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At the limon correctional facility in colorado, ray slagle became a successful hustler because of his ability to deal with other inmates. >> all right, guys. >> but as a father of a teenager, he wasn't quite as confident of his skills. his daughter raven was 16 years old with a newborn of her own. she and ray had not seen each other in almost ten years, but with his release date only a month away, they arranged for a visit. >> i was really nervous about the visit because ray was so nervous. when we showed up to film the visit, we started with ray, and he was a wreck. he hadn't slept. he was fi...

murder of his abusive father. >> my dad was an alcoholic. i was like a little kid, you know, 7, 8 years old. i crawled up under the kitchen table and he's, you know, got this belt with a buckle, you know, putting marks all over my face and everything, all over my body. i've got blood coming out and everything. my mom's like, look, you got to stop, you're going to kill him. >> komyatti, his mother, sister and her husband was all convicted for the murder of his father. komyat komyatti's brother-in-law was sentenced to death and was executed. his sister only served four years. paul's mo...

Would spend with his granddaughter and she came off very motherly. >> i wouldn't change anything because it made me who i am today, and i wouldn't change it. >> you're not mad at me? >> i'm mad, i am, but it's done with. i can't hold resentment. like, i don't know. >> really? man. >> with our time at limon nearing its end and slagle's release date growing nearer, we anticipated following him home for a reunion not only with raven and his granddaughter but with his twin brother, roy, who had only recently been released from prison himself. but that would never happen. >> we were towards the end...

>> okay, okay. >> a short time later raven arrived along with another of ray's brothers and his sister-in-law. >> yeah, yeah. >> you have a visit. >> all right, all right. thanks. yeah, yeah, i'll hurry. it's been a long time since i even had a hug, any kind of contact from anybody. i still got this big heart. always have and always will, you know what i mean. my i.d. okay. people are going to watch this and they're going to see -- they'll see a slagle crying and i don't give a [ bleep ]. i told some of the fellows, so what, you will get to see slagle crying, what gives a [ bleep ]. i'm just j...

I'm telling you, it was sick. i had so many tokens i couldn't hardly get rid of them but it was nice. even deep fried chicken tacos, dudes yelling, slagle, me, too, hey what about those? i'd be going to the door sliding them underneath the door. they'd be throwing me their tokens. it was cool. >> his openness about his various hustles made him an intriguing character for us to follow, but we would soon discover another fact about ray that made his story even more interesting. he had a twin brother named roy who had not only been in prison, but had appeared on "lockup" years earlier. >> roy sla...