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Up. >> several years prior to becoming the warden at limon, travis was a lieutenant at colorado state and had been involve the in several of roy's cell extractions. >> the last four cell extractions that was ever done on him when he got sprayed, i was the one that sprayed him. that was the last straw. he said he didn't want to play anymore. >> do you understand if you don't back up we're going to administer oc. >> he said it was due to the chemical, the oc. he wasn't fighting anymore, because in my opinion, he got a thrill in fighting with the staff when we would go into the cell and wrestle h...

In the parole department. it's just hard for me to do it, it just really is. it's hard. not that i don't want to be free. i want to be free. i don't want to go back to prison. but sometimes i have this impending doom on my back. >> sometimes prison ruins people, man. you know what i mean. it does. after that much time, and i understand that, so be it. but prison didn't ruin me. honestly. i'm not ruined at all. i'm ready to get out there and do whatever it takes to make it. and i'm gonna. i want to be a success story. because let me tell you, there's no success stories around here. all my buddi...

On the streets, i love to cook. i like to make people happy. i'll make something at work and i'll go to the jobsite and give to him, hey, bro, try this. that's what i like to do. >> by purchasing food from the canteen and occasionally hustling vegetables or meat from kitchen workers, ray slagle gets to practice his hobby right in his cell. but the only time he shed a tear from something other than onions is when he and his twin brother, roy, were briefly in the same prison and were allowed to see each other for the first time in years. >> i hugged him and i couldn't hold back. i dropped a tear...

And to have a lot of girls and women making comments about how i look and stuff like that, it's nice. >> but roy's parole serves as a constant reminder that a return to prison is just one mistake away. >> about five, six times a day, this beeper beeps off and i got to call. if this beeper goes off after my curfew and i don't call from this land line here at the house, i can get a felony case for escape. it's very serious. very serious. this is my babysitter. this is a leash. >> what do you want to have happen for yourself now that you're out? what are your goals? what are your dreams? >> my dr...

You can't be getting emotional in here. >> roy slagle was paroled in october of 2008. after spending nearly 20 years in prison, he is now living with his parents. >> if i wouldn't have got out of prison, i wouldn't have had my family support, i wouldn't have made it a week and i would have been back in prison. because the system ain't going to help you out. that's not going to happen. >> roy is fortunate to have found work. but his parole imposes a 4:00 p.m. curfew and prohibits him from leaving the county. he spends much of his free time on the computer. >> i didn't even know how to turn the ...