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It's not atypical for an inmate to do that. it's the only source of power they have really saying they're not going to eat, and when i talked to him about it, he seemed pretty resolute that he was going on a hunger strike not so much as a protest, but almost as though he wanted to kill himself. >> how long does it take to starve to death? 35, 40 days? they can have it. they gave me 22 years, 6 months. just start to feel, and just keep rolling that stone uphill, knowing damn well it's going to roll back to the bottom. you reach a point when it's too hard to fight anymore. >> six days after his ...

They know that. >> at isp, self-improvement is also available to those whose release dates are decades away. >> i tell my mother all the time, don't think of me as being in prison. i'm in here trying to better myself. she's really worried about me because i am a sex offender and it's really hard on sex offenders in prison, in this environment. i have a class "a" felony child molestation. we had sex one time, she came up pregnant and had a baby. when we found out she was pregnant, i turned myself in. i'm 35. i'll be 56 if i do the whole bit. i made the worst mistake of my life. i made the reall...

>> it's not like jail when you're here. it's more like counseling, you could say. it's love. >> rosando loomis is serving three months for failure to attend court ordered anger management classes, works at the maricopa county jail's animal rescue program, known as m.a.s.h. >> m.a.s.h. is a great, great thing for us inmates. if they took it away, i think they would take away a big thing. it's a therapeutic thing. you know, it helps with your soul, i believe. >> these animals are here because their owners have been arrested for abusing them and eventually the jail will adopt most of them out to ...

When percy got moved back into the general population dorm, he almost acted as though it was his choice, but i think he knew it was a demotion, and i think he felt bad about it, so he had to put on this front for the other guys. >> i've been over here before, it ain't like i been over here. all these [ bleep ] know me. i been in prison 11 years. this is just another part of prison. i'm talking about i don't need to worry about this [ bleep ] redneck, that cracker man. this is real. this is real. that's what you need to film. that's fake and passive. fruity. >> now that percy got kicked out of ...

>> six days after his hunger strike began, gilbert, now 13 pounds lighter, reached a deal with prison officials. they would grant a transfer if he took anger management classes and stayed out of trouble. >> i'm for whatever it's going to take to get me closer to home, you know. that's all i want. >> now it is probably in a group setting. you know, you would be given the same information for you to be able to read and then you would talk about it in a group setting. one thing this does is allows you to write it down, and as you go back and read some of the stuff you have actually written, it ma...