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Heartbreak separation there, you know. because i raised the little -- the little sucker. >> just before his transfer stone gave jinkster to another inmate. >> it brought a tear to my eye. i did like an indian commercial, you know, the tear coming out. i didn't want to let go of my little buddy. >> but at wabash stone has found another animal to take under his wing. >> i got a little bunny buddy out back. i'll watch him sometimes through the window here or when i go to work i'll make sure i throw him a couple apples to keep him fed. he's been back here the whole time i've been in this cell a wh...

>> after 26 years in prison, stone has developed a workout routine he can do inside his cell. >> water bottles. all water bottles. getting it closed is the problem. one set of everything every day until i burn out. i don't do a certain amount. i do them till i can't do them no more. and i record how many i do of each thing each day. then the next day my goal is to do one more better than what i did the day before. you can't get it out there at rec. there's too many people out there in that little closed area and the weights out there ain't real weights. i like something lifting where you conce...

>> we first met stone three years earlier during our extended stay shoot at indiana state prison. >> it's a glamour job but somebody's got to do it. >> when stone first came to prison he was an admitted thug, who fought frequently. >> where you going, big buddy? >> but the james stone we met considered himself a changed man, thanks to indiana state prison's cat adoption program. >> he's my little buddy. i depend on im. he's more dependable than anything i got in here. i mean, he takes a lot of the anger and temper away. makes it easier to cope in here. >> stone has been at wabash for a year an...

You know what i'm saying? won't be long i'll have him on some watermelon hooch. >> like stone, inmate christopher trotter has been behind bars since the mid 1980s. >> i came into prison to serve a four-year prison sentence for petty theft. i came in with four years and ended up with 142 years. that's what could happen in prison if you make the wrong choice. it has consequences. >> the wrong choice trotter refers to was being one of the instigators of a 1985 riot at another indiana prison. seven corrections officers were stabbed. two others and a counselor were held hostage for 15 hours. >> it ...

Them. >> but folsom's goals are dependent on his ability to stay out of trouble, which in prison isn't always easy. >> i stay reserved no matter what. i mean you never want to put yourself on the line, because you know when something hits the fan then you're left out to dry. you know, you're just hanging there. i mean these people they don't care nothing about you. >> there is one inmate whose advice folsom values. >> one of the few i talk to, i call him stone. he has been down a long time. if you look at his record that is not someone who wants to stay out of trouble you would want to hang ar...