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Most of the hatred i feel for myself because there wasn't nobody forcing me to sell drugs. i sold drugs, you know what i'm saying, to try to have a better life for myself and my family. i was walking around with thousands and i jumped off somebody over $65. when the police came i had 56 grams of marijuana on me in my underwear and it cost me five years here, you know? just to sit back and think about it, you know, i could have let that $65 go. i'd still be in the world with my family. >> you have huge -- just do upper bodies and make note if they have any others, too. >> upon arrival, new inma...

Water, you take your cup, set it upside down, put your hamburger on there open in the package. and the steam -- you can steam heat it and then, if you want to make big meals, we got shoeboxes which we call tubs. they are shoeboxes built to store stuff. but you empty them and then make a good dip bowl. nachos, 10 or 12 soups, a bag of chili, a tub of cheese, summer dogs, fill it full of water, mix it up, dip it into your bowls and eat. >> after spending so many hours in a confined space, inmates value time spent outside their cells. exercise is the most popular pastime, along with getting a sha...

>> you always have the chance of an inmate wanting to escape. you don't know when. you don't know how they're going to try it, you know. >> when inmates break the rules, they're sent to the disciplinary unit also known as the hole. here prisoners are allowed only one hour of exercise a day. the other 23 hours they're locked in their cells. >> this is like the prison within the prison, so to speak. they come here basically due to the actions of out on the yard or in a living unit. they've somehow broken the rules and misbehave and they're brought up here for corrective management to try to impr...

They call it animal house. >> if you ever saw the movie "shawshank redemption," that's kind of what it's like except without like all the death. >> it's pretty tight. but as long as you have a good cellie you just got to learn how to learn each other's routines, each other's ways, the ways they live. you just work around each other. >> we got three men in here, both my cellie top and bottom. somebody got to use the bathroom, we will leave. put the sign on the door. we just kick back, watch tv. listen to music, eat food. kick it. that's about it. that's about all you can do in here. >> the hot ...

>> for most of the inmates at anamosa, death is a long way off. the average age of these men is 36. and some will have a second chance at life on the outside. but for many of the inmates serving life sentences, death is the only way out. >> this all i got. this is my life. you know, i'm going to die here and that's the reality. they're going to take my body because there ain't nobody going to take it. >> james "t-bone" taylor was once considered one of anamosa's most notorious criminals. a former street gang member, he's serving a double life sentence for killing two police officers. >> i hate...