downstairs. those are the shock collars out there. get them out there, stuff calms down for a while. these inmates have either committed violent acts in the jail or have been identified as gang members. like all inmates at maricopa, some are awaiting trial while others have been convicted and are appealing their verdicts or sentences. they are isolated in very stark cells, 23 hours a day, and get one hour of rec time in an empty concrete room with a skylight located right next door to their cells. our rec pen is the same size of our cell, so you re basically going from one cell to another to walk in circles. it s life in solitary confinement. no cellmates, no card games, no pinochle, no chess. but that s life. without the distraction of television, radio or cellmates, even the most hardened criminals can break under the pressure.
$200 a month. after only a few months out of prison, one wrong step would dramatically change ray slagle s life on the outside. i was showing a guy how to dry a skylight because he didn t know how. i was making sure it was my girlfriend s roof. i was making sure he dried it in right. went to the edge of the roof and started arguing with her and ended up falling off. ray fell 25 feet to the hard ground below. turned out i had a broken back. i was in icu for nine days before they d find three surgeons willing to even do the surgery because it was such a dramatic surgery, you know what i mean. it was a massive break. i was in the hospital for over a month. it was a drag. during his recovery, ray s past drug addiction problems came back to haunt him. the temptation of readily available pain medication was too much to overcome. i got carried away with my pain pills.
it had become a drag. but things picked up for ray when he got a job with an industrial paint company. i was bringing home about $840 a week. i was doing good, you know, no doubt about that. what are you doing now? what are you bringing in now? $200 a month. after only a few months out of prison, one wrong step would dramatically change ray slagle s life on the outside. i was showing a guy how to dry a skylight because he didn t know how. i was making sure it was my girlfriend s roof. i was making sure he dried it in right. went to the edge of the roof and started arguing with her and ended up falling off. ray fell 25 feet to the hard ground below. turned out i had a broken back. i was in icu for nine days before they d find three surgeons willing to even do the surgery because it was such a dramatic surgery, you know what i mean.
it had become a drag. but things picked up for ray when he got a job with an industrial paint company. i was bringing home about $840 a week. i was doing good, you know, no doubt about that. what are you doing now? what are you bringing in now? $200 a month. after only a few months out of prison, one wrong step would dramatically change ray slagle s life on the outside. i was showing a guy how to dry a skylight because he didn t know how. i was making sure it was my girlfriend s roof. i was making sure he dried it in right. went to the edge of the roof and started arguing with her and ended up falling off. ray fell 25 feet to the hard ground below. turned out i had a broken back. i was in icu for nine days before they d find three surgeons willing to even do the surgery because it was such a dramatic surgery, you know what i mean. it was a massive break.
imagine spending your entire life locked up in a shed, four walls and one skylight. that s room. a new movie that follows the life of a kidnapped woman who must raise her 5-year-old son in captivity and the challenges they face when they are ultimately freed. jump, run, somebody. i m scared. i know. i m going to be there in your head talking to you the whole time. when the truck slows down. run, somebody. jack, listen to me. this is our chance. joining me now is the director of that film. lenny abramson. i told you before we started talking here officially that i cried seeing that film, and that scene in there, that s part of a