cell with a new cellmate. you re going to get your yard, you re going to get your phone calls. that s right. packages. all the restrictions are down. for how long? that s what i m saying. it all depends upon you, how you behave. okay? if you program good, everything will be all right. hamilton gets all the way to the door of his new cell, but then refuses to go in. you refuse? go ahead. close it. close it! are you sure? you didn t look at who okay. we re going to turn back. what is the problem? told the committee i wasn t going to take a cellie. why? because i don t want to. for now you ll probably be going back to the hole. how many times have you been in
the hole for this? i think this is my third time. okay. you get with the program. a lot of these dudes are doing life here. they ve got jobs, things going on. they ve got visiting. you re not going to have any of that in the hole. we don t have bed space to not let you have a cellie. so you re going to run your whole program like this? my program s been ruined. what s that? it s been ruined. why? because i have a life sentence. so how does that ruin it? chances of me getting out are slim to none. two days later hamilton was involved in a fight with officers and written up for staff assault. sometimes you anticipate your certain moves as far as what inmates are going to do and their capability, and sometimes you just are surprised. i didn t think he was going to take it to this level where he would assault staff. while his case is pending, hamilton remains in a single cell. he faces the possibility of being transferred to another facility with long-term solit
like i told you in isu, i feel threatened being placed in a cell with another man. i feel my life is in danger. hamilton s stubbornness has landed him three stints in ad seg. he s yet to be housed with anyone. if hamilton keeps refusing, he ll be labeled a program failure, housed in solitary confinement indefinitely. you don t want to do it, but you re going to do it, okay? can i we don t force you to live with anybody. i know. you pick somebody you live with. i know. okay? yes. i m serious. yes. you don t have to marry them. it seems that way. i mean placing an inmate in a cell with me. we re not outside that cell all day. we re inside that cell all day. but that should have been a consideration before you went to prison. hamilton is given a half hour to pack his belongings. he s being transferred to a new
but his time in the hole was about to end and he was scheduled to return to general population where sharing his cell is mandatory. to me the cells are too small. i think it the cell breeds an environment for homosexuality. dennis hamilton was an unusual inmate. he just really didn t have to live with another man. i think he had a fear about living with another man. and to me it s like you don t want these people in society with you. you want me to feel safe inside a cell with this person. ironically, other inmates may not feel safe around hamilton either. he is serving a life sentence for kidnapping, carjacking, robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon. nine years in, he s only now decided to make his stand against taking a cellmate. there is no rule i have to take a cellie. dude, i don t want to live with another man for the rest of my
the committee is baffled. not only by hamilton s stubbornness but by its sudden appearance after nine years behind bars at other state prisons. he has taken a cellie up until he got here. that s not a luxury of being in prison. he should have thought about that before went to prison. he has to have a cellie. escorted back to his cell, hamilton is optimistic he ll win his battle and return to general population without a cellmate. i m happy. i don t have to i get my tv, radio and my property back. later, we were with hamilton as officers escorted him to his new general population cell. just relax. it s all right. don t get tense. i can feel the tenseness. can you? yeah. it s all right.