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I do have a problem with authority. 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...

>> but the prison says extraction teams are only called when inmates do not cooperate with staff. a practice roy gave up when the prison began using oc gas. or pepper spray. >> that stuff is really powerful. that will make anyone tap out. i would rather have my ass kicked then get hit by that. its really bad. you cant breathe and it burns like fire. this is really bad stuff. >> and jonathan hall has just gotten his second dose of it in two days. this time, officers extracted him after he flooded...

Probably end up crying. well just take it as it comes. i wing everything i do any way. what are you doing? what are you doing, rave? how are you doing? man, youre so beautiful. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> dont mention it, bro. >> man, you guys look good. >> oh, man. >> im nervous. >> you probably couldnt sleep last night. >> no, i couldnt. i didnt sleep at all. shes beautiful. my goodness, man. do i like old? >> no. >> yes, i do. >> youre a grandpa. >> i know, i know.

Man is what she thinks. i sent her a picture of me and the fellows. theres 13 of us. she wrote me back, dad, youre not a white supremacist, are you? i wrote her back, no, im not a white supremacist, sweetheart. im proud of who i am, but im not better than nobody, you know? poor thing. made me feel bad. come on, sweetie, im not a hard man. im just not. you know? >> slagle hasnt seen his daughter in eight years. but after learning of his new release date, he was permitted to call her. >> what are ...

>> introduce gas. >> roy is now out of prison. but his twin brother, ray, is an inmate at colorados limon correctional facility. the prison gave our crew permission to show ray videotape of his brothers cell extractions. its the first time he is seeing them. >> a lot of things going on your face watching that. >> you know, honestly, i wanted to jump in there and help him, you know what i mean? thats my first instinct is just to help him. thats the first time i seen a couple of those clips. to be...

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...

>> are you going to come up here and see me? >> yeah. >> when was the last time i saw you, rayven? >> when i was 8. >> oh, i see. and youre going to be 17 the 18th of this month, see. >> yeah. >> thats too long, huh? rayven, i love you, honey. >> i love you too. >> hey, now, i got to ask you this, man. what do you think about your uncle roy, man? you never met him until he got out. >> hes okay. hes different. >> yeah, like what? tell me. >> just, i dont know. >> shoot straight with me now. >> yo...

This is nice, look at that mirror. i can see myself good. that is nice. >> ray soon discovers that roy left behind his food stash. >> all the guys back in prison, look at this. my brother gets out of prison and he finds -- >> its like canteen. >> its like prison canteen, i swear. my god, roy, its crazy, dont you think? hes been eating them for 23 years. oh, man. thats crazy. man, i love you, roy, but come on, the ramen soups have got to go. to go from a cell to this, and you guys cant even compr...

Now i feel more free because im around my family. i want out of here, because they know how i am. lets go now. im ready to roll. i love you, bro. right on, yeah. >> and although roy is back in prison, he did make plans to give ray a parting gift. >> my twin brother sent these clothes up. he want me to dress up in these clothes, you know. if i dont, ill feel bad. so ill bow down, you know what i mean? you know how he is, you guys. ten years down the road hell be bitching about it. now i feel more...

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 every person that views this? im j...