My brother got killed. I shot his killer in the head.
…took the knife from my pocket. and I stabbed the guy with it in the neck.
Good. It’s coming. Good.
- Is it straight? - Yep!
Drove over him with a car.
Shot him with a bow.
You should not speak about anything too personal.
And use some common sense.
For example, this cell block has various criminals.
Violent offenders, killers,
and a lot of drug-related criminals.
Good. It’s coming. Good!
- Is it straight? -Yep!
It's like when you say it in Finnish,
"C8," "messed up," kind of.
Everyone is waving around some real guns
and showing drugs in music videos,
so this kind of parodies that aspect.
I don’t claim to be any kind of gangster or anything,
but even if you are one,
you don’t have to say it out loud to everybody.
♪ At times a straight-edge life I can't be bothered being afraid… ♪
What did we do to him?
A bit of everything.
But do we need to go into details like that?
We took him to my home in Tampere,
and then we tied him to a metallic table
with metal zip ties by his arms and legs.
We smashed his finger joints
and legs and feet with a hammer.
Drove over him with a car,
shot him with a bow,
and things like that.
But I think most of it was mental violence,
humiliation, and subjugation.
Maybe it was the mix of the anger and excitement.
At that time,
it just felt like it needed to be done.
Is it sticking okay?
Sticks are fairly okay.
We melt the disposable razors
and take the soot from it.
Uh, isolation.
I don’t think they’ll notice I have a new tattoo.
It's done. Yeah. Yep, turn the machine off.
Yes, I hope he is not coming back.
-He has everything in good order now. - Yeah.
We have a good relationship. We speak about everything.
Girls, drugs, everything.
I don't know. It's good. It's good to talk about it.
There's too much testosterone in the section.
In his cell. You know.
- Oh, you went into his cell? - Yeah.
Because there are cameras, you know, everywhere.
Because he…
A couple of years ago, he snitched.
Uh, for drugs.
Yeah.
I can't, you know, live with people like that.
My dogs will laugh at me if I go home and I do nothing.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah, but he has to do it.
-Does he? -Yeah.
-The guards don't know about it though? -No.
Not yet.
-Do you think either guy will tell them? -I don't think so.
I saw it when he went into the room with the guard.
I don't think he will be telling anything.
-Thank you. -Not a problem.
She said put your TV on
because she’s going to update my, you know, sports channel.
I'm not, like, depressed but somehow, fuck,
being here in prison frustrates you and you want to feel better.
I do go out usually every day.
I don’t know. I feel a bit restless today,
and I can’t stay here.
I ran away from this children's home
and went over to Tampere,
where I was homeless and doing drugs and looking for drugs.
I got into a situation at Tampere where two around 40-year-old junkies
accused me of stealing their speed stash,
and the guy said to me
that I had three seconds to give the drugs back
or he'd smash my teeth in with a baseball bat.
After that, fuck, I just kind of lost it
and took the knife from my pocket, and I stabbed the guy with it in the neck.
And then the other guy came, and fucking pushed me,
and held his hands someway like this,
then I fucking stabbed him twice,
like, here and here.
I have visited the rehabilitation worker here
and psychologist, and yes, it has helped me.
It's been… Damn, it's been a long time since anyone came to visit me.
I don't know if I even need visits. I'm doing well here.
This is a good cell block. There is a good group here,
and I have friends here, and… it's nice to be here.
KYLMÄKOSKI PRISON
Uh, 11 times in Finland,
six times in Sweden,
two times in Denmark, and one time in Norway.
I have grown up in institutions.
And I ended up in prison when I was 15 years old.
Then my brother got killed. So I shot his killer in the head.
It was revenge.
If there is a Romany family with which there is hatred,
if you don't get away from that situation, then things can go very bad.
And it is in these times today when everyone has guns.
Then it happens so suddenly. They try to take your life immediately.
And I haven’t wanted to receive help before.
I used to use so many heavy drugs in the past.
But now, during this sentence,
I have had conversations
with Hanna all the time.
Do you have any thoughts about what kind of place
that rehabilitation center should be in an ideal case?
A Christian substance abuse rehab center would be the best.
- There would be some spirituality. -Yes.
It is possible to talk about everything with you.
I don’t have to lie about anything
or about how I feel and where I need help.
And I know that these conversations are only between you and me.
You have a lot of influence on the wing, right?
You have a lot of respect?
Normal.
You see people's eyes here who have really small pupils, you know.
I see that this is who I am.
I’m how one should be.
I’m good to good people and very bad to bad people.
I don’t think I am a full-time gangster in any way.
It was just a weekend that happened, and now I’m doing prison time for it.
So the aim would be that me and Olli,
we’ve been planning a business so we could run it.
I’m becoming a father in the summer.
And I want to be a good dad to my children.
I want to do music when I have time for it.
I do not intend to come back here.
The key point is that we view prisoners…
We view human beings as human beings.
Our starting point is that
we truly try to rehabilitate every prisoner.
So they can live their lives in society without drugs and crime.
I believe that if you’re motivated and want to be rehabilitated,
Kylmäkoski prison and Finland’s prison system
will give you the tools and opportunity to do it.
But it’s up to you. It starts with you.
We have had just one
violence counselor now for two years,
and I would say we need two or three more of them.
Restorative justice projects are, in my opinion, one of the things
that should be brought into prisons more.
Yes, we can’t make this place airtight.
In my view, there are two main things
that affect this problem.
One is preventing supply,
thanks to the control work we do here.
And the other is preventing demand,
and that’s rehabilitation, work activities,
giving them other things to think about than just drugs.
We adhere to our values.
Respect for human dignity,
justice, faith in one’s ability to grow and develop.
My belief is that many of the prisoners
have a sincere desire to be drug and crime-free,
but it’s not easy, and it requires you to be highly motivated.