Phillip Kirkpatrick News Today

I threatened everybody in her family tree and this husband and her dog, too. When we shoot lockup extended stay, our crews film for four months inside a single prison. On the last day, its usually an easy day. Were doing something called broll or doing pickup shots, kind of exteriors. Most of the time were thinking about the flight home. But in prison, you never know who youre going to run into. In one such instance, the person we ran into was rick clapsy. He was serving a life sentence at the p...

If i did that, thats what would happen. okay, phillip, if you keep running the streets and gang banging and using drugs youre going toned up in prison. thats what happened. you can only lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink. you know what im saying? >> kirkpatrick was 13 years old when he joined a notorious hispanic gang, one that rarely admits caucasians. >> it doesnt matter if youre white, black, mexican, any kind of race, as long as youre down, as long as youre there for the caus...

You need to get me out of here before something more serious happens. >> kirkpatrick turned his back on his gang. he requested a move to protective custody. reconnecting with his family was difficult. not only because he had rejected their advice in the past, but because most of them were now employed by the same system incarcerating him. >> phillip really floored us. it seemed that most of his family worked in corrections, and here he was an inmate. he started naming off one relative after anot...

>> surrounded by other gang dropouts in protective custody, kirkpatrick also began to realize that not only would his former gang take him out for making a mistake, they were never really the family he thought they were. >> dont nobody care about me. nobody from my neighborhood wrote me a letter. >> thats right. nobody from the neighborhood wrote you a letter. nobody cares no more. >> the only people that care is your moms. >> is your mom. and you only got one or two friends. >> while kirkpatric...

[ bloop ] huh? hey? i paused it. bam, family time. so how is everyone? find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. in a world where relationships mean everything, 24-year-old phillip kirkpatrick had already managed to lose the two families hes ever known. >> i used to send letters to the streets with stamped envelopes saying, write me back, the address is right here. all you got to do is address and say [ bleep ] whatever. you know what im saying? never got any of that. >> ...

>> from the second i got in trouble to this moment in time, i know god put me in this cell for a reason. whatever it is, i dont know at this time. maybe it was just to give me time to realize what i was doing. or who knows? maybe theres something inside this time that im going to do thats going to put me into perspective and make he realize stuff. i dont know. but im in here for a reason other for than the crime that i did, that god has a plan for me. ill be all right. im going to make it. >> yo...

>> but there are complications. kirkpatricks past makes it impossible for him to even keep pictures of his relatives, including his mother. >> oh, i dont want one. my mom dont like the way she looks in pictures. i said, it doesnt matter, im your son, its not like im going to go around showing it. shes like but what you dont understand is i work for cdc. i dont want my picture going through and people might recognize me or know who i am. i was like all right, i understand. and thats [ bleep ] up ...

And i loved it. im not going to lie. i loved it. >> having abandoned his family for gang life, kirkpatrick turned to other crimes. when we met him, he was serving his second prison term, eight years for burglary. >> i know right from wrong. im not a stupid individual. i might make stupid decisions, but im not a stupid individual. >> during his time in prison, kirkpatrick still had his gang to fall back on, but like his biological family, he eventually left his gang family, though not totally on ...

>> any specific enemies, names, numbers? >> no. >> kirkpatrick explained the contraband was a packet of gang information including a roster of current members. when he realized it was gone, he was afraid the gang might order a hit on him as punishment. >> i told the c.o., look, i got to go. he was like why? i said because i lost something im not supposed to. you need to get me out of here before something more serious happens. >> kirkpatrick turned his back on his gang. he requested a move to pr...

>> four of my homeboys from my hood jumped me. they told me whatever you do, dont just curl up in a ball and lay down, you know what im saying? then youre going to look like a coward or a punk. you know what i mean? so i did the best that i could. and i slung with the best that i could. you know? i still got my butt whooped. i was still busted up in the face and all sore the next day, but i was part of the hood now. i belonged to something. and i loved it. im not going to lie. i loved it. >> hav...