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In the pen for three or four horse to calm down, when he gets through with his mid behavior hell be ready to apologize to get back to where he should be. >> those people arent stupid. they know what they were doing. they had three months to tell me they was going to not put me in for transfer. >> a few weeks later with the transfer issue still unresolved, gilbert announced he was going on a hunger strike. >> im not eating another meal. until they send me homcloser to home. >> how is that going t...

Thank you for the picture, angel. very nice. love that hair. you gotta be at least seven feet tall talking about kicking my ass. ha-ha, dont be a stranger, angel. take care of yourself. with a smile, bobby "g." >> when angel began her correspondence with gilbert, she was living in joliet, illinois. her son, nico, was only 15 at the time. >> at first, i was very worried about her emotional safety. i wasnt sure how it would end up. >> what had gun as just a pen pal relationship, qukly became somet...

I didnt set out for it to happen. it just did. >> the alabama department of corrections denied a request to interview gilbert but angel told us the story of how she first became involved with gilbert, shortly after seeing him on "lockup." angel had initially contacted another holman inmate featured on the series, sherman moore, who held the job of prison barber. it was moore who acted as matchmaker. >> i wrote to sherman and developed a friendship with sherman. >> you think you can pull a flat-t...

Mail like it used to. >> it is segregation. it wasnt meant to be nice. you aint here for being to church or because you was doing something good. >> when we returned to holman for our extended stay series, we found gilbert exactly where we had left him, in ad seg. the administrative segregation housing unit where inmates are locked down 23 hours a day. it houses the most violent and destructive offenders. it is where bobby ray gilbert has spent almost all of his 27 years in prison. >> i have lif...

His anger erupt again. >> we are trying to do it the right way. im going to show you what im made of. >> but gilbert proved to be more than just a violent man. he also showed us a thoughtful, creative side. the last interview we did with gilbert, he seemed resigned to his fate of spending the rest of his life most likely alone in the small cell. >> at this point, you just look back and realize, well, the best part of it is over with it anyway. >> five years later, we would discover that gilberts...

You. i mean, i got tears coming down my eyes, because i know whats getting ready to happen. bobby asked me, he says, i love you. ive never loved a woman as much as i love you. will you be my wife? i mean, im crying, yes, yes. i threw my arms around him. that was it. >> angel quit her bartending job, packed up her teenage son and her life in illinois and moved to a small town in alabama where she would only be an hours drive from the prison. she got a job as a bar tender and built her life around...

And im not something to hustle, unlike the rest of these people out there. >> gilbert told us he is looking forward to the wedding but must be released from ad seg before the couple can be granted permission to be married. even though angel is resigned to the fact that gilbert will never leave prison, that doesnt stop her from imagining a more ideal lick home life. >> i day dream about simple things, what it would be like to make bobby a breakfast plate and bring it to him or tell him, get it yo...

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