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It's well worth it. i feel very grateful. >> how you doing? ♪ ♪ due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons, to a world of chaos and dangerous. now, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >> every time we step into another prison, we're amazed by the world that we enter. it's violent. it's loud. [ bleep ]. >> very intimidating and yet

Okay, four fingers. are you nervous coming today? >> no, not really. >> why? >> it's prison. why would you be nervous? >> there's killers in here. thugs. that's in my life. >> so what are you, out there hustling dope? >> stealing weapons. >> you're carrying a gun, right? why? so you want to shoot somebody first before they shoot you? >> no, i just want to protect me. so if they shoot somebody, you kill them or miss them, you hit a little kid and then what do you do? >> i'm in trouble. >> you're in big trouble. big, big trouble. >> sideways. >> all right, you're busted the next time you do anyt...

Might as well go all the way. it took a couple more weeks and went all the way. now they're red. >> i will say this. you have to be kmilted. if you decide to do this, it's not a -- it hurts. it takes some time. you've got to be serious about doing it. you really do. >> it's painful. it's like somebody has taken hot ice picks and stabbed them in the back of your eyes, sometimes, if you hit the wrong spot. they're done now so i don't have to worry about no more pain. i don't get no complications in vision. i don't see no red. it's all perfectly fine. i wasn't scared to do it. >> coming up, years...

In the middle of this rural farming community is another serbian prison. out of the nation's 28 penal institutions, the facility houses the greatest number of high security inmates. some 1500 in all. it would also prove to be one of the most unique prisons ever profiled on lock-up. >> translator: we have inmates that committed some of the worst crimes and have received the longest and most severe punishments. these include inmates perceived to be dangerous by other facilities, a threat to inmates and security personnel alike. zabela was built for 800 inmate, now houses 1300. the inmates consid...

Their second encounter with 7th block inmate with vladimir that proved the most surprising. he was on his way to a conjugal visit with his wife, alexandra. >> translator: it's a private visit between me and her and nobody else. we can spend three hours together. >> narrator: just a few of the american prisons profiled on lock-up allow conjugal visits usually overnight stays between well behaved inmates and their spouses. what made this visit so unusual, however, is that alexandra is not only his wife but partner in crime. she is currently incarcerated at a serbian women's prison and was transp...