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East St. Louis High School football coach Bob Shannon was a beacon of hope amid despair. Now because he's blown the whistle on the school administration's wrongdoing, he's lost his job.

Darrold Clark, Jr. a riot hostage, returned reluctantly to the prison to keep his medical insurance. His daughter has cerebral palsy. Now his violent nightmares continue.

Whereas once inmates roamed the hallways quite freely while being monitored from a distance, they are now escorted to their mandated hour of recreation in cuffs and leg irons.

Mike Hensley, though injured in the riot, returned to confront the inmates who had hurt him. One of his duties now is to search the new-style cells for weapons. In almost each cell that he searches, he finds sharpened sticks, cords that could be used…

Mike Hensley outside the new security booth, complete with smash proof glass, where guards operate doors ad surveillance equipment. In the old-style cell blocks, guards were openly vulnerable to attack.

Guard Mike Hensley begins the 6,00 a.m. shift at the maximum security prison at Lucasville. In April 1993, inmates at the institution held him captive during 11 days of rioting. He had been beaten, as other guards were. A guard and nine inmates were…

Cara reveals she was diagnosed by health officials to have an anger problem and a chemical imbalance. Awakened at 1,00 p.m., Cara tries to clear her mind in the downstairs hallway that shows the bullet holes from a recent drive-by shooting.

Gang-related tragedy hits the Fremont kids, too. Cara, Wendy and others go to the nearby cemetery to smoke a joint and remember a homey shot by a rival gang member.

Te police didn't find the drugs Cara was hiding. As they drove away, she waived goodbye to them with her left hand and gave them 'the finger,' the classic sign of disrespect, with her right hand.

Cara has just bought a joint from the man driving the ice cream truck when the police spotted her. Dropping it beneath her foot, she tried to charm and distract these Kansas City cops.