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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 teaches a new arrival a thing or two about the convict code. >> wh...

Trail blazers to targets among fellow inmates. inman got the message in no uncertain terms. >> 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 u...

Because i seen blood on my shoes. >> two weeks after his brutal 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 ...

It lets students do homework and study at home. so far more than two million people across america have benefitted. internet essentials is going to transform the lives of families. i see myself as maybe an entrepreneur. internet essentials from comcast. helping to bridge the digital divide. in every prison profile of the "lockup," our producers have found subtle differences in how inmates enforce the convict code or the unwritten rules by which they live. but one aspect rarely changes. the pos...

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 to their own father. >> my father was i...

Coming up on "lockup: raw" -- >> im a man that is attracted to young women. god forbid. 99% of us are. >> how the convict code applies to sex offenders. >> on main line, they walk around and they slide a knife under your door. here, kill your celly or we kill you when you come out.

Convict code is the code of silence. talking about gang business can get members killed. >> they got rules, and we got rules within the rules, you know. among different people or among different races. but we have to deal with it. you know, i cant elaborate too much on it. >> the subject was clearly off the table when we sat down at pelican bay state prison with raul leon, alleged to be one of the leaders of the most powerful prison gang of all, the mexican mafia. >> how powerful is the mexican ...

And in the morning well come over and well search that area and try to find their weapons. but theyre getting better and better at the way they hide their weapons. as you see, this one guy keeps looking around, and hes got the heavy coat on. the temperatures pretty hot, so theyre the soldiers. they wear these jackets. its a little bit more armor. if anything goes on, theyre the first ones to get involved. >> many inmates have told us, if violence does break out the convict code dictates how they...

To extend the convict code to their own father. >> my father was in here for -- i dont know the exact charge, but he was in here for messing with kids. and, you know, i aint cool with that. brad and michael love are serving time for murder at animosa state penitentiary in iowa. >> i was never incarcerated with him. when i found out he was getting incarcerated, what he did time for, what hes charged for, they asked if there are any problems if were in the same prison. i said, yeah, i probably wou...

>> 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. >> the convict code takes on a new...