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>> tell me whats going to be different when you go out next year. when you are released from prison next year, what will be different? >> what will be different? well, i have one choice, to live, be out there with my children again, my family. or come back in. 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 ...

Inmates own code known as the convict code. >> there are certain prisons where even when youve established a certain rapport with inmates theyve made it very clear to me that if another inmate attacks me they will not come to my aide. thats against the convict code. other prisons inmates say they will protect me. i have been told they are watching me to make sure nobody hurts me. >> in certain high-security housing units lockup field teams are required by the prison to wear stab-proof vests befo...

Who got picked on in school. they come over here and now its 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 hi...

Who got picked on in school. they come over here and now its 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 hi...

Residential burglaries, armed robbery and false imprisonment. >> i was robbing a house, boom, someone came home, i laid in wait and they came to the garage 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 chall...

>> apparently another inmate or two went into his cell and put some knots on his head and said dont be giving us anymore heat over here. we seen inman a day or two later, of course, he wont tell what happened or what it was over or anything like that, because thats a convict code. but we know what it was over. i got enough people out there telling me what it was over. >> and now things are about to heat up even more for inman as the prison disciplinary board takes up his case. >> hes been charge...

>> got the blood out of my shoes. thats why i stopped fighting because i seen blood on my shoes. >> two weeks after his stabbing ellerman has returned to general population. >> i was stabbed ten times. i think i won the fight, he won the war. >> stafford received a year in the hole despite ellermans refusal to cooperate with the investigation. its all part of the convict code. >> im a convict. you dont tell nothing. thats just the way it is. i mean ive got to live here the rest of my life. i don...

Shoes. thats why i stopped fighting because i seen blood on my shoes. >> two weeks after his stabbing ellerman has returned to general population. >> i was stabbed ten times. i think i won the fight, he won the war. >> stafford received a year in the hole despite ellermans refusal to cooperate with the investigation. its all part of the convict code. >> im a convict. you dont tell nothing. thats just the way it is. i mean ive got to live here the rest of my life. i dont want anybody thinking tha...

Thank you. >> i am still learning life because i didnt know life. im 30 years old, just learning how to drive. but you know what, im doing it. im learning it. theres a lot of girls in here that dont know how. and im going to school, and i have dreams now, and i can help people. thats what i want to do. coming up. >> hi, boys. >> 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 indepen...

Thats a movie. no, thats a fact. >> still, hymer has mixed feelings about sharing a cell with someone just like himself. >> my celly is really a multiple offender. and bad as that sits in my gut like acid, just -- its just a putrid thing. there is nothing sexy about a kid, you know what i mean? and to hear it, to know it -- i know im here for it. that charge. but its just still sickening. next on "lockup: raw" -- >> i want to go home with her. >> yeah, im taking this one home to the country. >...