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♪ it's been 18 long years in this old cold prison ♪ sometimes i think it's been so alone♪ ♪ i lost the girl i love to the arms of a stranger ♪ ♪ the only home i know is surrounded by stone ♪ >> a sense of freedom, you know. it frees my mind. i'm not thinking about brushy mountain or prison, you know. ♪ i'm lonesome and blue ♪ that's all i can sing ♪ i'm lonesome and blue ♪ that's all i can sing ♪ i'm lonesome and blue ♪ that's all i can sing >> snow-covered pines. it's been a while since i had written it. every year i change the amount of years that i've been in priso...

Brian lautenschlager is serving a 90-year sentence for armed robbery and attempted murder. >> been in here so long, sometimes it seems like i was born in here. >> how long have you been here? >> i've been -- in prison, all together, 18 years. came in when he was 18, got out when i was 24. now i'm 36, going on 37. >> along with working out, there's one other way that lautenschlager copes. ♪ i was 18 years old ♪ when they sent me to prison ♪ far away from my home in east tennessee ♪ ♪ still see the tears my darling was crying ♪ ♪ as she whispered i love you said she'd wait for me â...

Far away from my home in east tennessee ♪ ♪ still see the tears my darling was crying ♪ ♪ as she whispered i love you said she'd wait for me ♪ >> when i first come to prison, i had a girlfriend and she was telling me how she was going to wait on me and all this. and things change. and i'm still in here. and she's gone. ♪ it's been 18 long years ♪ in this old cold prison ♪ ♪ sometimes i think it's been so long ♪ ♪ i lost the girl i love to the arms of a stranger ♪

Of years it's been since i've been in prison. ♪ it's been 18 long years ♪ in this old cold prison sometimes i feel so all alone ♪ sweet mountain of home ♪ ♪ so far away ♪ i'm lonesome and blue ♪ that's all i can say >> one of the oldest inmates in brushy mountain's permanent population is james slagle. slagle is serving a 318-year sentence for murder and has been here longer than any other inmate. >> i've been in the tennessee prison system without getting out, i started my 39th year three weeks ago today. and i spent 24 years of that time here at brushy mountain. i decided, jim,...

Been in prison. ♪ it's been 18 long years ♪ in this old cold prison sometimes i feel so all alone ♪ sweet mountain of home ♪ ♪ so far away ♪ i'm lonesome and blue >> one of the oldest inmates in brushy mountain's permanent population is james slagle. slagle is serving a 318-year sentence for murder and has been here longer than any other inmate. >> i've been in the tennessee prison system without getting out, i started my 39th year three weeks ago today. and i spent 24 years of that time here at brushy mountain. i decided, jim, you've got to become something else. and so i looked i...