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>> 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? because hes got none. 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 f...

>> 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...

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. county i told them that i needed protective housing because the only purpose of me ...

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. were just going in to 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 now. >> emotionally, i feel distraught because, you know, i mean, i don...

Im only messing with you. dont take it personal. >> but beneath galaways humor is a desperate past. >> all right, one minute. >> hes currently serving just under four years for assault and robbery. >> i just wanted cash. so id just go and bang, thats how i used to do it. >> how? >> i used to rob it. >> galaway only has 15 months left in his current sentence and says he wants to clean up his life and stay out. but with his past record another conviction could send him away for good. >> so i only ...

Wall. >> theyre always constantly on the monitors when they go to the yard. they have cameras out there. also, we have what we call always under the gun. and if you can see upstairs, we have a correctional officer whos always has weapons up there. ready at all times in case an emergency arises. >> we do little puzzles, play cards, homemade chessboard. try to stay occupied. if you sit around and think, then you dwell on a million and one regrets. >> three times a week inmates get one hour of exer...

Out, hey, go ahead and write me off. its going down. >> i think the officers who escorted tracy out to the sny 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. >> ...

Is where hes at. >> 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. were just going in to 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 ...

>> not all inmates are in ad seg for violence or contraband. 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 th...

If youre looking for him, this is where hes at. >> 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. were just going in to 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 doesn...