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>> what are you trying to figure out? >> we are trying to figure out what set you are. >> doesnt really matter what set i am. if im a blood, im a blood. >> i will put you in the right set. this is for classification to know where you are, who you are, so they wont put you with somebody else that will take you out, put you with a bad roommate. >> i guess you can put byrd gang down. >> byrd gang. is that what you are? why didnt you tell us in the first place? >> little bit of cooperation is better...

Youngster is a first timer. he got 12 years. i only got 13 days now. so im really preparing him to whats ahead for him. keep our house clean. >> league gave both his cell mate and our producer a lesson on the finer points of laundry behind bars. >> i clean my t-shirt. grab my bar of soap. dip it in the toilet. i keep my toilet fresh and clean. scrub it out. use soap. when your toilet fills up, its fresh water now. i can just rinse it. i fold my towels. put it here. right up under here is my clot...

>> translator: as someone who was addicted to drugs, one of my things was a need for excitement. and today, in essence, the only excitement that i get here is through religion, through the torah, which gives me the tools that i need for life outside. >> in the religious wing, he is shielded from the potential violence between jews and arabs that exist in other parts of the prison. but some inmates at rimonim have benefited from putting the conflicts of the outside world aside. >> translator: to ...

I dont get along with and i dont like, you know? just the way it is, you know? >> i know i was going to be called names. im prepared for that. i was prepared for that before i came. i knew i was going to be called a "b" word and a "c" word and all these other things you can think about calling. but if they think im a "b" word, im probably doing my job right. >> schrieber will soon face a disciplinary hearing for the verbal abuse writeup and an earlier incident where he spit on the window of a ce...

Infirmary in the prison. >> do you know what those americans are being held for? >> one was being held because he accidently drove into mexico like me with four pot plants in the back of his truck, unlike me and another american was there because i think he got caught trying to sell some kind of drugs. in mexico. >> in terms of being in the cell with anyone, anyone abuse you who was a cell mate? because i know now you are alone. did anyone ever give you a hard time? >> no. not physically, no. ju...

Another american in the infirmary in the prison. >> do you know what those americans are being held for? >> one was being held because he accidently drove into mexico like me with four pot plants in the back of his truck, unlike me and another american was there because i think he got caught trying to sell some kind of drugs. in mexico. >> in terms of being in the cell with anyone, anyone abuse you who was a cell mate? because i know now you are alone. did anyone ever give you a hard time? >> no...

Liked to be a dominating personality in these sexual relationships that he could control here. i agree with tom. you heard from the cell mate. this is consistent with her testimony. and when you have other evident that corrob greats it is helpful. >> they were co-workers and mcdonagh was anyhow and working part- time in the department store. he said come over and well watch a movie together. does that fact that she helped to lure her to the scone she was killed does that work against her. >> the...

Parking spot. >> alicia seems to be spreading the word for her boyfriend, brad, while hes in jail. >> whats up, man? how you doing? im chris. >> who are you? >> she sends this guy a friend of brads. >> todd is here with five vehicles one a $230,000 bentley. >> i got them all here believe it or not. >> all of them? >> i actually got them [ bleep ] here. a nightmare. >> todd explains hes the middleman, not the thief. >> i coordinate it, man. i coordinate. >> the actual thief, he says, waiting outs...

>> im serious. you dont have to marry him. >> yeah, i mean, it seem that way. youre placing this inmate in the cell with me. i mean were not -- were not outside the cell all day. were inside that cell all day. >> yeah, but that should have been a consideration before you went to prison. >> the committee is baffled, not only by hamiltons stubbornness but by its sudden appearance after nine years behind bars at other state prisons. >> you have been taking a cellie up until the time you got here. o...

>> ironically other inmates might not feel safe around hamilton either. hes serving a life sentence for kidnapping, carjacking, robbery, and say salt with a deadly weapon. nine years in, hes only now decided to make his stand against taking a cell mate. >> theres no rule that says i have to take a cellie. two, i dont want to live with another man for the rest of my life. >> 127. >> the prison officials disagree. we followed him to an administrative hearing on the matter. >> here we go. escort! >...