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>> murderers, robbers, theyre up here. child molesters, rapers, theyre down here. them guys on the bottom deck, most of them are sex offenders, you know. i dont like them. i just tolerate them. i used to beat them. i used to prey on them. >> they normally mark the sexual predators by cutting them across the face with a razor blade or a knife. and the other inmates know hey this guy is no good. they call him trash. >> we even met a pair of brothers who wouldnt hesitate to extend the convict code ...

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 that im weak, that im going to talk, that im going to say anything about anything. im not mad a...

For the earth. >> in the jails protective custody wing, an unusual church service might be doing some good for inmates who otherwise would be enemies. they are former gang members, gay men and accused sex offenders. >> they all sit together and its -- its very powerful. >> trust me this is not happening in other houses. but it is happening here. so you ought to be grateful to god he allowed you to be a part of whats happening here. >> they put aside race. they put aside what their crimes and cla...

But less than 24 hours earlier, he was convicted and sentenced to five years inrin for rape by instrumentation. his victim was a minor and other inmates almost always target known sex offenders for violence. >> child molestation is not the cool thing to be doing, man. >> [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. >> the guards, they tried to get him out of the pod in time, but he come to jail with those charges, they will execute you to the fullest extent of the convict code. >> when somebodys charged with a sex cri...

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 well 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. >>...

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. ...

Started from there. and escalated. >> vasquez says he was honoring the long-standing convict code which says snitches should be punished. >> telling them something about somebody else, technically it is snitching. he kept calling me a bitch. when we started to beef over lunch. and i was like you a bitch man. what the [ bleep ] you say to the detectives. >> that was the right thing for me to, do was to tell. if anybody -- if anybody do anything to anybodys food they deserve to be told on. >> it w...

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 that im weak, that im going to talk, that im going to say anything about anything. im not mad at the guy. if more people would ...

>> 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. >> he has been cha...

Olson was not a random victim. he had been out of jail on bond, but less than 24 hours earlier, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for rape by instrumentation. his victim was a minor and other inmates almost always target known sex offenders for violence. >> child molestation is not the cool thing to be doing, man. >> [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. >> the guards, they tried to get him out of the pod in time, but he come to jail with those charges, they will execute you to the fullest ...