/. msnbc takes you behind the world of prisons into a world of chaos and danger now the scenes you've never seen. lockup: raw. in a life full of restrictions, we have seen inmates take control of whatever they can. despite the consequences. >> he wants this and he wants it now. well, he's not going to get it now. come on down.

>> we have seen frustrated inmates reach their breaking point. >> i actually felt small pieces of glass hit the camera and hit myself. >> and in the battle of wills, some will take actions that can never be reversed. >> tattooed the whites of my eyes. >> any time we film inside a prison, we know at some point there is a particular type of story we are going to encounter. we call tt battle of wills. we know we are going to find one inmate determined to get his way even against overwhelming odds. >> and we encountered one of the most compelling examples of such an inmate at the penmentry of new mexico. kevin blanco. >> he's one of those inmates that can be unpredictable. you really don't know how he's going to behave from one day to the next. >> our first encounter with

kevin blanco was through our associate producer. she had gone up to talk to him and was met with a barrage of verbal assaults. >> [ bleep ] whethn they came u >> after a while kevin agreed to do an interview. and i was actually very impressed. i was impressed with how he carried himself. he was honest and forth right about the problems he had created in his life. >> i mean, i don't look at prison as being prison. even though it is prison, i'm in a negative environment, i look at it as being my college, this is the time i have to study and build myself and better myself. it's what you make it. >> but blanco serving time for crimes including attempted murder was housed in the prison's highest security unit for variety of serious offenses, including assaults on staff. >> i have it. come on, okay. >> what you've done?

why you act up? >> which is throwing urine on him and stabbing him and that's basically it. >> as a result of his violence towards staff, the prison requires blanco to have a three officer escort any time he is out of his cell. >> do you think its valid to be cautious of you? >> yes. >> why? >> because i still have my moments. >> we learned that some of blanco anger stems from his dislike of the fundamental tenets of prison life. >> i mean you can't refuse me my book. i carry things in my book that's what i'm entitled to that's what i want. >> i don't like nobody telling me when to eat, use the rest room and to sleep. i don't like nobody telling me what i can't have and what i can have. >> dealing with him is a

definitely a challenge at times, no doubt, i'll be honest. and it is dangerous. >> we captured several of blanco's stand offs with staff, including this one with deputy warden jody brown. >> you want to stand here and threaten to keep playing games. >> you are right. you 100% [ bleep ] and i am going to continue to play games. >> well, let the games begin, but it doesn't have to go this way. >> well, whatever. >> it doesn't. >> whatever. >> all right. we are going to close the port and we'll go away. okay. >> go ahead. >> okay. put your hand in. >> kevin was constantly in a battle of wills with the correctional staff. >> let me talk to him for just a minute. come on, kevin. >> you all started this bleep and i'm not going to stop until i get it. >> what do you want? >> what do i want? >> first of all i want my dinner. i want my dinner and i want you

all to leave me the [ bleep ] alone. >> if i get you lunch. >> with kevin blanco you never knew what was going to happen. case in point i was actually interviewing an officer about kevin blanco -- >> he has a problem with authority. >> and in the midst of this we heard over the radio that kevin had taken his rec cage hostage. >> come out with us right now. >> blanco. >> you want a reason to keep me in the cell there is a reason. >> when we arrived at the wreck pen we found deputy warden trying to talk him into coughing up and leaving the pen. but blanco would have no part of it. >> if you want the possibility of being moved then you are going to have to practice some patience, bottom line. >> whatever you all say. >> so are we going to have any issues? >> whatever you say. you all have each other but you are right the i'll take to you later. thank you all. >> he's currently on prehearing

detention which means he's got limited property. he's in an isolation cell that doesn't have all the amenities that he wants. so it's one of those things that kevin blanco wants this and now, well he's not going to get it now. >> give him third and final directive if he still refuses to come out and be cuffed, i'll get him whatever means necessary. >> strike someone? >> i was kind of filming the guys coming up and i remember panning over to see kevin and he was gone. and i figured out he had moved to the top tof the basketball hoop. he was like a cat. he disappeared. >> first plan was to come out and spra him with the oc spray. we all had to suit up and put on gas masks. >> here's what's going to happen, we are going to go in, give him some directives bring

the can canine down, if they doesn't work, then we'll drop a c green nnade see what effect t has. >> the team attempts to spray oc gas but distance is too great to have any effect at all. >> not working. >> kevin seemed pretty immune to the oc spray. and even wearing the mask i could smell it and i could was feg affected by it. it didn't phase kevin at all. >> next the team deploys more powerful cs grenade, but that also proves ineffective. >> guys, don't get it. >> i don't know if he was used to it or at putting 0en a front to show how tough he was. but he stayed calm during the ordeal. next thing we know staff is

bringing out rifles which to us is quite shocking. >> get down or get shot. >> come on down, blanco. >> running out of options, correctional staff resort to firing nonlethal big bag rounds to prompt him off the backboard. >> you guys doing it? >> and only thing i could think of was this guy is, for lack of a better word, brave. i mean, staring down barrels of these shotguns even if they are nonlethal. this he are going to hurt. >> most of the time he didn't even flinch. >> another one. >> another one. >> shoot me one more time. >> we won't shoot you, come on down. >> the situation gross even more b

bizarre when he encourages the officers to shoot him again. shoot it one more time i'll come down. shoot it. shoot one more time i'll come down. >> all right. his reaction, i didn't even know if they were missing or not, and they confirmed later that he was hit every time. >> it was obvious that that hurt. it was more shocking to me, though, that kevin just had no reaction. >> medical. medical. >> hold up. >> refusing it. >> i refuse. i'm all right. i'm 100% all right. >> you know what, i'm going to have to see you. >> though blanco was defiant during much of our stay at mitch mcconnell, his calmer moment it is often showed a concern for those who might follow him here.

>> to all the kid that think that prison is a place to be, it's not. i mean snoop dog and all these wannabe wrappers were doing what they say would be right here. so all the kids listening to them thinking they are roll models, they are not role models. you go out there, you live that life, you listen to it, it gets you right here. >> coming up -- >> two sides of being in here [ bleep ]. >> one of the most memorable inmates featured on lockup pushes hard for a transfer closer to home. even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen.

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two 99 year sentences. a 40 year sentence. a 20 year sentence. and a 10 year sentence. all together. [ laughter ] >> the first time we met bobbi ray gilbert, we knew he would be an unforgettable inmate. serving life for two murders at the home correctional center in alabama. one of the murders was committed on outside and another in prison. he told us both involved disputes over money. >> i killed somebody because i felt like they were taking something from me. then i come to a world where everybody thinks they can take something from me. so you know you got convergence forces here. >> during our original 2006 shoot, gilbert was battling warden for a transfer closer to his elderly mother's home. >> you run the place. that's your decision. >> and i follow it.

>> gilbert was denied the fracture. when we shot our extended stay series at home a year later, gilbert was still trying to get his transfer. >> bobbi had a very close relationship with his mother. for her to visit him took a lot. it took money. it took time. none of which she had. i think she was his soul 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 transfer would be decided. >> when i complete the assessment of your review this time, i looked to see that i had all the factors now that warrants you this transfer. i mean, you was doing all well until march 27th of 2007. and you had a disciplinary citation for in sub bore nation.

what was that about? >> i had a disagreement with the mail lady that was rejected. i don't see where it was. i thought the warden wrote him about and he understands the situatio >>y assessment at this time, due to this recent i can't make that recommendation for a transfer per your progress review here. >> you could see in his body language how upset he was. he kind of sunk back and clenched his jaw. and they released him and we plnd on filming more throughout the day. and i remember thinking, we need to follow him back to his cell, because i figured something was going to happen. >> and within seconds of gilbert returning to his cell something did happen, and cameraman brian kelly continued to roll. i could see through the glass, i couldn't tell what he was picking up, but turned out to be part of a chain link fence, and

wound up like he was throwing a baseball and just launched it at the glass. >> i actually felt small pieces of glass hit the camera and hit myself. and, you know, then the officers showed up and tried to talk him down. and it was pretty extreme. >> [ bleep ] five years trying to do it the right way. i'm going to show you what i'm made of. i'll make you wish you did the transfer. >> quit it. what's the problem? what's the problem? what's going on?

>> my mom drives 400 [ bleep ] miles to see me. >> you need to quit beating on the glass. >> take it. i don't care. [ bleep ] may not be working for it. however they want to do it from this day forward, there so two sides of this and they see the wrong side. >> up next -- >> so help me god they are going to transfer me. >> bobbi ray gilbert continues to rage. >> or you'll get over here [ bleep ] because that's how fed up i got. >> but also shows us another side of his person altd. >> one thing that surprised me was the fact that he was a very talented artist. before, even though geico has been- ohhh. ooh ohh here we go, here we go. you got cut off there, what were you saying? oooo. oh no no.

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confiscated the fence post cap he used to smash his window. >> ask any officer that works [ bleep ] with nobody but yet it's me and him that is going to have the problem because these son of a britches took me off transfer because i don't have any attorney. i have no other recourse, ma'am. >> we have him out of the cell. somehow he smuggled this into his cell one of the caps from the posts, he bussed it out, making all kinds of threats what he's going to do. so he's pretty agitated right now. >> leave him out there. >> so help me god, they are going to transfer me. or you'll be back there with that camera putting a needle in my arm because that's how fed up i've got. i tried for five years to do it their way. five years. >> we'll leave bobby out there

in the pen for three or four horse to calm down, when he gets through with his mid behavior he'll be ready to apologize to get back to where he should be. >> those people aren't stupid. they know what they were doing. they had three months to tell me they was going to not put me in for transfer. >> a few weeks later with the transfer issue still unresolved, gilbert announced he was going on a hunger strike. >> i'm not eating another meal. until they send me homcloser to home. >> how is that going to help your mother? >> she can't pay her light bill. because she's going to scrap money together to come see her son. >> when i heard that bobbi had gone on a hunger strike, i wasn't surprised. it's not atypical for an inmate to do that. it's only source of power they

have, really saying they are not going to eat. and when i talked to him about t he seemed pretty resolute that he was going on the hunger strike not so much on the protest but almost he wanted to kill himself. >> how long does it take to starve yourself, 35, 40 days? they can have it. i gave them 22 years, six months, that's all. you start to feel and keep rolling that stone up the hill. it's going to roll back to the bottom. you reach a point that it's hard to fight anymore. >> six days after his hunger strike began, gilbert, now 13 pounds lighter, reached a deal with prison officials. they bo grant a transfer if he took anger management classes and stayed out of trouble. >> i'm for whaefr tever it's go

to take to get me closer to home. that's all i want. >> probably in a group setting you'll be given the same information for you to be able to read, and then you would talk about it in a group setting of the but one thing this does is allows you to write it down. and if you go back and read some of the stuff that you've written it makes you take a closer look within yourself as to how anger has really affected you. >> i could probably use a little and gear 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 bobbi 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, it was a little

surprising to see that from someone like bobby. >> i set my drawing board up when the sun comes through my window i can get some good light on my board. because i 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 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 murder committed in 1982, gilbert claimed responsibility for the crime. >> when i heard bobbi 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 will be on death row anyway. >> why?

>> because eventually they are going to get tired of me killing their children around here. >> authorities eventually determined gilbert had nothing to do with it. his motives for the claim are unknown. >> coming up, we heardnybo a that tri to forcefullye property or rape or in any way hurt a homosexual that can't defend themselves, that's when we step in. >> the gay boy gangsters make their mark in one of america's dangerous prisons. >> and later. >> tattooed the whites of my eyes. >> like the final frontier nobody has it done. >> one of the strangest tattoos stories covered on "lockup" gets stranger. >> since the first two ta toothed their eye balls, we had one other offender do the same thing. fresh cinnamon? or for something really special... ...'new car smell'. [smelling]

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at a news stories, trump says while he believed that putin believes he did not meddle, he stands by u.s. intelligence agency findings they did meddle. and roy moore the em battled alabama senate speaking out after being accused of a minor almost 40 years ago. now back to "lockup." surviving a long prison term can often mean joining a gang. but this one yard at california state prison corcoran that's supposed to be gang free. >> it's called the sensitive needs yard. sny. it's where gang dropouts or sex offenders or high risk inmates

go for their own safety. and even here gangs can spring up. and we found the most gyb gang boy gangsters. >> it's a group of men that are gay, that are not transgender, and who are gay men who like men who do not want to be a woman. okay. that's it. >> how much clout do you have? >> we are pretty thick, actually. we are pretty much respected. we don't get into fights. we don't get into that sort of thing. but we have a pretty good following. we are just a gup of people that are gay and stand for our own. >> clement contrarez who prefers to be called wicked is serving 20 years for three counts of robbery. and not the only gay boy gang tear on the sensitive needs yard. nicaragua last told us that gbg

should not be taken lightly. >> we hurt anybody that inside the prison system anybody that tries to forcefully take property or rape or in any way hurt a homosexual that can't defend themselves, that's where we step? >> he had a striking appearance of the first thing i noticed he had ha tattoo over one eyebrow, one said gay, one said boy. he had no teeth and a mohawk. >> started out as a joke. and i just kind of like, i was looking at it, that's punk rock, i like that. >> turner is serving three years fortress passing and making a threat to cause bodily harm. he told us he wanted a cell with contrarez as much for the pairing of their nicknames as anything else. >> that would be cool, demon and wicked would be really punk rock.

that would definitely be one of those once in a lifetime cellie things happenings, you know what i mean. >> but contrarez didn't seem to be eager to be celled with turner. >> he's a cool guy and everything, but, you know, i don't want to be taking everybody under my wing and everything. you know what i'm saying. >> in fact, con trer as had another thing in mind. >> i have another boyfriend that's going to move in with me. i can't tell you that we are going to abstain from sex because that's silliness. >> how long have you known him? >> going on three weeks. >> i've interviewed a lot of gangs in prison but first too many i ever interviewed gang members kind of smiling and laughing and talking about romantic relationships and they were all more interested in their love life than anything else. >> i am glowing. i'm happy. isn't that wonderful.

i don't get happy very often in this place. and when i have someone interested in me just me solely makes me happy, you know. and so i have a smile from ear to ear. it's silly. >> mr. cohn trar as. >> yes. >> introduce us. >> this is angle. >> one of the most notable things is eyebrows. he shared them in half. so he had stumps for eyebrows cater pillow stumps for eyebrows. >> what happened to your eyebrows? zbli mean, everything has a meaning to it, you know. and this means i'm a homosexual. >> what does? >> to let everybody know that i have it. >> i didn't know that. >> i told you that. >> no, you by didn't know that that has a meaning. >> oh. for me it does. >> for you it has a meaning? so you classify yourself as gbg? >> hey. >> gay boy.

>> all day. >> all day. >> i can't deny it. >> then we got this really interesting candid moment where wicked was trying to explain the tv thing to angel. >> they are going to follow us for a little bit, our lives together. >> all right. >> yeah? >> hopefully it works out, that's all i have to say. >> it will. why wouldn't it? >> i'm just saying. >> tomorrow hopefully, i know for sure you'll move in. >> yeah. >> and we'll be cellies, then we'll go from there. >> this is when things started to get a little strange. it was odd enough to learn about the gay boy gangsters, but now we are following this love relationship between these two gay boy gang members. two guys who had known each other a matter of days. >> i like him.

and it's never going to change. i don't know what else to say. >> i like you too. >> i mean, i like you more. >> i like you more. >> better. >> all right. >> all right. bye. i love you. >> we had been filming at another part of the prison, and when we came back to the sensitive needs yard, first thing we heard is wicked filling us in on gossip that had to do with demon. >> so everybody is doing good. demon is doing good. no, he doesn't have his teeth yet. poor demon. i know he wants it, yeah. he has new boyfriend that that's an older man, i shouldn't be talking about his business, but i'll. he's like 70 years old. god, you have to hear this. it's a great story. it's going to be his sugar daddy. and doesn't care if he doesn't have teeth.

yeah, so he can gum his way to the stars. that was a joke. bada. >> apparently demon was trying to get dentures, so we ran into him on the yard just as he was coming back from the dentist. >> i just went to dental today and got my dentures over there. they didn't give them to me today but put me on a list to get them so i was kind of excited about that. that was kind of cool. >> let me see your mouth. what's the deal with your teeth. no teeth at all. >> no teeth at all. well, i was a drug user, and the speed rotted my teeth. >> one of the strangest gang stories i ever covered then got even stranger when wicked and angel came strolling by us. >> yeah, we just got in trouble for holding hands. we just got in trouble for holding hands. >> no way. >> how are you doing? >> we just got in trouble for holding hands. the tower just called us. we got in trouble for holding

hands. that's another strike against us. oh, my god. this is getting worse. i'm done. >> you're done? >> i'm done. man down. >> man down. no, not man down. put the yard down instead. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> [ bleep ]. >> no, i'm not putting the yard down. >> you are no fun. >> it's bett just to go along with the program. >> wicked. >> you'r who? >> my teeth in dental but they won't give them to me. they are putting me on a list. >> well, that will be good. >> that will be good. talking about that yesterday. >> that's going to be wonderful. you can bite into an apple now. >> but the next time we saw him the news wasn't so good. his plan to move in with angel was derailed. >> we were discouraged because the move doesn't take place when

we want it to take place. we are having road blocks. oh, look, lieutenant is here, maybe we can ask here, she looks like a lesbian. oh, god take that ouchlt she doesn't look like a lesbian. just kidding they all have short hair. >> we didn't flow what was behind the delay, we weren't sure if officials were going to let wicked and angel cell togetherment but angel started to pull away from us. >> in front of this camera, that's not good. >> he thinks that because we are on camera that it's going to effect the move even more. and today we were -- we had a good yard. we had a really good yard. we were holding hand walking the track, and we were matching, we were matching sweats, and i don't know, i enjoyed it. how about you? >> it was all right.

>> all right? . how many times did we kiss in the yard? 50 times. and it was all right? really, honest to god, how many times did we kiss? we had tongue on tongue right there on the yard. >> that doesn't mean nothing. >> no, it doesn't mean anything, but still. i mean, we had a good time. >> yeah, we had a good time. >> what's the problem? >> nothing is the problem. it's just, i don't know. i just feel stressed out today, that's basically it. and you know why. >> why? because we are not together. >> i think wicked always had a feeling they were never going to be allowed to cell together. and sure enough angel was moved out of that unit.

>> yeah, lovers in turmoil. he got moved out of the building. he went to core block. and i'm still over here. so we see each other on the yard every day. and we try to make the best of it. >> but just a few days later, he made a startling confession. >> well, the other day he came and asked me how i was doing, and that was a big old fat lie, big old fat lie. i was a big old fat liar. what happened was i had sex with my cellie. and then i come out here every night and tell angel, oh, nothing is going on. i'm lying. >> wow. >> but i feel really really guilty, honestly. you would think i wouldn't with the name wicked but i really feel guilty, really feel bad. and am i going to tell him? no, of course not. no.

sorry, mom. sorry i'm a whore on the yard. all right. so my confession is out. >> almost used to it. >> up next, this is the ferrari right here. >> when he got his hands on his tattoo gun, he was so excited that his hands were actually shaking. >> inmate tattoo artist is temporarily reunited with his pride and joy. >> that's my baby. i'm ryan and i quit smoking

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one constant at all the prisons we visited is existence of underground tattoo market to deal with the boredom of incarceration or a gang. there are inmates always willing

to pay for new tattoos and people willing to do it. >> 11, there is 11 in the last ten years, 11 convictions for tattooing which isn't bad. >> richard sampson is one of the prolific tattoo artists in the lyman in colorado. he shared a handful of many disciplinary write-ups for us. >> one ge radio, one medical syringe with needle, one tattoo needle, contraband. one being put into a needle found on the desk. alarm clock radio one bottle f ink. one blood rag. ink and blood on. >> you are not good at hiding your stuff, are you? >> i get away with it more than

i get caught, that's for sure. >> that's cost him more than 200 days and earned good time. but he says the extra time in prison is worth it. >> at the same time i lost by getting caught is well worth the sanity i would have lost if i would have done what they said and walked the line and shut my mouth and went to my house and did nothing and just sat there and watched my tv. i'm more at ease with myself. i respect myself a lot more for having done what i want to do in here. that's my outlet. that's my escape. >> it's always been fascinating to me how these guys manage to get tattoos in prison. not only the items they need to do the tattoos but the fact they can get away with doing tattoos. >> any small wire can be straightened out and made into a needle. you can get motors out of appliances, tape recorders, cameras. >> along with needles, tattooing can also be made from every day

items. >> that's where usually they'll burn soot, take paper or oil, and burn it on the bottom. >> burn oil, baby oil, hair oil, hair grease, styrofoam cups back in the day, anything that doesn't burn complete, that's what soot is, unburn carbon, put it underneath the desk or in your locker box or something. >> and then you put that in your body. >> oh, yeah. >> does it pose any health risks? >> yes, of course. of course. but so does homosexual activity and they are not trying to stop that. >> he told me that he learned how to tattoo in prison, and then when he went back out on the street he learned more techniques. and i guess he brought those back in with him when he was incarcerated again. like using multiple needles to do tattoos.

>> that's done with ten needles. >> some of it is missing. some of it is kind of patchy, but you can see the difference between, you can see how smooth, you know what i mean, almost solid black that is. see this, where it's kind of gray and, you know, broke up. i'm trying to get to it where the work that we're doing in here can compare with the work they're doing on the street. that's my goal. >> raising the level of prison ink work prompted sampson to create a number of unique tattoo guns. but their lives are always cut short because they're eventually confiscated. but the prison temporarily gave him back one of his prized creations so that he could show us its finer points. >> you recognize that? >> yep. this is mine. this is mine. this is a headphone cord i had altered and it plugs right into there. look at sampson playing with his toys. boy, like a kid in a toy store, huh? this is all stainless steel.

>> how many needles did you have coming out of that? >> ten. this is the ferrari right here. plugs right in there. >> when he got his hands on his tattoo gun again, he was so excited that his hands were acal sng. >> that's my baby. i'm shaking. i lost this about three months ago, but you can see i made the frame and then i tied it all down with dental floss and glued it so that it's nice and hard. feel that, it's not -- there's no movement in this. this is one solid piece. >> and that was your razor? >> this came out of a razor, electric razor. man. >> you almost look like you're in love. >> oh, man. all right, buddy. you're going to have to go back to the crate.

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even though it's prohibited, tattooing is common in every prison we've ever visited. but at the limon correctional facility in colorado we saw an example of tattooing that stped our producers dead in their tracks. >> i was in the sewing factory one day walking amongst the men watching them work and looking for stories when david bochez walked by and he looked at me, and i looked at him, and he grinned, and i looked at him again and i said, come here.

i said, what's wrong with you? do you have pink eye? and he said, that's what the infirmary thinks but i've actually tattooed my eyes. and i said, are you kidding me? really, you've tattooed the whites of your eyes? >> they're tattooed red, the whites of my eyes. >> why? >> i don't know if you can really ask why. really the question is, why not? everybody's got tattoos. everybody's got stretched ears. everybody's got this and that. you never see anybody with the whites of their eyes tattooed. well, now i decided to go that far and done it. >> in the 30-odd prisons i have filmed at i had never seen tattooed eyeballs before, and while we were at limon there were two guys who had tattooed the whites of their eyes. >> the other guy is boltjes's

cellmate, paul inman. >> it's like the final frontier. nobody's got it done. i had blue eyes so i chose blue. i thought it would be a good combination between a dark blue and black. i thought black would be a little scary, so i went with dark blue. >> he was proud of them. he thought they looked great. >> and i'll bet you there's no one in the world that has the same color eyes as i do. i'm the only one. i'm it. good or bad, that's me. >> the two men were proud of their achievements, but less than forthcoming about how they did it. >> well, i can't really tell you the process. but i do know that it is painful. you don't use a conventional tattoo gun or a homemade tattoo gun. because there's a layer. you got to get in between that layer. you can use a hypodermic needle, but i ain't saying that's what we used. >> check, two.

>> boltjes and inman's trailblazing led to some unwelcome attention from correctional officers who searched their cell hoping to find the needle they used before it could be used again on someone else. they never did find it. but turned up some other incriminating evidence. >> and there it is. the how-tos. what i just found was little directions kind of thing to the way that they tattooed their eyes. >> it's dangerous contraband. >> yeah, we might not want to have that floating around. because next thing you know, we got 955 blind inmates and we don't know what to do. >> are the two of you it here at limon? >> as far as i know. yeah. there's a lot of guys that talk about doing it but i don't think it's going to catch on. but i don't know, it might. but it -- i don't know. it's pretty cool. a lot of people think it's pretty cool. but they don't want to quite go

that far. >> but that would soon change. >> since the first two offenders tattooed their eyeballs we had one other offender do the same thing. he did his black. striking. >> the inmate who tattooed his eyes black let us shoot video of him but refused to grant an interview. but as far as david boltjes is concerned, imitation is the best form of flattery. >> yeah, i want to see everybody tattoo their whites. i want to see everybody, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, everything. every color but white. i think it would be cool. i like it.

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