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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 to share his cell with an inmat...

>> 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. >> close it. >> are you sure? you didnt even want to look at who you -- >> doesnt mat...

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 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 official...

>> 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 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 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...

Predators often extort weaker inmates, a practice very familiar to jesse kozlowski and his cell mate, tafari coke. >> as soon as they come in, whenever they get their money receipt, they let us know how much money they got and well make a list either for half of what they got or depending what type of person they is, well just take everything. >> since cash is banned in prison, the payout typically comes as commissary goods which inmates purchase from debit accounts funded by friend and family. ...

This is going to be on the streets when i get out of prison. okay, im going to have them in black, brown, green, red, all tropical colors. you know theyre real because of this. you cant get the fake ones. this is a sneak preview. thats enough right there. that was a sneak preview. being a gangster nerds, they will be in a store near you. i will be rocking these on the streets. >> lets go, entrepreneur. >> lee even has a name for his cell mates glasses. >> they called pretty boy swagger. say hi, ...

Let me see. come on. >> aint going to lose it. this is going to be on the streets when i get out of prison. okay, im going to have them in black, brown, green, red, all tropical colors. you know theyre real because of this. you cant get the fake ones. this is a sneak preview. thats enough right there. that was a sneak preview. being a gangster nerds, they will be in a store near you. i will be rocking these on the streets. >> lets go, entrepreneur. >> lee even has a name for his cell mates glass...

But sarah herman thinks that is unlikely in jacksons case. >> kenneth jackson is simply in confinement because he cannot cope in general population. he is more afraid of being in general pop with other inmates with a roommate and cell mate. weve tried a couple times to get him to go to general population. he didnt last 24 hours. he did not feel safe. go put your clothes on. >> jacksons coping issues are not limited to general population. he recently cut himself in order to deal with the stress o...

At indianas wabash valley correctional far the m-house cell block has been put on shut down until investigators can determine the cause of cashs severe facial injuries. cash and his cell mate claim that cash simply fell. but internal affairs investigator frank littlejohn suspects a coverup. >> the suspect probably told the victim dont tell on me. tell them you fell. >> littlejohn suspects that woods might have used the hot pot to assault his cell mate. >> this is what was retrieved out of the ce...