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We may be locking up our next generation of finders and believers and doers in the united states. >> its a pretty incredible story, jose. and he wants to do this work here, learn how to lawyer on that 7th circuit. he just took the bar and will get his results next month. >> and youre interviewing jarrett later on our air today. whats next for him? >> well, hes got this clerkship and hes got a clerkship with the federal district court. what he says he wants to do, jose, is represent people who ar...

Left. if you can be clean in a place like, there you can be clean outside. im 42 now. ive been in all my life. and all of a sudden im 42. 42. so i want to try and, you know, get out and stay out. >> but an adulthood in prison doesnt always prepare one for life on the outside. >> for me to go out there and get a flat on my own, id just be lost. i cant cook, i cant do nothing, you know. you got to have life skills down here because everythings done for you in this place. you got no bills or, you k...

>> he was offering candy to us, to the officers, to other inmates. steven actually even asked one of the officers to take his canteen to the new inmate, but he may no attempt to hide his real motive for being a nice guy. >> why am i giving him any? doesnt have any money, doesnt have any canteen. i thought, oh, future. its all about, you know what i mean? thinking ahead, you know what im saying? as you know, nothing for nothing in prison. >> when he returns to his cell, he finds the house warming...

Area of the prison knew something was up because they could tell that when he mentioned to his cellblock, hey, ill be back in an hour, i think they knew that he was working the system. >> during the long walk to sny, washington finally cleared up the mystery and admitted that he had, in fact, requested the transfer but he had no intention of following through. he had another motive. >> when they was trying to send me to a prison way up north about 1,000 miles away from where i live in l.a. count...

>> in this cell, it appears that somebody has tampered the mattress. >> obviously this has been tampered with. i can tell that the inmates have restitched it back up to try to evade detection, any type of detection. >> sorry. well just go ahead and finish it, see what we got. and actually its not anything they -- its like they cant have, you know. i dont know why they have it in their mattress. >> sometimes, unfortunately, we come up empty-handed, and it doesnt look like theres anything in here ...

Some are here because the prison doesnt know where else to place them inside the facility. dennis hamilton is in ad seg for refusing to be housed with a cellmate. hes serving a life sentence for carjacking, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon. >> for one, theres no rule that says i have to take a cellie. and, two, i dont want to live with another man for the rest of my life, you know? to me, the cells are too small. i think the cell in itself breeds an environment for homosexuality. >> ...

That empire whether hes in prison or hes not in prison. the prison doesnt actually diminish their ability to communicate messages out. >> you believe he was still doing business from jail? >> oh, absolutely. thats a threat to employees of the prison is so real because he can snap his fingers and their entire family will be dead by morning. were talking a different level of violence and crime that we dont see in this country. this is probably head of the number one organized crime group in the wo...

But with his past record, another conviction could send him away for good. >> if you can be clean in a place like this, you can be clean outside. im 42 now, ive been here all of my life. and all of a sudden, im 42. 42, so i want to try and get out and stay out. >> but an adulthood in prison doesnt always prepare one for life on the outside. >> for me to go get a flat on my own, i would just be lost. you dont have life skills down here. everything is done for you in this place. you got no bills o...

>> he was offering candy to us, to the officers, to other inmates. steven actually even asked one of the officers to take his canteen to the new inmate, but he may no attempt to hide his real motive for being a nice guy. >> why am i giving him any? doesnt have any money, doesnt have any canteen. i thought, oh, future. its all about, you know what i mean? thinking ahead, you know what im saying? as you know, nothing for nothing in prison. >> when he returns to his cell, he finds the house warming...

>> so i only got one chance left. if you can be clean in a place like, there you can be clean outside. im 42 now. ive been in all my life. and all of a sudden im 42. 42. so i want to try and, you know, get out and stay out. >> but an adulthood in prison doesnt always prepare one for life on the outside. >> for me to go out there and get a flat on my own, id just be lost. i cant cook, i cant do nothing, you know. you got to have life skills down here because everythings done for you in this place...