Page 10 - Interviewing Alejandro Steele News Today

Power. that badge is only an illusion of power. that power can be stripped and taken away in a moments notice. >> and you help them see? >> no, allegedly. >> yes, alejandro was playing a cat and mouse game, absolutely. part of it could have been the convict code not to reveal too much information, and part of it could very have been the fact that he was kind of delighted to be out of his cell and able to have this exchange and kind of get people going. >> but eventually, steele came clean about ...

Were, right? >> no. i had nothing to do with it. >> what do you admit here? >> i admit to being prison number 508507 and admit to my mistakes i made to come to prison. >> steele was convicted of attempted murder in the assault on salazar. he was also found guilty of the charge that brought him to court that day, throwing urine on a correctional officer. and it wasnt the first time he had assaulted an officer. >> allegedly they say ive slipped my cuffs. and when they opened my door i started swin...

Correctional officer. during a lunch break steele extracted a plastic shank from his anal cavity. when he returned to the courtroom he attacked chief deputy district attorney a.j. salazar. >> i remember i was wearing a white shirt. my tie was off to the side. and i looked and there was a hole in my shirt and i was bleeding. >> the stab wound itself was not considered serious. the bigger problem was the risk of infection. >> i went to the hospital. i was at the emergency room. i went through a se...

Get working here are the people who got picked on in school. they come over here, and now its payback time. they think that badge gives them power. that badge is only an illusion of power. that power can be stripped and taken away in a moments notice. >> and you help them see? >> no. allegedly. >> yes. all all hejandro was playing a and mouse game. part because he was delighted to be out of the cell and have this exchange and kind of get people going. >> but eventually, steele came clean ant the...

To their face told them shut up, sit on the couch. finished robbing the couch and left and that was it. >> we had numerous off-camera conversations. but everything switched when it became an on-camera interview. theres a convict code that many of these guys have to live by. and part of that code is to not reveal too much information. the most challenging part of interviewing alejandro steele was when i started asking him about his most visible crime. >> that crime occurred while steele was servi...

Guy. how do you really do that? you physically know where you were. everybody saw where you were, right? >> no. i had nothing to do with it. >> what do you admit to? >> i admit to being prisoner number 50857. and i admit to my mistakes i made to come to prison. >> steele was convicted of attempted murder in the assault on salazar. he was also found guilty of the charge that brought him to court that day, throwing urine on a correctional officer. and it wasnt the first time he had assaulted an of...

Theres a convict code that many of these guys have to live by. and part of that code is to not reveal too much information. the most challenging part of interviewing alejandro steele was when i started asking him about his most visible crime. >> that crime occurred while steele was serving his original sentence and got him an additional 23 years. it was an assault that he carried out literally in front of a jury of his peers. >> i saw basically the whites of his eyes and i saw him coming at me. ...

Joined the national guard, retired from the national guard and then started going to the county for the job. he retired as the county jail administrator. my mom, shes a secretary. shes very educated, very knowledgeable and wealthy. she quit her job to stay home with me so that i would have someone there for when i got home from school. do my homework, make sure i do what i had to do. >> but that didnt keep him out of trouble. >> i never had to face consequences, so i figured i was pretty much un...

>> i admit to being prison number 508507 and admit to my mistakes i made to come to prison. >> steele was convicted of attempted murder in the assault on salazar. he was also found guilty of the charge that brought him to court that day, throwing urine on a correctional officer. and it wasnt the first time he had assaulted an officer. >> allegedly they say ive slipped my cuffs. and when they opened my door i started swinging and i made the c.o. jump off the tier and run out of the pod. left me o...

Power, that badge is only an illusion of power. that power can be stripped and taken away in a moments notice. >> and you help them see? >> no, allegedly. >> yes, alejandro was playing a cat and mouse game, absolutely. part of it it could have been the convict code not to reveal too much information, and part of it could very have been the fact that he was kind of delighted to be out of his cell and able to have this exchange and kind of get people going. >> but eventually, steele came clean abo...