. >> reporter: gil fwert's life behind bars is often punctuated with his frequent battles with the warden culver, at the time culver and a discipline committee were about to review his recent behavior and transfer to a prison closer to his family's home. but within moments, other inmates decided to disrupt the hearing in the chute by banging on the cell doors, that's where warden culver decided to take matters in his own hands. >> you all go again. you, i want you to do it. you beat on the pleep bleep door again. beat on this door again. >> reporter: once the inmates calm down, gilbert's hearing got under way, his appeal for a transfer was quickly dismissed. it didn't take long for gilbert to make another request, one to help beat the boredom of prison life, the return of his recently confiscated chess set. >> why can't i have a chess piece, warden? it's regulation. >> let me tell you what you do. get you some pipe, draw you out a checker 'board, it's a matter of. that's ul you do. i don't. >> i don't' r see where it can hurt eeb e anybody in that cell. >> ask the law library clerk the te