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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 family. and youre both dependent on each other for survival. >...

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 shu. >> the shu is the secure hous...

Now back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> theres certain ways that you conduct yourself in here, too, you know what im saying? >> 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 ...

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? >> nope. >> 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 ...

That he will win his battle and return to general population without a cell mate. >> im happy. i aint got to stay in the cell. i get my tv, radio, and property 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. >> ...

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 here, you stopped taking cellies. >> thats not a luxury of being in prison. he should have thought about that bef...

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 to share his cell with an inmate the prison assigned him. >> what about your cell mate now?...

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 escort officers make one more attempt to reason with him. >> you have to find somebody that youre compatible with because eventually were...

I ended up stabbing him. >> i stuck my hand up his ass to my forearm and bashed his head and made him drink out that toilet. and took the towel and 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, lock...

Living with another man. >> and to me its like you dont even want these people in society, but you want me to feel safe inside a cell with this person. >> ironically other inmates 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 ...