norm, other than the standard. this is kind of like me. back in the day. this is me pulling my own strings. i became a puppet to myself. this one i ve had forever. the dragon represents wisdom. you know, i choose to find that within myself. i like to read. and i get wiser as the years go on, i hope. this is where i make me. these are all the things required to make my day go by. serving a four-year sentence for burglary, williams first landed in jail as a prostitute. i found out that i can dress up like a girl and go out there. so i get to act out all these repressed characters that i got to have. prostitution became it was fun. i got to play act. i got to i m going to have some drama and bad times but hey, it was fun. i like guys that like girls so that makes me like an oddball homosexual. i want a guy that wants me to be
advantage at all times. basically dominate our tactical environment. frustration over being locked down 23 hours a day causes many inmates in solitary to act out. they start screaming. it can be pretty hectic in here. there s been times i ve seen this entire floor out here covered with three, four inches of water. people popping sprinklers. trashed, literally, this entire floor in here. this is what they call cell warriors. they re behind the doors so no one can get at each other. they try to stir each other up. raped on the yard ten years ago! how about that! let s deal with the facts! let s deal with facts! you are a jailhouse punk! you ve got to get out of the lockdown in there. it can get stuffy in there.
turned it on. and then i yeah. 2 1/2 minutes wasn t long enough. while the violent nature of prisoners like carl ables can pose a challenge to rehabilitation, one way that spring creek tries to help inmates reform is through mediation sessions. i want to welcome all of you here today. it s taken a long time, i know that. janice, kordell, you wanted to do this for many years. inmates like kordell boyd are given the opportunity to meet face to face with the families of their victims. i sent a letter to one of the victims of the family. and one of the daughters received it. so they came down here. and we mad a mediation. i talked to her, she talked to me. so many times that what you say, and if i cry it s okay. but i have relived this a billion times. whether i like it or not you ve been a part of my life for 15 years.
i was trying though. i was giving it the old college try. the one thing that s predictable about mr. bright is he s unpredictable. sergeant kept putting bullies in my cell. one of them eventually wasn t trying to get along. so i knocked his teeth out. he came into the housing unit and it escalated from that point. i m in the hole. i m getting antagonized by low self-esteem, protective custody inmates. they dance around like the three little pigs singing who s afraid of the big bad wolf song. in early 2006 bright went on another rampage and tore up his cell. the tantrum was so violent he almost lost a finger. i ve tried to quit. and the inmates and the staff won t let me. they will not i ve tried to lay down and be a punk. and it makes me despise myself. he started recently this conspiracy theory that everybody s out to get him. and he believes in those no matter what we try to do. explaining to him that it s not
in alaska, you can go in the hole for a year. good morning. good morning. you want to check this out? yes. the open atmosphere at spring creek helps inmates like sam green williams survive their time in prison. yeah, i m a homosexual. and you know, i have made a long-standing ground of who i am. and you know, i m not afraid to be me. you know. and i ve fought to be me. and being in prison, to me it s nothing different, you know. it s just i m in prison. green-williams is serving six years for his third case of felony drunk driving. like a diary, his tattoos record his rocky past. this one represents changes in myself, you know. this one has three faces that go down. if you turn it upside down it has three faces that go the other way. this one, a name, past relationship. dv8. of course you know what the word deviate means, straight from the