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You can just go ahead and sign in here. >> 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...

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. >> you get the string made out of the waistband of our boxer. we take the string apart and then we put a little piece of plastic as a weight an...

>> 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...

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 since last time we saw you? >> just sitting here drawing, watching the time go by, thinking about what i'...

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 since last time we saw you? >> just sitting here drawing, watching the time go by, thinking about what i'm going to do with the rest ...