line, this one-light town might be all but forgotten. just a couple miles down u.s. 41, however, is evidence that carlisle is anything but forgotten. it s 2 1/2 hours away from everywhere. it s just the middle of nowhere. what goes on out here? prison. that s what goes on out here. surrounded by little else but big skies, the wabash valley correctional facility houses more than 2,000 convicted felons, including some of the highest security prisoners in the state. it is a fortress among farms. we have a total of seven towers blanketing the entire facility, including one tower that s in the center of our south yard. we ve got the two sets of fences all the way around the facility. the inner fence is a stun fence, it s a nonlethal stun fence. the outside fence another
really it was like a fog 73 and i got really angry and i get i did 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 being in trouble. i hope that no one tries testing me, you know. because i used to be a very violent person. i m not that person no more. i ll never want to revert to that. with good behavior, folsom may only have to serve 18 of his 36-year sentence. making his 18th birthday an even
he has developed good communication skills, good social skills. it s yes, ma am, no, ma am to me. and it s not fake. i can always tell when it s fake. i believe, personally, that he will be ready for general population before long. however, there are so many more people above me that will also have the input, and have known him so much longer than i have. so i ll have to respect whatever their recommendations will be. i d rather not see him come out. i don t think he s changed. he s going to hurt somebody. lieutenant gary mcmillan has been at wabash for the past 16 years. this is my opinion. he s a pretty violent individual. they may look at it like everybody s still a potential threat. but am i a threat? no. coming up really my biggest concern about being inside is just
to take care of him. stone received jinkster as 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
years in confinement, 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. he asked to be released from departmentwide administrative