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Know? i didn't have nobody in my peers, so they probably couldn't understand this type of crime or understand what happened. they just associate black people with violence. he did it. convict him. >> wright believes his race is also a detriment at wabash. >> i'm on the wrong side of the color margin. that's just honesty. this prison is predominantly white people, you know what i mean? you know, i'm not saying they're racist. you've got people walking around with swastikas and hitler tattoos and it throws me off, like, damn, man, this is their prison. you know what i mean? they're comfortable w...

Stronger on black guys here. that's my personal opinion. my whole jury was white, you know? i didn't have anybody of my peers. they just associate black people with violence, he did it. >> wright believes his race is also a detryment at wabash. >> this prison is predominantly white. you've got people walking around with swastikas and hitler tattoos. it's like damn, this is their prison. >> jerald ritchie is exactly the kind of inmate wright tries to avoid. >> people like to dance around the racist word. do anything in the world to not be called a racist. i don't beat around the bush, i'm absol...

Girlfriend -- well, you can call her a girlfriend, female companion, whatever. yeah, i was pimping. so that's what i was doing from state to state, for income. i've got good communication skills. communication is my occupation. i'm talkative, i meet different people. believe it or not, a lot of people are looking to have a good time. my co-defendant, you know, was a pretty young lady and basically, you know, sells herself. sex is a good industry. >> reporter: wright's troubles began when he and his female companion met a potential john at their hotel. it was christmas eve. >> we went back to h...

Victim, and over the course of time, that became a part of my character. >> and recently wright's character was put to the test. >> he came back from recreation one night and noticed that his tv had been missing, so obviously he knew someone had took it. so he was pretty upset about that, as anybody would be. >> this is the penitentiary. are you serious? people [ bleep ] kill for that, for real, for real. >> surveillance video from the unit shows another inmate standing outside wright's cell. he then enters the cell and then seconds later exits with wright's television. the inmate then places ...

Half black, the battle he had to fight to get just where he's at, i figured it was a bold statement. >> while siverly might respect obama's battles, he is firm and he won't help black inmates in wabash with theirs. >> i'm not racist, but then again, i know where the lines are in here. so i know that if something goes down, just because i'm not racist doesn't mean if there's a race riot that they're not going to stab me too. i'm not going to arm a black so that a race riot can pop off at any time and all the blacks in the dorms got a knife and, you know, one or two white people's got a knife, s...