us. you ll know for yourself. for some, prison food is the best they ve had in years. we were at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee. when jason rogers arrived to begin a 24-year sentence for aggravated robbery. he had spent the last three years in county jail. i don t know, maybe i m a little numb in my head but i ll be all right. look right here at the camera. though rogers had never been to prison before, he told us there was one thing he was looking forward to. people told me that you eat better in the penitentiary. you eat better than you do in the county jail. i remember when i was getting the shot of jason sitting down and finally eating it was like a kid at a picnic with all the best food, you know, all the best food imaginable, lake a kid in a candy store. he was just putting it in his mouth, having a great time. at the miami-dade county jail, we met a group of friends
at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee, we met an inmate who knows something about serving hard time. brian lautenschlager is serving a 90-year sentence for armed robbery and attempted murder. i ve been here so long. how long have you been here? in prison, altogether, 18 years. come in when i was 18, come out when i was 24, back when i was 25, now back, i m 36, going on 37. along with working out, there s one other way he copes. i was 18 years old when they sent me to prison
if you want, you could sit down and join us and you ll know for yourself. for some, prison food is the best they ve had in years. we were at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee when jason rogers arrived to begin a 24-year sentence for aggravated robbery. he had spent the last three years in county jail. i don t know. maybe i m a little numb in my head, but i ll be all right. look right here at the camera. though rogers had never been to prison before, he told us there was one thing he was looking forward to. people told me that you eat better in the penitentiary, you eat better than you do in the county jail. i remember when i was getting the shot of jason sitting down and finally eating, it was like
and took the towel nd strangled him. when they opened up the door, i tried to throw him off the tier. i tore the sheet and wrapped it around his head and i said, nope, you ain t doing nothing. but at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee we met two cell mates who were not only successfully living together, but doing so in a maximum security unit, locked up 23 hours per day. it s not any kind of fun, stuck in a cell. you go out. me and him go out and work out every day, come back in the cell and watch tv and listen to the radio. that s our life every day. sky bishop was sent to the hole when he refused to share his cell with an inmate the prison assigned him. what about your cell mate now? i ve known him for over a year. that s my buddy right there. i don t have any problems with him. we always get along. i had him moved down here. he wanted to move in. makes time a lot easier if you got a roommate you get along
with, you got something in common with. makes prison life a lot easier. when it came time for his interview, sky s cellie, jason davis, expressed reservations. kind of get nervous with a camera pointing right in your face, you know what i m saying. they say it adds ten pounds to you. he s worried about the camera adding ten pounds? no, just messing with you. just joking. trying to make a laugh. jason and sky were a real team. these guys were playing cards, smoking cigarettes. i think it was their way to survive. he s got his back, the other guy s got his, and that s the way they made it work. lonely days in brushy mountain. both men conceded drug use played a part in putting them in prison. bishop s aggravated assault conviction began with an argument over a parking space at a mall. he was smart mouthing my girlfriend, so i got into a fight with the guy, ended up