monica and paul s mother, nicole gingerich hope to keep paul in a youth facility with programs geared towards his age and developmental needs. but as it stands now, paul will transition to wabash as soon as officials feel he has matured enough to make the move. i think that he should be held accountable for the part that he had in this. and i would suggest counseling, therapy, and programs to help him. mike dempsey has other reasons for wanting to keep paul in the juvenile system. the fact is you can t put a 12-year-old child in that type of environment and expect them to have half a chance. you just can t do it. i think that there are probably some adult offenders who sincerely want to try to do the right thing and help, yet there is a lot of predators out there as well, who will eat the weakness up.
it s just ridiculous. monica and paul s mother, nicole gingerich hope to keep paul in a youth facility with programs geared towards his age and developmental needs. but as it stands now, paul will transition to wabash as soon as officials feel he has matured enough to make the move. i think that he should be held accountable for the part that he had in this. and i would suggest counseling, therapy, and programs to help him. mike dempsey has other reasons for wanting to keep paul in the juvenile system. the fact is you can t put a 12-year-old child in that type of environment and expect them to have half a chance. you just can t do it. i think that there are probably some adult offenders who sincerely want to try to do the right thing and help, yet there is a lot of predators out there as well, who will eat the weakness up. they can get into trouble very
pelican bay s worst riot was fueled by the inmates impulse for violence. and many of those inmates ended up here. the security housing unit, or the shu. inmates that were placed into the shu housing unit were placed in here for the most part because of violence. that violence could be against other inmates or against officers. it was here in pelican bay s most secure unit that we came across perhaps the prison s most dangerous inmate. my name is scanvinski hymes. i got the name from my mother. she wanted me to have the name no other black man in america would have. hymes was originally sent to prison for possessing a weapon in a youth facility. at the time our cameras profiled him in 2000, he had been locked up for more than 12 years, almost half his life. everything is the same. nothing really changes too much. i mean, wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, go to the yard. when i get bored, i got i got
the day we met james randall, we heard a jaw-dropping story. originally i came to jail february 21st, 1981, convicted in san bernardino county for murder/robbery. given a sentence of 34 years to life, randall was 18 at the time of his conviction. but his rap sheet started much earlier. i have been gang banging since i was 9 years old. coming from an impoverished neighborhood in southern california, my mother and father tried to move to pomona to establish a better life for us. by the time we moved there, it s mostly a middle-to-upper class neighborhood, being already bit by the gang bug, we just exported the gang life out there. randall s gang activity led to his incarceration at the youth facility and soon after, prison. there he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla family. ended up in 15 years solitary confinement.
for violence. and many of those inmates ended up here. the security housing unit, or the shu. inmates that were placed into the shu housing unit were placed in here for the most part because of violence. and that violence could be against other inmates or against officers. it was here in pelican bay s most secure unit that we came across perhaps the prison s most dangerous inmate. my name is scanvinski hymes. i got the name from my mother. she wanted me to have the name no other black man in america would have. hymes was originally sent to prison for possessing a weapon in a youth facility. at the time our cameras profiled him in 2000, he had been locked up for more than 12 years, almost half his life. everything is the same. nothing really changes too much. i mean, wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, go to the yard.