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Jail officials have conducted an investigation. they have decided not to pursue criminal charges but will conduct internal disciplinary hearings starting with battaglia s cellmate, who has requested anonymity. there was a birthday card sent into the facility through the mail. the birthday card was tampered with. there was actually four bags of heroin in between the two birthday cards. the birthday card had the e number of your roommate. so can you make a statement on what your involvement is with this or i have no involvement at all with that. at all. only involvement i can see me having is being his celly. are you aware of him doing this? i was not aware of anything like that. so you had no involvement with this at all? at all. ou can step back out. i ll come see you in a few moments and let you know our decision. okay? yes. now the panel will hear from nick battaglia. there was a birthday card mailed in that had four bags of white powdery substance, possibly hero ....
I don t want anybody talking to me. all right. the way most cellies negotiate that is if my celly needs to use the restroom, i m going to find something to do. okay. he normally leaves at 6:30 in the morning. and so, my regular system is hooked up so after 6:30 i m good to go. so, it s kind of like when women live together, their cycles all sort of align? when you live with a guy, you have to make sure you re not on the same gastrointestinal cycle? yeah. and finding the right celly, that s one of the big things. that s one of the big things. if you both have a yeah. when you leave oh, man. and that s the cell slug. that s where the cell slug comes in. thank you. we can step out of here. starting to get a little claustrophobic. one thing that s become clear to me in my time here is that every inmate is open to talking about the reason they re in san quentin, and not in a gossipy way or a defensive way, but in a taking responsibility way. how did you end up here? ....
thank you. thank you. one of the things about these cells is, like, as you can see, as big as you are, two people can t stand down here at the same time normally. yeah. like, if i want to get down, then my celly lays over there so i can get by. you have to choreograph how you live in here. yeah. do you get to pick your roommate? technically no. okay. but the department understands that you have to. it s better if you are living with somebody that you want to live with, because yeah, yeah. you have to be able to deal with another person s personality in this close space. there s this term called cell slug. cell slug. yeah. that s a person that stays in the cell all the time and never leaves the cell, and so the other celly never gets any real privacy. i hate to bring it up, but we ve got to talk about it. i think you know what i m going to say what, that? the toilet. yeah. how? i mean, when i go to the bathroom, i like some privacy. i like to ha ....
You know, i felt taken out of my element when i got put here. i found myself people watching. you get to be able to walk, hit the yard more often. be able to be with more people. but then also that could create drama. because you could either get in a fight or something like that. i don t know. it s a different scene. that s for sure. like four braids on the side. just four on the side. that s all. call them four siders. my celly and i play cards. that s the only benefit of having someone there. you have someone to talk to, someone to play a card game with or someone to share photos with. lock it down, man. stop running around. my program was already set when i was in the hole. sleep all day, stay up all night. oh, my god. i m putting you [ bleep ] out. that s it, daniela. ....
I mean, it he didn t mean any harm, he just ignorant of the conduction of leadership roles, and i think now that he has seen that it upset me and knows that it s not really how we do business, i think he s changed his point of view. murray hopes to also change the point of view of prison officials. he will soon have a hearing with administrators to appeal their ban on group worship services among asatru members and have it removed from the list of security threat groups. robbie mcanally faces another challenge. he not only feels isolated from his young son but his boyhood friend who just happens to be his cell mate. my celly is a great dude. i knew him for years, even before we came to prison. but i mean, i got my problems, ....