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Treason and sabotage by the apartheid government, acts punishable by death. but they got life imprisonment instead, banished to robin island, one of the country's most brutal and isolated prisons. another political prisoner remembers the first time he saw mandela in the prison yard. >> i could see from the way he walked and from his conduct that here was a man already stamping his authority on prison regime. >> reporter: mandela was released 27 years later. >> i have spoken about freedom in my lifetime. your struggle, your commitment and your discipline has released me to stand before you toda...

>> this is not your typical jailhouse confession. what happened in 1985, the fbi mounted a huge undercover sting operation against marcelo. they approached this individual in prison, jack van lamming ham, who was not a criminal except for one night he robbed a bank. he was friendly with marcelo because he didn't know who he was. the fbi arranged for jack van lamming ham to become marcelo's cell mate. marcelo -- and this was a long almost two-year operation. and they got a court order for a bug transition radio to be taken into the jail cell so a lot of the remarks were recorded. he made the fi...

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Get anything out of it. i'm not that 16-year-old kid anymore. i'm 41 years old now. >> as he walked across the yard, first time in years with other inmates, we had no idea what to expect. >> we missed you. >> one time. one time only. >> go ahead. >> hey, i'm not good at this. i'll tell you right now. are you good? >> not really. >> not really? >> hit a ringer. >> i'll try. >> i think it astounded him to be out on the yard and working out with somebody else, being in contact with another inmate that he could talk to without being in shackles. >> that's one, two. >> i'm ahead, 2-0. >> he seemed ...

Supremacist gang. >> is that yost? have you seen him on the yard? watch for him. watch out for that dude. watch his movement. >> we found information, we received a kite saying that if yost gets three feet next to this guy, he's going to hit him. he's going to hit him. >> what's my role here? i'm an [ bleep ]. in their mind, i'm a [ bleep ]. i'm constantly agitating them. and they are constantly agitating me. and i won't quit. >> ultimately yost may not have a choice. >> time's ticking. i'm sick from hepatitis c virus from shooting dope for so many years. the treatment that i've been on for a ...