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Prison has a way of forcing convicts of meeting personal needs. 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 for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. >> what were you making? >> theyre trying to say i had -- that i had a dildo. >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even ...

Simple story of how inmates in segregation deal with the monotony of being locked in their cells 23 hour as day. they pass reading materials and other items to each other through a process called fishing. >> go ahead. take off. >> though fishing is against prison rules, inmate, tracy washington, was willing to demonstrate how to make a fishing line. >> you get the string made out of the waistband of our boxer. we take the string apart and then we put a little piece of plastic as a weight and we ...

Me out. i started kicking the door. 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 ...

Prison has a way of forcing convicts of meeting personal needs. the challenge is just as big for women as it is for men. but when we arrived at the tennessee prison for bim, 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, ace bandage in two trash bags and a tampon. theyre trying to say i had -- >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though shes allowed to h...

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 smuggling to a distribu...

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 sent staff over to shake his cell down. and they foun...

>> hi. come on in. so youre here to pick up adam? hes anxiously waiting. you can just go ahead and sign in here. >> hit me pretty hard for a while but, you know, you kind of get over it a little bit. its been pretty rough. 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...

On the first day of production at californias kern valley state prison our producers set out to shoot a simple story of how inmates in administrative segregation deal with the monotony of being locked in their cells 23 hours a day. they pass reading materials and other items to each other through a process called fishing. >> go ahead. take off. >> though fishing is against prison rules, inmate tracy washington was willing to demonstrate how to make a fishing line. >> you get the string made out ...

Continues his tie rate against him. captain morgan completes the paper work and then escorts them towards segregation. a 23 hour a day lock-up for inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was thinking in the north segregation to lock him up in oir unit. >> when inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation would soon get much more intense. >> when he tried to pull away from me and turn around on me. thats when i had security on the ground until i could get more security help.

Me out. i started kicking the door. 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 ...