prison, i hear. if you get a draw, it s sort of a rough prison. this is how serious it is. it s a life and death situation. pretty much, yeah, it is like that. i don t care what they tell you. it is like that. okay. it s hard core like that. corcoran s general population inmates are split into three main yards. the level one yard consists mainly of low security inmates, many of whom are in on parole violations. b yard holds the medium security level 3 inmates. and a yard is home to the maximum security level 4 inmates who are serving time for more violent crimes. but first, they have to get past sergeant rangel. the i m the receiving and release officer. i m responsible for the overall intake of the inmates. and the outgoing departure of the inmates that are paroling, going on to court, transferring
to another institution, and we ll get them processed, id d get them medical attention, give them orientation speech. what s your number? p 97494. date of birth? 4/3/81. how old are you? 26. how much do you weigh? weigh about 150. how tall are you? about 6 2 . how many times have you been coming back? in and out? this is my 6th time in prison. 6th? can you cell up with anybody on the yard? i can, but i prefer to be with the whites. you know the politics. okay. we re going try to find you a bunk in the low tier bottom bufrp bunk. torres, he s ready to go. let s go. when i interviewed him earlier, he could only be housed with his same race which is white. he wouldn t house with any other ethnic group. given the potential for cell mate violence, this inmate s
stab you. the first thing that got in my head was, we better get some knives. living on the street you learn one thing, you survive by any means necessary. you do whatever it takes to get out of a situation like that. so, if that means i have to become an accomplice, so be it, i m not going to die, you know. i m just too young. it began from there. and one day they came up to me and said you re going on a mission to go to add sag. my mission was to stab a man that came from another yard that was supposedly no good because they wouldn t jump off in a riot after they gotta tacked. the woods on that yard was no good because they didn t attack the blacks after they gotta tacked. i stabbed this man three times and i got away with it. i walked off in the middle of the yard before the buzzer went off on the yard for everybody to get down. and i had blood all over my hands and i was trying to get it off so i licked the blood off my hands to get away with the
it just depends. northern hispanics are very, very structured. they have positions and, you know, so, it s good information whatever it is because if it wasn t, why would he have it under his tongue? with the weapons still hidden somewhere on the yard, these kites may be the officers key to their discovery. bring it out. here we go. another fine day. yes, sir. here we go, come on out. keep moving. keep moving. clear? yes. corcoran inmates self-sego very ga self-segregate to protect themselves. no place is this more evident