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In the pen for three or four horse to calm down, when he gets through with his mid behavior he'll be ready to apologize to get back to where he should be. >> those people aren't stupid. they know what they were doing. they had three months to tell me they was going to not put me in for transfer. >> a few weeks later with the transfer issue still unresolved, gilbert announced he was going on a hunger strike. >> i'm not eating another meal. until they send me homcloser to home. >> how is that going to help your mother? >> she can't pay her light bill. because she's going to scrap money together ...

Thank you for the picture, angel. very nice. love that hair. you gotta be at least seven feet tall talking about kicking my ass. ha-ha, don't be a stranger, angel. take care of yourself. with a smile, bobby "g." >> when angel began her correspondence with gilbert, she was living in joliet, illinois. her son, nico, was only 15 at the time. >> at first, i was very worried about her emotional safety. i wasn't sure how it would end up. >> what had gun as just a pen pal relationship, qukly became something more serious. >> on a sunday evening at 8:00 at night, my son brought me the phone. he said, ...

I didn't set out for it to happen. it just did. >> the alabama department of corrections denied a request to interview gilbert but angel told us the story of how she first became involved with gilbert, shortly after seeing him on "lockup." angel had initially contacted another holman inmate featured on the series, sherman moore, who held the job of prison barber. it was moore who acted as matchmaker. >> i wrote to sherman and developed a friendship with sherman. >> you think you can pull a flat-top fade out of your hat. >> is that what you want? >> i also saw the segment on bobby. i inquired a...

Mail like it used to. >> it is segregation. it wasn't meant to be nice. you ain't here for being to church or because you was doing something good. >> when we returned to holman for our extended stay series, we found gilbert exactly where we had left him, in ad seg. the administrative segregation housing unit where inmates are locked down 23 hours a day. it houses the most violent and destructive offenders. it is where bobby ray gilbert has spent almost all of his 27 years in prison. >> i have life without parole, two life sentencein, two 99-yea sentence, a 40-year sentence, a 10-year sentence...

His anger erupt again. >> we are trying to do it the right way. i'm going to show you what i'm made of. >> but gilbert proved to be more than just a violent man. he also showed us a thoughtful, creative side. the last interview we did with gilbert, he seemed resigned to his fate of spending the rest of his life most likely alone in the small cell. >> at this point, you just look back and realize, well, the best part of it is over with it anyway. >> five years later, we would discover that gilbert's appearances on "lockup" had opened up a new chapter in his life. she goes by the name of angel, ...