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. to 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 house. he is serving 36 years for armed robbery, criminal confinement and burglary. it s a little nerve-racking.
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. he has asked to be released from
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 from prison and hopes to earn time off his sentence by holding down a job. really my biggest concern about being on this side is just getting in trou
you know. i don t need no psychotherapist. i don t need medication. i [ bleep ] a lot. i m not saying i m a saint. i m far from a saint. that s probably why i m still alive today. i should have been dead several times long time ago, but evidently heaven don t want me and hell s afraid i m going to take over. so i m pretty well stuck here on this planet. but stone hasn t completely resigned himself to life at wabash valley. he s requested a transfer back to the prison where he used to be housed, indiana state. i know they didn t have no problem moving me out. i don t know why it should be a big problem moving me back up there now. stone s motivation for the transfer is to reunite with his cat jinkster. when i do feel like i m about ready to go do something stupid, you look at those big betty davis eyes and you think, hey, this guy depends on me, i ve got to take care of him.
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 house.