he made a big impression. at the time, roy was serving a 12-year sentence for robbery and had a notorious reputation for forcing the prison to perform cell extractions on him because of his frequent refusals to obey orders. nine years later, during our shoot at the lyman correctional facility in eastern colorado, we met an inmate named ray slagle who wasted no time reminding us of our sibling. come here, look at this. this is my twin brother right here. you already did a clip on him on msnbc. he was wild as hell. but by then, roy was anything but wild. and, in fact, had recently been released on parole. so we visited him at his parents home where he had been living.
it was i was in so much pain i couldn t take it no more, you know? when you re in pain like i am, it hinders life. on top of it, you ve got these bills you can t pay and you re not working no more. you can t hardly even work. you know what i mean? it makes you feel like, man, i don t even feel like a man. i m above water, but i m getting tired. and i do feel like i m drowning. just barely, barely above water. i m getting tired. you know, i feel like i m going under. i keep pulling myself up, and i keep feeling myself go down. i don t know how long it s going to last. i really don t. before that have gush of water goes in my mouth and sucks me down, and i just finally go down, and then i can relax. the pain is over, buddy. coming up hey, bro. my brother. roy and ray slagle together on the outside.
roy and ray slagle have seen their lives change several times, both in and out of prison. but one thing that has remained constant for both men is the bond they share as brothers. what was it like the first time you saw him after? man, i had to hold him down. i wanted to cry. i just held it in, you know? he s my brother. i ain t seen him forever. you know? if someone came and said one of you got to die, either you or you, i would go ahead and take the bullet. i would say, hey, man, no. i got this. i go to his house sometimes. he comes here sometimes. he has his life and i have my life and neither one of us wants to complicate the other s life right now, you know? but we were there for a lockup reunion a long time in the making.
it had become a drag. but things picked up for ray when he got a job with an industrial paint company. i was bringing home about $840 a week. i was doing good, you know, no doubt about that. what are you doing now? what are you bringing in now? $200 a month. after only a few months out of prison, one wrong step would dramatically change ray slagle s life on the outside. i was showing a guy how to dry a skylight because he didn t know how. i was making sure it was my girlfriend s roof. i was making sure he dried it in right. went to the edge of the roof and started arguing with her and ended up falling off. ray fell 25 feet to the hard ground below. turned out i had a broken back. i was in icu for nine days before they d find three surgeons willing to even do the surgery because it was such a dramatic surgery, you know what i mean. it was a massive break. i was in the hospital for over a month. it was a drag. during his recovery, ray s
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