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Time. you know what i'm saying? >> you want to play some chess, man? >> he's trying to communicate with another inmate to play chess with him. and they'll do it verbally through the vent system. >> all right, hold on. >> we play by calling out the numbers, like 12 to 28, 52 to 36. he has to have the same type of board, set up 1 through 64. >> 12, 28, man. >> i think most inmates don't want to go to segregation. it's not a pleasant place to live. you get a limited amount of material in your cell. whether that's reading materials. you get no radio, no tv, no walkman. you get limited time out of ...

It's a clear violation of human rights. these folks are sentenced to their term for the crime they committed. many nonviolent offenders who go in nonviolently, for whatever, often because of the war on drugs, and come out a different person because they had nothing to there to help them get past what they were dealing with in the prison setting. >> you didn't just do this as a policy exercise, you did it as you wrote, a personal exercise, the differences between you and some of the folks in the prisons in washington, d.c., you're a politician, they're not. you have a job, they don't. wealth an...

That mean for my community, and how do i prepare best to welcome these return citizens back to the city, and what's happening in the prisons is not just and it's a clear violation of human rights. these folks are sentenced to their term for the crime they committed. many nonviolent offenders who go in nonviolently, for whatever, often because of the war on drugs, and come out a different person because they had nothing to there to help them get past what they were dealing with in the prison setting. >> you didn't just do this as a policy exercise, you did it as you wrote, a personal exercise, ...

Inmates' accounts of their extreme violent behavior. i'm often curious as to why or how they became this way. but i also think it's a part of the human condition. and i think it's important that people understand that. part of it, i think, is created at birth, but also a big part of it is how one survives in prison. more often than not, a lot of these stories of violence have occurred in the prison setting. in order to survive in such a violent world, most of these people feel they have to be violent. >> in 1992, robert glenn was sentenced to three years for auto theft. when we met him 15 year...

>> that's not how you handle things. you don't walk into the sergeant's office and point at other inmates and say them are the bad guys there. go arrest them. that's not how you handle things. not in a prison setting. i don't think he realizes how much peril he put himself in. >> holloman, wright, and laudone, himself, were immediately locked up in administrative segregation. after questioning holloman, gang intelligence coordinator lieutenant jim fox now moves on to the alleged assailant, jason wright. >> you probably know why you're here, huh? >> i don't, actually. >> you don't have any idea...