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To the largest maximum security prison in the country as a prisoner would be at least the first timers, do you think they have any idea what life theyre about to go into >> no, they find out its totally different once they get behind angola its totally different. >> angola, or the louisiana state penitentiary, is a former slave plantation i spent three days here on the inside, my access was virtually unrestricted, and at times i was not in the immediate sight of officers very few of the roughly ...

Into? >> no. they find out it is totally different once they get behind -- angola is totally different. >> angola or the louisiana state penitentiary is a former slave plantation. i spent three days here. on the inside my access was virtually unrestricted and at times i was not in the immediate sight of officers. very few of the roughly 6,000 inmates here live behind bars as we traditionally think of prisons. in fact, most of them, about 80%, live in open dorms like this. bunk beds like you woul...

So a couple years later, i end up coming to an sny yard, where im surrounded by the same type of people that are actually convicted of the crime that i thought the guy i killed actually committed. >> on brians own cell block, there are several sex offenders like this inmate, whose identity corcoran asked us to conceal. >> i was a minister on the streets and had been for 45 years. my charges against me was for having a relationship with ladies under 17 years of age or 18 years of age, and so i ha...

Prison toilet tissue. finding new and different ways to make you laugh or smile makes running out of toilet paper almost seem worthwhile. and people, they actually put them in the letter, send it home. but i make -- i should make two bucks off this tonight so i can smoke a cigarette later. thats what its all about. >> cigarettes are expensive, huh? >> $2 a cigarette, wow. >> in our three months inside san quentin, our production crew barely found a quiet moment. the noise on the cell block can b...

Officials he tried to hurt himself but according to him he wasnt attempting to hurt himself but it was the cell mate who by most accounts first started making noise in the cell that brought guards to that situation. >> let me go to ariana. do you have any reporting you can give us about foul play perhaps or other involved, other prisoners on that cell block, anything like that that might be a lead as to why they failed so miserably to keep an eye on this guy? >> there are huge question marks sur...

>> and it costly. >> its costly. and he was dealing with psychologists on a daily basis and they kept monitoring him. you want to give, i would assume, inmates a little more freedom. if they are deserving of it, perhaps you lesson the constraints. he could have been arguing to be taken off suicide watch, his lawyers could have argued to take him off suicide watch. we dont have the full story yet. >> what about the point he no longer had a cell mate, which was against policy. where was the cell m...

Prisons has tried to tackle for a while. >> and then, katie, at least one of the guards its being reported may have been on the fifth shift. is there an inference there that someone may have been watching but may have fell asleep? or the follow-up question is arent there cameras and wouldnt there be a way in which to review what could have happened in terms of the watch of epstein? >> of course. so on the cameras issue first, if the cell block that epstein was in looked like similar cell blocks,...

Abundance of caution, all the facts and details will line up in terms of what happened. but as of now, jeffrey epstein appears to have killed himself in his jail cell. he was in a cell by himself. when he was first at the mcc, he had a roommate, cellmate, but then he suffered some injuries in what was also an apparent suicide attempt, but there was also an investigation to see if perhaps the cellmate or someone else on that cell block may have attacked him. he was then moved to his own cell, pla...

In the mcc. he would not go to the rooftop for exercise time. he wanted to sit down in the legal room with his lawyers for hours on end. they would come, he would literally be paying them to sit with him for hours and hours down in the lawyer room because he didnt want to be in his cell block, he wanted to be down there with them. as you know, he was fighting very hard to get bail, an ankle bracelet, and be sent back to his mansion on the upper east side. the judge would have none of it saying h...

>> reporter: by 2010, seven years after michael petersons conviction, his daughter martha had given up hope that her father would ever be released from nash correctional institution. >> dad was probably going to be in prison until he died. this was a reality that was never gonna to change. >> reporter: but in michaels cell block, an interesting story was circulating. a series of articles had been published in raleighs "the news & observer" alleging misconduct at the state bureau of investigation...