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>> in here you don't have no friends. because you can laugh and you can sit up and talk, and play cards and dominoes and whatnot, but the minute something happen to you they all go the other direction. leave you to die. and they got a lot of people up here call each other loved ones, i love you, i got love for you, you are my home boy. but the minute you do something they don't like they'll cut you. that's what pelican bay is about. >> but we have met many openly gay inmates who have little or no fear about being who they are. >> yeah, they call me amy. >> why? >> i chose that name. >> i live ...

Because you can laugh and you can sit up and talk, and play cards and dominoes and whatnot, but the minute something happen to you they all go the other direction. leave you to die. and they got a lot of people up here call each other loved ones, i love you, i got love for you, you are my home boy. but the minute you do something they don't like they'll cut you. that's what pelican bay is about. >> but we have met many openly gay inmates who have little or no fear about being who they are. >> yeah, they call me amy. >> why? >> i chose that name. >> i live my life as a girl. i have always felt ...

>> in this environmentment, sexual partners can turn into blood enemies in a blink of an eye. >> in here you don't have no friends. because you can laugh and you can sit up and talk, and play cards and dominoes and whatnot, but the minute something happen to you they all go the other direction. leave you to die. and they got a lot of people up here call each other loved ones, i love you, i got love for you, you are my home boy. but the minute you do something they don't like they'll cut you. that's what pelican bay is about. >> but we have met many openly gay inmates who have little or no fear...

Blood enemies in a blink of an eye. >> in here you don't have no friends. because you can laugh and you can sit up and talk, and play cards and dominoes and whatnot, but the minute something happen to you they all go the other direction. leave you to die. and they got a lot of people up here call each other loved ones, i love you, i got love for you, you are my home boy. but the minute you do something they don't like they'll cut you. that's what pelican bay is about. >> but we have met many openly gay inmates who have little or no fear about being who they are. >> yeah, they call me amy. >> w...

That's what pelican bay is about. >> but we have met many openly gay inmates who have little or no fear about being who they are. >> yeah, they call me amy. >> why? >> i chose that name. >> i live my life as a girl. i have always felt like i was a girl. >> when we met matthew campbell he was serving 12 years for armed robbery and assault at kentucky state penitentiary. but his troubles began much earlier. >> first time i've went to jail, i was 15 years old, at ferndale elementary school, and pretty much downhill from here. >> as an openly gay man, campbell's time behind bars has had its challe...