A towering presence at 6’4”, Harris had played a semester of college ball in Texas before dropping out of school. Now he could reach his son in ways that others couldn’t, sticking an elbow in Lewis’s back and swatting his shots away one moment, pumping him up the next. Lewis was already tough, but as his sessions with his father continued, he showed new self-determination and faith in himself.
But then Harris vanished. When Lewis finally found out where his father was and how long he would be gone this time, it “felt like he died,” he remembers.
Charged with possession of 4 ounces of cocaine in Denver, Harris had expected a slap on the wrist. Maybe ten years, max. Defense attorneys estimated something closer to twelve years. But prosecutors played off Harris’s past cannabis convictions, and the judge sentenced him to 96 years in prison.
at indiana state prison, billy kyle, serving eight years on a drug dealing charge, likes to strut the yard with his grill. i like blue and white diamonds. let me see you smile. what s the deal with that? it was just something, you know, that we did on the streets, you know what i m saying? how much are they worth? about $1,500. $1,500? yeah. we found that most women still like to feel like women in prison as well. betty conley, serving life for murdering her husband, made that clear. she has turned her bunk into a salon, of sorts. i love makeup. i ve been into makeup since i was a little bitty girl. and i m like dolly. the redder the better. the more the merrier. at the limon correctional
shortly after our arrival at the limon correctional facility in colorado, two inmates in administrative segregation loudly protested our interview of a sex offender. one of them, george graph, even flooded his cell by intentionally backing up his toilet. if you do not come to the door, we will introduce chemical agents. we will not negotiate with terrorists! the prison special response team is called in to extract him from his cell. when inmates don t cooperate, the team uses o.c. gas, a form of pepper spray, to gain compliance. uncover your window. take a step back. get on your knees! in this case, graph will be moved to a stripped down cell until his can be cleaned and his behavior improves.
and bizarre expressions of personal style. now, some of the most memorable, unexpected moments we ve encountered inside america s prisons. this is what you live for in the penitentiary. you want to think it s funny. tough [ bleep ]. never a dull moment. we send our producers and crews inside prisons. their job is to be objective observers. but in the first week of filming inside limon correction facility in colorado, something unusual happened. we inadvertently became part of the story we were covering. why is everybody getting agitated? we were in ad seg, administrative segregation, the prison within a prison. we started hearing inmates screaming out things and i started to hear them talking about cho-mos, which are sex
we got another cut up here, guys. inmate rage. we will not negotiate with terrorists! destruction in the cell block. and bizarre expressions of personal style. now, some of the most memorable, unexpected moments we ve encountered inside america s prisons. this is what you live for in the penitentiary. you want to think it s funny. tough [ bleep ]. never a dull moment. we send our producers and crews inside prisons. their job is to be objective observers. but in the first week of filming inside limon correction facility