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Against prison rules. >> tattooing is always a big deal at prisons. the inmates use it as a way to make money. it causes us big problems just from the health standpoint because they spread diseases such as staph infections or hepatitis by tattooing. >> as a result, correctional staff keep a close eye on walker. >> my control officer called me down in the office and said there was something unusual going on in the cell in the second tier of b-pod. so i went up to that cell, and the two inmates that were in the cell didn't belong there. one of them was walter walker. being that they weren't wher...

>> the politics of race creates rigid demands, which control the smallest details of inmates' lives. >> for the most part you're separated and broken off. you pretty much can walk around, but there are certain areas where you can just hang and sit. the same way it is on the street. we have neighborhoods and things like that. it's a territorial thing. so we try to keep it like that and give each other respect so we can give ourselves distance so we won't cross paths in the wrong fashion. >> the rules are merciless. and ignoring race politics can lead to catastrophic results. >> i'd be in violat...

The challenge is just as big for women as it is for men. when we arrived at the tennessee prison for women, we found that meeting personal needs had led to a dilemma for mary beth. >> they done wrote me up. >> what? >> what for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. they're trying to say i had -- a dildo. >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though she's allowed to have the individual items she was caught with, she was written up for how they were assembled, or at least partially assembled. >> i'm pleading not guilty because they h...

I really miss him. she did, too. >> after being locked up two years, adam will now be free of prison rules. lucky for him, his grandparents have never wavered in their support. for 24 months, they visited every two weeks. >> hope it does some good for him up here, you know. it got to where we couldn't do nothing with him. we've had him ever since he was 8 months old. >> it's been difficult, but it's worth it. >> i know there's going to be people come do this with us, come get high with us, come get drunk. i can't even do it, man. they're going to say why. because, like, if you was where i was ...

On any given day at the limon correctional facility, inmates are caught violating prison rules. >> bring your two officers over, please, to unit two. >> most of these violations never disrupt the daily routine. but today, one has not only rocked the prison, it sent shockwaves through the state's entire department of corrections. >> yesterday morning, the segregation staff did a strip search on the segregation corridor and found a large quantity of heroin and cocaine that the inmate was apparently smuggling to a distribution point to be distributed to the inmate population. >> what we did is we...