his specific needs. for inmates confined to segregated lockdown, the process review board comes to them. we want to do bobby gilbert first and get him out of the way. 801 to a4. 1084 to your unit. bobby gilbert has asked for a transfer to another maximum security facility closer to his family s home. he waits while a table is set up in the hallway. what is you chewing on? gum. where are you getting the gum from? nicorate gum. i don t even know that? how long you been on that? a year and a half. only thing that stops the cramps. is that right? does it really work? how much they give you? ten pieces a day. ten pieces a day? how much you selling? i had to discover that in population. how much you sell? i don t sell [ bleep ]. you all hooked on it, too? he s selling it somewhere.
out of here. after the inmates quiet down, gilbert s review gets under way. gilbert has made little, if any, progress while in seg, and prison officials have confiscated his most treasured possession, a chess set. right now, your behavior warrants no transfer. okay? anything you would like to talk about? you about summed it up. i sure would like to have my chess pieces back. why can t i have my chess pieces? this is segregation. what are you going to do with chess pieces? play chess! let me tell you what you do, get you some paper, draw you out a checkerboard i ain t playing in my head. i just don t see where it can hurt anybody to let somebody have something semiconstructive
another inmate to death. this time for much less than $36. but gilbert made it clear to us, in prison, things aren t always as they seem. everybody wants to talk about i killed somebody over a carton of cigarettes. you know, it s not a carton of cigarettes. that may be the catalyst that leads to something, but, you know, if somebody owes me a soda pop or i owe him a soda pop and they come to me and say i need to get that soda pop you owe me, i spit in their face and talk to them like they a bitch or something and they kill me, whose fault is it? it isn t about the soda pop no more. on the street, you call the police to put a stop to it. what do you do in here? i tell you what you do, you go get you a knife and you stab that son of a bitch and say you ain t taking nothing else. that s the end of that. here s what happens when you come to take something from me. a-1 to a-4. gilbert s life behind bars is often punctuated by his frequent
and recorded some of our most dramatic footage. i m serving a life without parole sentence, two life sentences, two 99-year sentences, a 40-year sentence, a 20-year sentence, and a 10-year sentence, all together. at the time of our visit bobby gilbert had been at alabama s holman correctional facility for only four years. but he first landed in prison at the age of 18. he told us how a minor dispute over money led him to murder an acquaintance from his town. he said basically the only way i would get my money is over his dead body. you know. i was hot-headed then. so that s how i got it. how much money did he owe you? he owed me $36. i paid $37 for the gun i killed him with. so, you know once behind bars, gilbert s violent temper led to numerous other crimes, including stabbing
them like they a bitch or something and they kill me, whose fault is it? it isn t about the soda pop no more. on the street, you call the police to put a stop to it. what do you do in here? i tell you what you do, you go get you a knife and you stab that son of a bitch and say you ain t taking nothing else. that s the end of that. here s what happens when you come to take something from me. a-1 to a-4. gilbert s life behind bars is often punctuated by his frequent battles with holman s warden. grant culliver. at the time, culliver and a disciplinary committee were about to review gilbert s behavior and a transfer to a prison closer to his family s home. within moments other inmates had seen that lockup cameras were present decided to disrupt the hearing in the shoe by banging on the cell doors. that s when warden culliver decided to take matters into his own hands.