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Gilbert has made little, if any, progress while in seg, and prison officials have confiscated his most treasured possession, a chess set. >> right now, your behavior warrants no transfer. okay? anything you would like to talk about? >> you about summed it up. i sure would like to have my chas pieces back. why can't i have my chess pieces? >> this is segregation. what are you going to do with chess pieces? >> play chess! >> let me tell you what you do, get you some paper, draw you out a checkerboard -- >> i saint playing in my head. i just don't see where it can hurt anybody to let somebody hav...

Call the police and put a stop to it. what do you do in here? i tell you what you do. you go get you a knife, and you stab that son of a bitch, and you say, "you ain't taking nothing else." that's the end of that. here's what happens when you come to take something from me. 98% of these son of a bitches in here ought to be taken out somewhere and shot in the back of the head. maybe -- maybe i'm part of that 98%. >> at holman, inmates like bobby gilbert who commit a violent act are sent to administrative segregation, or "seg." here, they spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. >> in seg, ...

Killed. today, they'll come to a staff member and discuss it with a staff member, and they will end it right there. >> i expect an officer to be a professional, treat the inmate population firm, but fair. >> anthony fuller, i got you for a shakedown. >> officers also keep things under control by conducting surprise shakedowns, random searches for hidden contraband. >> i found a knife. in this jacket on the floor up on the head of the bed. i would say 80% of them can put their hands on a knife within a minute. >> you find a piece of metal or something, file it down on the concrete. you don't ne...

More than likely get killed. today, they'll come to a staff member and discuss it with a staff member, and they will end it right there. >> i expect an officer to be a professional, treat the inmate population firm, but fair. >> anthony fuller, i got you for a shakedown. >> officers also keep things under control by conducting surprise shakedowns, random searches for hidden contraband. >> i found a knife. in this jacket on the floor up on the head of the bed. i would say 80% of them can put their hands on a knife within a minute. >> you find a piece of metal or something, file it down on the c...

>> denied possession of his chess set, gilbert is outraged, claiming his punishment would never happen at other prisons. >> donaldson don't do this crap. st. claire don't do this, anywhere else. i received a lot -- i ordered 10 or 15 books a week at donaldson. i have art supplies at saint claire. only here they strip you of everything but a naked cell. that's rehabilitation at its finest. >> gilbert isn't the only inmate in seg expressing frustration. >> are you going to give me? i've been in seg since i been here since 2004. they beat me, jumped me, sprayed me in my mouth with four cans of ma...