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Together even when we're apart. [ male announcer ] in stuffing mashed potatoes, gravy and more, swanson makes holiday dishes delicious. on the first day of production at california's kern valley state prison our producers set out to shoot a simple story of how inmates in segregation deal with the monotony of being locked in their cells 23 hour as day. they pass reading materials and other items to each other through a process called fishing. >> go ahead. take off. >> though fishing is against prison rules, inmate, tracy washington, was willing to demonstrate how to make a fishing line.

Out because i was going to rec, i was supposed to go to rec. he said he wasn't going to talk me out. i started kicking the door. he started talking [ bleep ]. i started talking [ bleep ] back to him. >> what did he say? >> i don't know because i was talking over him. i just know that he was a bitch. that's what i told him, that he was a bitch [ bleep ]. >> with his recent setbacks, roca moreno faces six more months before leaving close management and having his visits restored. john smith has also been in confinement since being caught with possession of marijuana. >> what's been going on sinc...

>> 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 -- >> 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 have no evidence. when they found it, it was not intact, okay? >> what was you going to do with it? >> everything that they have is things that i was allowed to have. >> but she did tell us that if she were going to m...

>> hit me pretty hard for a while but, you know, you kind of get over it a little bit. it's been pretty rough. 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 wit...

>> he hit me severely in the back of the head. in these handcuffs he twisted my ankle. >> -- the inmate continues his tirade against him. captain morgan completes the paperwork and then escorted him toward segregation. a 23-hour-a-day lockup unit for inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was taking him to north segregation to lock him up in our seg unit. >> when the inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation would soon get much more intense. >> that's when he tried to pull away from me and turned around on me. >> he's grabbing on me. >> that's when i tried to secure him ...