a friend to buy drugs. translator: i did not have money to pay my debt. he said he would help me to pay my debt but i have to go somewhere with him. i was stupid enough to pay my debt this way. the two men attempted to burglarize a home. translator: my job was to search the house and not to hurt anyone. nobody was supposed to beat this man. we were supposed to search the house and it just happened. and a man is dead. the prosecution claims that i participated. that i must have hit the man as well. i was in a different section of the house. i didn t even know this man was being beaten. he told me that he had been suffering from depression when he first became incarcerated and he had a young child. and he had already lost two years with that young child and he was uncertain whether or not he would ever have a relationship with his own child. i asked myself all the time, why can t i hold my son in my arms? because my visits don t allow that. and my son tells me, daddy,
this is the standard bathroom for n unit. in an american prison, all the toilets are out in the open. in this prison, people could actually walk into their bathroom and shut a door and have privacy. translator: that s the law. one n block inmate, a 24-year-old, agreed to speak with us. he is serving a life sentence for murder and says his problems began after borrowing money from a friend to buy drugs. translator: i did not have money to pay my debt. he said he would help me to pay my debt but i have to go somewhere with him. i was stupid enough to pay my debt this way. the two men attempted to burglarize a home. translator: my job was to search the house and not to hurt anyone. nobody was supposed to beat this man. we were supposed to search the house and it just happened. and a man is dead. the prosecution claims that i participated. that i must have hit the man as
translator: my job was to search the house and not to hurt anyone. nobody was supposed to beat this man. we were supposed to search the house, and it just happened. and a man is dead. the prosecution claims that i participated. that i must have hit the man as well. i was in a different section of the house. i didn t even know this man was being beaten. he told me that he had been suffering from depression when he first became incarcerated and he had a young child. and he d already lost two years with that young child and he was uncertain whether or not he would ever have a relationship with his own child. i ask myself all the time, why can t i hold my son in my arms? because my visits don t allow that. and my son tells me, daddy, remove the bars. and he tried to get his head through. i can t hold him. i can t cuddle with him in my arms. outside n block are the general population housing units. one thing that i noticed that
and a man is dead. the prosecution claims that i participated. that i must have hit the man as well. i was in a different section of the house. i didn t even know this man was being beaten. he told me that he had been suffering from depression when he first became incarcerated and he had a young child. and he had already lost two years with that young child and he was uncertain whether or not he would ever have a relationship with his own child. i asked myself all the time, why can t i hold my son in my arms? because my visits don t allow that. and my son tells me, daddy, remove the bars. and he tried to get his head through. i can t hold him. i can t cuddle with him in my arms. outside n block are the general population housing units. one thing that i noticed that stood out was the number of inmates that were in these cells. they were almost like small
search the house and not to hurt anyone. nobody was supposed to beat this man. we were supposed to search the house and it just happened. and a man is dead. the prosecution claims that i participated. that i must have hit the man as well. i was in a different section of the house. i didn t even know this man was being beaten. he told me that he had been suffering from depression when he first became incarcerated and he had a young child. and he had already lost two years with that young child and he was uncertain whether or not he would ever have a relationship with his own child. i asked myself all the time, why can t i hold my son in my arms? because my visits don t allow that. and my son tells me, daddy, remove the bars. and he tried to get his head through. i can t hold him. i can t cuddle with him in my arms. outside n block are the