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Self-mutilation. >> i did that scar about ten years ago. i got it from the ankle all the way up to the hip bone, all the way down to the bone and i cut across sideways so the surgeons had to take about 12 hours to sew me up. you got seven layers of skin you got to go through before you get to the bone. and when you're going through one of them phases, you don't even feel the pain. you don't even know you're doing it. >> joe carr is serving an eight-year sentence for robbery. he is taking antipsychotic medication and under staff supervision, he agreed to tell us his story. >> i was anti-sociabl...

>> every time staff does something, you don't agree with it, this is what you do, you cut or tie or something, don't you? every time. because you just want everything to be fair, right? sorry, buddy. >> get this one right here on top. >> he's done it before, and it's shocking. his nail bed is purple. that's pretty bad. like i said, he's done it before. >> just two weeks ago, officers and medical staff had their hands full with jacob during a meltdown in a time-out cell. tonight they frantically try to deal with his self-mutilation. >> where did you get this? is this from your mattress? >> no. ...

At the time, hill was already in segregation for another reason. self-mutilation. >> first time he hurt himself, he threw a battery off a window, something broke i guess, he started slicing his arm up, just cutting away. we sent him to medical on suicide watch. he came back a couple weeks later, broke a razor blade and started cutting his arm everywhere, had to get stitches, staples all down his arm. >> hill says he's not suicidal but believes in bloodletting for health purposes. >> you want to get to wherever there's a good artery at. so the flow of blood will be good. >> for what? >> for wha...

I cut myself and stuff like that. >> show me where you cut yourself. >> want me to stick my arm out? >> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars. he spent the last two years as -- in cell house 220 also known as the hole. >> this is your maximum security unit inside of a maximum security prison. here's where we house all the inmates that couldn't be handled at another institution or couldn't be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> during his time in prison and especially in the hole, murray has found a coping de...

That is where we met joe carr, who had a long history of self-mutilation. >> i was anti-social. i didn't want to be around nobody. i didn't want nobody around me. i wanted to be by myself. everything made me angry, you know? i would take a lot out of it on myself and i would feel better. i would take a razor blade and cut myself up real bad and then then it would all be all right, you know? i did that scar ten years ago. i cut it from the ankle to the hipbone all the way through the bone and cut across sideways so the surgeons had to take about 12 hours to sew me up. you got seven layers of sk...