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Innocent of their crimes. they long for the day when they're free again. that's what made the case of richard z. hall so baffling. when we met him, ziggy was fighting to stay in prison. life out on the street wasn't all that great. so i just looked around me and say, hey, this is where it's at. >> we met ziggy at the river bend maximum security institution in tennessee, the last stop in a long life of incarceration. >> i've been locked up virtually since age 12 in institutions and reform schools and prisons and penal farms, and i'm in here this time for prying into an empty drawer in the lobby...

Would assault staff. >> the officer was not badly injured, but it landed hamilton back in administrative segregation, with a high probability of being sent to the shu, a place most inmates dread. >> to me it's prison. it's still prison. it's not going to change. it's still prison. >> and set it down in front of dennis and said, look, here's what it says. >> in a nutshell it says that every inmate will accept a cellie except if he has -- see this little thing? it's called an "s" suffix. that means single cell status. if you have that attached to if you send me to the shu or to a level one, it's...

>> ziggy faces several potential penalties for attempting to alter his drug screen, including time in the hole, a loss of his prison job, and even a judgment that can make his whole plan backfire, a transfer to another prison. >> that's one punishment i really don't look forward to is being transferred somewhere else. >> ziggy's reluctance to leave prison became all the more puzzling when we learned some of what he'd endured during his 30 plus years of incarceration. >> i was not born gay and every relationship i've had has been a forced type, a, well, this is what i have to do type of thing, ...

Davis, expressed reservations. >> kind of get nervous with a camera pointing right in your face, you know what i'm saying. they say it adds ten pounds to you. >> he's worried about the camera adding ten pounds? >> no, just messing with you. just joking. trying to make a laugh. >> jason and sky were a real team. these guys were playing cards, smoking cigarettes. i think it was their way to survive. he's got his back, the other guy's got his, and that's the way they made it work. >> lonely days in brushy mountain. >> both men conceded drug use played a part in putting them in prison. bishop's ag...

>> she didn't want to get a divorce, but i divorced her anyway because i wanted her to move on with her life. i got so much time now, 17 1/2 years. i still got parole but it's hard telling when i'll make it. i just wanted her to move on with her life. >> in contrast, bishop was receiving letters and occasional visits from both his wife and an ex-girlfriend. >> does your wife know about the other woman? >> she knows about her. she's known about her for a long time. she knows it's not a big deal. she knows i love her and she's the one i want to be with. >> you have women fighting over you. come ...