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Gilbert's hearing got under way. his appeal for a transfer was quickly dismissed. but it didn't take long for gilbert to make another request, one to help beat the boredom of prison life, the return of his recently confiscated chess set. >> i sure would like to have my chess pieces back. why can't i have my chess pieces? >> play chess? let me tell you something. get you some paper. draw you a checkerboard. >> i just don't see where it can hurt anybody to let somebody have something semi-constructive to do in their cell. >> ask the law library to bring you a copy of the admin regs. see if it sa...

>> i follow the regs. >> that's what i'm saying. that's your decision. >> i follow the regs. >> we supposed to be able to have books here. >> that's what i'm telling you. if they said that, you'd have them. >> it's segregation. it wasn't meant to be nice. you ain't here because you were doing something constructive. if you had been doing something constructive -- >> i was doing something constructive when they [ bleep ] with me down the hall. >> it is always somebody else's fault. >> you want us to exhibit some form of model behavior. but yet every avenue is closed to do anything constructive....

Behavior. >> you have to come in stern. you need to come in firm, need to be fair. you need to be able to say no. >> 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...

Out of here. >> after the inmates quiet down, gilbert's review gets under way. 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 chess 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 ain't pl...

By jumping up odoor every time a female came in there i guess that's model behavior. >> our cameras followed gilbert back to the cell, where he fumed over his chess set. >> i'd like somebody give me one reason, a semi intelligent reason, locked in here by myself with dchess pieces, i ain't hurting nobody in the world. that's doc. that's rehabilitation at its finest. >> next, on "lock up raw.". >> there is nothing i have done that god has not forgiven me for. >> a serial killer claems he found god. another inmate find satan. >> is it wrong to communicate crime of stealing a cracker or commiting...