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The tip and then he looks out for you with some food. see, thats how jail works. if youre good to people, people are good to you. if you act like an [ bleep ] -- >> over the last seven to ten days were starting to see his behavior change because weve been giving him less attention. weve kind of been having just one or two people deal with him for the most part, as opposed to when he acts up, everybody shows up to include myself, sergeants, corporals. so what weve done is we started to kind of tr...

Some cardboard or something to put in place under their bed that defied the prison guards ability to see where theyre at. now, you know, one of your other guests may have commented on this, but one of the things some prisons do when theyre dealing with dangerous people like this is every month, two months they put them in different rooms. they change them in different cells so they cant get that comfortable. in this particular prison, it looks like they were trying to keep some of these inmates ...

Perverse and dangerous. >> social conservatives who sought to ban gays and lesbians from working in schools found themselves doing battle with grassroots activist like harvey milk. >> there are 15 million lesbians and gay men! >> while some stigma slowly waned, in 1973 the american psychiatric association announced being gay was not a mental disorder. another battle was just beginning. in 1981 a mysterious disease began killing otherwise healthy gay men. >> this lethal epidemic sweeping out of c...

Having a problem with relapsing when it comes to pornography. >> ricardo gomes is also dealing with a reputation issue. he recently had a cup of urine confiscated from his cell. he says he was going to throw it at a particular officer, but first was going to make it an even more sinister concoction. >> i was planning on making a special remedy we used to do back in the old days called funky called medina. its kind of like skunk juice. its made out of some really nasty parts, urine, feces, peanut...

Threats and [ bleep ] act up and violate the rules of the department. >> lieutenant medeiros has a problem with me. >> you tell him. >> hes a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> with gomes safely restrained, deputies conduct a search of his cell, checking for weapons or other contraband. it isnt long before they find cause for concern. >> we discovered inmate gomes tied multiple shoelaces around his shower head. inmate gomes has done this in the past to not only use the shoe laces to pull and activate sprin...

Cell window. >> wait, when the [ bleep ] comes out of there. >> as you just documented on camera, he stated wait until he [ bleep ] comes out of there so well have to take him out of the chair eventually. he still continues to make threats and [ bleep ] act up and violate the rules of the department. >> lieutenant medeiros has a problem with me. >> you tell him. >> hes a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> with gomes safely restrained, deputies conduct a search of his cell, checking for weapons or other con...

>> i told that lieutenant i promised him i wouldnt act up, keeping my word because i want to get my transfer. i got 60 days quiet, and im out of here. >> though officials deny reaching such an agreement, gomes says if he stays out of trouble for 60 days, he could become eligible for transfer to a jail in another county. >> im going to give them this 60 days, and on day 61, im going to become awful upset if im still in here. if im still in here, im going to act up so badly that they have to ship ...

Parm lies paralyzed by fear. could baghdad be next. and ryan zincy here to take questions. a former navy s.e.a.l. commander. a member of the house armed services committee. our reporters and experts have been working their sources. theyre ready to bring you the very latest. lets get the very latest from our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. michelle? >> reporter: hi wolf. this is is a last push for the white house to persuade what may be now only three remaining senators to vote to ...

>> i used to be an fbi agent. was he extorted likely the way it was written? individual aid is likely to have cooperated with the fbi at some point. there will be more story to told here. >> the 73-year-old hastert resigned his job as a lobbyist. less than three days remain until the intelligence program shuts down unless the lawmakers find a compromise. the white house says there is no plan b if the nsa is forced to shutdown the data collection and other programs. that puts pressure on the le...

D.c. this meeting started an hour ago. what is the white houses plan to salvage these sections of the patriot act that the president insists are absolutely critical to national security? >> reporter: right. we will hear from the president today on this. this is maybe no surprise to anyone truly down to the wire and this is the white houses last push. theyve been contacting members of the senate. theyve also been ramping up their rhetoric almost trying to shame members of the senate into keeping ...