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Leads 18 inmates in an anger management class designed to help them recognize and control their emotions. >> is it possible to stay in prison, have a long sentence and be here for a long period of time and not it get a disciplinary? is it possible? >> it is possible. all you have to do is obey authority and stuff, right? >> walter says it is. do you agree or disagree? >> i disagree with walt. ive been in here for years and i got 57 disciplinaries. some of them i got was because of the administra...

>> ive been over here before, it aint like i been over here. all these [ bleep ] know me. i been in prison 11 years. this is just another part of prison. im talking about i dont need to worry about this [ bleep ] redneck, that cracker man. this is real. this is real. thats what you need to film. thats fake and passive. fruity. >> now that percy got kicked out of the honor dorm, he was no longer required to go to anger management classes. so, just out of curiosity, i asked him what he was going t...

Both caden and jennifer was truly inspirational. and then terry, taking full responsibility for this child, knowing that she was going to give the child back to jennifer when she got out of prison, astounded me. >> they cannot take custody from you without a reason to. and as long as you have somebody to take care of him, you still have full custody. they just have temporary custody until youre released. and then once upon your release from here, youll be given back all custody. so, that gives m...

When jennifer rose described her worst day at the tennessee prison for women to us, she left no doubt about how bad it really was. >> i was sick, literally sick -- physically, emotionally, crying, devastated. theres no way to explain it. its the worst thing ive ever had to go through in my life. >> technically, though, rose wasnt in prison that day. she was in a nearby hospital giving birth. >> i dont wish it on nobody. it was awful. they treat you pretty much like an inmate. its no privacy at a...

May have put gaines life in danger, it also generated some welcome attention from the outside world. >> apparently, im writing my fiancee. >> you have a fiancee? >> yeah. >> is this someone you knew before you were incarcerated? >> no. i met her since i was in here. the interview i did with southern poverty law center. she read that and dropped me a couple postcards of encouragement commending the changes i made so weve been pen pals for almost two years now and been together for about the last ...

>> with we met rose six months later, she was serving a four-year sentence for theft and forgery, but when she first got to prison, she didnt even know she was pregnant. >> while i was in classification which is where you have to be for 30 days when you first get here, i found out i was pregnant. and so, ive been here since then through my whole pregnancy. >> one of the saddest things i think we film in "lockup" is the case where a pregnant inmate has to decide what to do with her baby. at tenne...

>> percy obviously believed violence was a necessary tool in prison, but the fact was, over the last couple years, he had a clean record. so, he was able to move into the honor dorm, which was the least restrictive housing unit at holman. >> its full of inmates trying to change their life and learn different things, but its all a crock of [ bleep ]. >> tell me why because you seem really unhappy. >> because you got certain guys in here feel like they run the dorm. youve got certain guys in here ...

Though his violent behavior had tapered off, he had just been assigned to anger management after a disciplinary write-up for arguing with another inmate. >> how many disciplinaries? >> 57. >> how did that happen? >> its a [ bleep ] jungle. its a jungle. its been a jungle my whole 11 years. know what im saying. so, people say, you cant blame other people for what you do, cant blame other people for your action. thats a damn lie. >> why? >> youve got to blame other people. youve got to blame other...

Yet. >> it can be worse for the sex offender. >> i was burned with hot water out of a hot pot with baby oil and hair grease. thats a permanent scar forever. >> most of the prisons we profile on "lockup" are maximum security prisons. i mean, these are hardcore places with gang members, rapists, murderers. every once in a while we come across a fish out of water story, the guy next door, the neighbor. where you ask the question, how did this guy end up here? >> this is california state prison, cor...

>> they ask me who i run with? i run with teachers and librarians usually. i havent found many of them yet. >> it can be even worse for the sex offender. >> i was burned with hot water out of a hot pot with baby oil and hair grease. thats a permanent scar forever. >> most of the prisons we profile on "lockup" are maximum security prisons. i mean, these are hardcore places with gang members, rapists, murderers. every once in a while we come across a fish out of water story, the guy next door, the...