you know what i mean? stone, who was convicted of attempted murder, won t be eligible for parole for another 25 years. he could spend the rest of his life in prison but he says his workout is designed to prepare him, just in case he s released. rotate around like i m working on a loading dock or something. call it a workers workout. that way if i do get out, job ain t going to kill me. i m all ready for it. plus when you get to be my age, you got to stay in shape. that way, when the guys half my age want to mess with the old man, it ain t my fault. there is always a new guy or two arriving on stone s unit every week. for some it s just a short walk from a special unit at wabash for minors who have been convicted as adults. the adult maximum security prison. miles folsom has been in the youth unit for the past two years.
we first met stone three years earlier during our extended stay shoot at indiana state prison. it s a glamour job but somebody s got to do it. when stone first came to prison he was an admitted thug, who fought frequently. where you going, big buddy? but the james stone we met considered himself a changed man, thanks to indiana state prison s cat adoption program. he s my little buddy. i depend on im. he s more dependable than anything i got in here. i mean, he takes a lot of the anger and temper away. makes it easier to cope in here. stone has been at wabash for a year and a half now. i talk to guys that come in here from all the other prisons that recognize me say hey, you re the cat man, aren t you? i m like, dude, really? best thing i can do is say i m him, meow, see you later. the transfer occurred after a staff member reported stone had threatened him.
about being inside is just getting in trouble. fresh from wabash s youth unit an 18-year-old inmate spends his first day in the big house. i used to be a very violent person. i hope no one tries testing me. [dad] alright, buddy, don t forget anything! [kid] i won t, dad. [captain rod] happy tuesday morning! captain rod here. it s pretty hairy out on the interstate.traffic is literally crawling, but there is some movement on the eastside overpass. getting word of another collision. [burke] it happened. december 14th, 2015. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum
set of convictions, which made headlines in his smalltown newspaper. this is my newspaper article. the heading says reign of terror comes to end. fourth circuit court judge mary harper sentenced folsom to 36 years behind bars and denied his request to be placed in a therapeutic community program. you re a very dangerous young man, harper said. folsom s charges revolve around the brutal beating of an acquaintance he believed had stolen his ipod. we ended up getting into his truck before we started arguing because it was cold. and i started banging his head off the window repeatedly. i was real high on cocaine. it really is like a fog. and i got really angry and i got i did some, you know, some pretty good damage, banging his head off the window. the judge, she was pretty strict, giving me them 36 years. and i hope that it was just her trying to slap me in the face to tell me to wake up, because truthfully, i was lost. folsom completed his g.e.d. at wabash s youth unit.
okay. this is what i call the old man workout. this is how we do it. one i haven t lost touch with humanity. i refuse to lose touch with humanity. when you lose that, that s it. that s it. when you let this place strip you, that s it. one trotter recently filed a request to be transferred from confinement back to general population where he would have considerably more freedom. five, six, seven because he was at the center of a 1985 riot one of the most violent incidents in the history of the indiana state prison system, the request must be approved by multiple levels of administration. including wabash s superintendent, dick brown. i m coming down to talk to chris trotter. he asked to be released from departmentwide administrative segregation. so i m coming down to speak to