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Peggy perales pen pail relationships with two inmates from rival gangs have already caught the attention of the bexar county jails gang intelligence division. >> you got a guy that you have a child with but youre writing to somebody else as well? correct? >> one of the letters written to perales was intercepted by mail room staff, who suspected it might contain gang codes. now, she has some new trouble. >> perales? since the last time we spoke to her we did a background check in the facility and...

You know, gangs are groups of opportunity. theyre going to group together. once they see their numbers are large enough they become very territorial. from there it tends to develop into a dangerous situation. >> while rival gangs can pose a threat to each other, they often reserve their harshest punishment for members who drop now the into the jails protective custody program. >> almost all gangs believe there is one way in and one way out of their gang, and that is through violence. we tell any...

>> what kind of things do you want to teach your daughter that maybe your father wasnt around to teach you? what kind of things different do you want to do with yours? >> teach her to get an education. >> in general population, gd, and the vice boards, they wouldnt associate, they would be against each other, they wouldnt talk. in here, since theyre isolated, they have to. they have to, they realize theyre more the same, more the same than different. maybe they were brought up different in rival...

>> teach her to get an education. >> in general population, gd, and the vice boards, they wouldnt associate, they would be against each other, they wouldnt talk. in here, since theyre isolated, they have to. they have to, they realize theyre more the same, more the same than different. maybe they were brought up different in rival gangs, but theyre really more similar than they are different. >> i got a little brother. if he got locked up i feel like i was a bad role model, because he followed i...

Theyre going to group together. once they see their numbers are large enough they become very territorial. from there it tend to develop into a dangerous situation. >> while rival gangs can pose a threat to each other. they often reserve their harshest punishment for members who drop out and enter the jails protective custody program. >> almost all gangs believe there is one way in and one way out of their gang. that is through violence. we tell any ex-member of any prison gang, your life is in ...

Hes serving 11 months for possession of a controlled substance. >> ive never seen so much gang all in one place before. if youre gang-banging, and youre down for your set, youre down for it, no matter what it takes. >> you can tell any time somethings going on. any time theres any type of issue or anything like that, the section will split apart. >> certain words will be said. theres some obvious words, punk, bitch, stuff like that. >> going up to somebody saying "f" your hood or something like ...

Realized that we need to do something to try to curb gang activity within our prison system before it led to a violent nature. >> captain darren smith is the head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangs inside the prison. >> we have our hispanic gangs, which basically fall under southern cal or southern hispanic or northern cal, northern hispanic. we have crips, and we have bloods, and then we have our white supremacists. >> the most active gang members at usp are segr...

>> something big is about to go down if we dont stop it now, someone is going to die. >> yesterdays dispute looks like a dispute against rival gangs, the n.o.b. and the c.d.o. >> they are less than a block away from each other. >> tensions are growing. >> when they are on their own turf, gang members dont usually hide. so a slow drive through familiar streets can almost serve as a roll call. >> see him right there. >> yeah. jeremy gomes, stephon. >> every time someone gets shot, his mother runs ...

Where, if an inmate came in, he almost had to join a gang just for protection. it was at that time that we realized that we need to do something to try to curb gang activity within our prison system before it led to a violent nature. >> captain darren smith is the head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangs inside the prison. >> we have our hispanic gangs, which basically fall under southern cal or southern hispanic or northern cal, northern hispanic. we have crips, a...

>> felix solis is a member of occ, ogdens craziest chicanos, a local utah gang. hes serving 11 months for possession of a controlled substance. >> ive never seen so much gang all in one place before. if youre gang-banging, and youre down for your set, youre down for it, no matter what it takes. >> you can tell any time somethings going on. any time theres any type of issue or anything like that, the section will split apart. >> certain words will be said. theres some obvious words, punk, bitch, ...