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Gilberts review gets under way. gilbert has made little, if any, progress while in seg, and prison officials have confiscated his most treasured possession, a chess set. >> right now, your behavior warrants no transfer. okay? anything you would like to talk about? >> you about summed it up. i sure would like to have my chess pieces back. why cant i have my chess pieces? >> this is segregation. what are you going to do with chess pieces? >> play chess! >> let me tell you what you do, get you some...

12th, 2013. we go now to washington for "the daily rundown." heres chuck todd. >> peter alexander in for chuck todd. thanks to him, pass and go for 200 bucks in that video. sorry to hear canadians beat your record for the largest chess set but you have the worlds largest monopoly board. now we get to this mornings headlines. president obama is on a working vacation. congress is in recess. theres no debate from the intelligence debate. reassuring the public about his surveillance programs be s ...

Rhodes, who is awaiting extradition to illinois on a bribery charge on which he plans to plead not guilty is grouped with the masculine inmates. >> i am a man that wants to be with another man. i dont want a girl. if i wanted a girl. i would be straight. but i am also, i wont date a guy that is taller than me. i wont date a guy that is bigger than me. so i guess i am more of the masculine man. >> rhodes has recent le began teaching hi inmate, the finer points of chess, a creative challenge consi...

Progress while in seg, and prison officials have confiscated his most treasured possession, a chess set. >> right now, your behavior warrants no transfer. okay? anything you would like to talk about? >> you about summed it up. i sure would like to have my chess pieces back. why cant i have my chess pieces? >> this is segregation. what are you going to do with chess pieces? >> play chess! >> let me tell you what you do, get you some paper, draw you out a checkerboard -- >> i saint playing in my h...

You need to be able to say no. >> denied possession of his chess set, gilbert is outraged, claiming his punishment would never happen at other prisons. >> donaldson dont do this crap. st. claire dont do this, anywhere else. i received a lot -- i ordered 10 or 15 books a week at donaldson. i have art supplies at saint claire. only here they strip you of everything but a naked cell. thats rehabilitation at its finest. >> gilbert isnt the only inmate in seg expressing frustration. >> are you going ...

His appeal for a transfer was quickly dismissed. but it didnt take long for gilbert to make another request, one to help beat the boredom of prison life, the return of his recently confiscated chess set. >> i sure would like to have my chess pieces back. why cant i have my chess pieces? >> play chess? let me tell you something. get you some paper. draw you a checkerboard. >> i just dont see where it can hurt anybody to let somebody have something semi-constructive to do in their cell. >> ask the...

Some of the girls really like it when, when i say girls, i dont mean actually girls, but they prefer to be called girls. which boggles my mind. but to each their own, i suppose. >> he is awaiting extradition to illinois on a bribery charge on which he plans to plead not guilty is grouped with the masculine inmates. >> i am a man who wants to be with another man. i dont want a girl. fy wanted a girl, id be straight. but i am also, i wont date a guy that is taller than me. i wont date a guy that i...

You need to come in firm, need to be fair. you need to be able to say no. >> denied possession of his chess set, gilbert is outraged, claiming his punishment would never happen at other prisons. >> donaldson dont do this crap. st. claire dont do this, anywhere else. i received a lot -- i ordered 10 or 15 books a week at donaldson. i have art supplies at saint claire. only here they strip you of everything but a naked cell. thats rehabilitation at its finest. >> gilbert isnt the only inmate in se...

>> after the inmates quiet down, gilberts review gets under way. gilbert has made little, if any, progress while in seg, and prison officials have confiscated his most treasured possession, a chess set. >> right now, your behavior warrants no transfer. okay? anything you would like to talk about? >> you about summed it up. i sure would like to have my chess pieces back. why cant i have my chess pieces? >> this is segregation. what are you going to do with chess pieces? >> play chess! >> let me t...

Quickly dismissed. but it didnt take long for gilbert to make another request, one to help beat the boredom of prison life, the return of his recently confiscated chess set. >> i sure would like to have my chess pieces back. why cant i have my chess pieces? >> play chess? let me tell you something. get you some paper. draw you a checkerboard. >> i just dont see where it can hurt anybody to let somebody have something semi-constructive to do in their cell. >> ask the law library to bring you a co...