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Into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." in prison, time can be an inmate's worst enemy. >> apparently another guy over there said that i hit him. what do you do when you get ready to fight? >> why would she be ready to fight if you're in the cell? >> some find constructive if not unusual ways to fill it. >> this is how i stay out of trouble. this is how i do my time. >> others depend on humor to pass it. >> get a shot of that stance. look at that. stance armstrong, huh? >> i see dead people. oh no. >> how much money do you guys have in your wallets...

Because of the pain. >> a positive drug test eventually led to ray violating his parole and like his brother roy, he was sent back to prison. he served a total of 90 days, but when he got out, things got even darker. >> i even tried to hang myself, man. really, it got so bad, i tried to hang myself in the closet. the only reason i didn't die is because the tie broke. the shame that came over me was overwhelming that i would do something like that. it wasn't that i wanted to do something like that. it was i was in so much pain i couldn't take it no more, you know? when you're in pain like i am,...

Until after he started working here. he's aggressive. but in a great way. anytime you get someone who wants to come to work and wants to work, my god. >> and still, reminders of prison sometimes show up unexpectedly. >> this prison bus from the department of corrections came in. me being my nosy self-i had to look. right here, names and numbers of people being transferred out. it wasn't too long ago i was on one of these buses. i wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize my liberties that i have now. uh-uh. right now, i can hear the wind blowing in to the trees behind us. ain't no trees in no...

>> what do you think of that when you look at that? >> not too happy. i made bad decisions in my youth and my karmic debt that i had to wise up and be thankful for what i had, don try and live outside my means. i went to prison for robbery. you know, i got excited and thought things are going to be all right. things are going to be all right no matter what. but you've got to do it the right way, even if you're going without a few things or if you're poor. it's still going to be all right. you can't take something out somebody's hand. and tell them it will be all right because that makes it wor...

We met them at two different colorado prisons nine years apart. roy and ray slagle, twin brothers with seemingly boundless energy were two of the most memorable inmates ever to appear on "lockup." our first slagle encounter was in 2000 when we met roy at colorado state penitentiary, and he made a big impression. at the time, roy was serving a 12-year sentence for robbery and had a notorious reputation for forcing the prison to perform cell extractions on him because of his frequent refusals to obey orders. nine years later, during our shoot at the lyman correctional