Page 2 - Debrief Process News Today

The fact that you took time out of your day to write me means a lot. i told her, be strong, and youll get through this. its a learning experience. i am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation. she shot me a little glossy, i cuddle with it at night. no, im just kidding. once an inmate is validated as a gang member in corcoran, they have a choice, stay in the gang or drop out and debrief. our officers were allowed to follow officer garcia into the debrief process.

Youll get through this. its a learning experience. i am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation. she shot me a little glossy, i cuddle with it at night. no, im just kidding. once an inmate is validated as a gang member in corcoran, they have a choice, stay in the gang or drop out and debrief. our officers were allowed to follow officer garcia into the debrief process. >> theres one building set

The business for them. >> sure. >> and they never came through although they said they would. at that point, i felt like, whats the point of this? >> since youve entered the debriefing process, up until now youre getting ready to get endorsed to an sny, how has it been for your phase one, phase two? what have you been feeling? >> i feel like the worlds been lifted off my shoulders. i had so much responsibility. i was always concerned about everybody else and what i had to do following these rule...

>> and youre validated as what? >> mexican mafia member. >> can you tell us why youve chose to leave that gang life behind you and debrief? >> i found myself in a position to go ahead and get a cellie after nine years. and go ahead and have basically a normal program. i was put in the position to either i kill this individual or i come this way. >> according to christian, the mexican mafia wanted him to murder his new cellie, but the igi informed our producers that christian approached them, fea...

Things they didnt want to do, being forced to do. its like the higher you go up, the more you see. >> the debrief process takes months, sometimes even years. because the igi must verify the truth of an inmates autobiography. >> for myself, back in 2001, when i was in county jail, they ordered me to hit my own uncle because he was a dropout. and then after that, thats when i got my little points, what they call points. they train us to do all that. >> how were you trained? >> you got different ed...

Aside for inmates who are requesting protective custody. the inmate has to notify us, he has to request to be placed in protective custody. from that point we ask him to go ahead and draw up or write his autobiography, detailing his involvement with the gangs from the street to the county jails to the prisons, and back out to the street. anything hes been involved in, anything hes witnessed. everything. right now theres quite a few inmates that are dropping out. you know, theyre realizing theres...

Several other interviews we conduct with you. >> the debriefing process means severing all ties with the gang members affiliation. >> im a drug habit. whatever i have to do to support my drug habit. >> the sentence im on right now, three strike case. im doing life for a $20 bag of meth. it was like i had to establish myself in order to survive basically, and one aspect of doing that was to associate myself with a gang, a prison gang. a strong prison gang, which was the aryan brotherhood, its som...

Unthinkable, you know, come this way as far as do the debriefing process. go out on program. >> and you feel comfortable with that decision? >> its funny, i honestly i honestly believed that because the decision itself tore me up, it was tearing me up, and the few days that it was actually in my head and as i was writing the kite to the floor officer, it was tearing me up. ive been in some straight wars. ive been hit. ive been shot. ive been ran over, crowbarred. and ive done the exact same dama...

Its a learning experience. i am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation. she shot me a little glossy, i cuddle with it at night. no, im just kidding. once an inmate is validated as a gang member in corcoran, they have a choice, stay in the gang or drop out and debrief. our officers were allowed to follow officer garcia into the debrief process. >> theres one building set aside for inmates who are requesting protective custody.

>> the debriefing process means severing all ties with the gang members affiliation. >> im a drug habit. whatever i have to do to support my drug habit. >> the sentence im on right now, three strike case. im doing life for a $20 bag of meth. it was like i had to establish myself in order to survive basically, and one aspect of doing that was to associate myself with a gang, a prison gang. a strong prison gang, which was the aryan brotherhood, its something you dont just grab on to, you have to e...