used to smash his window. ask any officer that walks by, i don t [ bleep ] with nobody, but yet it s me and them that s gonna have a problem because these son of bitches took me out. i have no other alternative, no other recourse now. got bobby gilbert out of his cell. something he smuggled into this cell. one of those caps off the metal post. busting the window. making all kind of threats what he s going to do. he s pretty agitated. did you leave him out there? he ll be out there. so help me god they re going to transfer me. or you ll be back here with a camera filming them putting a needle in my [ bleep ] arm because that s how fed up i [ bleep ] got. i ve tried for five years to do it their way. five years to get back there. we ll leave bobby out there in the bull pen for probably three, four hours. let him calm down, think about it.
closer to his elderly mother s home. you run this place. i follow the regs. that s what i m saying, that s your decision. i follow the regs. gilbert was denied the transfer for various infractions. when we shot our extended stay series at holman a year later, gilbert was still trying to get his transfer. bobby had a very close relationship with his mother. for her to visit him, it took a lot. it took money. it took time. none of which she had. i think she was his sole support system emotionally speaking and knew he was going to stay in prison for the rest of his life, but at least he wanted to be closer to her. hey, mr. gilbert, how are you doing? we followed gilbert to his review hearing where his request for a transfer would be decided. when i completed the assessment of your review this time, i looked to see did i have all the factors there that would warrant you this transfer. i mean, you were doing all well until march the 27th of 2007. you have a disciplinary
all it is, probably in a group setting. you know, you would be given the same information for you to be able to read. then you would talk about it in a group setting. one thing this does is allows you to write it down, and as you go back and read some of the stuff that you ve actually written, it makes you take a closer look within yourself as to how anger has really affected you. i could probably use a little anger management. during the rest of our stay, gilbert maintained good behavior and did well in anger management. he also showed us he was more than just a violent man. one thing that surprised me about bobby gilbert was the fact that he was a very talented artist. one of the drawings that stuck out to me, especially considering his violent past, was the drawing of a father s hand throwing a baseball and then a child s hand with a baseball glove. a little surprising to see that from someone like bobby.
when he gets through with his mad behavior, he ll be ready to apologize, get back to what he should be. them people ain t stupid. they knew exactly what they were doing. let s get snake down and blind side him. they had three months to tell me they was not going to put me in for a transfer. a few weeks later, with the transfer issue still unresolved, gilbert announced he was going on a hunger strike. i m through. not eating another meal at holman. so they re going to send me closer to home if it s nothing but a graveyard. playing the devil s advocate, how is that going to help your mother? she has to have yard sales. she can t pay her light bill. but she s going to have to spend money to come see her son. when i heard that bobby had gone on a hunger strike, i wasn t surprised. it s not atypical for an inmate to do that. it s the only source of power they have, really, saying
a little surprising to see that from someone like bobby. i stuck my drawing board up so when the sun comes through my window, i can get some good light on my board. they don t turn the lights on back there unless they need to see in your cell. six months after we last saw him, gilbert was finally transferred to a prison closer to his mother s home. he d successfully completed his anger management course and maintained good conduct. so we were shocked when he made national headlines in july of 2008. just days before another holman inmate was to be executed for a murder committed in 1982, gilbert claimed responsibility for the crime. when i heard bobby was taking credit for this murder, it brought back a very specific memory i had during one of the interviews i did with him. if i live another 20 years, i imagine, the last few will be on death row. because i know me.