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Jumping up on the door, sticking my [ bleep ] every time a female came up there, i guess that's the model behavior. >> our cameras followed gilbert back to his cell where he continued to fume over his chess set. >> the only thing i had going for me. you're locked in a cell 24 hours a day. i would play in chess tournaments through the mail. i'm a member of the u.s. chess federation. that's how i did my time. and the warden walks by one day sees my chess pieces on the table. you can't have those. and that was the end of it. i would like somebody to give me one reason, just semi-intelligent reaso...

>> beat on that door again. beat on the door again -- you, you do it. beat on the [ bleep ] again. i don't beat no [ bleep ] beat on the [ bleep ] door again. [ bleep ] put his ass out the door. [ bleep ]. >> once the inmates calmed down 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 somethin...

>> the regs say we're supposed to be able to have books in here, don't it? >> nope. that's what i'm telling you. get the regular and read it. because it don't say that. it's segregation. it wasn't meant to be nice. you ain't here for going to church. you ain't here because you were doing something constructive. >> sure. >> if you had been doing something constructive you never would have been here. >> i was doing something constructive. [ bleep ] >> too late. >> it's always somebody else's fault. you want us to be -- exhibit some form of model behavior, but then every avenue is closed to us to...

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've been in seg since i been here since 2004. they beat me, jumped me, sprayed me i...

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 saint playing in my head. i just don't see where it can hurt anybody to let somebody ha...