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You need to be able to say no. >> denied possession of his chess set, gilbert is outraged, claiming his punishment would never happen at other prisons. >> donaldson dont do this crap. st. claire dont do this, anywhere else. i received a lot -- i ordered 10 or 15 books a week at donaldson. i have art supplies at saint claire. only here they strip you of everything but a naked cell. thats rehabilitation at its finest. >> gilbert isnt the only inmate in seg expressing frustration. >> are you going ...

>> whatever you way. >> im going to make my money in football season. >> come on, have a seat over there. >> knowing the cameras are rolling, inmates disrupt the proceedings by banging on their cell doors. >> who beating? where he at? beat on that [ bleep ] door again. beat on the door again. you, i want you to do it. you do it. you beat on the [ bleep ] door again. i dont [ bleep ], beat on the [ bleep ] door again. [ bleep ] put his [ bleep ] out the door. the sooner we get his [ bleep ] out o...

1084 to your unit. >> bobby gilbert has asked for a transfer to another maximum security facility closer to his familys home. he waits while a table is set up in the hallway. >> what is you chewing on? >> gum. >> where are you getting the gum from? >> nicorate gum. >> i dont even know that? how long you been on that? a year and a half. >> only thing that stops the cramps. >> is that right? does it really work? how much they give you? >> ten pieces a day. >> ten pieces a day? how much you selling...

Gotta be sharp. it just gotta have a point. put your hand on it and do what you need to do. >> one of holmans most notorious inmates, bobby gilbert, is serving multiple sentences for crimes committed inside prison. >> im serving a life without parole sentence, two life sentences, two 99-year sentences, a 40-year sentence, a 20-year sentence and a 10-year sentence. all together. >> gilbert has attacked several prisoners and stabbed one man to death at another prison during an argument. >> everybo...

Way. >> 801 to a4. 1084 to your unit. >> bobby gilbert has asked for a transfer to another maximum security facility closer to his familys home. he waits while a table is set up in the hallway. >> what is you chewing on? >> gum. >> where are you getting the gum from? nicorette gum. you know that. >> i dont even know that? how long you been on that? a year and a half. >> only thing that stops the cramps. >> is that right? does it really work? how much they give you? >> ten pieces a day. >> ten pi...

Gilbert has made little, if any, progress while in seg, and prison officials have confiscated his most treasured possession, a chess set. >> right now, your behavior warrants no transfer. okay? anything you would like to talk about? >> you about summed it up. i sure would like to have my chess pieces back. why cant i have my chess pieces? >> this is segregation. what are you going to do with chess pieces? >> play chess! >> let me tell you what you do, get you some paper, draw you out a checkerbo...

and his tattooed eyeballs continue to fascinate. >> [ bleep ] punk, sit here and [ bleep ] over. you want to think [ bleep ] its funny funny about some [ bleep ] face. >> another inmate attempts to harness the rage he felt behind bars to build a new career inside the ropes. and for one young woman, life after "lockup" means coming to terms with the devastating childhood memory of witnessing her father murder her mother. >> and i was saying, "please, dont kill mom," and she was laying i...

Pop or i owe him a soda pop and they come to me and say i need to get that soda pop you owe me, i spit in their face and talk to them like they a bitch or something and they kill me, whose fault is it? it isnt about the soda pop no more. on the street, you call the police to put a stop to it. what do you do in here? i tell you what you do, you go get you a knife and you stab that son of a bitch and say you aint taking nothing else. thats the end of that. heres what happens when you come to take ...

Its the same thing. nothing changes. >> 90% of prison life is actually boredom. and its what the inmates do with this down time, this lack of stimuli, that has led to some of the most interesting parts about lockup. >> you do your time. dont let it do you. >> the monotonous grind of life in prison can push some inmates to the limit. in trying to understand how they deal with the specter of never being free again, weve met some of our most memorable characters and recorded some of our most dramat...

Alabamas holman correctional facility for only four years. but he first landed in prison at the age of 18. he told us how a minor dispute over money led him to murder an acquaintance from his town. >> he said basically the only way i would get my money is over his dead body. you know. i was hot-headed then. so thats how i got it. >> how much money did he owe you? >> he owed me $36. i paid $37 for the gun i killed him with. so, you know -- >> once behind bars, gilberts violent temper led to numer...