due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons, into a world of chaos and danger. now the scenes you have never seen." "lockup: raw." >> you have a lot of people here that now that they're in prison they resort to what they have to as far as sex. >> couples aren't usually held together. we managed to connect sometimes. >> you may kiss your lovely bride.

>> prison weddings, openly gay and lesbian relationships, conjugal visits where inmates can spend intimate time with their wives, siblings doing time together. >> that's my only brother. we're really close. we're really tight. i'm for murder. he's for attempted murder. >> some of the most compelling stories we've ever produced on "lockup" have been about intimate relationships behind bars. >> but in prison, love can be a double-edged sword. >> they're quick to tell you in here that they love you. but the minute you do something that they don't like they'll cut you. >> even though sex is one of the most basic of human desires, behind bars it is prohibited. but that hasn't stopped one of the most memorable inmates to ever appear on "lockup" from getting his needs met. >> here you go.

>> when we met keith "precious" mason at the holman correctional facility in alabama he was carrying on a sexual relationship with mr. kwis no e nobles. >> when i first met him. i told him he had pretty feet. and you know what i mean. i'm a feet man. i'm into the feet. i like feet. as far as the sex is concerned it is very, very frustrating and uncomfortable. especially if that's something you really want to do. you have to be the police and the inmate. basically it is done quick and quietly. >> for prison officials, sex is a complicated topic. >> i don't think you really crack down on homosexuality. you can't stop it. you can prevent it from happening openly. >> if the relationship is not causing a problem, generally we don't do anything with that. if they are not openly having

sex, and understand you can have a relationship that doesn't have sex involved. >> but mason believes it is the lack of sex that leads to the unrest among inmates. >> that frustrates these dudes. there is not a man that i know from eight to eight right now that wakes up and don't have an erection in the morningtime because that's what happens. we are dealing with reality. when a man wakes up. first thing that comes to the man's mind, damn, i miss my wife. >> but behind bars, sex can be a combustible concoction of desire, desperation, homophobia and predatory behavior. especially at prisons as notorious as california's pelican bay. >> this is the last place they need to be sending a flamboyant homosexual is pelican bay. >> inmate adolph green was out on the pelican bay yard when our producer noticed him and asked for an impromptu interview. >> i'm a flamboyant homosexual.

the ones that prefer to fix up as a girl. and we call each other girls. you understand. some of the dudes around here they call you girl. call me girl this and that. then you have those that smile in your face and laugh at you behind your back. you walk around the track, you hear somebody call look at that punk. that [ bleep ], a bunch of disrespect day in and day out. >> green told us that those who are open about their sexuality face retribution from other inmates. >> you have people that are undercover. you got people that are hiding in the closet. that are doing each other. but the minute they see somebody that is flamboyant, that's out, that they don't understand, then they have something against that. and they go through their fear every day, every day, with a bunch of people telling you what you can and can't do, who you can live with and who you can't live with because of your sex umm preference. it's wrong. half of all the ones who are telling you not to do it are doing it in the closet. >> and in this environment, sexual partners can turn into

blood enemies in the blink of an eye. >> in here you don't have no friends. i suppose. because you can laugh and you can sit up and talk, and play cards and dominoes and whatnot, but the minute something happen to you they all go the other direction. leave you to die. and they got a lot of people up here call each other loved ones, i love you, i got love for you, you are my home boy. but the minute you do something they don't like they'll cut you. that's what pelican bay is about. >> but we have met many openly gay inmates who have little or no fear about being who they are. >> yeah, they call me amy. >> why? >> i chose that name. i want to live my life as a girl. i've always felt like i was a girl. >> when we met matthew campbell he was serving 12 years for armed robbery and assault at kentucky state penitentiary. but his troubles began much earlier. >> first time i've went to jail, i was 15 years old, burned an

elementary school down. and it was pretty much downhill from there. >> as an openly gay man, campbell's time behind bars has had its challenges. >> being gay in prison is really hard. it is hard enough. your time in here. but the fact that everybody knows that you are gay, it is constant pressure for, you know, sex. you have a lot of people here that now that they're in prison, they resort to what they have to as far as sex. i have to say there is very few people here who are gay on the streets and gay in here as well. there's a lot of people that say they don't mess around but then when they get you by theirself it's like hey, man, what's up? >> one of the things that struck me about matthew how comfortable he was in his own skin. here is an openly gay inmate in a southern prison. and he didn't have any problems with it. when we went out to the yard to try to get some b-roll of

matthew playing backgammon, it became clear that a lot of the other inmates did have a problem with him being openly gay. some people just were avoiding him. he was actually calling out to them. >> are you scared? >> it wasn't until the cameras went away and we backed off a little bit that people were willing to come up and get involved in the game with him. >> in spite of the hardships, campbell told our producer that prison has played an essential role in his life. >> if i hadn't came to prison i would have probably ended up dead. now my family knows i am gay. i told all them when i came here. so they all know what to expect from me now and i told them it is going to be a different person. >> but before campbell can prosper on the outside he will have to learn how to deal with perhaps his greatest temptation. and it has nothing to do with his sexuality. >> i'm fascinated with guns. you know, i find guns fascinating.

and you know -- i get a gun in my hand it's like -- you know -- it any trouble. >> coming up on "lockup raw: prison love." >> we've been together two years. >> i'm the wife. >> they're not only lovers, they're loan sharks. >> mostly everybody here has some type of hustle. >> and later, the unique complications of a wedding behind bars. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here!

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these girls, these girls right here is my homeys. >> damn right. >> some of us been together here four years. some of us been together five years. some of us been together a long time in a relationship, you know what i'm saying? >> if male inmates look for sex in secret we found a different story when we visited the north carolina correctional institution for women. >> female section has a lot of

needs and part of that is someone who cares about them. and that has a lot to do with bonding. because a lot of women have been abused when the first time they see somebody they think they care about, they run to it. they don't take time to see if the person is good for them or not. >> as a result, the prison places strict limits on intimate relationships. >> ladies, put some space in between y'all. >> it is a rule violation for inmates to have sex in prison. when we see it, then they are punished. because of that. we can't have it. >> but we met one group of inmates willing to share their secrets for skirting the rules. they were led by dawn braswell, known around here as heavy d. >> she's mostly have ten-fours in here, tenfours is like another inmate. like i say, chelsea, ten-four for me and my girlfriend when we go in here. she can fall down and have a seizure. it's easy to get them to ten-four, for me, you can give them maybe two or three

cigarettes. a pack of coffee, and stand there and watch. some police know what you're doing but they don't care. some police is down with the inmates. and some police it's against inmates. >> while some inmates sneak away for quick sex, others like kathy phillips and devon gann seek long-term relationships. >> we have a good relationship. we've been together about two years. and for a relationship in here it's good. known couples aren't usually housed together. but we manage to connect sometimes. >> yeah. there is a way around everything. >> when we met them, kathy was 42 years old, and serving 14 to 17 years as a habitual felon, with multiple counts of forgery, larceny, and resisting officers. >> devon was 25 years old and serving 9 to 12 years for second degree murder. >> it was a man i lived with he was a drug dealer. it was a robbery gone bad. and he got killed. and i left the crime scene with

the guy who killed him because i was -- was a bad situation. >> but in prison, the two women seem to have discovered a comfort zone. >> you get in here and you don't have anybody, you don't have anything. so you sort of cling to somebody. >> and women are more affectionate or whatever, anyway. so it looks like normal couples on the streets but it's all women. some look like boys. >> yeah, they shave their head and walk around like a little boy. >> even hold themselves like it. >> yeah. >> like something is down there. >> but any relationship in prison involves toeing the line. >> a new couple is like the staff sort of zone in on them give them a hard time. but then after awhile it's like they get used to seeing it as a couple and they sort of ease off. you can't, you know kiss in front of them or do a sex act in front of them but they're not on you for every little thing. i respect the staff. they got their job to do. so i don't cross that line. >> in spite of rules against it, kathy and devon appear to be a

picture of domestic bliss. >> i'm the wife. >> we spend our money together. i shop and get our stuff. and cook our food every day. and make sure she has her stuff. we do everything together. everything. whatever she is involved in i'm involved in. yeah. >> that includes the family business. kathy and devon are not only lovers, they're loan sharks. >> whatever you give them, they owe you double. i started out with $10. put the ten out, pulled in 20 the next week. put the 20 out, pulled in 40 the next week and i just kept doubling until i got on my feet and got stable. it's a good hustle. mostly everybody in here has some type of hustle. because, i mean a lot of people don't have help from home. you have to survive in here. prison is not free. they give you three meals a day and bar of state soap. that's about it. >> all your hygiene, your food, if you don't want to eat what's

in the dining room, you pay for it. if you don't have anybody on outside sending you money. only jobs you can make money off of is probably 40 cents a day. 40 cents a day will never support you. people do all kind of stuff to make hustles. if they don't have somebody on the outside. there is all kinds of hustles. loan sharking is one of them. >> but the loan shark lovers insist they never use muscle to extract payment. >> if somebody doesn't pay me, i generally just -- i mark it up as a loss. i just don't deal with them no more. i tell my friends that loan shark don't deal with them. you got some people in here that will bust them in the head with a lock or something. i ain't down with that. >> devon told us she used to run an even riskier business. >> before her, i had my own hustle. that was pretty much staff related. yeah. i would find weak staff who ever i found in here because they, obviously can't find somebody on

the streets to hook up with. and then i would play them to get some money. >> then what? >> i would continue to get money. >> then she would have them fired. >> devon believes the officers she seduced deserved their punishment. >> i have no remorse when it comes to that. i feel as though it's some type of perverted injustice when you come in here and think you can get a free lick off of an inmate and you have access to the free world. yeah. i have gotten a lot of money that way. yeah. but i have kind of cut that out in this relationship. >> yeah, no more. no more. >> i'm retired. >> as close as kathy and devon were, they told us they have no illusions about a future together. >> we take it day by day. there is no promises of forever or nothing like that. we're very realistic in our relationship. there is a lot of dreams and wishes. but we know those aren't

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so you can't even consummate the marriage. >> the groom, raul vidal, has been in california's pelican bay state prison since age 18. >> i was involved in a gang. street gang. drugs, violence all that. and got in a shoot-out. there were six guys in the car. and they say i shot at. and actually they gave me -- six life terms for that. >> because of his gang affiliation, vidal is assigned to the secured housing unit where contact visits are not permitted. >> right now here together you stand free and apart from all other people in this world because right now you stand within that charmed circle of your love together. >> vidal and his bride were childhood friends andhood reconnected five years earlier. though it is unlikely vidal will ever be free, hatish yeah agreed to marry him anyway. her son reuben stood in as best man.

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prison inmates don't have a lot to look forward to. so visitations are a big deal. for some of these inmates they haven't seen a child or a wife or parent in years. so it is a very dramatic time when they come to visit them. and in lockup, these visitations have provided some of the most compelling moments in the series. >> few visitations provide as much drama as conjugal visits when an inmate is allowed an overnight stay with his spouse. >> makes you appreciate the little things in life. >> when we met ron golden at the california's kern valley state prison he was serving a 22-year sentence for armed robbery and assaults on correctional staff. he claimed his recent marriage to a childhood friend helped turn him around. >> before we were married i was always in a lot of fist fights and riots, whatever, in and out of the hole. >> golden's improved behavior earned him the right to a

46-hour conjugal visit with his wife in one of the prison's family cottages. but before the visit begins, both goldens must pass through security. >> you have your i.d.? >> it is in here. >> okay. >> when ron's wife hope showed up, we thought we would get shots of her being processed coming through the metal detector, opening her bag. getting shots of her. and the c.o. there going through her things. then it turned into a bit of a -- a scene. >> baby oils can't go in either. >> that wasn't on the list. >> it's not -- >> this isn't factory sealed, it can't go in. everything has to be factory sealed. this is not a sterile bottle and it's unopened -- it has alcohol in it. >> everything that is made like that has alcohol in it. >> everything that contains alcohol. it's specified in the rules. >> everything just about has

alcohol in it. >> it appeared some of the things she was bringing in were not allowed. and hope was not very happy about that. so as things were being pulled out of her bag, hope started to get a little angry. >> i am going to let you take one of these in. >> i need both of those. you can't tell me i can't use my personal hygiene for my body. i need both of those. >> okay i just talked to my supervisor. she said -- >> you guys are going a little bit to the extreme. >> i'm letting you know the department's policy. >> you are asking me to come in here without any type of lotion or oil for my skin. i'm a woman. you guys are really going to the extreme right now. >> no products with alcohol are allowed. you need to abide by our policies, ma'am. >> after coming dangerously close to being denied her visit, hope is allowed to proceed to the prison's gated conjugal unit. >> there are good things and bad things you have to go through to get here. >> hope says the difficulties of the prison visit are worth it.

>> i knew who he was before i started coming to see him at the prison. and i liked him then. because we were friends first. and that's what made us bond as lovers even better. and it was special because we didn't make love until we got married. that's something that i never did before. so i was happy about that too. >> what are you going to do for two days? >> we are going to have fun. do a lot of exercise, jumping jacks and stuff like that. >> liar. >> golden is escorted across the prison yard to the family visitation center. his long awaited reunion with his wife is just moments away. >> okay. extremely excited. >> yes.

>> are you nervous? >> mm-hmm. >> i know, we ain't used to this. >> you know, sometimes when a camera is in the room, people are not going to act naturally. and ron and hope both knew that we would be there for the beginning of the conjugal visit, certainly not during any part of the conjugal visit. >> the crew was real nice. very pleasant. >> but as i stood to the back of the room to get kind of a wide shot i could hear them talking saying is he gone yet? is he gone yet? they just wanted me out. >> but visitation is also bittersweet. our crew saw how much so at indiana state prison when the family of inmate jerry bonds arrived for their first visit in months. >> to be honest i grew up two parents, middle-class home. you know, my brother and my older brother they all graduated from college. you know?

i just happened to go down the wrong road with selling drugs and living on the streets. >> bonds is serving 85 years for robbing a liquor store and killing the owner. >> i had two daughters at the time. and my girlfriend at the time she was pregnant with my son. she was 2 months pregnant when i got locked up. >> that child, bonds' son eddie was 8 when we shot at indiana. even though he had never lived with his father, eddie was missing him nonetheless. >> he actually shot a person and didn't mean to. but -- when i see him again, i can live with him and be with him together so we can go to the park and the museum. >> his youngest son cries some times because he doesn't have his father around. there are some things he really needs to be in his life for. >> but bond has had a tough time following the rules in prison as well. his last infraction was for

attempting to intimidate an officer. that along with three urine tests that proved positive for marijuana has cost bonds visitation privileges with his family. he had only recently gotten them back but with restrictions. >> so right now i am on noncontact status, through the phone and the glass. >> how did you react when your son told you he wasn't going to have contact visits anymore. >> well i was upset at first. i even threatened him to not even bring his kids up here. you know? and it's very upset with him. matter of fact i was so upset with him i couldn't think straight. >> bonds acknowledged his actions in and out of prison don't set the best example for his children. >> how can i tell you to be good, do good, stay out of trouble. every time you see me i am on restrictions, or i can't have visits, i'm in trouble.

they're like well you're a hypocrite, dad. you tell me to be good but you're not being good. >> our crew caught up with bonds shortly before his first visit with his children and parents in months. >> a little surprised your boots are like shiny new. >> you want to look kind of spiffy, it is a special day. your family do come. they came from so far. it puts a smile on their face to see, okay, you are doing okay. because they worry about me in here. >> but first, bond would need to pass previsitation security measures. starting with his freshly pressed clothes. >> all right, do me a favor. completely disrobe. >> despite the fact he will not have physical contact, bonds like every other indiana inmate is strip searched prior to visitation. >> this time open your mouth. put your fingers in. spread the cheeks apart. upper lip up. lower lip down. can i look inside your nose, please? >> authorities must ensure that inmates are not attempting to pass contraband to the outside. >> turn back around.

squat, cough. all right, go ahead and get dressed. >> meanwhile the bonds family has to pass through security as well. though it was nearly a three-hour drive to get here, jerry bonds sr. feels it's worth it. >> when a person is down you really have to be there for them. so what we try to, relay back to jerry is that we hope he will get out of here sometime soon. and then when he do get out, you know, to pick up where he left off. and show these kids they're not just coming up here for nothing at all. >> i mean -- i'm anxious, man. i want to see them so bad. i wish i could touch them and hug them. i guess it's better than nothing. >> finally, the waiting is over. >> what's that? how y'all doing? look at you.

>> see him and smile him. >> how are you doing in school? >> good. >> what grade are you going into, eddie? >> the hardest part is like seeing him behind the glass. and when he's in here and stuff. so i really want him to get out. >> when his kids can't hug him like i told him he is hurting his kids. you know i can stand the hurt. sometimes the kids can't. >> what's happening, dad. how you doing? >> staying strong? >> yes, sir. >> thank you for bringing them up for me, dad. >> i want to let him know we love him no matter what. make it easier on us when we come up here. we're in here with you. don't make it to where we, we are locked up being locked up. you know what i'm saying? >> hey. >> i told you i loved you.

i love you. i'm sorry i pained you. >> limited to 30 minutes. the visit hardly seems to have begun when it is time to leave. >> i love you. now be good. bye. >> all right. >> yes, sir. >> i'm praying, hoping, hoping that this is the last time they have to come up here like this and see me behind the glass. because it is not a good feeling. it's not a good feeling. >> i just feel that, i don't feel anymore. and when i see him again. i want him to be here and i don't want him to be here. i want him to learn his lesson while he is here so when he comes home he knows right from wrong and knows what to do and what not to do. >> as a mother i would like to just touch him and say, are you okay? i want to give him a hug. i haven't been able to do that. i know one day i will. >> coming up on lockup raw: prison love. >> i love him to death. i will do anything for brad. anything.

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over the years, "lockup" crews have discovered a surprising number of family members serving time together. but few have ever had to face the difficult circumstances that confronted these two women. >> being on death row it was like, it was like i needed to be with my sister. >> the identical twins, convicted of murder, for helping her former boyfriend carry out a triple homicide were sent to the correctional institute for women. doris got a life sentence. yvette was condemned to die. she told us about her first day on death row. >> i began to hear hurls of insults when i first got in the gate, i began to hear people talk about oh, she got sentenced to death. oh, she is going to be -- she's going to die for the crimes that she committed. >> even though they were housed at the same prison the women were prohibited from seeing one another. but occasionally doris would catch a fleeting glimpse of yvette. >> i would go by the chapel and

see my sister she would be in the window. i would walk by with a group of ladies. and everybody was saying, doris there is your sister. i said god there she is. i wish she was out here. you know? i hated to go by there just to see her. it would hurt my heart. and i would ache. >> after six years of separation, yvette's punishment was reduced to a life sentence, meaning she could leave death row and reunite with doris. >> i was so excited. she came and hugged me and we were crying and kissing and hugging. oh, it was just -- it was like a great reunion. >> i started crying. i got emotional. and i just begin to praise god. yeah. >> though they can see each other on the yard. prison officials won't let the sisters share a cell for security reasons. >> they think we are the same person in the same dorm. the officers. and they get confused. >> it's interesting and kind of

unusual for corrections because if you, if you are not paying attention you don't know who you are talking to. it's one of the reasons why we house them separately. >> look. >> you look wonderful. wonderful. >> yeah. >> that's my only brother. we are really close. we are really tight. we eat together. we live together. we work together. >> our visit to the anamosa state penitentiary in iowa led us to another memorable pair of siblings, michael and brad love, whose lifelong allegiance drove them to kill. >> growing up i wanted to be him, you know. he was almost four years older than me. i see him running around drinking. breaking into stuff. doing whatever he is doing. i'm like i want to be like him. that's my big brother. that's my idol. so i kind of followed in the same footsteps. >> but as the love brothers revealed to our crew, those

footsteps led down a bloody path that ended at a holiday party in the trailer park. >> christmas night, 1992, me and my brother went to a party with what we thought were friends. but they tried to rob us. take the liquor that we brought. >> they started beating me up. four of them. >> they hurt brad. i couldn't let them get away with that. they threatened his life. and i just couldn't handle that. so we left went to my trailer. i got a shotgun. my brother got a knife. machete. we went back out there and did what we did. >> i remember mike standing there he had the gun pointed at the door of the trailer. and one of the dudes looked out the window he was like [ bleep ] you or whatever he is saying. and boom he shot. >> i shot three. he cut up two. >> we were charged with first degree murder carried a life sentence in iowa. and that's it. life means life, means you don't ever get out. >> but michael wasn't prepared to see his brother suffer that fate. >> brad didn't kill anybody. i'm the one that shot and killed

the guy. so i didn't think it was fair for him to spend the rest of his life in prison. they come to me and said if i pled guilty to first degree murder they would plea bargain him down to a lesser time. he plea bargained down to 125 years. to me that's still excessive but it's better than a life sentence. he gets to go home, where i will probably end up dying in prison. >> how does that make you feel? >> makes me feel like a piece of [ bleep ] really, [ bleep ], my only brother. and because of -- because of something we did, and we did it together. he takes responsibility for his own actions. i don't know, man, it makes me feel like -- like i'm that tall because i let it happen. >> i think in my mind he is here because of me. so i carry the guilt around every day. he was 18. he turned 18 in county jail. he had a whole life ahead of him. could have been a pro football player or rock star, whatever he

wanted to be. i feel in my mind and heart i ruined that for him. there is no way to explain how much guilt i carry around. >> the love brothers were initially incarcerated together at another iowa prison. but once again, brad followed michael and the result was more violence. >> the last fight that we got into. the guy told on my brother for smoking weed. mike told me, here i am going to go beat him up. i want you to, watch out for us. i said all right. so i was standing outside the cell. mike goes in there. and -- i just, i don't know what made me do it. i look in the window. only supposed to be one dude in there. there was two guys. they was trying to get on mike. i was like no that ain't going to happen. so i ran in there. and i grabbed the other dude. and beat him up pretty bad. and then they shipped me out. that was it. yeah. that sucked. >> brad was transferred to anamosa only to find a long lost relative was already doing his own time there.

>> my father was in here for messing with kids. and you know, i ain't cool with that. and he tried talking to me. i told him, i said, i ain't got no respect to you for what you did. >> i hate that. that's the worst crime you can do including the crimes of murder i think that's worse. >> in 2003 their father died of a heart attack while incarcerated. when their mother became ill, authorities approved michael's request to be moved closer to her home which reunited the brothers at anamosa. >> excited to see him. that's my brother. >> can't ask for a better [ bleep ] to hang out with. >> the love brothers may have found their place but as we learned their bond has yet to face its ultimate test. >> i will never see him again. once he gets out of prison that's it. i will never be able to visit my brother again. because of iowa law. anybody on paper or parole can never visit anybody while they're incarcerated. >> yvette and doris gay know all about that.

since our visit to the north carolina correctional institution for women, doris has been paroled. the soonest she will be allowed to visit yvette is in 2012 when her probation expires. brad and michael love have more time. brad is currently eligible, but has not yet made parole. >> we're going to spend as many years together here as we can. >> i love him to death. i would do anything for brad. anything. short of killing somebody again. coming up on "lockup: raw," prison love. >> these cats is their kids. you mess with the cat, it's their family. that's all they got. >> the special bond between prisoner and pet. >> play games, with no respect, they'll shoot you a little respect back. weet. to satisfy the adult.... and kid - in all of us. (supergrass' "alright") plays throughout ♪ ♪

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inmates socialize, exercise and occasionally fight to the death. but lockup crews have found that on some yards even at dangerous maximum security institutions, inmates have found something to fill their hearts with love and nurturing. >> this is dane. >> nobody's family home cat could be happier than these cats in here. >> one of the first things i noticed walking in the yard in kentucky was something i never thought i would see in a million years on a prison yard. that's all of the cats. they were all over the place. >> nobody remembers exactly when dozens of stray cats began to adopt kentucky state prison as their home. and as our crew discovered the inmates were more than happy to adopt the cats as pets. >> pets when they're babies, you raise them up, pet them, you feed them, you watch them grow, that's your cat. they're like kids.

>> it was really amazing to see all of these guys that were in the state's maximum security penitentiary with cats climbing all over them. they had them up on their shoulders. they were petting them constantly. it was really interesting how the inmates had developed very, very nurturing relationships with these cats. >> we got all kinds of cats. you have got these guys here. these cats is their kids. and, mess with one of the cats. just like messing with my kids at home. these cats is their family. that's all they've got. >> like any proud parent. the inmates shared photos of the favorite felines. >> we are cat lovers up here. and here comes one. this is a monster right here. >> people had specific cats and if you didn't want anything to happen to that cat, the last thing you were going to do is commit an act of violence that would send you to segregation where you couldn't care for it anymore. so in this funny little way the cats contributed to a lower

level of violence on that yard. >> he comes once a month. buy dry food. and medicine and toys and stuff like that. >> some guys work hard at their jobs to earn their money. and they'll spend it on -- >> sometimes their vet bill is 60, 70, 80 bucks, takes everything they got. >> my baby. >> i wish you cats would get together and get rid of some of the rats we got running around the yards. >> don't want any rats, man. >> the people rats. now you leave the little bitty mice alone. >> we found an even more unlikely bond at california state prison corcoran. >> like anything. treat it with love and respect. it will treat you with love and respect back. >> we were out on the yard shooting. i looked over and saw these guys petting something. at first i thought it was a kitten. and it ended up it was a gopher

that they had tamed. >> shampoo, little baths, and let him run around the cell, feed him apple, let us. take care of them. they're good little pets. >> like the best little companion i ever had. >> a lot of the guys we ran into probably have never had anybody to love or anything or anybody to love them. and when you run into somebody who is -- you know, adopted a gopher, and it gives them some sort of outlet for affection, it's got to be a good thing. >> but we found a very different case of inmate creature bonding inside california's san quentin prison. >> i'm mike miller my real name. and the staff here call me birdman of san quentin. >> the first day i got here at san quentin, the birds seemed to flock to me for some reason. and i don't know they probably

think i am the bird man of alcatraz. maybe they're mistaken because he had a shaved head, too. >> miller was serving an eight year sentence for burglary when he proudly showed us his cell. a virtual shrine to his winged friends. >> ever since i have been here the birds come up to me like they know me. you know i got them landing on my shoulders and my hands. and you know different kinds of birds. not just pigeons. but i got, you know different kind of black birds. finch and the red wing landing on me. i think -- the birds is a good way of -- of releasing a lot of tension and anger. before i got arrested my girlfriend used to chase the birds away. she didn't want me around them. and so -- now i'm in here. i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically that's about the only friends that i got. is the birds. i can't trust anybody else.

due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >> there is a pecking order inside the prison. where the inmates treat one another, they don't treat sex offenders very well. basically we're constantly finding them assaulted. we're constantly finding them extorted. we're constantly finding them beat up. it's almost a never-ending