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He has a 12-year-old son that he has missed out on raising due to the years he spent behind bars. >> im supposed to show him exactly what he is supposed to do, aint supposed to do, right from wrong, to be there as a plan and father to do that. when i was 12 i was smoking weed and cigarettes and having sex. that was back then. now its more, the world is more advanced now. so i can imagine the positions he put in right now. >> can you imagine if your son ends up like you? >> i dont even want to th...

Dont. >> i never heard of him before. never heard of him. now ill make the necessary phone calls and get the necessary contact i got to make and im going to see about this guy. see whats up. to me in my heart and my mind i know i feel hes nobody but i cant just go with what i feel. i still have to do my home work. i still got to do a proper investigation. if hes not who he says he is, hes going to get dealt with. >> while bates has chosen patience over action, a fight has been reported in anothe...

Who knows? but i know what i want for myself. i just dont know when its going to happen. >> and right now bates cant take any risks. another member of the bloods with a reputation for violence, enrique cruz, recently transferred to bates unit and says he was looking into rumors about bates loyalty. >> come on in. >> and now hes just invited himself into bates cell. >> ive been in this jail here so anybody whos blood is part of my soul, is going to come across my desk if theyre doing something wr...

About? >> a new girl was saying a few of us wrote a statement on another female to get her removed. its false. they asked her questions. we answered the questions. she was the source of all the problems so they removed her. chelsea came out of her room from upstairs and started talking so i told her to come down and say it to me. she came to the top of the stairs so i decided to meet her up there and she just kept getting in my face and she shoved me. >> the whole unit got in everybodys business...

Quaint downtown shops than it is for gang activity. gang related crimes do occur here. in the citys bergen county jail about 15% of the inmates are gang affiliated. while most are divided among racial lines, the dominant gang here has found strength in diversity. >> the predominant gang inside bergen county jail is united blood nation. they recruit anybody. they believe in numbers. its a numbers game for them. there could be bloods from different ethnic backgrounds, black, white, hispanic. when ...

Not necessarily the victor in a recent fight with inmate food server jonathan bevelac. cruz says it was all a ploy to get back to his former housing unit in order to confront fellow bloods gang member michael bates. but after serving 15 days in segregation, cruz was assigned to a different unit. bates, a recognized leader of the gang, says he is still baffled by cruz and his allegations. >> i never knew this dude. i dont have no problems with this guy. i never knew him. i dont know whoa is. hes ...

Not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, hes now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if thats not bad enough, today is his birthday and all he has is a gift from another inmate. >> he told me happy birthday and gave me toilet tissue with my name on it and gave me some of these. >> having served time before, bates knows this is no random collection of items. theyre to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could get a t...

I done orchestrated riots. i been in every prison in the state of new jersey except the southern state so everybody knows me. my word is gold to them because they seen me action. they dont just hear my audio. they seen my video. they know if i say something its law. all i got to do is send an order and its going to be carried out. whether i want somebody poked up or i want somebody stabbed, its going to get done. >> recently, the self-proclaimed minister of defense of the bloods was transferred ...

So i moved to another table. >> after much back and forth, officers have concluded that the incident began when jennings started gossiping about another inmates charges. >> this is the deal. youre staying here to stay out of their hair for four hours. youre going back, four hours, no issues. doors open up tomorrow at 7:00. first issue, from anybody, the whole tier is going to get locked in for a week and then im just going to start pressing charges on everybody. >> i get four hours lockup and i ...

>> he hit me first and then, yes. after three or four times of him punching me in the face i realized i wasnt able to calm him down. i hit him with an uppercut. uppercut, saw his dentures fall out of his mouth, brought him to the ground and thats when we both got maced. >> were you injured? >> no, not at all. >> not injured. >> no, not at all. >> but now cruz says he had a secret motive for the fight, one that has nothing to do with food trays and everything to do with returning to the maximum s...