Rare look inside an Arizona maximum security prison
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- KGUN9 was the only Tucson station to get a tour of the new maximum security facility at Lewis Prison Complex in Buckeye.
The unit will open in December and will house 500 of the worst offenders in the state.
I did 85% of a 9 year sentence at Lewis. I started out at Stiner where I was able to secure a position with a telemarketing outfit which paid like $3.25 per hour. I only sold like one thing in 2/3 weeks, so they let me go. After I dropped below 5 years they sent me to Bachman where I got a job at CME (Swift) which also paid $3.25 per hour. While I was there they took on an additional night shift, which didn't work out, so when they scaled back, they let a bunch of us go. I then managed to secure a position at Hickman's and was moved to Sunrise. There were only two houses and 100 people there, so you hardly ever saw any cops. After I was let go at Hickman's, I was sent back to Bachman and got a job driving Trams around the complex for $.45 per hour. About that time, they decided to turn Bachman into a PC yard, and moved half the inmates to other yards, but moved any of us with jobs to Eagle Point. Eventually, the PC's filed suit, claiming discrimination because they couldn't qualify for any jobs outside of their own yard, so they gave them all of the complex jobs, which included mine as a Tram driver. I was fortunate enough to acquire a position as the Librarian at Eagle Point, following the demise of my boss, the previous Librarian, who died elsewhere under some rather tragic and questionable circumstances. Stiner was supposedly one of the worst yards within the whole system. I believe 15 people were killed there in the 15 months that I spent on that yard. Lifer's cannot go below a 3 yard, so there were some pretty tough customers there. When I first arrived at Stiner, we were allowed to move freely anywhere within the building, and back and forth from the yard during rec time. However, it changed to having movement only at rec time, before I left. Bachman was kind of a snap, no real problems there at all. Both Sunrise and Eagle Point were once Juvenile facilities, I heard; so we all had 2 man rooms. The inmates ran a pretty tight ship at Sunrise. There were no drugs allowed, as everyone was pretty keen about keeping their positions at Hickman's. We were nevertheless subject to strip searches every time we returned to the yard, and a urinalysis once a month. Any offsite position required a high school diploma or GED. I had a GED from the Army, but they charged $25.00 to send away for records, so I just signed up for school there at Stiner, and then completed a second GED. WTF, right? $25.00 is a lot of money in prison. And, it's not as if I had anything better to do. I'm from California myself, so doing time in Arizona was nothing compared to what it would have been like back in Cali. Thank (god) for that. And, additionally, I hit 50 just before I arrived on the yard, and was thus given OG status, which exempted me from some of the stuff; but, there wasn't really all that much to have to be concerned about in any event. I thought everything went pretty smoothly, especially if you kept your nose clean and didn't get involved in any of the drama. There were no cops at CME, and none that you ever really saw at Hickman's either. Everyone just basically did their jobs, and no one ever bothered us. As a Tram driver for 2 1/2 years, I interacted with more cops than inmates, and more than 99% of them were just decent hardworking people that never got out of line with ya'. All in all, my time went pretty fast, and thanks primarily to the ACI jobs, I got out with $3300.00 in my retention fund, and then moved directly into a Veteran's program which has taken real good care of me ever since. Life in prison, like life in general, is whatever you want to make of it. Thanks to the order maintained by the staff there, my life in prison was far less tumultuous than it was on the outside. I was there as a result of my first and only offense, and I cannot defend myself and/or my actions without going deeply into the inequities of the so-called criminal justice system, which itself is severely broken. And besides you probably wouldn't believe me anyway. It's one of those things that you just have to be able to see for yourself. I once heard it said that life is the process of learning too late that which you should already know. Well, just about everything you've ever heard has some truth to it, and I've seen both sides. I keep to myself now, just as I did in prison and it suits me just fine. Personally, I think there's a lot more crazies out on the street than there are in prison. Prison is serious, so you don't wanna' fuck around. But the street is like absolute chaos. People are nothing more than animals with the potential to be so much more than that. But all they do is run around copying everybody else. The Ancient Greeks knew that, and had a whole school of thought surrounding mimesis (mimicry). Plato said you are what (form) or idea that you participate in. Man learned how to survive by copying all the other living things, and mostly animals. You wanna' make a big issue out of Critical Race Theory, try thinking about the fact that everything in this world is either predatory or parasitic in nature. Or that they have managed to convince you that sex is glorious, and that if you're not prolific at it, then there must be something wrong with you. Personally, I've got no problem with someone who is attracted to somebody of the same sex. But people seem to associate sex with love, and therefore engage in sex with whoever they're attracted to. Believe me, there is no connection between the two. It's all about seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Life is hard and then you die. We learn from our mistakes. Or, we just keep repeating history. We live in an imaginary construct, it's like a game, and there are certain rules you have to follow. And there are about seventy different concepts, principles, and ideals that you have to practice in order to become a human being. And it's got nothing to do with being a well-conditioned wage slave that can't hardly do anything without screwing it up. We need to change the paradigm's, and we need to think about what we're headed towards.
Didn't ask for your life story, pal
My introduction to Arizona prisons was Alhambra then to lewis. 2F10U. That place ain't no joke. Saw a lot of helicopter rides.
Gladiator school.
Luckily I never went higher than a 3 yard. Are 4n5 worse or is there more of a level of respect due to the time ya gotta do? People have this notion that being in prison is some fun pampered experience like a day spa. Oh my, if only they knew. It is a world of its own.
Dam write a book lol. Some good speed
RAW TRUTH! Prison Is A Business And YOU Are The Commodity.
Fidel Coronado Tax payers money at waste.
More raw truth: Criminals need to pay by being locked-up.
@@jackj5368 boot boy
@@jackj5368 Your country has 5% of the world population but 25% of the worlds prison population, you simpleton.
Keep supporting private prisons with your fat yankee ass.
Arizona prisons are a warehouse of humans.its a big money maker for the state
How
Private prisons for example.
"A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate, either for each prisoner in the facility, or for each place available, whether occupied or not. Such contracts may be for the operation only of a facility, or for design, construction and operation."
@@TheZINGularityyup
Good
The reporter said, every year more people in Arizona are getting locked up; so more prisons are needed. That's the case in many places. California, Texas, Neveda; Florida and more. It's because prison in this country is a business. The prisons; businesses and state governments profit from people being locked up. There are a lot, and an increasing number of jobs behind bars. And as the countries population continues to increase, due largely to the growth of minority, and lower class Americans. The system has a larger number of its preferred targets of incarceration.
Build more schools, less prisons 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We need prisons 😂
@@yomamasvaginasmellslikerai842 not the amount we have
@@eliyahuohiyon7461 bro we don’t have that many prisons in AZ and if people weren’t out there doing crime they wouldn’t get locked up dummy
Oh yeah over populated.
Build less schools more prisons
IT.S A CROOKED SYSTEM
you forgot to add.... "because of crooked criminals" correction.
@@plutoplatters Your country has 5% of the world population but 25% of the worlds prison population, you simpleton.
Keep supporting private prisons with your fat yankee ass.
50 Million for only 500 prisoners!
That whole process that news guy just showed us takes 4 DAYS they forgot to meantion. No bed no pillow just cold concrete and only bread with peanut butter twice a day....
Marco Hernandez in a county jail maybe wtf
My tio is up in there right now doing life without parole
SmokeMARIJANE420 At least he's in a new facility with everything working properly. Could be worse. Write him as often as possible. We used to look forward to mail on the daily. It was something to look forward to. What helped me do my time was writing letters. A huge part of my routine.
My uncle is in there to
MateoNSerenidy My brother is in there, been there many times to visit.
I hope he’s miserable
@@WiKiDMANE yup, mail and visits! My parents visited every Saturday, I got letters all throughout the week. Those routines are vital!
This Charles Ryan is the guy who threatened Chandler Police with a gun and they didn't feel threatened enough to end his life.
This Intel should immediately trigger a response. Attacks on inmates demonstrates lack of control by Correctional officers and puts them in serious danger. This should not be happening in this day and age. Before inmates get out of cell (shot caller), the inmates in leadership positions need to have waist chains and handcuffs Isolation and lack of time outside of cell or Pod is extremely reduced. Work to keep inmates safe and it will also provide protection for staff. Act before you have to react to violent behavior. Use information that is readily evident in these turbulent cell blocks..
They spend all their money on Mr.Oliva and his 100.000 kcal diet.
Arizona is a very dangerous place to live or even visit. It is a weird state where politicians get elected by showing their bigotry, and police, prosecutors, and judges by applying it. It is extremely set against minorities, particularly middle eastern, Latinos, and blacks. although being white doesn't always mean getting treated with justice, as many have discovered. This state has strange laws that aim at jailing the most number of people to satisfy special interest. Arizona takes the funds out of schools to hire more police and build more torture jails and prisons. For your safety, and the safety of your family, stay away from this fascist state with racist population. Seeing the Grand Canyon isn't worth your life.
As a resident of Arizona, please stay out unless you are a productive person who is going to better the state. We have more than enough farm hands. We have enough people draining the system.
@@josephjakubec3171 You are a dyed in the wool RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or you can leave an stop complaining kuz tbh it isn't as bad as your describing 💯😂💀
@@josephjakubec3171shut up cornball you yt people are yhe cause of everything WORLDWIDE THIS WORLD IS SHXT BECAUSE OF YOU YT PEOPLE HUNGRY FOR POWER Not to mention your people ruined the forrest and mother nature thats why its so hot and cold instead of being evenly thru the seasons
I've lived in Arizona my entire life, and I agree with you. At this point, though, the entire US is a shithole. I'd gladly leave if one of these "don't like it git out!" fuckt@rds was willing to pay for it. It's hard for these low brain cell individuals to understand that we are not the greatest country ever. We never have been.
Did time in buckeye lewis complex level 4 morey unit they dont give you shyt no towels cold food all that and its nasty
Roy Adams IV what should I send my homie he's there now? Same unit, can he get pics? Tv?
STOP TRYING TO BE COOL. YOU MAD CAUSE YOU'RE A VILLAIN. I'M GAY SO COMPARED TO YOU, I'M TALENTED, GAY AND A MUTANT.
@@TheRoyalRoxanne yes you can send pics and money for a TV but the TVs are a couple hundred
@@aprilt6991 ok thanks for the feedback!!
@@TheRoyalRoxanne you should also be able to send a secure pack and go and take food on his food visits
I remeber this news anchor host in the beggining from ellie sechback videos.l
Which one the blond in the beginning? I'ma keep an eye out lol
My brothers been in here for 9 years..
What did he do?
I've seen some of these people work at Hickman Farm in Arlington, I've pass this prison in the truck number of time.
I just got out like three days ago...they make it sound so sweet...smh..
Kutty Kutt did u kno my brother kan9ne
You're so full of shit.
@@trailerparkchief Dakota Unit to SMU then The Walls my dude. You're like 50 yrs old playing Fortnite, foh.🤣
@@blk_line22 I was in cb4 after smu 1 hit the walls when that step program was started
Bullshit, they don't give two shits about inmates! Incompetent and crooked!
I was in Lewis on Bachman and Steiner.
In 2005/2008
They didnt have shit for programs, the school was lame and the library sucked. On Steiner we got 2 1/2 hours of Rec a day. They must have gotten a new warden after the last one had a
Price on his head
Bachman is PC lol 😂
@@yomamasvaginasmellslikerai842 probably wasn’t back in the day. Steiner is half PC now too.
@@tylergoodwin6772 true !!!! Cook unit in Florence is all Chomos
All them people running them prisons are rats anyways theres no point in staying solid if everyone in there is already snitches how you x out chomos and snitches when the big homies are chomos and snitches politics is lame
So this is how the number game works - do you know that every time we go upstate to prison it is “ching ching” you know they got this thing called Gerrymandering which is where they send you 100 - 200 miles away so what that means that all the money that comes from your hood goes upstate - cuz every time they do the census count they have to count you in that county as if you’re a resident of that county. When they do that they say we have an exploding population - we need more money to build more hospitals, more schools and roads. Where those folks are never gonna use - the fact of the matter is the person that going to make it possible for them to secure that money is the elected official up there who is representing his real constituents. And why - because you locked up and you can’t vote.
Fidel Coronado don’t be a dumb ass and don’t get locked up then
Lucky Charles didn't end up in prison.
It’s pretty embarrassing that we have the worlds most incarcerated people. Are we the greatest country in the world?
1. It is a crime to force someone to sleep on a high top
bunk without protecting them from falling.
2. And denying them oxygen by not allowing them have windows that open forcing them to breathe carbon dioxide from the air that was breathed out.
3. And it is a crime to force women to sleep on hard concrete with nothing but a thin pad and without body pillows because she has large hips that require different
bed then a man. She needs a soft bed so her hips will not be forcing her spine out of alglingement and she needs body pillows to support her legs and hips so they do not bend off alignment all night causing spine and joint damage unlike in a mans body. This is not a luxury but
a severe necessity.
4. It is a severe crime to force women to deliver babies
without them having back support to lean on so they can relax the muscles so they wont tear their vaginas. And
keeping them chained to the bed for hours during delivery not being able to reposition causing a high risk of forming a blood clot because of putting weight on one spot for too long. Blood clots are deadly. And causing her extra stress and pain added onto the tremendous trauma of going through the birth. It is mans sadism over a woman.
5. It is a sever crime taking babies away from mothers
and forcing these babies to eat artificial man made food
and food that was designed for animal babies and not human babies.
A baby that is an innocent person and had nothing to do with the mothers wrong doing.
6. It can be a crime to tase women because these tasers kill their unborn babies. It is killing an unborn baby.
7. It is a crime to force women on chemical birth controls
as they sterilize her and damage her brain and body.
8. It is a crime to sterilize women and man by force.
9. It is a crime to use peoples bodies that are incarcerated for experimentations.
10. It is a crime to force drugs on someone.
11. It is injustice to take someone to court without letting
them speak on their own behalf and not letting them present evidence and loosing evidence with taking away persons things after arrest disregarding their evidence.
Evidence without which they wont be able to prove what happened to them and a court where you get prisoned if you do not prove your innocence. This kind of situation can be used to frame people. Especially that a group of peoples testimony can put an another person to prison for life or worse. This can be used to remove people. from society that have been framed. If one person can lie
so can an organized group.
12. It is injustice to condemn someone because we do not have all the facts and we will not have them here even if the person looked guilty they can be completely innocent and just not having evidence to prove it. Or having a jury that is not enough informed or not being able to understand what happened.
Judging on assumptions instead true facts. In todays
generation when people are becoming cyborgs how can the jury know these things without taking educational training first and having aces to that information. This kind of training can take a very long time. Because these chips can be hacked and will be hacked and that steal the persons body. It's like your computer getting hacked.
You would not throw your computer away just because it got hacked !
13. It is a crime to take people to court and not letting
their families and friends come especially in smaller
non mafia offenses or doings in question.
14. It is a crime to put homeless people in prison because they had no place to stay.
15. It is a crime to put people in prisons because they have some health problems.
14. It is a crime not to forgive someone for the wrong that they have done !
It is stealing of mercy !
$50 million would buy land military tents, military rations! Have them work the land and raise vegetables and cows and pigs! $50million would buy years worth of all of that!!
Isn’t that slavery?
Free Ross Ulbricht
Mo Money Mo Money Mo money
PC yard or what??
I got a great fucking idea if your any murder automatically exicuted if your a raper automatically exicuted that should clean it up a bit and make more room for someone else a
Free ross
Dear people of america,
The United States prison system has been a costly and harmful failure in recent years. It has also become big business and a large source of revenue despite what the government claims. As of 2011a combined total of 6,977,700 were either incarcerated in a federal or state prison or on parole which means that the United States has the highest inmate population on the planet. Arresting and incarcerating American citizens has become the new slave trade in America. A large percentage of inmates work daily for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the U.S. prison industrial complex, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don't have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or worker's compensation time. All of their workers are full-time and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover if they don't like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work they are locked up in isolation cells.
,where is death row
lairdbearly The death house is located beside Housing Unit 8 at ASPC Florence.
***** What the fuck are you supposed to be?
Cell block 6 the walls Florence.
Abdul muntaqim thanks for the update. Stay fee my friend!!
Now Browing Eyeman complex
These is where mr.unchained cells
My uncle is in one of these places
so?
Cool
@@JaximuS93 LMFAO
My step dad in this shit he bout to get out I jus wanted to see the inside of where he spent the 15 year sentence
Paradise compared to Madagascar prison lol
If your going be incarcerated in prison your for sure going to want the best of it!
✔
Who gives a rats ass about the "safety" of inmates?
Your mom
Have you heard of wrongfully conviction?
is this a gp
No pc. I was there when they opened up. I only likes this yard cuz it had AC. Felt better even with stab very on
Ya most people don’t know Arizona runs mostly swamp coolers!
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Prison these days are camps where guys go to relax and get healthy then get out stronger
U obviously never been to prison
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They should be breaking rocks, not working out.
You disgust me.
Is Jodi arias here. ?
@@X1GenKaneShiroX Why would Nassar be there?! Nassar got prosecuted in federal court. Why would he be in state prison?
Erik Islas Larry was there once but he moved from that to a Florida prison due to a assault in prison. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/1037096002
The prison in Tucson Arizona was a high security penitentiary though.
She's at the Perriville prisión in west Phoenix
Yeah. She's such a victim. And all these people doing hard time. Just had LSD in my coffee yesterday. . .the United States of America knocking out my teeth, and cutting off a finger, and hacking at a finger, and hacking at an ear, and the temperature's going to drop below freezing tonight (homeless 44 years), and my mother went home to Devils Lake, North Dakota, and the psychology department at the UA is cashing checks, and the chamber of commerce wants public meetings law to be adhered to the topic on the agenda, and the rumor mills are fresh meat . . . and all the fat women are above average.
The other ear: They tampered with at Patio Pools (uncle-tio . . . pa) and EVERY time they put drugs into food that I get cause the side of the head to be like the witch pounding me with brass knuckles . . . and it happens very often. Such a girl.
rast max
We r Indians so how is that they could get us with the Rico
I think it's BS how people say a life sentence is more justice than the death penalty. These people get to play outside 20 hours a day. But the victims familes will never be able to play outside with their loved ones who were taken. THAT'S NOT JUSTICE!
Your an ignorant bitch. 20 hours a day? Try 2 hours a day if your lucky and it's not called playing, it's called surviving.
good thi g they let em out
Hahaha 😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂 .. fuckin joke😁 .
should be able to exicute at least 35 people a day
Justin Carroll gtfo
not sure what "exicute" means but yes... on the action.
Troll
mostly pc yard
do they put alot of dropouts in there? There was an upstate sureno they say la eme made drop out at at another facility, he was kinda white I dont think he spoke Spanish thats probly why. now hes here
Prison sucks
Yes let them out to the yard more time because that's the punishment they deserve for committing crimes
chilldude 704 therefore, don't be a criminal... that's the point, deterring bad behavior.
You got no clue how bad these places are
Mario Martinez bro lockdown is mental tourture it’s unconstitutional I heard a warden say “u can lock em down in seg there whole term but I don’t want them living next to me when they get out “ long term seg. Is unconstitutional
Waaaahhh 😭
Free my primo Nu NU south side 35 PHX serving life without the possibility of parole all ready locked down 20 years wish you was coming home soon
Why build prisons for these incurable thugs? They are expensive and more and more are needed. It should also be considered that prisons can also be easily emptied in other ways on the cheap. No one suffers, death is a good option and cheap. There are great new methods where people don't need to cause suffering when they die. At some point, we're going to have to start thinking about new options to get the crime and the perpetrators out. Of course, no one should be treated cruelly, but should be subjected to a journey.
who are you to play god and choose who can and cannot live?
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