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>> this place does have a psychological effect over a period of time. being locked up 23 hours a day in the windowless cell. makes or breaks you. it's hard. it's real hard, you forget how to communicate. how to social interact. i refuse to lose touch with humanity. when you lose that. that's it. you're transformed from a human being to a prison being. and i refuse to be a prison being. >> today we're going to interview inmate chris tore trotter. he has served the better part of the last ten years on administrative segregation. and there is some staff members involved with the review status. wh...

In a general population setting to see if he can maintain. >> hey, sir, how you doing? >> we follow trotter to his review and two days later we were with him again when after almost ten years he was released from segregation and placed in a temporary housing unit that would transition him back to general population. >> that was some of the most torturous time i've ever did in my life back there. and it took everything i had to keep it from dehumanizing me, demoralizing me and institutionalizing me. it just strips the humanity away from you. a person is actually scarred, you know. it's irrevers...

Too hot for me. caliente. >> morgan also earned the respect of other inmates as well as compensation in the form of commissary goods by providing skilled services not often found in prison. among other things, he's a tailor. >> now stand up here on the chair. i ain't getting on my knees, honey. you got me twisted. i'm not getting on my knees. >> you do it any other time. >> [ bleep ] >> none of the straight inmates were embarrassed to be seen with peaches. and that was also unusual in a general population setting. >> for a gay man in prison. it's like disney land. you just don't know what ride...

Functioning gang members. in a general population setting. that is what they do. the nature of the beast. give them a couple days, there will be another one back here. >> this is a place to hide your stuff. >> you have to have us beat them one time. good. >> the risk of smuggling drugs and weapons into cor kron has cost some inmates not only their jobs, but the small taste of freedom that came with them.

>> you have to keep in your mind they are actually functioning gang members. in a general population setting, so this is what they do. the nature of the beast. we'll give them a couple of days, there will be another one back here. >> obviously, this is the place to hide your stuff. >> just got to have us beat them. one time. good. >> the risk of smuggling drugs and weapons into corcoran has cost some inmates not only their jobs, but the small taste of freedom that came with them.