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Carried herself in a fashion that most 16-year-olds wouldnt. >> youre a grandpa. >> i wouldnt change anything because it made me who i am today, and i wouldnt change it. >> youre not mad at me? >> im mad, i am, but its done with. i cant hold resentment. like, i dont know. >> really? man. >> with our time at limon nearing its end and slagles release date growing nearer, we anticipated following him home for a reunion not only with raven and his granddaughter but with his twin brother, roy, who ha...

The stark, colorless confines of the limon correctional facility. a place where the comforts of home are a thing of the past. cells are cramped. hot showers, short and infrequent. the food in the chow hall is at best bland. if good behavior warrants, inmates may purchase a television for themselves or work at jobs that pay as little as 60 cents per day. but some inmates find more creative ways to raise their standard of living. they hustle. >> i just got these this past week. these sausages, man...

Asked me, can i keep the fork? oh, he got me for a fork. >> ray slagles signature dish provides comfort to a friend in need. >> good, man. the world needs more energy. wheres it going to come from? ♪ thats why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. whats it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. weve got to be smart about this. its...

I should have showed you one. double cheeseburger. thats two tokens. thats a god deal. i cant even get them fast enough. i finagled those from somebody else who works in the kitchen. he owes me. we have a business arrangement. you know what i mean? i do [ bleep ] for him and all i want is two double cheeseburgers every day, five days a week. thats all i want. and then i take care of something he needs taken care of. >> slagles not the only hustler at lyman. other inmates tattoo, gamble for token...

>> but one of slagles oldest and best friends in prison, walter walker, is very much alive. and the two men share more than tattoos in common. >> hes a hustler too. thats another thing i like about him. you know what i mean? hes on that level, too. we aint on the phone [ bleep ] crying to our people for money or this and that. he hustles. every time i turn around hes trying to get tokens from me. its the truth. you know it. every time i turn around, hes like, check this out, and im like, no, sto...

You try to grab a hold of something that makes a difference. and doing this makes a difference. >> some inmates see their prison jobs in less patriotic terms. for ray slagle, its a chance to work one of his hustles. >> i work in the laundry and deal with the inmates on a daily basis. these guys all want to go looking good for their families to visit. really. you know what i mean? if you go to the laundry, 90% of the time youre not going to get it. not new. youre going to get stuff thats servicea...

Nice little walk with him. being able to look at him eyeball to eyeball and talk to him, you know. hes got a little girl. hes a grandpa now. i dont have no kids. but he does. id like to see him be able to be a good father to his daughter and a good grandpa. that would be nice. ill get choked up as soon as i see him, no doubt. >> are you going to make it this time staying out? >> yeah, i believe im going to make it, no doubt. >> coming up, ray slagle approaches his release date. >> i have no doub...

Thats not counting the cheese and meat i cart out of there. im telling you, it was sick. i had so many tokens i couldnt hardly get rid of them but it was nice. even deep fried chicken tacos, dudes yelling, slagle, me, too, hey what about those? id be going to the door sliding them underneath the door. theyd be throwing me their tokens. it was cool. >> his openness about his various hustles made him an intriguing character for us to follow, but we would soon discover another fact about ray that m...

Because it made me who i am today, and i wouldnt change it. >> youre not mad at me? >> im mad, i am, but its done with. i cant hold resentment. like, i dont know. >> really? man. >> with our time at limon nearing its end and slagles release date growing nearer, we anticipated following him home for a reunion not only with raven and his granddaughter but with his twin brother, roy, who had only recently been released from prison himself. but that would never happen. >> we were towards the end of ...

When we met ray at the limon correctional facility he was nearing the end of a 15-year sentence for assault. while he had trouble living on the streets, few inmates we met lived so well inside prison. like your own little 7-eleven down there. >> yeah, it is. >> what is that? >> this is stuff i won. >> in a world of hustlers, ray slagle was king. >> the stuff i want i hustle. >> he kept himself well fed by mastering the art of hustling tokens, things inmates use to purchase soda and ice cream fro...