, aggravated murder, domestic violence, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a corpse. if found guilty he faces a sentence as high as 15 years to life. i was hoping 10 years. and they say it is going to be a little bit more than that. i couldn t eat. i trembled. i just came in here and shut the door.