step out. >> when we visited the kentucky state penitentiary we met inmate duane harper who had a longforcing officers to extract him from his cell. >> i'll fight sometimes, i'll argue with the guards but i'm not violent. i've done a lot of time. i've been doing time since i was 12 years old. >> when we first met harper he was serving his third year in administrative segregation or solitary confinement for having assaulted correctional officers. shortly after lockup arrived to kentucky state penitentiary officers had to extract harper from his cell again. >> he threatened us, throwing feces on us, threatened our families. >> a lot of the older ones like lieutenant gill, they know me from when i was a youngster back down here. so we have a different type communication level and understanding. >> every night you work. you racist redneck [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. i now you're a coward. i know you -- >> harper will serve at least two more years in segregation. >> i made things hard for myself. i've been in segregation three years and i don't blame nobody else. i had opportunity to get out of h

a deal's a deal. >> back at kentucky state penitentiary, randy haight made it clear he's not as eagero face death as holton. but he's ready for it nonetheless. >> i'm extremely sad for what i've done, and it hurts me knowing that i went to the level that i went. and if there was any way possible for me to be healed or corrected, believe me, it would be done. it's an impossible situation not only for me but for everybody involved, you know. and i'm not saying that there to get out of an execution because like i said, i'm ready. if you want to kill me, let's go. i'm ready to go. but i think that i have something i can offer somebody and i don't really think it's time for me to die. ah! come on! let's hide in the attic. no. in the basement. why can't we just get in the running car? are you crazy? let's hide behind the chainsaws. smart. yeah. ok. if you're in a horror movie, you make poor decisions. it's what you do. this was a good idea. shhhh. be quiet. i'm being quiet. you're breathing on me! if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what y

still, there are those inmates like alex bennett at the kentucky state penitentiary who don't always agree with or abide by the rules. >> i'm a person that's been in the joint all my life, i've been told i'm pretty hard core. and i need a certain type of environment. >> you got something you want to say to me now we can get it on national tv here. >> everything about alex's mannerisms, his appearance, and the words that he spoke said convict. alex just embodied that. >> bennett was 54 when we met him. and had spent 33 of those years behind bars for armed robbery, kidnapping, and murder. >> the system today isn't like the system that i came into 36 years ago. the system today has the majority of their inmates programmed to do what they are told when they are told to do it. and so they get to the point where they expect that from everybody. well, there's still a few old dogs around who like to do things their own way. >> bennett's way of doing things has had horrifying results. after adapting to life 18 single person cell here he was transferred to a lower security prison in 1998. he h

most of them within the stone ramparts of kentucky state penitentiary. >> this was like a gladiator school down here. you come down here, you won't even fight. are you going to be somebody's punk? it's just that simple. so, to survive here in here, i am fighting. and so we fought. and i whooped their ass all around this prison. >> johnson recalls the legacy of violence he unleashed on officers during his time in kentucky's three cell house, the hole. >> when they come up to my cell, said back up, handcuff, i said [ bleep ] you. you come on in here and get me. let's do it. when they come and fight me, they don't play. i like being shackled to the bed no telling how many times, maced. i was maced so much they said don't even mace him because it don't even affect him. he's immune to him. they're take and shoot me with a taser gun, whatever. because it's going to take more than that to calm me down, you know. and when they come up with something new, they come to me, and try it on me. see if it works. >> i definitely have the sense that fleece loved to have an audience. he was a great storytel