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Through and do a security assessment to see what improvements need to be made at this facility. >> as far as your jobs go? >> our jobs never end. >> were pretty tired, but we know that were going to be making some crucial decisions and try to -- try to put an end to this violence. put an end to this war. and so -- when will it end for us? it doesnt. >> when theres no more inmates in prison. when we retire. >> captain flores and his team know full well theyll never completely removed gang from pn...

Making some crucial decisions and try to -- try to put an end to this violence. put an end to this war. and so -- when will it end for us? it doesnt. >> when theres no more inmates in prison. when we retire. >> captain flores and his team know full well theyll never xheelt re -- xheelt remove gangs from pnm. every day new inmates arrive and many of them like federico munoz waste no time before choosing sides. >> i think it was about a year after i got incarcerated in prison that i joined the snm...

And try to -- try to put an end to this violence. put an end to this war. and so -- when will it end for us? it doesnt. >> when theres no more inmates in prison. when we retire. >> captain flores and his team know full well theyll never completely removed gang from pnm. every day new inmates arrive and many of them like federico munoz waste no time before choosing sides. >> i think it was about a year after i got incarcerated in prison that i joined the snm. >> shortly after joining the prison g...

And try to -- try to put an end to this violence. put an end to this war. and so -- when will it end for us? it doesnt. >> when theres no more inmates in prison. when we retire. >> captain flores and his team know full well theyll never completely removed gang from pnm. every day new inmates arrive and many of them like federico munoz waste no time before choosing sides. >> i think it was about a year after i got incarcerated in prison that i joined the snm. >> shortly after joining the prison g...

Down here, a separate team of security supervisors will come through and do a security assessment to see what improvements need to be made at this facility. >> as far as your jobs go? >> our jobs never end. >> were pretty tired, but we know that were going to be making some crucial decisions and try to -- try to put an end to this violence. put an end to this war. and so -- when will it end for us? it doesnt. >> when theres no more inmates in prison. when we retire. >> captain flores and his tea...

>> we met federico when we were filming what we call "b" roll in the outside exercise cages at the prison. he made a striking impression on me because when we started talking, he was extremely articulate. and when he talked about his crimes, he was very self-aware and very honest about the consequences of his actions. >> i was brought up into a culture where they teach you to be violent. they teach you to outsmart the enemy. they teach you to regard law enforcement and society and your governmen...

Back out on the streets, but he wasnt done killing. >> very early on the streets i had to run selling drugs and stealing cars, this for me was fun. no matter that this life is a foolish life indeed, back then this sort of wisdom i simply wouldnt heed. >> five years after literally getting away with murder in a county jail, munoz walked into a barbershop where he spotted a rival gang member and he killed again. >> i shot him two times in his chest. he fell down. he got back up, to my surprise. i ...

Over the years of filming "lockup," weve seen a wide range of stories from positive ones with inmates who have found redemption or earned degrees to better their life in prison, to the negative, where the cycle of violence has actually escalated for them. theyve become more violent and added more time to their sentences. >> stories of troubled childhoods, multiple incarcerations and violent crime convictions are common to many of the inmates at the penitentiary of new mexico, but none of them to...

Head. he urinated all over himself, which obviously is a sign that its over. his tongue swelled up. his ankles swelled up. um, it was very intimate. like you see on the movies how guys so cavalierly kill people. it wasnt like that for me. it was a thrilling thing because i had just earned my bones. i had just accomplished an assignment that was given to me and i prevailed. now morally, obviously its a bad thing. you shouldnt be killing people. but in the lifestyle of a gang banger, i had just at...