you're pretty vulnerable when you're sound asleep. >> hymer and rowe have worked out an uneasy trusta friendship. >> we've managed to read or stay out of each other's way. >> yeah. i draw in the afternoons sometimes and generally like he said, we watch tv. he got the television and kind enough that i can watch it more than he does. for me, with this much time, it's safer to be in there with a guy with the same charge. i can sleep at night. i don't have to worry about this guy going to cut my throat. on main line they walk around, they slide a knife under your door. here, kill your cellie or we kill you when you come out. that sounds like that's a movie. no, that's a fact. >> still, hymer has mixed feelings about sharing his cell with someone just like himself. >> my cellie is really a multiple offender. and bad as that sits in my gut like acid, i just -- it's just a putrid thing that there's nothing sexy about a kid. you know what i mean? and to hear it, to know it, i know i'm here for it, that charge. but that just still sickening. >> coming up on "lockup: raw." >> i was convicted o