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Rodriguez is not just dealing with these gang members inside the jail. he will also be called sometimes to testify against them in court. >> i do have to testify on a lot of not only just gang members, but high-ranking gang members for very heinous crimes and at the end of the day i still have to go home and be with my family and live a completely different life than the life im living here. ive run into many gang members outside the facility. ive had death threats against me or ive had these gu...

Members of the texas-mexican mafia and rose to a high ranking in the gang. >> i had the power to order hits, i had power to do a lot of stuff. i didnt believe in, how can i say this, physical violence, i believed, you know, when it comes to another gang, why not beat them psychologically? why not plan this information? >> for example, victor says in prison, he was once housed next door to a member of a rival gang. using a method called fishing in which inmates used string to pass items to cell t...

Of stuff on it camera gear and whatnot, and took candy, something they could have gotten off a commissary, they decided to take a little box of candy. it was so indicative of the heartless felon m.o. they take stuff from other people and then they can prove, look what i got, i got this from this other person, and it happened to us. >> im the star of the show, man. im the star, man. >> coming up -- >> i believe when it comes to another gang, why not beat them psychological? >> an ex-mexican mafia...

Young group, trying to get their name out, trying to let people know, look, were aggressive, very intimidating, theyre more likely to be very disrespectful, more likely to be anti-authority, more likely to be disruptive in the living units. >> nothing can prepare you for going into the unit. you realize these are a bunch of young men with a lot of energy a lot of anger, feel tremendously caged in. and they start banging and yelling and screaming. >> a show of force and dominance, the orejones wa...

>> 210, that is the area code for the san antonio area. so what theyre trying to tell everybody is san antonio is better than everything in the world. >> when we first entered the orejone units, we wondered whether a lot of that was because the media was there and they were acting up for us. the staff told us, no, generally thats the way they are. they may be acting up a little bit more for you. but theyre normally that loud. and i thought to myself, im only here for a short period of time. i re...

As you see, thats one way that we ask them to try to identify their items because we have this type of activities that occur and thats very good, okay? three guys actually went to the hole, but we did not get all of his commissary back. a lot of time when this type of thing happen, when they hit a cell, they try to use as much as they can to get rid of the evidence. >> concerned about possible gang retaliation, staff decided to move him to a new unit to protect his safety. but he says the risk w...

>> there was our cart, had a lot of stuff on it camera gear and whatnot, and took candy, something they could have gotten off a commissary, they decided to take a little box of candy. it was so indicative of the heartless felon m.o. they take stuff from other people and then they can prove, look what i got, i got this from this other person, and it happened to us. >> im the star of the show, man. im the star, man. >> coming up -- >> i believe when it comes to another gang, why not beat them psyc...

Juvenile detention centers. >> there was our cart, had a lot of stuff on it camera gear and whatnot, and took candy, something they could have gotten off a commissary, they decided to take a little box of candy. it was so indicative of the heartless felon m.o. they take stuff from other people and then they can prove, look what i got, i got this from this other person, and it happened to us. >> im the star of the show, man. im the star, man. >> coming up -- >> i believe when it comes to another ...

Juvenile detention centers. >> there was our cart, had a lot of stuff on it camera gear and whatnot, and took candy, something they could have gotten off a commissary, they decided to take a little box of candy. it was so indicative of the heartless felon m.o. they take stuff from other people and then they can prove, look what i got, i got this from this other person, and it happened to us. >> im the star of the show, man. im the star, man. >> coming up -- >> i believe when it comes to another ...

Keeping observer force and they have not been allowed into crimea. this is a few days after one of their unarmed observers was literally chased out of crimea. he did manage to get in and was marched out of the country by russian forces. were also getting reports now that journalists in crimea are getting beaten up and having their camera gear either broken or stolen as the tensions increase and a russian newspaper today is running some photographs of what they say is a newly planted mind field a...