>> my barber, he stabbed somebody 27 times. they wound up taking him out of the unit. then he bailed out of there and got in a fire fight with police officers and got shot 27 times. my bunky before kidnapped somebody at gunpoint. was doing all types of drugs. he was doing robberies. so you just -- you don't know who you're sleeping with. >> one of the times bernard does leave his cell is to perform his duties as united maintenance worker, but he says even that led to trouble when another inmate got angry because bernard threw away the lid to a soup bowl. >> he came up behind me and just smacked me and smacked all the stuff out of my hands so it was all over the floor. >> because of his fear of being a snitch, bernard says he does not report his harassment to staff. and he says it was another set of problems in the free world that put him in this predicament. >> after my ex had left me, she had my daughter -- we just had