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Then released on bond, he wasnt out three months before he was in trouble again. and this time his offense earned him a new identity on the cell block. >> my actual nickname here is rambo. and thats from ramming my wifes condo with my truck. im nothing like rambo, but he is one of my heroes. that kind of makes me feel like a bigger guy. >> normally your older inmates are treated with a little bit more respect. they -- i guess it doesnt even really matter what race they are. they just come in her...

Special flower to say i love and miss you. made from 14 little squares of 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 prod...

Thats where you go. but youre going to do our process. were not going to do yours. >> im going to do everything in my power to make, you know, the system work for me, in my favor. >> entering -- >> in regards to going to the hole. >> coming up -- >> [ bleep ] happens. >> george grahf faces the disciplinary board for flooding his cell block. >> you know what happens here. >> an unexpected development infuriates michael gill. and more trouble for timothy schreiber. >> as i was walking by for count...

Thats awesome. >> they are loving it. 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 imagine -- these interviews going on. so this is their way of having a protest. >> the ringleader is george grahf, who is serving three...

This aint my life. >> good. i hope i never see you again. >> im going to move up here. is there a lot of work? are they hiring at dennys? >> no, no, theres no work. no housing. nothing. theres nothing out here. >> but later, the levity gave way to an ominous warning when gill talked about the one inmate on his cell block who could cause him to prolong his stay in prison. >> his name i believe is schrever or schreiber. you know, the guy that flashes little kids at pools and sexually molests 13-ye...

To death. >> in indiana, all kids sentenced as adults are incarcerated in the youth unit inside the massive wabash compound with adults kept in neighboring cell blocks. the young offenders are isolated from their adult counterparts and rarely leave their own cell block. >> this is like your whole life. ive spent five months and counting. if they would have let me out then, that would have been enough wakeup call for the rest of my life. >> once a youth offender turns 18, theyre transitioned out ...

This guy was trying to stab me, and i broke that stick over his head and got the knife from him, but all i can say is he probably was lucky that the stick broke. personally i try to treat the offenders the way they treat me. they treat me all right, dont give me a problem, then im not going to give them a problem. but ill tell you what, if they cross me, i can be their worst enemy. >> james stone is one of the offenders that used to test cabanaws mettle. >> my first eight years here was very vio...

Go ahead and strip down. >> both brothers will be strip searched before and after the visit. theyre allowed only brief physical contact. their conversation will be monitored by surveillance cameras. >> this is the only time ive seen him in the two years weve been down. i think about my family a lot, but other than that stuff, i really dont think about none of that. makes it easier just to forget it. just cope with it. >> make sure you give your i.d. to the officer at the desk. >> while bennie ne...

>> oh, man. >> its been nearly a year since 18-year-olds michael stanley and alexander rankin arrived on the youth unit at wabash. today they transition to the adult population where theyll trade a unit of 53 kids to a cell block of 200 adults. on transfer days, kids often mask their fear with bravado. >> the secret word is no. >> i got you, granny. >> uh-oh. feel like im going home. >> master control. >> taken to the south side. >> what are we going to do with this? >> sit back, chill, see what...

Through. >> can i -- >> its extremely sensitive and crucial that you think for yourself and do what you think is right, not what you think someone else wants you to do. that you know within yourself is wrong. >> while stanley and rankin face new changes in their cell block, 12-year-old paul gingrich has similar issues in the juvenile facility. >> keeping them safe. knowing the kids who like to pick on the smart kids. hes an easy target even in a juvenile facility. >> do you think about wabash at...