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Not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, he's now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if that's not bad enough, today is his birthday and all he has is a gift from another inmate. >> he told me happy birthday and gave me toilet tissue with my name on it and gave me some of these. >> having served time before, bates knows this is no random collection of items. they're to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could get a towel or whatever and you roll this up. you roll the towel up real tight and you take the glove an...

Last place michael bates wanted to be today. not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, he's now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if that's not bad enough, today is his birthday and all he has is a gift from another inmate. >> he told me happy birthday and gave me toilet tissue with my name on it and gave me some of these. >> having served time before, bates knows this is no random collection of items. they're to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could get a towel or whatever and you roll this up. you roll the ...

Either broken or lost or destroyed an he replaced them with plastic spoons. >> my glasses broke so i have to make another one. and can you get me another spoon? >> thank you. >> so i'm going to have to bend this and bite it, we bite it and make a hole and put the hole into here. there we go. now we got them fixed. slip them on. they should be tighter there we go. we got them set. we have to make out with what we've got in here and this is what we have so we're making out. >> coming up -- >> they are lonely. they make what is called a fifi. >> the inmate made devoice known as the fifi. >> ever ...

Each location we film at. one was fifi. >> we used the term in indiana. >> these men are lonely, they make what is called a fifi, which is -- it's a glove and other items and they call it their lady. that's the nicest way to put it without getting beeped off msnbc. >> we kept hearing this word fifi and kept coming up in conversations but no one was willing to admit to having one. >> we heard the term again in tampa, florida. >> i can't make a fifi in here, can't get my hands to make a fifi. >> they got two or three or four life sentences, they have to find something to keep them busy in the sp...

Not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, he's now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if that's not bad enough, today is his birthday and all he has is a gift from another inmate. >> he told me happy birthday and gave me toilet tissue with my name on it and gave me some of these. >> having served time before, bates knows this is no random collection of items. they're to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could get a towel or whatever and you roll this up. you roll the towel up real tight and you take the glove an...