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>> everything about alex's mannerisms, his appearance, and the words that he spoke, said -- convict. alex just embodied that. >> bennett was 54 years old when we met him and had spent 33 of those years behind bars for armed robbery, kidnapping, and murder. >> the system today isn't like the system that i came into 36 years ago. the system today has the majority of their inmates programmed to do what they're told when they're told to do it. and so they get to the point where they expect that from everybody. well, there's still a few old dogs around who like to do things their own way. >> bennet...

You know, hey, it's one good thing about prison. ain't nobody going nowhere. >> sometimes it's good to be by yourself to get you that alone time that you need, but on the other time, it will be boring because i have nobody to talk to. this is it, though. >> new home for a while. >> what's your first impression? >> i've been in the hole before. different scenery, you know, still locked up doing time. >> though carr and harper have come to depend on each other in prison, they may be going their separate ways before long as well. >> i'm going to sign transfer papers, i guess, in september and go ...

In 1993 when he was arrested back then, he said he was just a farmer and didn't know what drugs were. in 2001, he bribed guards which wasn't that tough to do in one of mexico's high security prisons, and apparently he was let go by putting him in a laundry cart, putting dirty laundry on top of him, and then wheeling him right out the front door. he was free until 2014 when he was recaptured in mazatlan. then he escapes again just last year, the 11th of july, from mexico's other top security prison. a tunnel, kate, that was one mile long, it had a motorcycle on rails. said it cost about a milli...

Matters, it matters because so many people die from drug addiction. >> absolutely. >> he facilitated that and enabled it on and on and on. when you look at what really matters, which is that, does his capture do anything to slow the drug trade, does it help? or is his cartel, the sinaloa cartel so much bigger than him as a figurehead? >> it's much bigger. in the drug world, compare this cartel to, say, coca cola, the kind of leading brand. like with coca cola if you took away the ceo, the company still works. you got the people who are growing opium which is made into heroin. you got people wh...

Things their own way. >> bennett's way of doing things, however, has had horrifying results. after adapting to life in a single person cell here, he was transferred to a lower security prison in 1998. he had more privileges there, but also had to share a cell. that's when things began to go very wrong. >> i'm not going to live with child molesters. i'm not going to live with punks. i'm not going to live with rats. i need my privacy and that's the most important thing to me. and i was determined to get that, and i got it. >> after his request to return to a single maximum security cell at kentu...