his adversary, joel brooks, is doing 12 years for assault. both prisoners are classified as mentally ill. after being cleaned up, they're questioned separately by officers. >> what was this all about? >> he's a rapist and i was talking with an inmate in the meal line about it with him. >> you were talking about his crime with another prison? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. >> i was talking with another prison about him being a rapist. he came up to me and said, you ain't [ muted ] and i said, you're not. >> i repeated it and said what are you going to do? i repeated it again, stop talking about me. and then he walked up to me in my face and said, now what are you going to do? >> five minutes later he bum rushed me. >> don't come at me. >> slammed me against the wall. >> i don't know what i did after that. >> he started scratching my face and i grabbed him around the waist and threw him on the floor. i hit him twice in self-defense to get him to let go of my neck. >> i won't deny it. >> lower body over there, anymore marks. >> the bottom line is he hi