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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...

>> 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...

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 ordered 10 or 15 books a week at donaldson's. i'd have art supplies at st. claire. only here do 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. >> you're supposed to give me -- i've been in seg, man, since i've been here since 2004. they beat me, spray me in my mouth with four cans of mace. made me [ bleep ] myself. excuse my fre...

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? >> let me tell you what to do. 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 says you're allowed to have chess pieces. >> y...

Form of model behavior. but yet every avenue is closed to do anything constructive. we can't read a novel because we can't have none. i can't play chess through the mail like i used to because my chess pieces took away from me. 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...