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 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
the monotonous grind of life in prison can push some inmates to the limit. in trying to understand how they deal with the specter of never being free again, we ve met some of our most memorable characters 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.
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. beat on that door again. beat on the door again you, you do it. beat on the [ bleep ] again. i don t beat no [ bleep ]
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
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 shu by banging on the cell doors. that s when warden culliver decided to take matters into his own hands. beat on that door again. beat on the door again you, you do it. beat on the [ bleep ] again. i don t beat no [ bleep ] beat on the [ bleep ] door again. [ bleep ] put his ass out the door. [ bleep ]. once the inmates calmed down gilbert s hearing got under way.