. >> calvin holmes has been in prison for 25 years. >> i have a total of 102 years and two life sentences. i was charged with bank robbery and murder, first-degree murder, and habitual criminal mdn. i shot a man and burned him up in the car after i had shot him. >> as a younger man, holmes tried to escape from prison twice. >> i was 26 years old and was determined i didn't want to die inside these walls. now i'm 51. i'll be 52 this year. so age and time slows a person down, changes your perspective, attitude, and i've come to accept the fact after several attempts that i can make my life hard in here or i can make it easy. and now i look in the mirror and i don't have the same "i don't care" attitude because i find in the end i do care. it matters what you do in here and it matters what you do out there. >> holmes eventually earned the right to live in one of the prison's minimum security dormitories. >> in here, you look around, you'll find no bars. you have windows like on the street. it's a state of mind. you look at the bars 24/7 and you can't never get away from the fact that you're