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>> ever since his 1984 conviction teter said his charges were trumped up in order to run him out of town. >> i found out a bunch of people here in alabama needed a good contractor so i moved up to alabama. five years later i got a warning to get out of town and stop contracting or were going to stop you. i laughed at them because i was licensed for everything. plumbing, electrical, everything. they stopped me. they pulled the rug out from under my feet, laid fake charges on me and took me to cou...

It anymore than that. im just crazy about her. now thats the smile i was waiting on. >> i actually live the two weeks to come out here and to see him. that relieves my tension and everything. its amazing. i told him i come to the prison to relax, and thats a bad thing to say. >> the teters still like to look at photos to remember life before prison. >> she took this one out on the streets. a photographer took that one for her and sent it in. this one was taken right after i came in. two years af...

Was that thats what life is. here or elsewhere. so you better get something out of it. so if i can actually enjoy making coffee here in corcoran surrounded by a lot of loud people and a lot of other discomforts, then im going to come out a lot better for it when i get out of there. if im going to live through this, and i have a son, so i better live through this, i have to do something. no matter how different it is you reach down and find mettle you didnt know you had. thats what prison is all ...

>> due to this evidence, you are deemed a threat to the safety and security of the institution, to staff and inmates. >> escort! >> without good information about what prompted the attack and whether this attack could lead to others the prison decides to place de la cruz into administrative segregation where he will be isolated in a single cell 23 hours per day. >> its very complicated. in the process, you try to cover all angles why he was assaulted. i started my questioning whether or not it w...

So, because it is all fraud, the 3.5 million is all income and by the way, you owe several million tax on that. >> after donating $70,000 out of the $3.5 million raised, tiano was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. >> it is one of those things in the beginning it seems surreal and as you go through it you start to devise ways to cope or go crazy, you know? ive -- its no secret. im not ashamed to say, ive thought of killing myself, you know, in the beginning. i didnt know...

My defense. i had no defense. i said, yeah, i did go in and take the credit cards. the reason i took the credit cards because wisely enough my wife canceled mine. >> stefan parro was a very relatable guy to most of us who were filming "lockup." he was a well-educated man and he expressed himself so eloquently and so succinctly. i think he was a cautionary tale because his crimes were committed because of his substance abuse. and most of us know people who have similar issues. but there was stefa...

One thing we learned about prison, doesnt matter where youre housed, your safety is never guaranteed. >> we believe you may have been a victim of a battery. >> joseph de la cruz is a gang dropout, serving nine years for attempted murder at california san quentin state prison. when we first met him, authorities had just discovered that he had been assaulted inside his protective custody cell. >> this morning, you come out of your cell, we did a sweep to find out how many people stayed behind. you...

Theres another reason to stop gang life. >> i stopped for my son. thats my little boy. everybody says after they seen him, thats your junior right there. hes got his hair spiked up there, too. thats the day were at the hospital right when he was born. >> the thing about joseph that stood out for me was the fact that here was this young man who is obviously gang affiliated in a pretty tough prison who had made a very huge transformation because of his child. i rarely see people in his situation b...

His story about what happened and why he was attacked. at one point he told us he was actually defending a nurse who was the actual intended victim of this attack. >> someone threatened a gun, nurse [ bleep ] it, and so i didnt want the nurse hurt. i said throw it on me. >> another time he told us it was an accident that it occurred. at one point he admitted that somebody purposely tried to hurt him. >> i walked up to the bars because i thought someone said bozo. thats what the guys call me. i w...

In prison, nicknames are as much a part of the culture as complaining about the food or fantasizing about life on the outside. so when we first meet an inmate, finding out his nickname is part of our routine. >> i need your first and last name. >> okay. its douglas. i go by doug. >> what is your nickname? >> bozo. bozo the clown. yeah. >> why? >> why? i dont know. i think it is because i didnt have any hair. >> one day i was having a conversation with whitlow. he had told me he had one time work...