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Innocent of their crimes. they long for the day when theyre free again. thats what made the case of richard z. hall so baffling. when we met him, ziggy was fighting to stay in prison. life out on the street wasnt all that great. so i just looked around me and say, hey, this is where its at. >> we met ziggy at the river bend maximum security institution in tennessee, the last stop in a long life of incarceration. >> ive been locked up virtually since age 12 in institutions and reform schools and ...

Would assault staff. >> the officer was not badly injured, but it landed hamilton back in administrative segregation, with a high probability of being sent to the shu, a place most inmates dread. >> to me its prison. its still prison. its not going to change. its still prison. >> and set it down in front of dennis and said, look, heres what it says. >> in a nutshell it says that every inmate will accept a cellie except if he has -- see this little thing? its called an "s" suffix. that means sing...

>> ziggy faces several potential penalties for attempting to alter his drug screen, including time in the hole, a loss of his prison job, and even a judgment that can make his whole plan backfire, a transfer to another prison. >> thats one punishment i really dont look forward to is being transferred somewhere else. >> ziggys reluctance to leave prison became all the more puzzling when we learned some of what hed endured during his 30 plus years of incarceration. >> i was not born gay and every ...

Davis, expressed reservations. >> kind of get nervous with a camera pointing right in your face, you know what im saying. they say it adds ten pounds to you. >> hes worried about the camera adding ten pounds? >> no, just messing with you. just joking. trying to make a laugh. >> jason and sky were a real team. these guys were playing cards, smoking cigarettes. i think it was their way to survive. hes got his back, the other guys got his, and thats the way they made it work. >> lonely days in brus...

>> she didnt want to get a divorce, but i divorced her anyway because i wanted her to move on with her life. i got so much time now, 17 1/2 years. i still got parole but its hard telling when ill make it. i just wanted her to move on with her life. >> in contrast, bishop was receiving letters and occasional visits from both his wife and an ex-girlfriend. >> does your wife know about the other woman? >> she knows about her. shes known about her for a long time. she knows its not a big deal. she k...

>> no, not really. no. no, its -- nope. >> im just telling you -- >> i have, but they dont matter. >> im just telling you, in order to be a programmer, you have to show that youre willing to be socially acceptable with somebody else in your cell. in other words, youre a program failure. thats all im trying to tell you. >> okay. >> you dont want to do it, but youre going to do it, okay? >> okay. >> im serious. you dont have to marry him. >> yeah, i mean, it seem that way. youre placing this inmat...

Next on "lockup: raw, survival 101." >> for me the cells are too small. i think it breeds an environment for homosexuality. >> one inmates fight for solitude. >> were inside that cell all day. >> thats not a luxury of being in prison. you should have thought about that before he went to prison. youve got to have a cellie. [knock] no one was at home, but on the kitchen table sat three insurance policies. the first had lots of coverage. the second, only a little. but the third was... just right! b...

It around his head and i said, nope, you aint doing nothing. >> but at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee we met two cell mates who were not only successfully living together, but doing so in a maximum security unit, locked up 23 hours per day. >> its not any kind of fun, stuck in a cell. you go out. me and him go out and work out every day, come back in the cell and watch tv and listen to the radio. thats our life every day. >> sky bishop was sent to the hole when he refused ...

Prison is tailor-made to fit anybody. whether youre young, old, professional, non-professional, on skid row, white collar, blue collar, its tailor-made to fit anybody. so dont think it wont happen to you. you commit this crime and you wont come in jail or go to prison, because you will. >> we met gwendolyn collins at the miami-dade county jail. >> my charge is second-degree murder. >> attempted or -- >> second-degree murder. the person is deceased. >> still awaiting her trial, she didnt want to ...

After so many years eventually youre going to play with yourself or something. >> while davis and bishop were open and friendly during the interview, cameraman steve field was reminded that in prison, things arent always as they seem. >> after we finished up the interview, we said our good-byes and jason davis extended his hand through the bars to shake, and i didnt think about it, but i shook his hand, and he grabbed me, and it was almost like he was trying to crush my hand, to the point he rea...