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The paperwork. the inmate continues his tirade against him. captain morgan completes the paperwork and then escorts him towards segregation, a 23 hour a day lock up for inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was told to lock him up in our cell unit. when the inmate turns morgan tightens his grip but it soon gets much more intense. >> he tried to pull away from me and thats when i through him to the ground until i could get more security help.

He started talking [ bleep ]. i started talking [ bleep ] back to him. >> what did he say? >> i dont know because i was talking over him. i just know that he was a bitch. thats what i told him, that he was a bitch [ bleep ]. >> with his recent setbacks, roca moreno faces six more months before leaving close management and having his visits restored. john smith has also been in confinement since being caught with possession of marijuana. >> whats been going on since last time we saw you? >> just ...

On any given day at the limon correctional facility, inmates are caught violating prison rules. >> bring your two officers over, please, to unit two. >> most of these violations never disrupt the daily routine. but today, one has not only rocked the prison, it sent shockwaves through the states entire department of corrections. >> yesterday morning, the segregation staff did a strip search on the segregation corridor and found a large quantity of heroin and cocaine that the inmate was apparently...

Nearly a month now. he had gone to authorities and reported that two other inmates were extorting him and forcing him to violate prison rules. one of the men is tommy holloman, the leader of a prison gang known as 211. the other, jason wright. but now only one of them remains at limon. >> we went on lockdown. and they shook tommy down and his cellie. it was a long shakedown, too. it was probably over an hour. maybe even longer than that. >> we had information that he was involved in drugs. we se...

Thats like an hour and a half right there. ill do that for five bucks, six, seven bucks, something like that. i could do much better than this. its just people dont want to pay, you know what i mean? so the lowest prices ill give them, ill give them low quality. not that im a [ bleep ] but, you know, you get what you pay for in here. >> but tattooing is strictly against prison rules. >> tattooing is always a big deal at prisons. the inmates use it as a way to make money. it causes us big problem...

Against prison rules. >> tattooing is always a big deal at prisons. the inmates use it as a way to make money. it causes us big problems just from the health standpoint because they spread diseases such as staph infections or hepatitis by tattooing. >> as a result, correctional staff keep a close eye on walker. >> my control officer called me down in the office and said there was something unusual going on in the cell in the second tier of b-pod. so i went up to that cell, and the two inmates th...

>> the politics of race creates rigid demands, which control the smallest details of inmates lives. >> for the most part youre separated and broken off. you pretty much can walk around, but there are certain areas where you can just hang and sit. the same way it is on the street. we have neighborhoods and things like that. its a territorial thing. so we try to keep it like that and give each other respect so we can give ourselves distance so we wont cross paths in the wrong fashion. >> the rules...

The challenge is just as big for women as it is for men. when we arrived at the tennessee prison for women, we found that meeting personal needs had led to a dilemma for mary beth. >> they done wrote me up. >> what? >> what for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. theyre trying to say i had -- a dildo. >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though shes allowed to have the individual items she was caught with, she was written up for h...

I really miss him. she did, too. >> after being locked up two years, adam will now be free of prison rules. lucky for him, his grandparents have never wavered in their support. for 24 months, they visited every two weeks. >> hope it does some good for him up here, you know. it got to where we couldnt do nothing with him. weve had him ever since he was 8 months old. >> its been difficult, but its worth it. >> i know theres going to be people come do this with us, come get high with us, come get d...

On any given day at the limon correctional facility, inmates are caught violating prison rules. >> bring your two officers over, please, to unit two. >> most of these violations never disrupt the daily routine. but today, one has not only rocked the prison, it sent shockwaves through the states entire department of corrections. >> yesterday morning, the segregation staff did a strip search on the segregation corridor and found a large quantity of heroin and cocaine that the inmate was apparently...