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Visits. so every -- katie: how did that work? not to get too personal. you would go and visit and they would say here's a place you can go? >> you know what, katie, you go to prison, basically. there are trailers on the prison grounds. so i would have to leave -- if once i went in, it was 72 hours. and once i went in, there was no leaving unless i didn't come back. i couldn't go make a phone call. i couldn't go to work. so i had to sort of fix my life so i could go away for 72 hours without anyone being able to find me. but it's not as private as i thought. they could listen in they chose to. ...

On one busy downtown street is a flashpoint of warsaw's volatile past, mokotow prison. >> been to over 20 american prisons. they're usually located in remote areas far from cities for security reasons. so we're on these busy warsaw streets and we turn and these massive blue doors open up and we enter into this facility. and when we were inside and i was standing on prison grounds, i would look up and see apartment buildings surrounding us, businesses. >> the prison was built in 1904. it used to be called the place of no return. between world war ii and the fall of communism in 1989, it housed ...

Institutional discipline. i'm going to recommend that you do the balance on your sentence. thank you, have a good day. >> culbertson's parole has been denied. >> so in other words, you got to serve two more years? >> um-hum. >> basically, where's -- >> i'm sorry, it's okay. >> it ain't. i need to talk to the warden about them not -- >> stop, stop. >> please. please. >> you don't have to do anything. >> okay. >> go. >> parole hearings are not considered opportunities to visit. once the hearing is over, family members are immediately escorted off prison grounds, which leaves culbertson alone to ...

>> while de completes his end of the process, for his wife, it's just beginning. because conjugal visits are sometimes used as opportunities to smuggle contraband into corcoran officer must do a shore owe search of everything the family brings in. >> put all of the containers in sheer plastic so it's visible. we look through it, especially if they've been opened, make sure there is nothing secreted inside. >> almost time to go. i almost feel like an inmate myself being here. you can't come outside after dark. and then when we do come outside we're still enclosed within more gates on the prison...

A lapse of judgment. a crime is committed. it can result in years behind bars, and regaining freedom can seem impossible. >> we have a lot of freedom out here, you know. we have everything that a person would have at home. >> golden barnett, and nine fellow inmates share creature comforts that don't exist inside the castle. they've become minimum-security inmates who live in a house on the prison grounds. >> trust is what i lost to society. to trust me in society. so this is a start, and it's a great start. >> for eight years, barnett has been a model inmate. now he works as a custodian as he ...