time. roll, 2119, 2119. santa rosa houses more inmates in close management confinement because of violent behavior than any other florida state prison. william mccrory has met a few of them over the past nine years. is it frustrating? sure, it s frustrating sometimes to see somebody who has the potential not to be an idiot but wants to be cool for their home boy, their friend, you know. and he s fixing to go home. and he don t give a rat s behind about you staying here. but you can t tell a grown man how to do his time, because he s not going to listen to you. i didn t. i cuss you out and send you back to business. mccrory once served time for identity theft and credit card
visit him a couple of times a year. are you proud of him? oh, absolutely. for him to just graduate from high school and not be in in any trouble is enough for me to be proud. if he d have took after me, way different road. and that comes from his mama, a lot of that does. his son, who has just scheduled another visit, has inspired mccrory to be a better role model. he currently has a nonpaying prison job as an orderly but today is applying for a much better job as a clerk in the staff canteen. how much does it pay? $75 a month. it just keeps the pressure off your family from having to send so much money. cuts down on what they send. mccrory must interview for the job with the institutional classification team. you got past experience working at a canteen? yes, sir, at county correctional institution. how long did you work in the canteen? one year, sir. did you have any problems while you were doing that? no, sir, no problem. you will be working with staff dire
mccrory will soon have a chance to be the father he couldn t be in the past. he is due to be released within the next two years. richard penn, serving time for armed robbery, has another six years to go before he becomes a full-time father on the outside. but he does have a birthday gift for his son who has just turned seven. he s written him a poem. something just small, simple about the know i m thinking about him. my daily inspiration know that i do, my reason for breathing and believing, yes, my son, you. and everything i do i wish to make you proud for there is nothing more precious on this planet than you, my child. my point is use your imagination and dream as big as your dad. eye ready to work hard and encourage you and support you the whole way there. i want you to do better i want you to be better than me in every way you can as you mature and grow to become your own successful and powerful black man. are you worried that he s going to turnout like you? no, i m not
the bag was given to me by god. the bag was given to you by god? to make it and all the scriptures and everything in it. so, the inspiration was given to you by god? yes. where did you get the bag? the bag, i picked up here from the kitchen, i think it was. pritchett says god inspires him in other ways as well. you pray in tongues? yes, ma am. [speaking in tongues ] you don t know what it is, and it s not done in church, but it s done between you and god. do you know what you just said? no. coming up. it s home. for the last 20 some years. anthony bell returns to close management. and william mccrory goes to work. i didn t come into prison with a staff canteen job. i worked my way right on through
he says his job as a bus driver led him to drug addiction and it was all down here from there. it s a lot faster pace on the west coast than it is for a country boy from florida. so, it was a little different world out there. during his first prison term, mccrory was less than a model inmate. the first couple i smoked me a little refer, drank me some wine, didn t make any difference. just did what i wanted to. this time i tried to do it the way it should be done and the staff looks at you a little bit different when you re not an add yot than just all the time getting in trouble. mccrory has another reason for wanting to stay out of trouble. two years ago he found out he had a 16-year-old son. his mother kept him hid. when we separated she was just a couple months pregnant. i didn t know it. she was so tiny, you couldn t tell and i have any idea. she kept him hid 16 years of his life. mccrory s son now comes to visit him a couple of times a