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Oklahoma State Penitentiary Warden Jim Farris says work is ongoing to bring back the Prison Rodeo.

Oklahoma’s governor said he wants to bring back what was once the nation’s largest prison rodeo that brought crowds to the maximum-security prison in McAlester.

Accusation was angling for a transfer to another prison. and holloman was cleared. but holloman has had his share of trouble. he was originally sentenced for 30 years for assault and attempted robbery, after he stabbed a man during a street fight. >> i was charged with first-degree assault which i thought really wasn't that serious. i thought, oh, it's not murder then maybe he wasn't too bad. it turns out that i stabbed him in his lung and he bled out, like, twice. had to go through a couple surgeries. and i got the attempted robbery because i was going through his pockets. that's where i foun...

Messed up charges like rape or child molesting. i've never, ever ratted or snitched on no one in my life. >> he wanted to make it clear to everyone that he was being forced into protective custody by the prison administration. but that was not his choice. he chose to align himself with the inmates. he completely identified as an inmate. >> but rapatz recognized his past would always make his safety in prison a gamble. >> all it takes is one inmate trying to get his bones, what we call stripes. he might come and try and hit me on the line somewhere. that's a chance i was willing to take, you kn...

>> by cephis saying he was a convict, he was basically saying his crimes were not against a child or of a sexual nature against a woman and lives by the convict coat, which in prison, is a big deal. >> the laws of the convict is, you don't respect others, you don't steal, you pay your debts, you can never become a punk or a bitch. i've done that. my reputation is clean. >> the pasco status as a convict was threatened by another distinction in prison's complicated social structure. >> are those animals out so we can go eat? feeding time at the zoo. >> we were interviewing cephis at his cell. an...