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35-year-to-life sentence for second-degree robbery. >> theres a process that we have to go through. first of all, you have to turn over any weapons and refrain from associating with any of your former gang member friends. list everything that ive done and all my activities. hits ive ordered, hits ive done, who sponsored me into the gang, so on and so forth. >> state your neighbor and number for the committee. you are here for your cdc annual. we have some question about your request to debrief. ...

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. >> theres one building set aside for inmates who are requesting protective cus...

Freedom. the iyp is a small taste of whats to come. 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 f...

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...

Interview, theres going to be 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 ...

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...

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 not enough to destroy the vise grip of prison gangs at corcoran. >> its just one tool from breaking some of these gang mem...

I seen a lot of bad calls and innocent people getting hurt. and seeing too many people doing 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 the...

And wanting to change your life. >> for some inmates sny is freedom. the iyp is a small taste of whats to come. 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 ca...

And after sitting there rotting by myself, it finally popped in my head that, third, but 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...