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Blessing at the vatican tomorrow. back to lock-up. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. the vast majority of prisons we visited over the years have been male institutions. but when weve taken our cameras inside womens prisons, weve met inmates living by a very different convict code. >> the biggest difference between male and female inmates and how they get along with each other is basically looked at in two ways. one, male inmates tend to find gangs to get involved wi...

>> peaches was one of those inmates that stands out in your mind years after you leave a prison. hes very flamboyant. very forthright. very honest. >> one inmates independence is put to the test by the convict code. [ man ] ring ring... progresso this reduced sodium soup says it may help lower cholesterol, how does it work? you just have to eat it as part of your heart healthy diet. step 1. eat the soup. all those veggies and beans, thats what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well thats ea...

Disneyland. oh, im going to disneyland. going to find a ride. >> the farm is a lot more freedom. its four-foot fences. you know, youre pretty much on your own will. you do what you want to do, you know. its all trust that you build up. >> peaches was told he had six months to stay disciplinary free in order to go to a lower level facility. that seemed pretty easy to do since he was so well acclimated in that prison. >> morgan! >> but adherence to the convict code would soon cost morgan his place...

Oh, im going to disney land. go find a ride. >> the farm is a lot more freedom. its four-foot fences. you know, youre pretty much on your own will. you do what you want to do, you know. its all trust that you build up. >> peaches was told he had six months to stay disciplinary free in order to go to a lower level facility. that seemed pretty easy to do since he was so well acclimated in that prison. >> morgan! >> but adherence to the convict code would soon cost morgan his place in general popul...

He had done a lot of time. he had lived very distinctly by the convict code and he was very accepting of his situation. he didnt complain. he didnt blame anybody. he was a tough guy. >> when i came to prison, i was a kid. i had to do what i had to do to survive and im not proud of the things sometimes that i had to do. some people has to be hurt, ive been hurt. you know what i mean? but thats just the way of life here. >> spears has tangled with the law for most of his life and is serving 28 yea...

Or be dead in the ghetto. thats all i can say. and i have to do it. i have to do it. i cant come back. im 39, im getting too old for this, too old. i cant do this no more. i cant do it. coming up -- >> get the cable fixed. >> an old con teaches a new arrival a thing or two about the convict code. >> what did i tell you? way ahead of time, leave that alone, let god take care of that. it aint your business to take care of that, man. [ woman ] ring. ring.

Butts as yall was walking past me and dared you to say something. i got no shame in my game. this is nothing that im ashamed to admit. i am what i am. im a warrior too. you know, so let that be known. im a warrior. coming up on "lockup: raw" -- >> i was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder, my children. >> how the code extends to the loneliest place in prison, death row. for convicts with a death sentence, rules of any kind might seem irrelevant. but a chapter of the convict code ...

Next on "lockup: raw" -- >> i want to go home with her. >> yeah, im taking this one home to the country. >> the convict code takes on a new dimension when the inmates are women. >> we call it bulldagging, women relationships here, thats a slang word for bulldagging, and thats two women together.

Payback time. they think that badge gives them power, that badge is only an illusion of power. that power can be stripped and taken away in a moments notice. >> and you help them see? >> no, allegedly. >> yes, alejandro was playing a cat and mouse game, absolutely. part of it it could have been the convict code not to reveal too much information, and part of it could very have been the fact that he was kind of delighted to be out of his cell and able to have this exchange and kind of get people ...

Door, and i told them to sit on the couch, i finished robbing the house and left and that was it. >> we had numerous off-camera conversations, but everything switched when it became an on-camera interview. theres a convict code that many of these guys have to live by. and part of that code is to not reveal too much information. the most challenging part of interviewing alejandro steele was when i started asking him about his most visible crime. >> that crime occurred while steele was serving his...