unlike most new arrivals, he is sent immediately to administrative segregation, a 23-hour a day lockup unit for disruptive inmates. >> oh, i get the room with a view, huh? >> at the facility that he was housed at just prior coming to limon, he was found with a weapon, a homemade knife, so he did have some charges that were pending and, as a result, he just went straight into our segregation unit. >> msnbc, any time you need me i'll be here. >> we soon learned that schreiber did, in fact, like to talk. not only to our crew -- >> these people are threatening my very life -- >> he also had a lot to say to the correctional staff helping us set up for the interview. >> i'm sure you just stick that key in there and turn. it's not all that complicated, ma'am. >> oh, my. >> right now i'm really in fear for my life. >> are you ready to go? >> i'm not talking to you. i'm talking to the press right now. >> oh, i'm sorry. i didn't mean to steal your 15 seconds of fame. >> when he finished verbally sparring with the correctional staff, schreiber explained what brought him to prison. >> my original sex c

his assailants were sentenced to six months in folsom's administrative segregation unit. some of the most violent gang attacks have taken place here, at california state prison corcoran's security housing unit or zhu. we visited the shu's now vacant exercise yard which has been the scene of some of the prison's most brutal violence. correctional officers showed our cameras how they quell the violence with an arsenal of their own. one that includes nonlethal and lethal weaponry. >> first rounds we fire are wood blocks. hopefully it will make them stop. we really have to escalate with our nonlethal options we use what we call a scoat round whic is really irritating. those are louder. the smoke you see there, that's cn gas. it's no fun. it messes up your sight. makes you, you know, makes your not roll. and of course we have a lethal option. we have a mini-14 here the 223 round. we only use that as a last resort. >> today, california state prison corcoran no longer has to resort to such drastic measures to control violence in the shu yard. they close the yards down, and now i

he was housed in the prison's administration segregation unit. >> i had about five or six charges.ain -- my most biggest charge is dealing with a teenager, which i was 16 and she was like 15, i believe. i ended up, know what i'm saying, just dealing with both of them, the mom and the daughter. came in 15 years, and i got 15 more. >> originally convicted of rape and theft, wilson earned his second 15-year sentence while behind bars after he brutally beat a corrections officer. >> ended up, just gave him -- cracked his ribs, his jaw. think i did something to his hips, too. broke his collarbone, too. to me it wasn't no thing, it was just prison. you don't come here and work here and think it's cake. no, he ain't die. he just won't be a correction officer no more. >> despite his attitude, some at holman are trying to help wilson turn his life around. >> i've known kenneth for several years. a long time. he's a young man with a lot of anger problems. he acts out through his anger. that's what we're trying to deal with now. >> i got a bad anger problem, know what i'm saying? angry becaus

that's exactly where we met dennis hamilton, in the hole, solitary confinement in the administrative segregation unitat kern valley state prison. it was the second time his refusal to share a cell had landed him there. but his time in the hole was about to end. and he was scheduled to return to general population, where sharing a cell is mandatory. >> to me the cells are too small. i think the cell in itself breeds an environment for homosexuality. >> dennis hamilton was an unusual inmate. he just believed he didn't have to live with another man. i think he had a fear about living with another man. >> and to me it's like you don't even want these people in society, but you want me to feel safe inside a cell with this person. >> ironically other inmates might not feel safe around hamilton either. he's serving a life sentence for kidnapping, carjacking, robbery, and say salt with a deadly weapon. nine years in, he's only now decided to make his stand against taking a cell mate. >> there's no rule that says i have to take a cellie. two, i don't want to live with another man for the rest of my life. >> 1

. >> a week later, prison officials allowed us back into the administrative segregation unit, where we conducted several more interviews without further incident. even george grapf and jonathan hall agreed to interviews and allowed us to take footage of them. a few months later, michael gill was released on parole. >> whoa, whoa, there's ice on the ground. i don't feel comfortable. >>> coming up -- when inmates are left to their own devices, the result can range from bizarre, to horrifying. >> where do you want me? >> get him up front. get him on a gurney. ...and we'll replace destroyed or stolen items with brand-new versions. we put members first. join the nation. ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ means keeping seven billion ctransactions flowing.g, and when weather hits, it's data mayhem. but airlines running hp end-to-end solutions are always calm during a storm. so if your business deals with the unexpected, hp big data and cloud solutions make sure you always know what's coming - and are ready for it. make it matter. what happened? life happened. stress. fun. bad habits. kids. kids.

shoot at the holman correctional facility in alabama, we were filming interviews in the administrative segregation unit when a loud disturbance occurred. >> they put me in a cell! where it comes down to my [ bleep ] bed. it comes down on my bed, man. i can can't [ bleep ] sleep. >> inmate jamie bell is in a rage because his toilet is overflowing. he blames the inmate in the cell above him of creating the problem by interfering with the plumbing. >> [ bleep ]. >> jamie bell. listen. >> the confrontation becomes so heated that warden grant culliver himself gets involved. >> if you would shut [ bleep ] up, then nobody would be so [ bleep ] off at your ass. you're acting like a child. >> listen. >> we just moved him in. >> the inmate above bell's cell is serving life. his name is andrew alexander. >> there was no proof that this guy above him had done anything. but while we were filming i glanced up and i saw andrew alexander staring at me through his window. and i kind of asked him with my mouth, did you do this? and he just had the most cold, evil smile come across his face. >> though it couldn't be prov

weaver's role in the aryan brotherhood is one of the reasons he has been housed in administrative segregation. a lockdown unit>> hear about a hit he put out on him. >> that was part of the reason why we sent him over there. >> just his activity and his influence over the population being a leader with the stg group is enough reason to keep him over there. just at that. bu he can call shots and make things happen and stand back in the shadows. >> the thing i don't understand is, they put me in ad seg thinking i ordered a hit on somebody. but how does that save that person? if i'm in ad seg, he's still going to get hit. if i had the authority to do that, which i don't. but my past haunts me. and it's bloody. >> coming up -- >> as far as the extortion, i think he's lying. >> nick compton's story comes under fire. and later -- >> you miss your mother? >> yes. >> i can't bring her back. >> we check in on one of the most memorable inmates to ever appear on "lockup." i'm saving a ton of time by posting them to my wall. oh, i like that one. it's so quick! it's just like my car insurance. i saved 15% in just 15 minute

but when they get into trouble here, they go to administrative segregation, a lockdown unit where they spend 23 hours a day in their cells. >> segregation is basically the jail within the prison. and that's where some of the more colorful, disruptive types are housed. >> one of those inmates is jonathan hall. serving 40 years for murder. >> take that camera somewhere else. >> our crew first encountered hall while interviewing another inmate a few doors down. >> this is what i think of your story. >> i believe he threw -- well, he threw a liquid substance under the door. it smelled somewhat suspicious, so we're going to go report that. yeah, he threw pee under the door. >> did he? >> yeah. >> better double-check. >> okay. >> we soon learn that hall's anger had really begun the day before. >> he started off yesterday night, he drew a bunch of gang graffiti on the walls. staff attempted to go in there, restrain him, take pictures of the graffiti, he refused, became belligerent. this morning i went up there and talked to him. he decided he would cooperate. we did restrain him, bring him ou

laudone's allegations, holloman and wright were taken from their cells in housing unit number two and moved to administrative segregation, where they were locked down without their tvs, forcing them to miss the super bowl. the next day lieutenant jim fox, the prison's gang intelligence coordinator, took over the investigation. >> hey, little. hey, can you go down and pick up inmate holloman for me out of segregation? bring him to my office. we're probably unique in how we deal with the gangs out here. we've accepted the fact that there are going to be gangs and there's nothing we can do about it, so we try to control, you know, what they do. and we use the leaders a lot to control that. most of our leaders here have done a lot of time in our maximum security facility. they don't want to go back. and we hold that over their head. we tell them to keep their people in line or they're the first ones that are going to go down, because we know how gangs work. we know this gang member isn't going to do anything unless he's got it cleared to the top. come on in, have a seat. so you want to give me your story? >> well, i mean, t

so now he's administratively confined to segregation until he leaves and he's angry about that. >> according to staff he had recently come from a segregation unit where even though he was confined to his cell 23 hours a day he had friends that looked out for him. >> those guys over there that feed me, basically. he wants to eat good and get commissary and talk all night and basically, have fun. >> okay. then i'm going to find a new cell for you. >> why? >> because you're telling me you're going to break stuff >> yeah. >> all right. >> i'll break it. >> then i'm going to find a new cell for you. quit! he just broke it. he broke the metal part on the sink. >> i'm kind of filming him on the medium shot and the next thing i know he's got the bottom of the sink off. and it threw me for a loop because, up, it just happened. it happened in a matter of less than ten seconds he had that sink apart. >> they will find a place but you have to give us a little bit of time. we have to practice our patience. >> i can't cope with this no more. >> yes, we can. we will figure this out but you're going to move cells in just a minute. >> what cell? >> 14. >> i don

administrative segregation for coming on to a female staff member. timothy schrieber got 20 days for verbally abusing an officer. and the fun seems to be over for royanna freed as well. >> i'm moving to unitnumber six. i need a change. and there's another transgender over there and some over people i met when i started working in the kitchen. i don't know. i'm just tired of it over here. i'm getting caught taking my pillow on camera. look at that. i'm going to jail. >> what was that about? >> because you're not supposed to take your pillow with you, i don't know, from unit to unit. i don't know. >> and you thought you could get away with it? >> i did. i almost did, look. because it's like a big old hassle to get another one. anyway, oh well. how embarrassing, huh? anyway. yeah, this is what -- i've never moved before, so i don't know how to work this. >> with the transfer, royanna leaves behind the two other gay inmates who had become friends. robert burzee and michael cherry. >> royanna moved over to six, so -- so the trio's kind of split up. >> time to move on. start a new chapter, you know? >> you know, everybody is doing their own little thing, so we all make decisions that either ben

administration makes a deal where by the mississippi police units agree every freedom rider in jackson will be arrested. >> officials in mississippi think they found a legal way to circumvent desegregation. their method calling defiance of segregationhe peace in an area where popular feelings run so high. >> the freedom riders included james bevel, john louis, james lawson, among others were sent to the state penitentiary. >> so this guy takes me back to the jail cell and prison doors slam, it has an effect on you. the sound, you thought you would never get out again. >> as soon as the agitators leave and get tired of stirring up trouble, we're going back to the same old way of living that's made our city such a wonderful place in which to live. thank you very much, mr. mayor. >> this attempt to stop the freedom rides only served to fuel the flames of the civil rights movement. >> i would like to see the hands of those of you who will continue the freedom ride in our future. >> freedom ride after freedom ride would come through and get arrest in jackson and go to jail and get moved to the penitentiary. >> during the time they spent in prison, a bond formed and they came out of prison more dedicated than ever and began to fan out ac