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Coming up -- on "lockup: extended stay." >> when youre down like that, naked as a jaybird, put down on the floor, youre at the bottom. it dont get no worse than that. >> 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.

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>> roy has his own myspace page. and along with millions of others, he views his extraction footage on "lockup" clips that appear on msnbc.com. >> when youre down like that, clothes cut off of you, naked as a jaybird, put down on the floor, man, youre at the bottom. it dont get no worse than that. it just dont. i hope when its all said and done, someday when im six feet under, i hope this isnt what defines my life. >> still, the videos have made a definite impression. >> can i get a dollar for e...

I do the same thing and we could have talked each over down. hey, bro, come on, man, it aint worth it. i think i could have helped him stay free. but thats not the case. >> are you going to make it? >> yeah, im going to make it. as a matter of fact, you guys, i promise im going to make it. you guys can always take updates and look on the internet and see slagle is free, im doing well. im going to make a hell of a grandfather and im going to get to know my daughter. boy, shes got that coming. you...

>> i never knew i talked to her like she was my homey, you know what i mean? gee, i guess i -- heck, i dont know. you havent been around that long, you know what i mean? i dont know how i come across. i dont know how. you know what i mean? >> now is the time to start. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. thank you very much. i appreciate that. that feels good. >> youre welcome. keep your head low and stay out of the max. >> i will, i will. >> all right. >> lifes a bitch, man, thats what you get for being wild. ...

Of this, you know what i mean? i look like a pimp, look at this little phone. i cant believe you can hear anything. hey, rayve next. 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 daugh...

Shes all -- you know what i mean? its like, my god, i missed it all and that sucks. >> not all of it. i dont feel like -- i wouldnt change anything because it made me who i am today. >> really? >> 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? >> 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 ...

Time i actually -- it caught me off god. i hadnt hugged him in years. >> oh, man, he started getting choked up. he got all teary-eyed and choked up and he had me getting to 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 w...

Thats good. cooking is my hobby. on the streets, i love to cook. i like to make people happy. ill make something at work and ill go to the jobsite and give to him, hey, bro, try this. thats what i like to do. >> by purchasing food from the canteen and occasionally hustling vegetables or meat from kitchen workers, ray slagle gets to practice his hobby right in his cell. but the only time he shed a tear from something other than onions is when he and his twin brother, roy, were briefly in the same...

Sometimes i have authority issues and thats definitely a major bump in the road for me. dealing with my p.o. or people in the parole department. its just hard for me to do it, it just really is. its hard. not that i dont want to be free. i want to be free. i dont want to go back to prison. but sometimes i have this impending doom on my back. >> sometimes prison ruins people, man. you know what i mean. it does. after that much time, and i understand that, so be it. but prison didnt ruin me. hones...