part of the cat adoption program at indiana state. he had to leave him behind when he was transferred to wabash. for the first several weeks, jinkster lived with another inmate. but then jinkster moved out to the country. he was adopted by stone s parents. jinkster is something else. he s not used to carpeting. and cloth furniture. everything was claws. i mean, he clawed up carpet, everything else. but, it was worth it because it was jim s. some people might not quite understand it. but my family we view our pets as family members. so you know, this was sort of like jim s kid. talk about your daddy. yeah. it s really, really hard for me to talk about jim. i love him so much. when he was a little boy, he loved to go for these walks. and we d go for a long walk. he d give out and i d put him on my shoulders and bring him on
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. he plans to pursue a college degree fr
christopher trotter values every moment outside. 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.
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. but today is his 18th birthday. and his first day in the big
to chip around the bricks, break them out. make sure we don t have soft spots. when we do shakedowns like this we look through all their books, all their paperwork, see if we can t find any snitch notes, kites, anything like that. definitely we get a lot of our information. sometimes they like to hide them in the bible. they will stick them in the middle usually right in here. officials find no other escape paraphernalia in the cell. right now he is pinning a class b conduct report for possession of escape paraphernalia for what was found in his cell last night. without knowing his intentions you don t know if it could be just an arts and crafts issue or in two weeks from now could we be looking for him on the streets with this laying in his bed? coming up if you make the wrong choice, it has consequences. one of the most infamous inmates in indiana tries to start a new life at wabash. and later the investigation takes a surprising turn. you can t never take any