Page 3 - Interviewing Alejandro Steele News Today

They think that badge gives them 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 have been the fact that he was kind of delighted to be out of his cell to be able to have this exchange and kind of get people going. >> but eventually steele came clean about the attack o...

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 here? >> i admit to being prison number 508577 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 officer...

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 series of shots, they cleaned out the wound. it t...

Were, right? >> no. i had nothing to do with it. >> what do you admit here? >> i admit to being prisoner 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 sw...

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, 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 ...

Consequences, so i figured i was pretty much untouchable. and i rebelled against them being so straight and i went crooked bad. >> steeles rebellion culminated in a 60-year sentence for residential burglaries, armed robbery and false imprisonment. >> i was robbing a house, boom, someone came home, i laid in wait and they came to the garage door, and i told them to sit on the couch, i finished robbing the house and left and that was it. >> we had numerous off-camera conversations, but everything ...

>> 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 swinging and i made the c.o. jump off the tier and ru...

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 series of shots, they cleaned out the wound. it took several blood tests and i remember picking up the blood result and looked and looked for hiv. and...

My dads a retired naval officer. he retired from the navy and 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 nev...

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 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...