not even the inmate worker who used to cut his hair. >> my barber, he stabbed somebody 27 times. they wound up taking him out of the unit after a couple months. then he bailed out of there and got in a fire fight with police officers and got shot seven 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 a unit 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.