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You try to grab a hold of something that makes a difference. and doing this makes a difference. >> some inmates see their prison jobs in less patriotic terms. for ray slagle, it's a chance to work one of his hustles. >> i work in the laundry and deal with the inmates on a daily basis. these guys all want to go looking good for their families to visit. really. you know what i mean? if you go to the laundry, 90% of the time you're not going to get it. not new. you're going to get stuff that's serviceable. you say, i need a pair of visiting clothes and it's going to cost you 16 tokens. and if you...

That facility. what's going to happen to him? and will people be out for him because of his notoriety? >> well, the worst part is you walk in, there's a strip search, and you lose everything you own, expect a wedding ring, in his case, if he chooses to keep that. and you're given prison clothes and there you are. and you are on a different planet. you're incarcerated. you will not have any familiarity with how your life functioned right before you walked in. so it's going to be an immediate shock to him that will be up to him as to how he gets out of that. it's going to take three days or one ...

"lockup" has been documenting life in some of america's most hard-core maximum security prisons since the year 2000. in 2009 we went behind the walls of prisons overseas for the first time on "lockup: world tour." we discovered that while many of the challenges facing these prisons were the same, the differences were startling. that was especially true when we visited prisons in belgium. among other things, we learned that when an inmate escapes from a belgian prison, authorities will try to catch him, but not charge him with an additional crime. >> the law that says the effect of escaping is ...

Them heal. and we made -- it felt like we made a million of these. you try to grab ahold of something that makes a difference. and doing this makes a difference. >> some inmates see their prison jobs in less patriotic terms. for ray slagle, it's a chance to work one of his hustles. >> i work in the laundry and deal with the inmates on a daily basis. these guys all want to go looking good for their families to visit. really. you know what i mean? if you go to the laundry, 90% of the time you're not going to get it. not new. you're going to get stuff that's serviceable. you say, i need a pair of...

Run and jump over the fence. i actually made it out answered run and they catch me 5, 6 kilometers in a little village called wharton and from then they move me to this prison. >> peter says his escape was motivated by the pressures of being a parent to four young children. >> before they were going on the soccer team. now they cannot go because there is no one to take them there and there are some complications with little children, you know. >> in the united states an escape attempt usually leads to more time in prison. but it's a very different story in belgium. >> it's the law that says th...