you know what i m saying? i got to sit down. i might have to come up like this, or he can just turn inside here and walk this way. yes. this is how you do it. you do your back that way. you know what i m saying? ain t nobody gay up in here. few things in prison are as key to survival as having a good cell mate. when you live with a person 24 hours a day, you build up a brotherhood, a sense of you build up a rapport that you don t have with your family. and you re both dependent on each other for survival. but some cell mates can t get along. lockup crews have heard vivid accounts of inmates attacking their cellies. i got into an altercation with my bunky. i ended up stabbing him. i stuck my hand up his ass to my forearm and bashed his head and made him drink out that toilet. i took the towel and 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,
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 a kid at a picnic with all the best food, all the best food imaginable, like a kid in the candy store. he was just putting it in his mouth, having a great time. what did you have? hotdogs and cake. okay.
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. if you re worried about 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 stack him, and then running his buddy off the road, off the interstate. i got six years for it. davis has a 17-year sentence for attempted murder but claims he was only defending himself. two people come in to rob me, i shot them both.
segregation, with a high probability of being sent to the shu, a place most inmates dread. to me it s prison. it s still prison. it s not going to change. it s still prison. if you send me to the shu or to a level one, it s still prison. i can t leave when i want, i can t do what i want, but i, this is what i can control. i can control you placing another inmate in there. since i can control that, you will not place another inmate in there. next on lockup: raw yes, i had a job. i was a professional escort. i was running my ads in play time magazine and sex action magazine. chavrn t with meth charged with murder. a former call girl makes peace. yes, i had nice cars, living like a star with the bling-bling and the dress code and my gun on lock and load on a long dark road going nowhere.
i m not asking you to do it for everybody. well, then you re just asking special favoritism for yourself. no. you have to have a medical reason. no. is there a rule in ccr, order title 15 that says an inmate has to be housed with another inmate? yes or no? i don t know. you can talk to the sergeant about that. and then something happened that i ve never seen happen in prison before, an officer brought out the rule book. okay, hamilton, this here is kern valley state prison operational procedure, number 222. and set it down in front of dennis and said, look, here s what it says. in a nutshell it says that every inmate will accept a cellie except if he has see this little thing? it s called an s suffix. that means single cell status. if you have that attached to