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>> it's not like jail when you're here. it's more like counseling, you could say. it's love. >> rosando lewis 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 is a therapeutic thing. 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 new owners...

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 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 ge...

When i got married my wife has tendered my heart towards animals a little bit. so i can't be mean to them no more. one of them kittens went all of the way to california. i believe he might be living better than me and you are. >> i know he's living better than me. he's free. i'm inside this fence. >> i bet he's in an air-conditioned house. what do you bet? it's 90 something degrees out here and we're out here sweating. and he's laid up in an air-conditioned house. >> yeah. >> a little while later in ad seg, sergeant english escorts bobby gilbert to a haircut appointment. bobby is eating again ...

>> chase it with lemonade. >> got you sick as a dog but you got some fresh breath. put me down there in that observation cell, keep an eye on me. >> safe cell? >> yeah. came down there and weighed me every day. >> i lost about 13 pounds in 4 days. >> was the attempt to go on a hunger strike, did it accomplish what you wanted? >> you know, culver came down and said -- he could have just been an [ bleep ] about it and said starve yourself. but you know, he [ bleep ], right? talk about anger management classes. so he gave me the word i wouldn't be here this time next year. so that's all i want, y...

>> in exchange for an eventual transfer, bobby has agreed to take anger management classes. but bobby is the first to admit that a change in his behavior is unlikely. >> it's all well and good if you're talking about, well, i know i've got an anger problem and i'm going to make it better. then when you get in the moment and the anger's there, it's like, screw that, i'm going to do this, you know? >> i told him i would write him when i got out, just to have some kind of way to look back and know where i came from. >> all right. got a lot of mail. >> after his release to the free world, donald p...