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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 ...

Time. you know what im saying? >> you want to play some chess, man? >> hes trying to communicate with another inmate to play chess with him. and theyll do it verbally through the vent system. >> all right, hold on. >> we play by calling out the numbers, like 12 to 28, 52 to 36. he has to have the same type of board, set up 1 through 64. >> 12, 28, man. >> i think most inmates dont want to go to segregation. its not a pleasant place to live. you get a limited amount of material in your cell. whet...

Mentally stable, and they need some type of psychiatric treatment instead of this hole time. you know what im saying? >> you want to play some chess, man? >> hes trying to communicate with another inmate to play chess with him. and theyll do it verbally through the vent system. >> all right, hold on. >> we play by calling out the numbers, like 12 to 28, 52 to 36. he has to have the same type of board, set up 1 through 64. >> 12, 28, man. >> i think most inmates dont want to go to segregation. 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 ...

Time. you know what im saying? >> you want to play some chess, man? >> hes trying to communicate with another inmate to play chess with him. and theyll do it verbally through the vent system. >> all right, hold on. >> we play by calling out the numbers, like 12 to 28, 52 to 36. he has to have the same type of board, set up 1 through 64. >> 12, 28, man. >> i think most inmates dont want to go to segregation. its not a pleasant place to live. you get a limited amount of material in your cell. whet...

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...

Politics. good morning to you. >> morning. >> i didnt realize you were born in a family that was politically way left. >> yes, my were members of the communist party and my brother was a registered democrat. >> communist? >> yeah, they were. we have shown in this book that the left has a money machine which is operating between elections and shapes the issues. there are a hundred billion dollars in tax exempt foundations that are left and only 10 million in the conservative foundations. >> we ha...

Man? >> hes trying to communicate with another inmate to play chess with him. and theyll do it verbally through the vent system. >> all right, hold on. >> we play by calling out the numbers, like 12 to 28, 52 to 36. he has to have the same type of board, set up 1 through 64. >> 12, 28, man. >> i think most inmates dont want to go to segregation. its not a pleasant place to live. you get a limited amount of material in your cell. whether thats reading materials. you get no radio, no tv, no walkma...

>> all right, hold on. >> we play by calling out the numbers, like 12 to 28, 52 to 36. he has to have the same type of board, set up 1 through 64. >> 12, 28, man. >> i think most inmates dont want to go to segregation. its not a pleasant place to live. you get a limited amount of material in your cell. whether thats reading materials. you get no radio, no tv, no walkman. you get limited time out of your cell every day. for most people, even in a prison setting, thats not the best place to live. ...

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 slide it across the floor like ...