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And he basically drowned in his own blood. >> rapatz was convicted of manslaughter, along with several other charges including resisting arrest and battery of a police officer. he soon returned to the penitentiary of new mexico, this time in a yellow inmate jumpsuit. >> people say you don't live with regrets. but anyone who says that is a liar because you do live with regrets because i do regret. i didn't hardly know the guy and i killed him. i took a guy's life and i didn't hardly know. >> his last day as a correctional officer was about five years before his first day as an inmate. he was ho...

You know, it was pretty amazing. i mean, i had a lot of people, they spoke at the hearing. >> the judge cut holloman's sentence in half, to 15 years, with the understanding that any violent acts in prison would restore the original 30-year sentence. >> you get this whole new perspective. you get this chance at some kind of life outside of prison. >> but for holloman, nothing seems certain. >> i get my sentence cut in half when i don't deserve it. i wasn't doing anything to better myself in prison. just because i gave back all that time, you know, i'm still a convict now. and this is still my w...

>> this is how i sit all the time when i'm watching the. in the old days when i had pork chops, i'd put on a show. have nine, ten portion chops, chips, beans, six pack of soda. guys [ bleep ], pas, you know what? [ bleep ] tear it up. only fight i got left. >> but if he initially saw pasco as a foodie behind bars, the footage he recorded on the camera we gave him revealed the troubled past. >> i'm in prison for 60 years for murder. i killed my nephew's ex-wife. i was drunk, high on marijuana at the time. i'm not the boy that i was. 20 years later, i'm a man. i live my life as a man. and here, ...

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 know? i wanted to do a waiver. i wanted to be on the line. and you know whate...

And they never did have sex. some of the evidence indicated otherwise. >> well, they turned it into a rape trial. they did their tests. and there was a presence of spermatizoa. she was partially nude. >> suddenly i heard an inmate off camera yell something. and cephis' whole persona changed. what are you looking at, cephis? >> i'm marking someone. >> why? >> because he just said child molester. break his [ bleep ] neck. total disrespect for anyone in a prison. especially for some convict like me that's been down for so many years. and i got some kid talking trash. i know who he is. and i'll [ ...