robbery and several related charges, melvin gathers case has also been lengthy. most of his time is spent in disciplinary segregation where he walks around the rec yard during his one hour. what can you see from here? grass, freedom. i think of another chance. in the penitentiary, it s not granted you see another chance. the only thing you see is another facility. when i look outside, it flashes. will i be able to touch the outside society freely again? it gets emotional sometimes. that s my life. that s the first leaf i ve seen in a long time, brother. [ laughter ] samantha mcdonald prefers to take her rec time at night. i never come out during the day.
write each other. this is the test. she s going home. will it just be a county jail thing, or will it develop into something beautiful? am i processing yet? am i gone yet? it s driving me crazy. mcdonald then asks officers for a favor regarding personal items. the stuff in my box i need to give to melvin. okay. some of them with the purchase canteen. they ll leave their hygiene items and stuff like that for another inmate to have. radios, brushes. gave him the soap dish and the radio. gave him lotion and everything? yes. meanwhile, gathers returns to the event for his final good-bye to mcdonald, whom he calls tiny.
can be a life and death situation. gathers says he always hides his identity during holdups. i choose to disguise myself to give the law more of a challenge to identify me. prosecutors say this security camera image shows gathers on the right and his co-defendant on the left, both in disguise at the scene of their latest robbery. you got to explain this to me. you have to explain this to me. [ laughter ] they saying that could be me, but it s not for sure that they know that it s me. that s my statement. and that s what is going to court. coming up. so you actually put an order out for someone to be punished from here. it was more so like a warning. melvin gathers plays a game of cat and mouse with dangerous implications. and we ain t got nothing. we just got dirt roads and trouble. a young man from nearby faces
my grandmother is bailing me out. i m really nervous. why? because i ve been locked up almost six months. going back out to society with like a whole bunch of people. for the past five weeks mcdonald and her upstairs neighbor melvin gathers have developed a relationship despite the fact that the free mare means of communication is shouting through the vents of their cells. it s very sad. i m going to miss my boyfriend. melvin. i m going to miss him a lot actually. and i didn t know i was going to miss him as much as i did until i found out i was leaving. what s your longest relationship? a month and five days. we re going to keep in touch. he has my grandmother s number, and he has my address so we can
carlton solomon s father speaks to the media. and when i get out i m going to be living with my grandmother. samantha mcdonald plans for a future that may or may not include melvin gathers. when samantha leaves, it s like a test. now this is when the ball game starts.