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>> along with receiving mail, inmates also look forward to the limited time outside their cell. >> they are brought out to go to lunch, took back in and locked down again until that afternoon when we have the evening meal. then go to the yard for an hour and then they are locked back down for the rest of the day except for ten minutes while they take a shower. >> air conditioning and cold water. thats what i come for, really. you cant be doing a lot of talking. they will say youre not eating. ta...

So that entails working with survivors on a daily basis and helping them through their healing process. >> marcia and dianes background helps them deal with inmates who have the most taboo of crimes, but for brook, his secret may be keeping him safe. >> on the yard, everybody wears a mask and they hide most of their life from everybody else because there are so many predators out there. emotional predators, physical predators. if they see a weakness, they take advantage of it. and you never can ...

Many people knowing me. i think its a circumstance caused by my taking up the legal trade that i have. >> brook has spent years helping inmates get out of prison legally. but not so long ago, he was interested in a faster way out. >> now, this was a stupid thing to do. and im still paying for it today. but at the time, i didnt see as if i had anything to lose. i was young. i didnt want to grow old in prison. i met this guy in solidad. and we were sitting on the yard, and this guy says, "are you ...

I dont think he wanted to be witnessed there, and i dont think that he wanted to be seen by us. >> he learns that the fight on the yard was not related to the sexual nature of inmate brooks crime. he claims that he was defending an inmate being forced to show his crime papers on the yard. with the groups integrity intact, marcia and diane must push on without him. the success of this therapy group depends on the men opening up to one another. >> you work on developing group that has intimacy and...

Not afraid to talk about his crime, but admitting to sexually assaulting his victim is risky. the members in the group have agreed to total confidentiality, but with a crime this taboo, he still runs the risk of having his story make its way to the yard. >> he was really armored. he was very apprehensive that his crime was -- especially the sexual aspect of it, in here is a touchy subject. guys who do that kind of thing, that was -- he showed a lot of trust in the group to have shared that with ...

A way to become someone else. every chance i got, i took. >> after years of taking classes, brook finally found a skill that could make him money. >> this is a certificate from the blackstone career institute as a paralegal and legal assistant. >> brook is a jailhouse lawyer. a position like this can be very lucrative behind bars, but success is based entirely on how many inmates you work with. >> hes pretty good at it. ive known him for about four years. hes pretty sharp. i pick his brain whene...

Coming up -- a shocking twist in the murder of susan worthen is finally revealed. >> ron, what was your intent when you picked them up? what were you going to do? >> probably to humiliate her. i had power over her. >> and later, an incident on the yard puts ron brook and the therapy group in jeopardy. >> first theres concern, concern for ron and honestly, concern for the group, because this group could go away. if you are one of the millions of men

Because he was there? >> he was there, yeah. and i had power over him, too, with the gun. but she was the one that i had been put down by, the look at me, and so when i seen her again, i decided to show her. >> on december 7th, 1975, ronald brook was arrested in connection with the death of susan worthen. he was convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder and sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. >> i am not a bank robber, and im not some guy that ripped off a bunch of drug dealers....

Protect us, and we dont see the reality of what it is here, and, yeah, this is a really hard place to be. >> administrative segregation is a prison within the prison. this area houses inmates who are under investigation, as well as inmates in protective custody who cant live with the general population. >> its different than what i thought, in some ways, and its also -- i dont know, it feels very -- its a very oppressive feeling atmosphere. >> like the rest of the prison yard, the hole has its o...

Involved under lock and key until they can get to the bottom of the incident on the yard. as rumors swirl about what caused the riot, the counselors wonder whether brooks confession of his sexual crime is to blame. if the trust in the group had been breached, it would mean the end of the therapy program. >> my big concern is that it didnt come from this group and thats the part that im trying to process, and im going to feel a lot better when we find out, really, who started it as far as outing ...