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Prison. >> i got you. you want to go back on? i'm more of a mellow type out here. people don't realize i'm really more mellow out here, you know, than the things i was doing in there. >> once considered one of california's most problematic inmates, hymes has found that the simplest things in life can be the most enjoyable. >> take her around that one. take her on that one. >> this beat anything, you know. this is what life is about, enjoying being around the kids, watching them grow up. that's what i'm trying to see, you know. this is my youngest goddaughter right here. i'm trying to watch her...

More than what he was doing with himself before he went to the penitentiary. >> hymes is either going to decide i'm going to get right, i'm not going to commit more crimes, or he's going to give in to his impulsiveness and he's going to commit another crime and he could very well be doing 25 to life. so i think with hymes it's either going to be all of one or all of the other this time. >> hey, i'm so glad. is that $200 in that envelope? >> don't worry about it. don't worry about it. >> it's my brother. he loves me. >> all the police, look, i do not belong to the california department of corre...

>> although hymes has reached the end of his sentence, the stakes are higher than ever. >> hymes has two strikes against him right now, and i think he is aware that if he commits another crime and is prosecuted for that, it could very well be a third strike, which he would be looking at 25 to life. >> i'm too old now, you know what i mean. i think if i came back to prison again, i would never get out, you know. no matter if it was for a two-year sentence or something. no telling what happens. i just can't subject myself to that. >> christmas, thanksgiving, birthdays, he never got to spend one ...

Lockup. our producers first met him seven years ago inside pelican bay, california's toughest maximum security prison. >> i don't care if you're a peace officer, if you're the governor, if you're the president. if you do something to me, it's on. >> he's struggling. >> hymes is a career inmate with 19 of his 37 years spent behind bars. >> turn around. nope. >> i'm not going to turn around. >> officers in several california prisons have gotten plenty of opportunities to document his bad behavior on videotape. while most inmates try to deal with prison life the best they can, hymes has fought th...

Could drag on and on until they actuallyç do get my file. there's no telling how long it's going to take for sacramento to actually send my original file here. i'm becoming irritated because it's like a domino effect. it's just getting worse and worse and worse and nothing is being done to correct the problem, and the problem is so minor and so simple that i mean, i could simply get a correction officer to come and say oh, yeah, i walked him to r & r the day he paroled so i know he paroled from my unit but they won't go by that. >> coming up on "lockup" hymes is on the streets. >> people don...