hawthorne roll, 2119, 2119 g. 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 homeboy, 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 fraud in alabama before getting 15 years for accessory to robbery in florida.
the bag was given to you by god? to make it and all of 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 next 20-something 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 band tour bus driver led him to drug addiction, and it was all downhill from there. it s a lot faster pace on that west coast than it is for a little 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 reefer, drank me some wine, didn t care, didn t make no difference. i just did what i wanted to. this time, i tried to do it the way it should be done. the staff looks at you a little different than when you re not an idiot 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. he had when we separated, she was just a couple months pregnant. i didn t know. she was so tiny. you couldn t tell. and i didn t have any idea. so she kept him hid for 16 years of his life.
addiction, and it was all downhill from there. it s a lot faster pace on that west coast than it is for a little 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 reefer, drank me some wine, didn t care, didn t make a difference. i just did what i wanted to. this time, i tried to do it the way it should be done. the staff looks at you a little different than when you re not an idiot 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. he had when we separated, she was just a couple months pregnant. i didn t know. she was so tiny. you couldn t tell. and i didn t have any idea. so, she kept him hid for 16 years of his life. mccrory s son now comes to 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 directly. it s a good job. you need to have the appropriate mann