while mchellon and parker have developed a father and son type relationship, it may soon be coming to an end. mchellon expects that any day now he will be released from confinement and transferred to a general population unit. open population is, you got a lot more privileges, a lot more room to move around and do things. you don t have so many restrictions against you. i can go outside of the dorm and walk along without having the chaperone and cuffs on me. i don t have to be supervised continually. the downside is leaving parker behind. i don t want him to go. at the same time i m going to miss him. i want him to go. he needs to get out of here. like i said this is prison in prison. nobody wants to be here. coming up, cell mates, nixon and young find themselves in hot water over a telephone call. i m trying to talk to my mom, and he writing stuff off like that. a small lesion creates big anxiety for jack hill. probably skin cancer.
we might have cleaned this corn. same corn we cleaned. corn we picked. shucked, bagged. loaded up. good thing we did a good job on it. mm-hmm. despite the differences in both age and race, cell mates scott parker and alvin mchellon have come to think of each other more as family than friends. for the past few months, they have shared a small cell in the close management or confinement unit at the santa rosa correctional institution. but mchellon may soon be leaving for the general population compound. the prison s internal classification team has recommended the transfer. but it must still be approved by a state classification officer.
but young hopes his new book will open a door to his future. i just wanted one of the first books i ever read right here on the stock market. about investing. investment. i started doing things like that and i don t think i never would have did that if i wasn t in a cell by myself and didn t have no distractions around me. while young hopes to improve his finances, alvin mchellon and scott hope their time in confinement will improve their vocabularies. coagulate. i don t even know what that means. he loves doing puzzles. we work on those together. they say two brains are better than one. so when both of us do the puzzle, we smash it. we do it real quick. 66. blank that gun. what would you say? sawed off shotgun. while mchellon and parker have developed a father and son type relationship, it may soon be coming to an end.
and the 2s are keyed the same. so you have two sets of keys for each shackle. it s security. in case anyone gets a hold of one of our key chains. more than likely they re not going to get a hold of two. got the secure the chains so the lock won t go up and down on your foot. the most comfortable place for you to walk, or you re going to trip on them all day long. you have to secure them. with the shoestring. get your bags two at a time starting up front. at age 50, mchellon is one of the oldest inmates to work in the fields. his 20-year-old cell mate scott parker is one of the youngest. he s serving five years for armed robbery, burglary, and drug possession. i been in that cell for 14 months, you know what i m saying? now 18 months.
he and three others brutally attacked another inmate. he lost a lot of blood so that s why they had to airlift him out. he never did nothing to me, at all. i had nothing against him. i had no right to do what i did. mchellon has dedicated himself to teaching parker a better way to do time. he s more than like a son to me, you know. but at the same time i know i m not, he has his own mother, he has his own father. but right now he s more or less in my care. i m concerned about him in the sense that he tends to get influenced by his friends, you know. i told him, i said you don t even have to go there, you know what i m saying? while mchellon has become a surrogate father of sorts to parker he says his multiple prison stays have cost him his relationship with his own children. right now i m not in contact with any of them. i miss them all, i really do. so if any influence comes from me to him, i wanted it to be something positive.