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The building i grew up in was 191, fairwood av. >> everything that i got is a prison tattoo, actually. >> i heard somewhere prison tattoos are like the prison experience. it hurts when you're getting them, it's bloody, some scabs and bruises but when it's all healed up and it's all said and done there's something left over. >> nice back piece, ain't it? get your back piece on camera, baby! huh? showing off your work, son. >> yeah? >> huh? >> there's better artists, tattoo artists in prison than there are out on the street. >> where did you get those tattoos? >> wherever the cops aren't. >> alt...

Was in the street. all the pain, everything that came up for me that was my solution, to self-medicate. that's what i did. >> in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling others. >> i've been. 12 step programs for, oh, geez, probably about 1 years now, 19 years, but the current program i'm in, it's called arc. it's addiction recovery counseling. >> it's a four-month program which is a state-of-the-art addiction treatment program. it's the first one ever in the world as far as we know that's completely run and has counselors who are inmates, who are trained in...

Were. >> translator: in the six years that i have been the warden here, we have not had any such cases. it might seem improbable to you but we did not have any such cases. i put a lot of stress on the prison staff treating the inmates decently and the inmates strictly observing house rules. so if anything happens, it's sporadic. we really do not have many problems here. >> i remember my first day when i come here, it's for me like a horror movie. but, it's okay. >> we met one english speaking inmate who agreed that the staff does what it can to make life here tolerable. serving six months for ...

>> robert fry isn't the only inmate whose prison experience has dramatically transformed his life. >> not everybody in the penitentiary system are bad apples. we've made mistakes, but some of us have learned from them. >> you know, i just want to go home, see my kids. i haven't seen my kids in six years. >> to tell you the truth, i'm tired of the gang banging crap. i've done it too long. you know? i've been stabbed, shot, and i got scars from here all the way down, nicked, been shot, my elbow, my knee, you know? for what? for a [ bleep ] that don't even belong to me. >> the long years behind b...

Is okay. it could be better, but it's okay, this prison experience. i'm going to be another man. i'm going to be looking about freedom in another way. to appreciate freedom. to appreciate to walk in the park. to drink coke. to see birds sky. freedom is freedom. that's all. >> while cz's urban setting and concrete surroundings make some long for simple pleasures, our crew headed deeper into serbia and found a prison that except for the razor wire was almost a natural paradise. . .