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>> after the inmates quiet down, gilberts review gets under way. 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 t...

Review board comes to them. >> we want to do bobby gilbert first and get him out of the 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? >> nick orate 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...

>> gilberts life behind bars is often punctuated by his frequent battles with holmans warden. grant culliver. at the time, culliver and a disciplinary committee were about to review gilberts behavior and a transfer to a prison closer to his familys home. within moments other inmates had seen that "lockup" cameras were present decided to disrupt the hearing in the shoe by banging on the cell doors. thats when warden culliver decided to take matters into his own hands. >> beat on that door again. ...

Its not a normal job where you just learn something and you do it. nothing is ever the same. i mean, you make a decision today, from one incident tomorrow, maybe the same incident, but you have to make a different decision. >> sergeant banks have to deal with many problematic inmates. >> i asked you not to put me in my cell. im not going to hold my head. >> when i deal with jamie bell, i deal with his issue only. bobby gilbert, i dont have any problems with. i just know the problems that other p...

You beat on the [ bleep ] door again. i dont [ bleep ], beat on the [ bleep ] door again. [ bleep ] put his ass out the door. the sooner we get his [ bleep ] out of here. >> after the inmates quiet down, gilberts review gets under way. 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 su...

I was hot-headed then too. so thats how i got it. >> how much money did he owe you? >> he owed me $36. and i paid $37 for the gun i killed him with. so, you know. >> once behind bars, gilberts violent temper led to numerous other crimes, including stabbing another inmate to death. this time for much less than $36. but gilbert made it clear to us, in prison things arent always as they seem. >> everybody wants to talk about, you know i killed someone over a carton of cigarettes. you know, its not ...

>> 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 dramatic footage. >> 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. >> at the time of our visit bobby gilbert had been at alabamas holman correcti...

Police and 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 you say you aint taking nothing else. thats the end of that. heres what happens when you come to take something from me. >> a-1 to a-4. 1084 a unit. >> gilberts life behind bars is often punctuated by his frequent battles with holmans warden grant culliver. at the time, culliver and a disciplinary committee were about to review gilberts recent behavior and his ...

>> 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 numerous other crimes, including stabbing another inmate to death. this time for much less than $36. but gilbert made it clear to us, in prison, things arent always as they seem. >> everybody wants to ta...

>> 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 dramatic footage. >> 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. >> at the time of our visit bobby gilbert had been at alabamas holman correcti...