that is no smoke. so they say don't smoke in here with a cigarette, so i say okay, and they think i throw it, but it's in my hand. >> his slight of hand skills have proven useful in other ways as well. >> sometimes, you know, i show officers in the jail that i took them mobiles and they didn't feel it and i gave it back. so when i bring it back, just, they laugh and they say thank you. they don't have another choice. >> but bakir is not in rimonim for pick-pocketing. he is serving a 30-year sentence for murder, yet still has an easy-going relationship with officers, whose cell phones he occasionally pilfers. >> having worked on "lockup" for a while now, the relationship that he had with the staff at rimonim was remarkable to me. there's still the division between the officers and the inmates, but there was just a friendliness about it. it was like watching two neighbors greet each other. they would shake hands. and in an american prison, we just don't see that. there's a lot more animosity