. >> when we met matthew campbell, he was serving 12 years for armed robbery and assault at kentucky state penitentiary. but his troubles began much earlier. >> the first time i went to jail was 15 years old, i burned the elementary school down. it was pretty much downhill from here. >> as an openly gay man, campbell's time behind bars has had its challenges. >> being gay in prison is really hard. i mean, it's hard enough to do time in here. but the fact that everybody knows that you are gay, it is constant pressure for sex. you have a lot of people here that -- now that they're in prison, they resort to what they have to as far as sex. i have to say there's very few people here that are gay on the streets and gay in here as well. there's a lot of people that say they don't mess around. but then when they get you by themselves, it's like hey, man, what's up? >> one of the things that struck me about matthew is how comfortable he was in his own skin. i mean, here's an openly gay inmate in a southern prison, and he didn't have any problems with it. but when we went out to the yard to t