and meditate on things i'm going do when i get out and just prepare, prepare to go home and live a better life i'm trying to live. >> while jacob looks forward to getting away from prison politics, for level 1 inmate stephen parot, politics play a large part in his everyday existence. >> what i do as a housing clerk for the yard is accommodate people for their race affiliation and medical needs. you have to be very careful about what information you acquire because once you acquire it, then you have certain obligations to pass some of it on. so if you have information, you do go to your people first. if there's something going down that you're privy to, if it's information about whatever it is, doesn't matter what it is, i always go to our reps on the yard first. this is simply the protocol that you follow. and it keeps things organized here. if i don't do that, it would put me at risk. and you don't want to get beat up. that's rule number one. protect yourself. and my focus is to get through here with all my teeth. >> stephan learned early that no one is exempt from claiming a race allegiance, nor except from