inside cleveland s cuyahoga county correction center, walter cooperwood, admitted boss of the heartless felons gang, is allowed one hour a day to spend outside his cell. he was put on 23 and 1 lockup status for fighting. let s get something straight right now. recently, warden ivy put the entire unit on lockup after members of the heartless felons began preying on other inmates. this is my house, understand that? this is mine. turn around and face the wall. i don t want this. i don t got no beef with him. while 23 hours a day in a cell is nearly unbearable for some, cooperwood says he s unface unfazed by it. actually, i don t be tripping about being in a room all day,
how am i calling shots? the only people that can say calling the shots is the people in the gang because they see and heard and watch and they are afraid. i m going to tell you this. yes, they are afraid. you smile. yes, they are afraid. [ bleep ] so stupid. take him back. you know your [ bleep ], you don t [ bleep ]. it s stupid man, bitch. now you re calling me a bitch, name calling doesn t bother me, he knows i have the facts on him and evidence on him. he can go back in the cell and doing what he s doing and eating his baloney sandwich and drinking that milk thinking about what he just did. after reviewing officer mcclaren s report, warden ivy said they ll join a large number
i don t like this thing. and here i am, makes me feel good so that s it. that s my story and i m sticking to it. ivy has taken issue with the latest incident involving the heartless felons. after several heart les felons attempted to steal commissary from another inmate, he put them on 23 and 1 lockup status. you re going to be locked down for 23 hours, come out one hour a day. reaction was terrible. inmates was kicking and banging and screaming and yelling out the doors. ivy has taken notice. i came up to bring my paperwork up and i heard some kicking and banging on the c-pod and found out what was going on. got everybody out?
line of you being disrespectful toward me, i have to let you know that s not acceptable to me. we ll cross that bridge when we get there. i try to incorporate those things from where i come from those things that i ve learned in the military and things i ve learned here, i have to incorporate who i am and where i m from. i m always the guy from the inner city of cleveland, raised in cleveland and in the neighborhoods and things like that. that s who i am. what decision i make will be for your benefit. you may not see it like that at the time, but trust me. ivy, first became a corrections officer at the jail after six years in the army. incorporate something else into his routine as well, a sense of style. this whole clothes thing, shoe thing, i grew up very poor. i remember walking to school some days and holes in the bottom of my shoes and my mom would make me wrap my feet in plastic and walk to school like that. i didn t like that. i kind of vowed to myself, man,
actions is going to dictate our reaction. what are you going to do? i m in a chair. you re not going to take care of [ bleep ]. i m going to kill myself. i m going to go to mental health. that s what you were trying to do? why don t you just say that? because i m playing you like a fiddle, ivy. listen to the musical then. we ll take you down. wouldn t let me shower in five days. i m cleaning your mess up. take him down. are you the associate warden yet? no, loss. threatening suicide, schmidt is taken in to meet with the doctor. well, john, tell you, i m a little confused. mm-hmm. on the one hand, i heard you want to kill yourself. on the other hand i heard you re busy flooding your cell and