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And he basically drowned in his own blood. >> rapatz was convicted of manslaughter, along with several other charges including resisting arrest and battery of a police officer. he soon returned to the penitentiary of new mexico, this time in a yellow inmate jumpsuit. >> people say you dont live with regrets. but anyone who says that is a liar because you do live with regrets because i do regret. i didnt hardly know the guy and i killed him. i took a guys life and i didnt hardly know. >> his last...

You know, it was pretty amazing. i mean, i had a lot of people, they spoke at the hearing. >> the judge cut hollomans sentence in half, to 15 years, with the understanding that any violent acts in prison would restore the original 30-year sentence. >> you get this whole new perspective. you get this chance at some kind of life outside of prison. >> but for holloman, nothing seems certain. >> i get my sentence cut in half when i dont deserve it. i wasnt doing anything to better myself in prison. ...

>> this is how i sit all the time when im watching the. in the old days when i had pork chops, id put on a show. have nine, ten portion chops, chips, beans, six pack of soda. guys [ bleep ], pas, you know what? [ bleep ] tear it up. only fight i got left. >> but if he initially saw pasco as a foodie behind bars, the footage he recorded on the camera we gave him revealed the troubled past. >> im in prison for 60 years for murder. i killed my nephews ex-wife. i was drunk, high on marijuana at the ...

Snitched on no one in my life. >> he wanted to make it clear to everyone that he was being forced into protective custody by the prison administration. but that was not his choice. he chose to align himself with the inmates. he completely identified as an inmate. >> but rapatz recognized his past would always make his safety in prison a gamble. >> all it takes is one inmate trying to get his bones, what we call stripes. he might come and try and hit me on the line somewhere. thats a chance i was...

And they never did have sex. some of the evidence indicated otherwise. >> well, they turned it into a rape trial. they did their tests. and there was a presence of spermatizoa. she was partially nude. >> suddenly i heard an inmate off camera yell something. and cephis whole persona changed. what are you looking at, cephis? >> im marking someone. >> why? >> because he just said child molester. break his [ bleep ] neck. total disrespect for anyone in a prison. especially for some convict like me t...

During our time at any prison, we meet inmates who want to share their talents with us. more often than not, rap is the artistic expression of choice. ♪ held my own gun to me ♪ pull the trigger suddenly ♪ locked locked up ♪ thinking about some things that never change ♪ ♪ my game takes flight ♪ love is just a feeling but pain is life ♪ ♪ all the bad at the scene im trying to make it right ♪ >> with so many rappers to choose from, its difficult to decide who makes the cut. ♪...

Trial on a charge of firearm possession by an ex-felon. >> toilet, write on the toilet, make your own beats. you know what i mean? ♪ >> fishers cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as duker loke. thompson was at maricopa appealing 2 murder convictions that could land him in prison for at least 32 years. >> keep the noise down over there. >> rap has helped the two men bridge their generation gap. >> were trying to film [ bleep ]. >> the cellies share one other thing in com...

>> just about every inmate story we tell on "lockup" resolves around the three rs, respect, reputation and revenge. at indiana state prison, we met one inmate whose story revolved around his search for all three. >> i dont know what the hell is blinking. battery must be going dead. >> during our shoot at indiana state prison, officials allowed us to give select inmates handheld cameras to express personal thoughts in the privacy of their cells. >> my name is cephis pasco. c-e-p-h-i-s p-a-s-c-o. ...

Convict, he was basically saying his crimes were not against a child or of a sexual nature against a woman and he lives by the convict, which in prison is a big deal. >> the laws of the convict is, you dont respect others, you dont steal, you pay your debts, you can never become a punk or a bitch. ive done that. my reputation is clean. >> but pascos status as a convict was threatened by another distinction in prisons complicated social structure. >> are those animals out so we can go eat? feedin...

Made the accusation was angling for a transfer to another prison. and holloman was cleared. but holloman has had his share of trouble. he was originally sentenced to 30 years for assault and attempted robbery, after he stabbed a man during a street fight. >> i was charged with first-degree assault which i thought really wasnt that serious. i thought, oh, its not murder, then maybe he wasnt too bad. it turns out that i stabbed him in his lung and he bled out, like, twice. had to go through a coup...