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Isolation for fighting with his boyfriends cell mate, has just been moved back to mod q. >> i just got back, like, seriously three, four hours ago. i just got here. so, of course, everyone is banging on their doors, screaming my name, you know? im a star here. yeah. im crazy. >> not only is cash grateful to be out of isolation, hes especially happy about the location of his new cell. >> im so excited, my husband is next door. im really excited. im really excited. >> hey, you can hear me on the s...

We went off like 20, 30 seconds and then stopped, shook hands, there aint no problems no more. from that point on, he was quiet when i was watching tv. >> the two men are moved to holding cells until authorities can find new housing assignments for them. >> well bring each of them down, talk to them. if its necessary, well place separation orders so neither one sees the other one again. there is a certain boiling point with inmates, if you live with somebody for a certain amount of time in a clo...

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Billiter used to use his camera time to record himself creating a tattoo on his cell mate, jack spell. >> this is a little tattoo parlor right here. >> never thought id be getting a tattoo from a sharpened staple. got all the ink right here. mix it up with some shampoo and some soap. >> this is the tattoo im about to be getting. it just says infamous. >> i hope we dont get caught. >> no, were good. >> im looking out. every time they come walking and checking the rooms, im just going to chill on ...

To sharpen it really good. ive got pretty good with pig pokes. im really good with it. >> he says he knows his tattoo business is not without risk. too many write-ups could get him kicked out of the substance abuse program. >> being that im in the drug dorm, im trying to be very careful. this is one of the most watched dorms. its hard to get away with stuff. its not a matter of how or when, you will get caught. coming up -- >> really sucks in here. >> when inmates are given cameras, norman sma...

And took the towel nd strangled him. when they opened up the door, i tried to throw him off the tier. >> i tore the sheet and wrapped it around his head and i said, nope, you aint doing nothing. >> but at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee we met two cell mates who were not only successfully living together, but doing so in a maximum security unit, locked up 23 hours per day. >> its not any kind of fun, stuck in a cell. you go out. me and him go out and work out every day, com...

Inmates who have expressed contempt for sex offenders. but few have done so as dramatically as one of the most memorable murderers ever profiled on "lockup." carl abhul, from the spring creek correctional center in alaska. >> there are certain people with certain criteria, rapos, child molesters. you cant cure them. theres no cure for them. you kill them. thats how you deal with the problem. theres no more problem after that. >> abhul, sentenced to 77 years for murdering a co-worker killed again...

Disciplinary hearings starting with battaglias cell mate, who has requested anonymity. >> there was a birthday card sent into the facility through the mail. the birthday card was tampered with. there was actually four bags of heroine in between the two birthday cards. the birthday card had the "e" number of your roommate. so can you make a statement on what your involvement is with this or -- >> i have no involvement at all with that. at all. only involvement i can see me having is being his cel...

>> you seem to be a guy who gets along with people. >> yes. >> why wont you take a cell mate? >> i feel threatened place in a cell with another person. i feel my life is in it danger. >> okay. let me tell you what path youre going down right now. right now it seems like its no big deal. been locked up twice for it. theres documentation on one, theres going to be another documentation on another one. and if you keep going and you dont take a cellie, guess what happens? >> what? >> indeterminant s...

That i have. >> there may be criminal charges filed against inmate battaglia. more than likely not because of the small amount that was coming in. and being that the -- the return address was phoney, theres no way to determine who actually sent it in. >> battaglia does not know that yet. >> if they find me guilty, im going to be upset because i cant risk another charge. >> instead of criminal charges, battaglia and his cell mate, who requested to remain anonymous, and each will be investigated a...