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Serving shorter sentences for nonviolent crimes and parole violations. corcorans gang population has grown so large that even a level one yard isnt free of politics. >> we received the information off an inmate on our northern image on here, how to behave and not cooperate with staff. in conjunction with my staff. we talked about the northern infraction on the yard. ive asked them to start searching these guys, and find out whats going on. its really indicative of these inmates that they write t...

Together with the intent of not being governed by any other prison gang. >> bulldogs theyre not as organized as your other gangs. they dont have the leadership in their organization. their rule of thumb is, that majority rules. if theres issues on the yard they have to try to resolve, the bulldogs would get together and take a boat, if you will. and the majority rules to go with that, theres no set leader of bulldog. >> if a bulldog has a chance to attack a southern hispanic, its on sight. if th...

Teach you how to do all your warfare tactics, your weaponry, then you got your kill squad. once you learn all that, you learn the pressure points on the body, where to hit them, how much inches to the heart, hit them in the jugular vein, the vital arteries. you learn all of them. the weapons, you learn which weapons to use to affect a kill. an effective kill in the yard you get a metal piece. then have you other weapons like speers, cross bows they dont really do no damage, but when you mix it w...

Were headed over to c facility. its a full programming yard. its dropouts. people would have problems on the gp yard. mixture of some sex offenders. people who dropped out of gangs. no longer want to play in the politics of the gp yard. its an interesting mixture, youll get a lot of old time heavy duty gangsters who have gotten too old and dont want to be involved any more along with those sexual predators. >> the peculiar mix of inmates isnt celebrated by everyone. we ran into an inmate who dro...

Do next door. it can be cool one day, if you have to go out on a bad day, he found out about my charge, hed go off on me. nervewracking. it keeps you on your toes every day. other than that, if no one finds out for 9 years, 3 months, i may be able to fool them, but i highly doubt that. next on lockup, extended stay. a rare glimpse into the process of dropping out of a gang, where an inmate risks his life by giving up vital information to officers. >> you learn which weapons to use to affect a ...

Have stayed on the main line. >> most of these people out on this yard, they could die right there, and i would watch them die. i dont care about them. when i came to this yard, i surrendered a lot of stuff. you know what i moon? my name is gone, i had a good name in prison. i was always respected. i lost all that. i dont care about that. what i care about now is me, timmy duncan. i dont like those people, but i dont have to associate with them. i cant tell you ten peoples names, ive been in thi...

With everybody. we dont get along with the north, we dont get along with the south, the blacks, whites. before they get us, we get them. i was on the yard and i stabbed a white guy like 17 times or whatever. and from there they took me to ad seg, i stabbed another white guy. thats what got me here. >> one challenge for corcorans officers dealing with the bulldogs is a lack of a figure head. needing no permission to start fights, violence is just their way of life. >> we dont have no bulldogs tha...

So large, no part of the prison is safe from the politics. before officer garcia and the igi staff consider putting former gang members together on the sny, they must be convinced dropouts are sincere in their desire to leave the gang lifestyle behind. after the debriefing interviews have been conducted and the inmates have been approved, they move into the integrated yard program. >> this is phase two. what they have to do, is come over to this yard. its an integrated yard program. theyre going...

Do following these rules and regulations and all that of the circle. >> youve had the opportunity to be out there on the yard with other inmates in the same type of situation. hows that feel being amongst other inmates? >> its good. its good. one of my -- one of my best friends is an ex-associated member and another is an ex-nlr member. those are two of my best friends. in the past, even though were on a respectful level, were all enemies. >> i want to thank you for coming in here and speaking w...

No longer want to play in the politics of the gp yard. its an interesting mixture, youll get a lot of old time heavy duty gangsters who have gotten too old and dont want to be involved any more along with those sexual predators. >> the peculiar mix of inmates isnt celebrated by everyone. we ran into an inmate who dropped out of the aryan brotherhood gang who reluctantly calls this yard home. >> its a cesspool of society on in yard. child killers and all of that. if i had known it was like this b...