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Protective custody unit because otherwise he would be in grave danger. >> i wouldn't probably last five minutes on the main line. >> why? >> well, they don't like cops. you know, or ex-cops. >> he says if nothing else, his experience here have seen who he arrested in a new life. >> i've been dealing with these people for many years. and there are a lot of them that aren't, you know, there is a perception, unfortunately by the majority of our society that everybody is in prison is really a bad person. and that's not the case. my heartaches for some of these young tears you see come in here, 22 ...

What life is. here or elsewhere. so you better get something out of it. so if i can actually enjoy making coffee here in corcoran surrounded by a lot of loud people and a lot of other discomfort, then i'm going to come out a lot better for it when i get out there. if i'm going to live through this, and i have a son so i better live through this, i have to do something, no matter how difficult it is, you reach down anyou fin metal that you didn't know you had. that's what prison is all about, really. it's finding strength that you never thought you had. >> coming up -- >> i went up to the bars ...

No, it's all fraud money. so because it's all fraud, the $3.5 million is all income and by the way you owe several million tax on that. >> after donating only # $0,000 out of the $3.5 million he raised he was sentenced to almost 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. >> it's one of those things that in the beginning it seems surreal, and as you go through it, you start to devise ways to cope, or go crazy, you know. i mean, i've, it's no secret, i'm not ashamed to say, i thought of killing myself in the beginning. i didn't know if i could get through this. when i an arrested they took m...

Dollars he raised not to help others but to live a life of luxury purchasing boats and houses. it's a little different than today. >> you have a cement floor, four walls, stainless steel tie locality. two people in here. have you to go rest room in here. and everything is so -- i wasn't brought up that way. i'm from the old school and it's very difficult. very, very difficult. >> not only was he former law enforcement, he still carried himself like a cop. and here he was incarcerated in a pretty hard core prison. and i could see he really lnt come to terms with the fact that he was once a law ...

Attack. >> someone threatened a gun, nurse [ bleep ], so i didn't want the nurse hurt so i said throw it on me. >> another time he told us it was just an accident that it occurred. and at one time he even admitted that someone purposely tried to hurt him. >> i walked up to the bars because i thought someone said bozo, because that's what the guys call me, and i walked up to the bars and splash they hit me with greece that burnt my arm. and i couldn't see who it was. and i'm not the type that would tattle-tail on somebody anyone. >> he acknowledged what might be his biggest problem in prison. >...