and mcquay had stabbed him. >> at the time, mcquay was serving 20 years for sexual battery. he was sentenced to an additional 60 years after being found guilty of murdering the officer. despite the eyewitness accounts, mcquay still proclaims his innocence. >> it's been a long ride. but i maintain my balance and my mental health. >> mcquay will soon reach a milestone. his time in confinement is about to surpass the years he spent free in the outside world. >> you know how sometimes you can be in an environment like this and a person begins to see you as a mad dog. like, every chance you get, you're just going to lose control or you're going to snap at somebody. and that's not me. >> periodically, mcquay files requests to be moved back to general population, where he would have considerably more privileges. >> i still believe that leonard mcquay has an ulterior motive. >> the first person he needs to win over is the administrative segregation case manager, beverly gilmore. >> we're notarizing what, buddy? we all get along with leonard. very likable. very charismatic. he's so f

but the wait is over for leonard mcquay. prison officials have denied his request to be moved back to general population. >> he seems like he has everything in the world going for him. but when you really sit down and you really listen, off the unit, when he thinks that you can't hear him talking, some of the things that he talks about, negative towards staff, when a staff person was assaulted by another offender in another cell house, he was applauding. so, that's a tell tale sign that he is not ready to go into the general population. >> i don't want to lose my mind on me like this. i don't want to physically begin to deteriorate where i can't get no help. so, i'm saying, i want to actually be given an opportunity to do something progressive with my life. back here in solitary confinement, i can't do that. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> i don't beat around the bush when it comes to the racist term. i'm absolutely a racist. >> inmates find themselves in racial conflict. >> he and two whi