Gerald Mccullagh News Today

All i do is write my songs and play my guitar and study the bible, and -- try to stay out of trouble. ♪ oh, we aint through >> narrator: though confined to prison, mccullagh confided he still had dreams. ♪ with a fool >> i just want to go into a studio and cut a couple albums, and try to make it. what i plan to do is get out and go to church and find happiness. and happiness is valuable. because theres not really a whole lot of happy people that i know. we may smile and laugh and joke but we...

Who compared it to a once popular tv show. >> its like that little show "cheers" where everybody, you know your name. [ bleep ] you come back and [ bleep ], hey, whats up? [ bleep ]. you see your friends. you feel like, well, im cool here. these are my boys. you know what im saying? they know this is home. >> narrator: but other inmates hold a much different opinion. >> prisons are hate factories. they cant produce anything but hate. all you have is hate, loneliness, greed and -- just misery. >>...

>> theres no way out. theres just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someones life. >> narrator: despite his pessimism, mccullagh had found a productive outlet to express his pain. ♪ they say its raining in denver ♪ that its really kind of cold ♪ but im just pulling time in nashville ♪ how am i supposed to know ♪ >> shooting in a prison in nashville, the home of country music, we decided it would be great if we could find a country singer, and so we kind of made the call out ...