wadia abu amar is serving a 27-year sentence for murder, a family honor killing, which until now he hasot publicly spoken about. >> translator: i'm serving time for the murder of my sister. it's something that's hard for me to talk about. it's something very sensitive for me. >> abu amar says he shared a close bond with his sister, who at 22 was only a year older than he was when he killed her. >> when we asked him to speak about his crime, he grew very serious. his whole demeanor changed. he has to clear the room from his friends, he has to shut the door closed. he told us this is the first time he's going to speak about his crime in such details. >> translator: she met someone through the internet, and i didn't like that. i said if the man has good intentions and all that, let him come to our house, everything will be fine. she continued with it, and i opposed that until one day i raised my hand on her. she went to the police and made a complaint. they took me, questioned me, and since then, she didn't return home. they took her to a shelter for battered women, and three years passed

but most rimonim inmates, including wadia abu amar, cook for themselves with the food they purchase fromanteen in kitchens located in each mousing unit, and in some cases, inside individual cells. >> translator: the food is reasonable, let's put it like that. we don't like everything. we usually improve the food they give us. they bring, for instance, turkey breast sometimes. we take it, make it with onion, mushrooms, vegetables, make it like a kind of stir-fry. i'm cutting with a piece of metal because we don't have knives here. knives are forbidden, so we improvise. i don't want the deputy to see me. >> seeing abu amar and his friends cooking in prison made it feel more like we're in a fraternity house rather than a maximum security prison. he was always laughing and playing around with his friends in the cell. but when we asked him to speak about his crime, that brought us back to the reality that we are in a maximum security prison and we are dealing with a different set of cultural issues. >> abu omar is serving 27 years for murder. the victim was his sister and the crime was consid