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 of his cell. he was put on 23 and 1 lockup status for fighting. let s get something straight right now but 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 my house. he can have it. i don t want this. i ain t got no beef with him. while 23 hours a day in a cell is nearly unbearable for some, cooperwood says he s unfazed by it. actually, i don t be tripping about being in a room all day, read, write my letters and write
ivy has questioned both the male officer and the female officer who was with him when the comment was allegedly made. i want to see mrs. lorraine green. she s in c pod. lorraine green. i m going to see if she has additional witnesses to speak to because at the end of the day when you allege something you have to have witnesses and somebody for me to talk to and some way for me to prove the statement that you re making. good morning. good morning. how are you? i m good. yourself? i m okay. were there any other witnesses you would like for me to talk to? the only person that was there, me, your co, ryan and mr. mets. i spoke with the corporal and i also spoke with the officer that was there at the time. corporal has wrote a statement saying at no time did he make any comments in a sexual context he did. i bet he did. let me finish what i m saying. you guys are agreeing to each other.
walk to school like that. i didn t like that. i kind of vowed to myself, man, 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 jail s largest gang, the heartless felons. after several heartless felons attempted to steal commissary from another inmate, ivey put housing unit 10-c on 23 and 1 lockup status. that means you re going to be locked down for 23 hours. you 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 once i got up here i heard kicking and banging on c-pod. went over there to find out what was going on. got everybody out? i like to put my own signature on things.
never take threats lightly. when someone threatens your family, it hits home, but this is the job and that s something you put up with every day. he next aims at insults to warden ivy and his wife. you can t get me upset. officers remove his spit mask and place him in a holding cell until he is ready to be compliant. they can t stop me. they made me what i am. i m a beast on a leash. rather than let time in the restraint chair alter his behavior as it does for most inmates, he attempts to escape.
his to have his food taken, he don t want to continue to give us his tray, he ll do what they ask him to do. so what he do? he ll do the same thing that they did to him. there s been a rash of heartless felon activity in which they assaulted other inmates, and stole food or other items from the jail commissary. took all of our stuff. he visited a housing unit in which many of the problems occurred. he put the heartless felons on notice. this my jail. ain t nobody in here going to run nothing in here but me. what you need to do is lay it down. three of the inmates in the unit, however, were pulled aside. they were confirmed by the jail to be heartless felons. but they had not been associated with any of the recent thefts. warden ivy decided they should be placed in general population, freeing themselves for more problematic heartless felons from other housing units. stand in the hallway. one point we were filming and i could hear sam yelling, and i thought he was yelling