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Hope of getting out. >> i got double life and i got to stay here until i die, and hopefully i can stay right where im at. i been on this chair 26 years. hopefully i wont be there another 26, but theres a lot of us in here doing multiple life that wont never get out. and im one of them. >> we came to find out that inmate barbers here are not unlike small town barbers. theyre popular and well-liked. they even cut staffs hair. so when lucas died during the course of our second visit to isp, it was ...

At indiana state a few years earlier. he was in for murder and had no hope of getting out. >> i got double life and i got to stay here until i die, and hopefully i can stay right where im at. i been on this chair 26 years. hopefully i wont be there another 26, but theres a lot of us in here doing multiple life that wont never get out. and im one of them. >> we came to find out that inmate barbers here are not unlike small town barbers. theyre popular and well-liked. they even cut staffs hair. so...

Matias is called in to calm gonzalez down. >> youre going home friday, right? >> yeah. friday is my out day. i want to hurry up and make it out there before i do end up doing something stupid knowing i will regret it later on down the line. >> i was getting a little worried about you. the closer it gets to your date, the more worked up you seem to be getting. >> im glad you noticed that. im nervous, man. dont get me wrong. im really happy to be out there with my family again. you know? im not tr...

Where did it go? >> the kids are more -- the inmates, the older guys are the convicts and theyre getting less and less. >> holy mackerel. >> isp is slowly going from convict to inmate. were getting a lot of younger kids in here who are not used to prison life. and theyre not used to interacting with us. >> its a bird, its a plane. no, its the bio bucket man. these new guys coming in here now, theyve got pants hanging down to their knees or they have grunge on their headset or something like that...

>> james stone is one of the offenders that used to test cabanaws mettle. >> my first eight years here was very violent. thats what i did for a hustle. guys that were having problems that were owed money and couldnt get it, theyd come to me and say, will you collect this for us? id say, yeah, but i get half. id go up there and split their wig and say, you got a week to get the money, or the next time im not going to be nice. >> over the years, stone has grown less violent and more committed to h...

>> this is a cat bed. because they love to get up high. people come by and stick their hand in and pet it. thats pretty much it. >> for some inmates at isp, cats are the closest things they have to families. paul komyatti hasnt seen his family since he first came to prison 26 years ago. hes soon to be transferred to a work release program, a transitional step to freedom. but theres a snag. >> lets go over to the office and well sit down and talk about the status of whats going on. >> anything ba...

That he will stay out of trouble is holding up. as for paul komyattis new life outside isp, he has been in prison since 1983. but for the past several weeks, he has been transitioning to freedom at a department of correction work release center. >> ive been here a little over a month. the anxiety level was a little frustrating because i wasnt allowed to leave the center initially. thats a normal process. but at the same time, i just wanted to get out and take that first step on the sidewalk. to ...

Like that for? >> when youre walking through here at night, he will get an ankle or two. he loves to get the moths and the butterflies. he goes all over this institution. >> but hill never worries about her well-being. >> nobody is going to do anything to her. i wouldnt even -- if somebody hurt her, i wouldnt even have a chance to get to them. >> why? >> because somebody else would handle it before i got a chance to. you know, everybody loves this cat. if you dont like this cat and this cat dont...

If you dwell on it, you end up either hanging yourself or going crazy. so i dont do that. i keep a normal routine. i exercise. i read. i write. i watch a little bit of tv. i do some other things. thats what the day is in here. the same, you know, pretty well day after day, boredom and monotony. but, you know, some kind of a schedule is what keeps you focused and motivated to go on, so thats what you do. >> welcome to isp, meditation section. >> darren bailey, an inmate with a violent past, is ho...

Book? >> it may not be a writeup. >> i gave my phone to you. >> thats why you might be all right. thats where you used to hide the cell phone. >> i dont know why i got shipped out. probably because my dumb [ bleep ] brother just got hit with a seven-inch shank. that book that they just took, where i hid the cell phone. i gave that cell phone to him. if they write me up for that its [ bleep ]. >> this book is taken because he once put a cell phone in it. he would walk around with the book all day...