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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 teaches a new arrival a thing or two about the convict code. >> what did i tell you? way ahead of time, leave that alone, le...

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 original sentence and got him an additional 23 years. it was an assault that he carried out literally in front of a jury of his peers. >> i saw basically the whites of his eyes and i saw him coming at me. ...

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 going. >> but eventually, steele came clean abo...

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 going. >> but eventually, steele came clean about the attack on the d.a. >> couple months befor...

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 original sentence and got him an additional 23 years. it was an assault that he carried out literally in front of a jury of his peers. >> i saw basically the whites of his eyes and i saw him coming at me. ...

Like around the facility? >> they thought it was cool. >> who? >> everyone. first its your an idiot, but its cool. i wouldnt do it, but it looks cool. >> i want to see everybody tattoos their whites. i want to see purple, green, blue, orange, every color but white. i think it would be cool. i like it. >> but according to lieutenant jim fox, the attention they brought on the prisons illegal tattoo trade took them from trail blazers to targets among fellow inmates. inman got the message in no unce...

>> who? >> everyone. first its your an idiot, but its cool. i wouldnt do it, but it looks cool. >> i want to see everybody tattoos their whites. i want to see purple, green, blue, orange, every color but white. i think it would be cool. i like it. >> but according to lieutenant jim fox, the attention they brought on the prisons illegal tattoo trade took them from trail blazers to targets among fellow inmates. inman got the message in no uncertain terms. >> apparently another inmate or two went i...

I thought, damn, there is a world out there. its been so long since i seen a car. >> but stafford has now left the cell with a view to the detention unit where hell be locked up. the disciplinary board has found him responsible for the stabbing of pat ellerman. >> 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 ...

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