off the range, catch the reflection of an individual tv in the next cell. and just sit back and watch tv. >> kidd is serving time for drug sales dreamt up his creation when his own tv stopped working. >> i call it a porta tv stand. actually because toilet paper, porta stand. just a little jailhouse ingenuity. not as good as high def. you know what i mean? >> while the quality of kidd's television viewing might be compromised, other inmates lose the privilege altogether for causing trouble. >> i don't have a tv. they took all my privileges for spitting on that dude. so it's like i don't know, probably take my privileges and, like, good time, that don't matter here. there ain't no sunshine here, man. >> when we met edwin smith, he had been at colorado state penitentiary for less than a month just starting a 30-year sentence for cutting a man's throat in a bar fight. he lost his television privileges for spitting on an officer during intake and things were about to go even further