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Locker room at the end of a really tough game. and that was the case with slagle as he was recovering from his pepper spray. >> yeah, [ bleep ]. first time for that. >> i dont know. next on "lockup: raw." ♪ spent 18 long years ♪ ♪ in this old cold prison ♪ >> one inmates way of dealing with hard time. >> every year i change the amount of years its been since ive been in prison. something m adyour jaw drop? campbells has 24 new soups that will make it drop over and over again. ♪ ♪ f...

Slagle was serving time for robbery and assault when we met him. >> i got some criminal tendencies, okay? i robbed and i fought with a guy in here. aint in here for nothing, you know? ive been in quite a bit of trouble here or i would have been out a long time ago. >> im the shift commander. i need to have you uncover your window. are you going to cooperate or do you want us to come and get you out of your cell? slagle? no response. >> in one of his more memorable acts of defiance, slagle served...

>> many of the inmates we spoke to agreed. they say the isolation is too much. >> ive been here a long time. ive seen a lot of guys, seen them snap, you know? any given day they can snap. >> 23 hours a day youre locked down. you come out for five hours a week. essentially its just another cell. its a dead room with a pull-up bar. theres one small window. everywhere you go, handcuffed, handcuffed to go in the shower. you have no human contact with nobody at all. >> but roy slagle has had more con...

>> please come to the door and cuff up. you understand if you dont cuff up were going to administer oc? >> yes. i understand. >> slagles first experience with the gas might have been a rude awakening. it was also one of the few times he submitted to an extraction without a prolonged struggle. after determining he is not going to be combative, officers allow slagle to shower off the burning gas. >> one of the really amazing things about the cell extractions is that sometimes afterwards, the inmat...

>> it takes another four minutes of struggling before slagle is finally subdued. hes placed on a gurney so that the team can move him into a holding cell. following a strip search, a defeated slagle will be left in the holding cell until authorities feel they can safely transfer him back to his own cell. >> good job, guys. >> everybody in prison aint the scum of the earth. there are actually real good people in here that would never harm a child. i would like to be in a situation where i could a...

Hey, rayven. slagles first phone call is to his daughter, rayven. she lives in another part of the state. but thats something slagle hopes to change. >> well, honey, i just want you to know one thing, this is very important to me that you know this, you always have a place with me. always, no matter what, you know what i mean? im out now and i love you very much. youre my daughter and emily is my grand daughter and i would love you guys to live with me. you want her to send a picture of me? all ...

Choked up. i was like, come on, bro, pull yourself together. you cant be getting emotional in here. >> roy slagle was paroled in october of 2008. after spending nearly 20 years in prison, he is now living with his parents. >> if i wouldnt have got out of prison, i wouldnt have had my family support, i wouldnt have made it a week and i would have been back in prison. because the system aint going to help you out. thats not going to happen. >> roy is fortunate to have found work. but his parole im...

>> roy slagle looks back while his twin brother ray looks forward to a long awaited reunion behind the walls of limon. >> im so anxious. i havent seen my daughter in so long, you know what i mean? i didnt hardly sleep last night. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. and every day since, weve worked hard to keep it. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected, and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are op...

And few extractions in the state of colorado have provided more drama than the ones involving this man, roy slagle. we first met roy in the original "lockup" episode at colorado state penitentiary in 2000. at the time he had been through five gruelling cell extractions. >> i got some criminal tendencies, okay? you know what i mean. i robbed, i assaulted a guy in here. it aint like im in here for nothing, you know? >> roy slagle was paroled in the fall of 2008. but his twin brother, ray, is incar...

>> im mad, i am, but its done with. i cant hold resentment. i dont know. >> really? >> i am who i am today because of it. and i dont think i came out too bad. >> no, no -- >> after jumping the hurdles and going through ups and downs, but -- >> now you bounce back. >> yeah. yeah. >> i know we dont know each other that well. but i know im going to get to know you. im going to make a -- youre going to be a big part of my life, honey, you and emily. >> i just want you to be there. >> im going to be ...