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    I know him better than you do, she says. I know Bobby better than anyone; I’m not a trick and I’m not game, and I know what I am to Bobby Gilbert. Her name is Angel and she knows him alright; she married Bobby Ray Gilbert in prison. Gilbert robbed a gas station one night, pistol-whipped and shot the attendant. Bobby laughs when he says, I got thirty-five dollars. The gun I used cost thirty-seven. Once inside prison and to no one’s surprise, Bobby Gilbert killed again. A fellow inmat...

>> i set my drawing board up so when the sun comes through my window, i can get some good light on my board. they dont turn the lights on back there unless they need to see in your cell. >> six months after we last saw him, gilbert was finally transferred to a prison closer to his mothers home. hed successfully completed his anger management course and maintained good conduct. so we were shocked when he made national headlines in july of 2008. just days before another holman inmate was to be exe...

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>> lets dont have one. whats going on? >> my mom travels 400 [ bleep ] to see me. >> you need to keep beating on that glass. you know we cant let you keep doing that. >> take it, im ready to go then, i dont care. do [ bleep ] ive been working for right here. i havent been able to do it from this day forward. they two sides of me, aint been to see -- [ bleep ] >> up next -- >> so help me god theyre going to transfer me. >> bobby ray gilbert continues to rage. >> youll be back behind that camera f...

Theyre not going to eat. and when i talked to him about it, he seemed pretty resolute that he was going on a hunger strike not so much as a protest, but almost as though he wanted to kill himself. >> how long does it take to starve to death? 35, 40 days? they can have it. i gave them 22 years, 6 months. thats enough. start to feel like sisphysus. keep rolling that stone up the hill. knowing damn well its going to roll back to the bottom. you reach the point where its -- just not any heart to fig...

20-year sentence, and a 10-year sentence all together. >> the first time we met bobby ray gilbert we knew he would be an unforgettable inmate. he was serving life for two murders at the holman correctional center in alabama. one of the murders was committed on the outside and the other in prison. he told us both involved disputes over money. >> i killed somebody because i felt like they were taking something from me, and then i come from a world where everybody thinks they can take something fro...

Closer to his elderly mothers home. >> you run this place. >> i follow the regs. >> thats what im saying, thats your decision. >> i follow the regs. >> gilbert was denied the transfer for various infractions. when we shot our "extended stay" series at holman a year later, gilbert was still trying to get his transfer. >> bobby had a very close relationship with his mother. for her to visit him, it took a lot. it took money. it took time. none of which she had. i think she was his sole support sys...

Eventually theyre going to get tired of me killing their children around here. >> authorities eventually determined gilbert had nothing to do with it. his motives for the claim are unknown. coming up -- >> we hurt anybody that tries to forcefully take property or rape or in any way hurt a homosexual that cant defend themselves. thats when we step in. >> the gay boy gangsters make their mark inside one of americas most dangerous prisons. and later -- >> tattooed red the whites of my eyes. >> it...

>> all it is, probably in a group setting. you know, you would be given the same information for you to be able to read. then you would talk about it in a group setting. one thing this does is allows you to write it down, and as you go back and read some of the stuff that youve actually written, it makes you take a closer look within yourself as to how anger has really affected you. >> i could probably use a little anger management. >> during the rest of our stay, gilbert maintained good behavio...