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After over a decade in the shu, inmate angel chaves looks forward to a more interactive prison program. >> i feel like i got let down by the familia. the situation was, i was doing time for the familia. ive asked for assistance. im not going to specify what assistance. i asked for assistance to handle business for me because i was in 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 en...

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 no future in these gangs. >> because gang dropouts becom...

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 educations. you got your street education, your squa...

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 educations. you got your street ...

After over a decade in the shu, inmate angel chaves looks forward to a more interactive prison program. >> i feel like i got let down by the familia. the situation was, i was doing time for the familia. ive asked for assistance. im not going to specify what assistance. i asked for assistance to handle business for me because i was in 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 en...

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 inmate has to notify us, he has to reques...

>> 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...

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 no future in these gangs. >> because gang dropouts become immediate targets to the former gang, the debrief process must occur in secret. usually an inmate will pass a kite to the officers who will remov...

>> 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, fearing his new cellie was going to kill him. either way, dropping out is something christian never thought he would do. >> the fact that it ev...

>> if that village individual decides to debrief, he has to get his family out of the old neighborhood because they will retaliate against his family if they cant get to him. >> the information provided by former gang members, like inmate spiller, is used to identify and track high-ranking gang leaders inside the prison. it has also proved invaluable to law enforcement. >> theyve actually solved homicides on the streets that they had no suspects on through the debrief process. >> debriefing is n...