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Of this, you know what i mean? i look like a pimp, look at this little phone. i can't believe you can hear anything. hey, rayve next. slagle's first phone call is to his daughter, rayven. she lives in another part of the state. but that's something slagle hopes to change. >> well, honey, i just want you to know one thing, this is very important to me that you know this, you always have a place with me. always, no matter what, you know what i mean? i'm out now and i love you very much. you're my daughter and emily is my grand daughter and i would love you guys to live with me. you want her to s...

She's all -- you know what i mean? it's like, my god, i missed it all and that sucks. >> not all of it. i don't feel like -- i wouldn't change anything because it made me who i am today. >> really? >> 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? >> i am who i am today because of it. and i don't think i came out too bad. >> no, no -- >> after jumping the hurdles and going through ups and downs, but -- >> now you bounce back. >> yeah. yeah. >> i know we don't know each other that well. but i know i'm ...

Time i actually -- it caught me off god. i hadn't hugged him in years. >> oh, man, he started getting choked up. he got all teary-eyed and choked up and he had me getting to choked up. i was like, come on, bro, pull yourself together. 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'...

That's good. cooking is my hobby. 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 co...

Sometimes i have authority issues and that's definitely a major bump in the road for me. dealing with my p.o. or people 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. an...