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>> my wife and i hadnt been getting along for quite a while. i wanted her to go to the bedroom to -- to have some sex, and i hadnt had any sex for seven months. and so it was kind of the straw that broke the camels back when she told me to get out because i was drinking. and i loaded my 9 millimeter glock and went back in to the living room. and i said, im not going to lay a hand on you, but im going to get your attention. i aimed it at her. and aimed it over, higher, not to harm her. fired off ...

Was a little bitty girl. and im like dolly. the redder the better. the more the merrier. >> at the limon correctional facility in colorado, we met inmates who have had more permanent transformations. aaron cooper, serving 10 years for assault and escape, didnt stretch his ear lobes until he got to prison. >> did it about four years ago when i was in ad seg. no reason, really. i just like the way it looked. it started with the tooth of a comb and started wrapping saran wrap about it and got it fa...

So, you know, i look at myself and i have guilt, major guilt thinking so my kid is a thief because i was a thief and what do i got to do to change it? >> christine taylor also struggles with parenting from prison, especially when it comes to negotiating with her childrens father. >> unfortunately, some events transpired in day care last week that are horrible, and hes still letting our children go there, but theres nothing that i can say, because im here and im helpless. >> later we noticed tayl...

>> inside rimonim, the abu ganims have gained a reputation as a formidable crime family. >> translator: when i came to prison, everyone knew our story, which family i belonged to. we have a background, and we are a large family, a lot of members. there are almost of 20 us here. where we live, we have a very high status, and everyone respects us. >> i felt like i was in a film, in a scene like from "goodfellas," all of them spending time, cheerful, the family. theyre cooking, theyre proud. they c...

>> rimonim staff also sees a strategic advantage to keeping crime families together. >> translator: the moment that i have dominant prisoners in the cell block i know when needed how to send them a message that they have to be straight and keep their people in line. and when there is a crisis, i use them as a mouthpiece to reach the rest of the population. >> but abu ganim maintains he plays a larger role in the prison than merely a mouthpiece for officials. >> translator: at any second there ca...

They manage their own affairs and their people as needed. >> rimonim staff also sees a strategic advantage to keeping crime families together. >> translator: the moment that i have dominant prisoners in the cell block i know when needed how to send them a message that they have to be straight and keep their people in line. and when there is a crisis, i use them as a mouthpiece to reach the rest of the population. >> but abu ganim maintains he plays a larger role in the prison than merely a mouth...

>> here you go. >> oh. >> sit down. sit down. >> though returning to the cell block was difficult, talley told us it was also cathartic. >> yeah, i was down for awhile. but im not dead. they didnt kill me. im okay. emotionally, ill heal. some day. and the sleepless nights, and the worry, and the wonder oh, my god is this ever going to happen to me again. ive dealt with most of that. and its -- its really a hard thing. >> next, on "lockup: raw," an inmate turns violent against himself.

A way to make a statement when he flooded his cell and released a deluge onto the rest of the cell block. he then refused to leave his cell, prompting a forced cell extraction. >> it makes a point. heres the thing. ill explain this real simply. is my actions, right, that day affected how many people? >> lots. >> okay. their actions only affected who? me, right? it might be petty. it might be stupid. you got to understand, we live in a box. i live in a box. thats it. my life is in a box. we have ...

A way to make a statement when he flooded his cell and unleashed a deluge on to the rest of the cell block. and then refused to leave his cell, prompting a forced cell extraction. >> it makes a point. heres the thing. ill explain this real simply. is my actions, right, that day affected how many people? >> lots. >> okay. their actions only affected who? me, right? it might be petty. it might be stupid. you got to understand, we live in a box. i live in a box. thats it. my life is in a box. we ha...

They are just absolutely loving it. all right. what happened? >> i have no idea. >> whats it look like happened? >> im not even going to say nothing with that door open. >> as staff start to clean up the cell block, we would soon learn that the flooding had to do with another unwelcome presence in ad seg, our crew. >> theyre mad that these interviews are going on. so this is their way of having a protest. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> the ringleader is george grahf, who is serving three years for motor...