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Lockdown for having fought with another inmate. >> it was a one-on-one fight, and it's a dead issue now, you know what i mean? it is what it is. it's no big thing. it's something that always happens. it ain't nothing, you know what i'm saying? that's all there is to it, you know? >> kunkel claims his conflict with inmate robert hurd was just a run-of-the-mill jailhouse fight. but hurd says kunkel sucker punched him to avoid a fight with a bigger inmate. who was angry kunkel was flaunting his tattoos. >> when he got caught up with the big guy he was nervous to fight the person, so he's looking ...

Down the middle. straight down the middle. >> the fourth avenue jail in maricopa county, arizona, houses more than 2,000 male inmates, including those considered to pose the highest security risk. racial tensions run high in this facility, as inmate cecil kunkel discovered shortly after our interview with him in which he showed off his many tattoos. kunkel and the inmate he fought, robert hurd, were placed in isolation cells and were unavailable to us, pending an investigation. but hurd's friends made their feelings about kunkel crystal clear. >> we don't like cecil kunkel. >> you see that swa...

Facing a possible death sentence, cermano says he's tried to make the best of life at maricopa. >> i only went to two days of high school but since i've been here these past four years, i taught myself to read. i can read good now. i go through books like crazy. >> got some books for you, man. here you go, cermano. >> appreciate it, man. thank you. >> no problem, man. >> i like the romance books. yeah, i like them romance books, but i like to read anything. westerns, mysteries, action. i'll read anything. if it interests me and it's a page turner, i'll read it. if it's not, i throw it away or ...

Questioning that needs to be done, i'll talk to the officers and we may review some cameras and come to a determination. the exact amount of discipline that we're going to give them. robert hurd? is that you? >> what's going on, sarge? >> how you doing? >> all right. >> you got a write-up here, i see. >> yeah. >> yeah? what happened? >> pretty much, man, i didn't have no forewarning or anything, i just got tagged first, man. >> because what i'm reading here and from what the officer is saying, that it was a mutual conduct fight between you and the other inmate. >> well, all you got to do is lo...

But hurd says kunkel sucker punched him to avoid a fight with a bigger inmate. who was angry kunkel was flaunting his tattoos. >> when he got caught up with the big guy he was nervous to fight the person, so he's looking for a plea bargain, a way out, so the way to sign out is to run up in the middle of a pod where there's cameras at and run up and swing on somebody so the police can see what's going on and come break it up and that way he get moved so he won't ever have to face that man. so as i'm coming down the steps, one of my peoples ask something to me and i turn my head away, look to th...