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>> somebody wants to talk to him. you know what im saying? i got to sit down. >> i might have to come up like this, or he can just turn inside here and walk this way. >> yes. this is how you do it. you do your back that way. you know what im saying? >> aint nobody gay up in here. >> few things in prison are as key to survival as having a good cell mate. >> when you live with a person 24 hours a day, you build up a brotherhood, a sense of -- you build up a rapport that you dont have with your fam...

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! >> you dont have any enemies?...

>> later we were with hamilton as officers escorted him to his new general population cell. >> its all right. just relax. dont get tense. i can feel you tense now. >> yeah? >> yeah. its all right. >> finally, hamilton reaches his new cell, and his new cell mate. the relationship is short-lived. >> you refuse? go ahead, close it. >> close it. >> are you sure? you didnt even want to look at who you -- >> doesnt matter. >> okay. weve got to turn back. >> before hamilton is returned to his cell, his...

>> no, not really. no. no, its -- nope. >> im just telling you -- >> i have, but they dont matter. >> im just telling you, in order to be a programmer, you have to show that youre willing to be socially acceptable with somebody else in your cell. in other words, youre a program failure. thats all im trying to tell you. >> okay. >> you dont want to do it, but youre going to do it, okay? >> okay. >> im serious. you dont have to marry him. >> yeah, i mean, it seem that way. youre placing this inmat...

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. once you got her...

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, come back in the cell and watch tv and listen to the radio. thats our life every day. >> sky bishop was sent to the hole when he refused ...

Back. >> later we were with hamilton as officers escorted him to his new general population cell. >> its all right. just relax. dont get tense. i can feel you tense now. >> yeah? >> yeah. its all right. >> finally, hamilton reaches his new cell, and his new cell mate. the relationship is short-lived. >> you refuse? go ahead, close it. >> close it. >> are you sure? you didnt even want to look at who you -- >> doesnt matter. >> okay. weve got to turn back. >> before hamilton is returned to his cel...

Might not feel safe around hamilton either. hes serving a life sentence for kidnapping, carjacking, robbery, and assault 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! >> you dont have any enemies? ...

You know me, bitch! you know me, girl! >> marcus is probably our most flamboyant inmate. every time he comes out of the cell, its almost a show. he exaggerates his movement and speech quite a bit. so that draws a lot of attention to him. >> its the kind of attention that cashs cell mate, mario, said he could do without. >> shes a good person, but sometimes she does draw a lot of attention to herself. and she can be kind of noisy and drive me nuts. but some people try to give her drama, though, t...

Know, obviously the level of being disrespected in here are quite different than, you know, people out in the real world. >> i have three staff members who corroborate other versions of the story, not yours. so its yours, his, and three staff members. none of them saw that part. we have battery on an inmate. so youre going to go to ad seg. >> okay. >> i would imagine giving the circumstance he will be out in segregation 72 hours. get a little time-out. coming up -- >> be careful. use caution. ...