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>> i cut my wrist with a razor blade. >> washington went on to explain that he cut his wrist to prevent the prison to transferring him to the sensitive needs yard or sny. its a place most inmates want nothing to do with. >> sensitive needs yards is certainly for inmates that meet certain criteria, mostly your rapists, molesters, dropout gang members. it used to be pt yard, protective housing unit. >> washingtons neighbor and fishing partner told us how a move to sny makes an inmate damaged goods...

>> so what did you do? >> i cut my wrist with a razor blade. >> washington went on to explain that he cut his wrist to prevent the prison to transferring him to the sensitive needs yard or sny. its a place most inmates want nothing to do with. >> sensitive needs yards is certainly for inmates that meet certain criteria, mostly your rapists, molesters, dropout gang members. it used to be pt yard, protective housing unit. >> washingtons neighbor and fishing partner told us how a move to sny makes ...

>> i live on corcoran, 3c facility. its a sensitive needs yard for inmates that cannot program around the general population inmates. people with sex crimes, child molesters, gang dropouts and people like myself that have testified. my path to prison started when i began selling drugs in little rock, arkansas. three years after selling drugs, i ended up going with a buddy. not really a murder-for-hire, but we were supposed to beat a guy up really bad and make it look like a robbery. i told my fa...

And then another inmate passed me a shank about that long, with a handle on it. and i just started stabbing him. stabbed him over 100 times, in the back, sides, neck, he was crying, telling me to stop, begging for me to stop. and he was still alive through all of it. that was one of my favorite ones right there, because he was a rapist, and i despise rapists, i cannot stand them. child molesters, rapists, the worst. >> in spite of his love of violence, robert eventually grew tired of the gang po...

I run that court. that court was mine for about an hour. >> since weights have been banned from san quentin, inmates like speedy have found other ways to keep in shape. thats our weights. yeah. thats how we work out. we got to make water bags. we dont get weights no more. arnold schwarzenegger took those away from us. >> why is everybody looking at us, man? find you some business. >> while recreational options are limited on the sensitive needs yard, back in ad seg theyre even more restricted. a...

Like speedy have found other ways to keep in shape. thats our weights. yeah. thats how we work out. we got to make water bags. we dont get weights no more. arnold schwarzenegger took those away from us. >> why is everybody looking at us, man? find you some business. >> while recreational options are limited on the sensitive needs yard, back in ad seg theyre even more restricted. angel gets his first real human contact for the day when an officer escorts him out for his one-hour yard time. >> i t...

Penetrated protective custody which at san quentin is also referred to as the sensitive needs yard, or sny. >> its supposed to be gang free. a lot of guys go into sny not because they want to. a lot of these guys still want to be gangsters. >> many of these inmates come to sny because they violated gang rules and now need protection from gang retaliation. >> the easiest way to describe it is that even though you walked away from the gang, it doesnt change your gang mental state because what happ...

>> i like you more. >> i like you more. better. >> all right. >> bye, i love you. >> we had been filming in another part of the prison, and when we came back to the sensitive needs yard, first thing we heard was wicked filling us in on some gossip that had to do with demon. >> and so everybodys doing good. demons doing good. no, he doesnt have his teeth yet. poor demon. i know he wants those, really. yeah. he has this new boyfriend that is an older man. i shouldnt be talking about his business, ...

>> escort! >> without good information about what prompted the attack and whether this attack could lead to others the prison decides to place de la cruz into administrative segregation, where he will be isolated in a single cell 23 hours per day. >> its very complicated, but in the process of asking questions, youre trying to cover all angles why he was assaulted. so i started my questioning whether or not it was more than one person or not, and he didnt want to say. >> a group assault is distu...

Blade. >> washington went on to explain that he cut his wrist to prevent the prison to transferring him to the sensitive needs yard or sny. its a place most inmates want nothing to do with. >> sensitive needs yards is certainly for inmates that meet certain criteria, mostly your rapists, molesters, dropout gang members. it used to be pt yard, protective housing unit. >> washingtons neighbor and fishing partner told us how a move to sny makes an inmate damaged goods. >> sny isnt just so much rapi...