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Locker room at the end of a really tough game. and that was the case with slagle as he was recovering from his pepper spray. >> yeah, [ bleep ]. first time for that. >> i don't know. next on "lockup: raw." ♪ spent 18 long years ♪ ♪ in this old cold prison ♪ >> one inmate's way of dealing with hard time. >> every year i change the amount of years it's been since i've been in prison. something m adyour jaw drop? campbell's has 24 new soups that will make it drop over and over again. ♪ ♪ from jammin' jerk chicken, to creamy gouda bisque. see what's new from campbell's. it's amazing ...

Slagle was serving time for robbery and assault when we met him. >> i got some criminal tendencies, okay? i robbed and i fought with a guy in here. ain't in here for nothing, you know? i've been in quite a bit of trouble here or i would have been out a long time ago. >> i'm the shift commander. i need to have you uncover your window. are you going to cooperate or do you want us to come and get you out of your cell? slagle? no response. >> in one of his more memorable acts of defiance, slagle served as a ring leader when he and seven other inmates covered up their cell windows, a major infracti...

>> many of the inmates we spoke to agreed. they say the isolation is too much. >> i've been here a long time. i've seen a lot of guys, seen them snap, you know? any given day they can snap. >> 23 hours a day you're locked down. you come out for five hours a week. essentially it's just another cell. it's a dead room with a pull-up bar. there's one small window. everywhere you go, handcuffed, handcuffed to go in the shower. you have no human contact with nobody at all. >> but roy slagle has had more contact than most inmates here. it's just been all the wrong kind.

>> please come to the door and cuff up. you understand if you don't cuff up we're going to administer oc? >> yes. i understand. >> slagle's first experience with the gas might have been a rude awakening. it was also one of the few times he submitted to an extraction without a prolonged struggle. after determining he is not going to be combative, officers allow slagle to shower off the burning gas. >> one of the really amazing things about the cell extractions is that sometimes afterwards, the inmate and the officers seem to have a camaraderie, almost like pro athletes standing around the

>> it takes another four minutes of struggling before slagle is finally subdued. he's placed on a gurney so that the team can move him into a holding cell. following a strip search, a defeated slagle will be left in the holding cell until authorities feel they can safely transfer him back to his own cell. >> good job, guys. >> everybody in prison ain't the scum of the earth. there are actually real good people in here that would never harm a child. i would like to be in a situation where i could actually get real rehabilitation. this place here, it's just about control. >> slagle's defiant att...