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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. >> listen. they have me a sexual toy. >> what? >> 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 a dildo. >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though...

So go to legalzoom.com today and see for yourself. its law that just makes sense. most of these inmates have been on every yard or they know people on every yard. if they want him, they will get him. >> david has felt like a marked man for nearly a month now. had he gone to authorities and reported the two other inmates were extorting him and forcing him to violate prison rules. now only one of them remains at limon. >> they shook tommy down and his

>> do i that real quick with a pen. thats like an hour and a half right there. i will do that for $5. 6, $7 and much like that. i can do much better than this. its just people dont want to pay. so the lowest price i will give them, i will give them low quality. not that [ bleep ], but you get what you pay for in here. >> a tattooing is strictly against prison rules. >> tattooing is a big deal at prisons. the inmates use it as a way to make money and it causes big problems from the health standpo...

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...

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.g÷ 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 ...

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 got to where we couldnt do nothing with him. weve had him ever since he ...

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 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 waistb...

>> 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...

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 since la...

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 ...