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Since tattooing violates jail rules, bernard is confined to a disciplinary cell. he now shares with lewis. >> i wanted to represent bronze star or a general star to symbolize the military, because i know a lot of the guys that had passed away had gotten bronze stars, medals of valor, quite a few got purple hearts before they even got killed, so i wanted to go along those lines. and ill probably get a tattoo of a purple heart later on down the road. >> bernard says he chose the star to honor men ...

>> i say i got too good of a heart, but nick gets it done. some people, i think, im like, you know, hes a good guy, just let him go with that. but nick likes to charge everything for everything. no matter what it is. something simple, give me a snack. i dont mind doing favors. but, nicks good about it, though. were going to go broke if we dont -- dont charge for everything. >> got to look out for me. >> got to make money. >> in the end, its jail, so its all about me. >> battaglia got his new pos...

A -- you know, hes a good guy, man, just let him go with that. but nick likes to charge everybody for everything. no matter what it is. something simple, give me a snack. sometimes ill -- you know, i dont mind doing favors but nicks good about it, though. were going go broke if we dont charge for everything. >> ive got to look out for me. >> got to make money. >> in the end its jail so its all about me. >> battaglia got his new position when the inmate who held it prior to him got into trouble. ...

Though. >> i say i got too good of a heart, but nick gets it done. some people, i think, im like, you know, hes a good guy, just let him go with that. but nick likes to charge everything for everything. no matter what it is. something simple, give me a snack. i dont mind doing favors. but, nicks good about it, though. were going to go broke if we dont -- dont charge for everything. >> got to look out for me. >> got to make money. >> in the end, its jail, so its all about me. >> battaglia got his...

Since tattooing violates jail rules, bernard is confined to a disciplinary cell. he now shares with lewis. >> i wanted to represent bronze star or a general star to symbolize the military, because i know a lot of the guys that had passed away had gotten bronze stars, medals of valor, quite a few got purple hearts before they even got killed, so i wanted to go along those lines. and ill probably get a tattoo of a purple heart later on down the road. >> bernard says he chose the star to honor men ...

Have cost him more than 200 days in earned good time. but he says the extra time in prison is worth it. >> the time ive lost by getting caught doing what im doing is well worth the sanity that i would have lost if i had just done what they said and walked the line. shut my mouth and went to my house and did nothing and just sat there and watched my tv. im more at ease with myself. i respect myself a lot more for having done what i want to do in here. thats my outlet, thats my escape. >> its alwa...

Of the sochi olympics, now on your tv. the x1 entertainment operating system, only from xfinity. even though its prohibited, tattooing is common in every prison weve ever visited. but at the limon correctional facility in colorado we saw an example of tattooing that stopped our producers dead in their tracks. >> i was in the sewing factory one day walking amongst the men watching them work and looking for stories when david walked by and he looked at me, and i looked at him, and he grinned, an...

>> yes, davon lymon. >> do you need an interpreter to assist you in presenting your defense? >> si, no. no. >> do you wish to call anyone in this testimony as well that would not be accumulative this case? >> theres no witnesses. >> youve been charged with category 8, paragraph 30, tattooing and/or tattooing or paraphernalia. do you admit or deny it? >> i deny it. >> do you wish to present your version? >> my version, i was in the unit and i was called out. they told me that theyve received info...

>> all we have in this world is our word, and you came to me and you said, i give you my word, you wont have any many problems. okay? and so -- and so then i hear that youre tattooing in the unit. >> okay. >> and i see evidence of that on your arm. you know? and so what am i to think? >> im getting aimed at. im getting shook down more than anybody. im getting my money counted more than anybody. all of a sudden, ive been getting picked on. >> somebody who had suspended sanctions and somebody who ...

Maybe -- >> 24 hours after? >> after. >> since you did that and then youre clean on that one and then we can probably get -- like 30 days or 30 to 90 days youll be sanctioned. >> thats cool. >> i enjoy what im doing. i enjoy helping people. it keeps my day busy. >> but peaches isnt the only game in town. davon lymon heads to level five to represent his friend felix lewis in his hearing about a tattoo charge. >> we have a hearing today. an inmate had a misconduct report for a -- for tattooing. he...