, i can be sure that a cellie won't murder me, a cellie won't rape me or viciously beat me.se, you're going against their policy. so they stick you in a hole. >> that's exactly where we met dennis hamilton, in the hole, solitary confinement in the administrative segregation unit at 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

i'm actually kind of lucky in a sense because i don't have a celly. i can't have a celly.side my cell with me and the person i'm living with. i stabbed one of my cellies 36 times and another one i cut his throat. and i just hold this and that's how i do that i pick up everything off the floor and wet myself and i get in here naked and i just put the soap all over, wash all over. it's a small stream of water. that's my shower. it isn't a big shower but it is a shower. that's my shower. it isn't a good shower but it works. >> not only are birdbaths a nuisance but they also pose a safety risk, as officers and inmates can easily slip on the tier. >> four tier. >> four, four, now. >> what you're looking at now, people would say it's flooding the tier, but i guarantee you've got a guy in a cell taking a birdbath as they call it. and that's something i can't -- i hate. yeah, you get that all the time. one time we had like, i don't know, probably about 50 cells that did it one time. on the front bar here, it was like niagara falls, it was beautiful. >> what's up with the water? >>

but as long as you have a good cellie, and you just got to learn how to learn each other's routines, each other's ways, the ways they live. and you just work around each other. >> we got three men in here, both my cellies use the top and bottom. somebody got to use the bathroom, we will leave. put the sign on the door. we just kick back, watch tv. listen to music, eat food. kick it. that's about it. that's all you can do in here. >> the hot pot is easy, fill it full of hot water, plug it in and cook whatever you want to cook. for example, if i wanted to cook a hamburger from the window that's cold, fill it full of hot water, you take your cup, set it upside down, put your hamburger on there open in the package and the steam -- you can steam heat it. and then, if you want to make big meals, we got shoeboxes, which we call tubs. they are shoeboxes built to store stuff. but you empty them and they make a good dip bowl. nachos, 10 or 12 soups, a bag of chili, a tub of cheese, two summer dogs, fill it full of water, mix it up, dip it into your bowls and eat. >> after spending so many hour

. >> for one, there's no rule that says i have to take a cellie. and, two, i don't want to live with another man for the rest of my life, you know? to me, the cells are too small. i think the cell in itself breeds an environment for homosexuality. >> hamilton is going before the disciplinary board to plead his case. >> mr. hamilton was placed in ad seg on 2-9-06 by lieutenant stebbins for refusing a cellmate. he stated he was refusing a cellmate. >> you don't have any enemies. >> nope. >> you seem to be a guy who gets along with people. >> yes. >> why won't you take a cellmate? >> like i told you in isu, i feel threatened being placed in a cell with another man. i feel my life is in danger. >> hamilton's stubbornness has landed him three stints in ad seg. he's yet to be housed with anyone. if hamilton keeps refusing, he'll be labeled a program failure, housed in solitary confinement indefinitely. >> you don't want to do it, but you're going to do it, okay? >> can i -- >> we don't force you to live with anybody. >> i know. >> you pick somebody you l

but i'm in celly, so i get in there. >> i was a northerner. i was a member of the northern california gang member. to be honest, i just wanted to be a gang member, to be honest. and at that time i thought, okay, i'm going to represent the neighborhood and this and this and that. no enemy is going to come step foot on our territory. but i mean, at the same time it was also just for looks when i was in school because girls like gangsters. you know what i mean? they don't like little square boys. do you know what i mean? they liked gangsters. that was part of the reason why i did too because i got a lot of attention for it. and i loved it. i'm not going to lie. i loved it. to be honest, if i could take the time back, i wouldn't be here. >> unlike his cellmate, george, phillip still questions his decision to drop out. one month ago, he told us why he left the gang. >> my home boys like the northerners gave me contraband to hold for the house. and i was holding it and everything like that. during the process of me holding it, i lost it. so instead

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him, he had just finished a term in segregation and was lobbying to move back in with his former cellielater he was back in segregation. >> his class one write-up was for dealing dangerous drugs, which came from him passing off his medication to another offender. >> weir traded his medications for a magazine. >> apparently he's made a request to talk to the film crew. he likes to be a little bit dramatic. mostly just a ploy for attention, i believe. >> how was your night in deep seg? >> it was horrible. oh, god, i couldn't sleep. it was very depressing. a lot of fear in there because i didn't know what to expect. and i've already got good-bye things -- i've already sent stuff to my attorney to be re-mailed on my behalf, you know, postmortem. seriously. that went out this morning. i kept myself around overnight to make sure that i get the receipt back from the slip that i sent with it to send out so they can do the postage so that i can see that it went out or at least hopefully went out. >> so you're telling me you're going to kill yourself? >> not, -- well, i'm going to wait and there'

i've seen a guy get both eyes gouged out with a toothbrush and stabbed 15 times by his celly. >> as faro get out of debt usually is to do a hit. and sooner or later, the right person is going to come along where they want to hit him, and if they don't do it, they're going to get hit themselves. >> clear out. >> that's exactly the choice that was presented to this young inmate who got a year in the s.h.u. for stabbing another prisoner. >> the guy was weak and people will say, oh, he was weak, weak meaning he couldn't keep up with the exercise. you know, that was the reason. this is how stupid this is. say hey, this guy doesn't deserve this. when i did speak up for him, you know, it was placed on me. well, since you're speaking up for him, you'll deal with it. i regret it. i am sorry for the guy that i stabbed. you know, i really am. i regret that i did that to him. >>> up next -- >> they'll stab him, they'll kill him, they'll toss him away like he's nothing. >> the perilous risk of leaving a gang. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant kind. [ clang ] my house is where plan

i come back, my cellie's already at work. i clean around the cell. i'll get ready., 8:30, i have to go to school for pre-release. after school gets out about 2:30, my friend gets out of pia. then we usually run about six laps. we do squats and sit-ups and 100 burpees. after that, i'll kick back, watch tv for a little bit. and after chow, i'll come back and do some bead work or watch tv. usually, i do bead work. about 7:00 we go to night yard and that's my time to go out and walk around. after yard i have tv programs on from 9:00 to 11:00 that i like to watch. i've been beading for about a year, trying to learn all i can about different stitches. it's very intricate. one mistake you have to take the whole thing apart sometimes. this is the most recent one i made. it's a bear claw. it's a little thunderbird in here. it takes me out of here. it relaxes me. it's a good pastime. when i came to prison, i left behind a pregnant wife, mother of my son. right after he was born, i got to see him through the glass. i didn't get to hold him or nothing. i'll have to wait until i

. >> we call my celly hamster, but he's more like a guinea pig.can take it any way you want, you know. he was the first one, and he lived through it, so we went on with it. >> i wanted to do a little dye and see what it was like and it spread through half my eye. i said it's a little late doing experimentation now. i got half of it, might as well go all the way. took a couple more weeks and went all the way. now they're red. >> i will say this, you have to be committed. if you decide to do this, it's not -- it hurts. it takes some time and you got to be serious about doing it. you really do. >> it's painful. it's like somebody taking hot ice picks and stagging the back of your eyes sometimes if you hit the wrong spot. they're done now so i ain't got to worry about no more pain. i don't get complications in vision. i don't see no red. it's all just perfectly fine. i wasn't scared to do it. i live with the balls to the wall theory, you know. >>> coming up, years after this video aired on "lockup," the limon inmate who threw the punch looks back. >>

for that, he has a celly, tafari cook. >> he knows about the game, so we see eye to eye. >> cook is servingix years for armed robbery. >> they labeled me a trouble-maker. every different prison i go to, i get in some kind of trouble, so they just transfer me. >> what kind of trouble? >> extorting people. charging people rent to live in the dorm. >> what happens if they don't pay? >> well, it might end up -- >> -- pretty bad. >> it might be a violent situation. >> at your hands? >> at my hands? depends. sometimes, if i think i can get away with it. mostly -- >> let me see your knuckles. >> oh, i don't got no cuts on my knuckles. >> what do you use? >> oh, i really don't, i really don't fight like that. i, i use weapons. i will put on combination lock on the belt and i assault them with it. this one dude in particular, he was paying rent and then he didn't want to pay rent anymore, so i pretended like everything was straight and i wanted to talk to him and i ended up assaulting him. i mean, he ran out of the room with one of his shoes on his shirt ripped off, his head ripped open with a maste

. >> the new cellies have helped each other battle boredom by finding another use for dominos. >> fourof ten push-ups for every domino i could have gotten to land in the sink i would have to do an additional ten. >> john i think has lived a fairly sheltered life, so it's hard for us to connect as far as popular culture. i think he told me he saw his first film when he was like 15, 16, something like that. you know, i've asked him if he's seen this movie, that movie. he's never even heard of most of the movies i want to talk to him about. we finally found a connection to talk about last night. he's seen "office space" and "office space" is my favorite of all time. >> isn't "office space" about a couple of disgruntled employees that smash some of the equipment from the company and hatch a plot to -- >> burn down the building? >> yes. >> yes. yes, it is about a couple people who burn down the building. and i don't think that the irony was lost on john either. i actually asked him if he got the idea from the film and he says no. >> that's it. that's full now. just a challenge. >> christina

they don't want their celly touching it. we just don't do things like that.e've known each other over a year now. we've done time together. we get along. it's just not a problem. food, cigarettes, whatever we got, both of us, doesn't matter. we both got to live in here. there's no sense in being an ass about it. if he needs something he's got it. i need something, i've got it. it's a lot easier to live that way. >> sky bishop is serving time for aggravated assault which began over an argument over a parking space. >> he was smarting up so we got into a fight with a guy and ended up stabbing him and running his buddy off the road, off the interstate, and i got six years for it. >> bishop's cellmate, jason davis, is serving a 17-year sentence for attempted murder. >> two people came in to rob me, i shot them both. shot one with a 9-millimeter twice in the leg, shot another one with a bow and arrow in the gut. in the state of tennessee you cannot shoot people regardless, in your house, on your property, or anything. if they're trying to come to roub you they say

officers are always standing nearby during our interviews, the gun was quickly confiscated but the celliesad plenty of other prison tattoos to display. >> my jason mask. >> that's how we pass our time right there. >> that's what we do all the time. just tattoo art. i just did the stuff on his head, the stars on his face. >> we tattooed last night until 5:00 in the morning. >> yep, till 5:00 this morning. that's what we do, sleep all day, tattoo all night. >> i got most of these tattoos done in less than a month. my mom has no idea i have any tattoos. i didn't have any tattoos. >> so how you going to explain it when you get out? >> i don't know. i'll let the tv show do the explaining. >> do you want to say anything to your mom right now since she's probably watching? >> sorry mom. >>> coming up, the inmates' stories beneath the ink. >> i got these praying hands for my dad. >> my father got shot by the police when i was two. >> and, later, the one topic the inmates love to hate. >> the food is slop. >> [ bleep ] nasty. enough of just covering up my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i deci

and they shook tommy down and his cellie. it was a long shakedown, too.probably over an hour. maybe even longer than that. >> we had information that he was involved in drugs. we sent staff over to shake his cell down. and they found what tested positive for meth. >> they took him to the hole that night. two days later he was gone. they moved him. >> we just figured it was better to get holloman out of the cell and out of the picture because his name just keeps coming up. every time something seems to be happening and we get to the bottom of it, it leads to him. he's got enough clout that he can always have one of his cronies take the rap for it. it's best to give him a new start somewhere else. we'll see who floats to the top here in the 211. >> one of my friends told me that tommy had got moved out like a day or two, last week, or whenever it was. i don't think that would change my security here in this facility. because i know it's out there, whatever they told their friends that are still in the facility. >> he's isolated to where nobody can get to hi

. >> bill: wayne pa celli will be here in studio with us from the national humane society.he gun control issue. interesting to find out how. robert borosage from the campaign for america's future here to tackle the president's gunnel -- budget which comes out tomorrow. olivier knox who covers yahoo! news will be here as a "friend of bill." and the u.s. treasury department investigating beyoncÉ's trip to cuba. why? but first -- >> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> still in sports, louisville has a chance at a second national championship in as many days. tonight after the men won the lady cardinals face off against the university of connecticut who, by the way is playing for his eighth championship win that would tie tennessee for the most in women's basketball's history. >> bill: what if louisville could do a double hitter? >> that would be huge. >> u-conn is a tough team to beat. >> u-conn is hands down the best women's basketball team. louisville has looked phenomenal. >> the former rutgers university athletic director who resigned under controversy last week

celli. we'll now begin the first round of questions. i guess i'll start. mr. hall, on behalf of the independent budget co-authors you testified we believe there has been sufficient progress to merit continued support of the current transformation effort. can you demonstrate some of these evidences of progress? i'm frustrated, as you have probably listened to my questions. i'm a little frustrated by changing goals, and tell me what you see as a positive. >> well, there are several things. thank you for the question. several things but it's not certainly inclusive of others that i could mention. simple things like the dbq process. which didn't exist, which is helpful to the discovery of evidence in a claim. qrts, quality review teams. that's been a positive step in the right direction towards accuracy. the benefits, the stakeholder enterprise portal, all really good things that matter to the system. all of them are in motion and still being work out didn't. so we understand the frustration but these are things that we feel are positive in the right direction. as