while at wabash, however, he received an additional four-years sentence for possession of a dangerous device, a seven-inch-long shank. that s a baby. that s a baby. before that, i always tried to make mine at least 10 inches long. that way i had plenty of handle room and plenty of blade. siverly s history has resulted him in being housed in the highly restrictive secured confinement unit. while he doesn t like it, he does understand it. from their standpoint, how can you have somebody who keeps repeatedly getting caught making mass quantities of knives in population and keep population safe? even if that person s not stabbing people, he s making the knives that are stabbing people. with few possessions and little if any contact with other inmates, siverly has refocused his energy from weapons to art. president barack obama, commander in chief of the united states of america. greatest nation ever.
he found on prison grounds. if it was big enough to put in your hand with a little left over, it was big enough to be sharpened into a weapon. usually i would just keep it on me because it s no good if it s hidden somewhere. if somebody comes on to you and [ bleep ], you ain t got it on you, you can t tell him, hold on, let me go get my knife. thankfully, i ve never had to use one. usually if somebody sees one, it s enough to keep them at bay. so you don t usually have to use it. i was prepared to use it. siverly was 17 years old when he and a group of friends broke into a home and beat and robbed the occupant. he accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to 20 years. while at wabash, however, he received an additional four-years sentence for possession of a dangerous device, a seven-inch-long shank.
over, it was big enough to be sharpened into a weapon. usually i would just keep it on me because it s no good if it s hidden somewhere. if somebody comes on to you and [ bleep ], you ain t got it on you, you can t tell him, hold on, let me go get my knife. thankfully, i ve never had to use one. usually if somebody sees one, it s enough to keep them at bay. so you don t usually have to use it. i was prepared to use it. siverly was 17 years old when he and a group of friends broke into a home and beat and robbed the occupant. he accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to 20 years. while at wabash, however, he received an additional
community, approximately 1,200 is their population. it s comprised of a school. it has a grocery store. it has a gas station, a couple of little restaurants, a dollar store and that s really about all that s in carlisle. while carlisle might be a remnant of a simpler time, inside the twin security fences of wabash is evidence of how some aspects of society have grown harder. we re seeing a lot more offenders coming in much younger than they were before and much more violent than in the past as well. correctional officers are the backbone of the facility. they re the ones dealing with the offenders on a daily basis. they are frontline. i ve been hearing about the correction setting since i was 8 years old. i grew up around it. so coming in here was actually kind of easy for me. i already knew what to expect. i ve heard all the war stories. officer jarrod mcmillan has been on the frontline at wabash for four years now.
the war stories have come from his mother and father, both of whom are also on wabash s correction staff. it s the kind of environment that you don t want everybody in. i wouldn t let my daughter here but she s not meant for this. he s a little tougher. and my wife is real tough. they can handle it. but the younger officer mcmillan was recently put to the test. as he was escorting one inmate, another inmate unleashed a violent attack. he stuck his arm out with a bottle full of feces and urine and started flinging it everywhere, i had it on my face, my uniform, my pants. it was in the corner of my mouth. he actually got it in my mouth. i had to wait for somebody to come take pictures of it. so he could be prosecuted for that. then i went up front and took a shower. they don t make enough soap to wash something like that out. i received a phone call a couple of weeks ago and they told me