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Different when you go out next year. when you are released from prison next year, what will be different? >> what will be different? well, i have one choice, to live, be out there with my children again, my family. or come back in. or be dead in the ghetto. that's all i can say. and i have to do it. i have to do it. i can't come back. i'm 39, i'm getting too old for this, too old. i can't do this no more. i can't do it. coming up -- >> get the cable fixed. >> an old con teaches a new arrival a thing or two about the convict code. >> what did i tell you? way ahead of time, leave that alone, l...

I'm not an inmate. >> robert spears was your typical convict. he had done a lot of time. he had lived very distinctly by the convict code and he was very accepting of his situation. he didn't complain. he didn't blame anybody. he was a tough guy. >> when i came to prison, i was a kid. i had to do what i had to do to survive and i'm not proud of the things sometimes that i had to do. some people has to be hurt, i've been hurt. you know what i mean? but that's just the way of life here. >> spears has tangled with the law for most of his life and is serving 28 years for dealing a controlled subst...

Different? >> what will be different? well, i have one choice, to live, be out there with my children again, my family. or come back in. or be dead in the ghetto. that's all i can say. and i have to do it. i have to do it. i can't come back. i'm 39, i'm getting too old for this, too old. i can't do this no more. i can't do it. coming up -- >> get the cable fixed. >> an old con teaches a new arrival a thing or two about the convict code. >> what did i tell you? way ahead of time, leave that alone, let god take care of that. it ain't your business to take care of that, man.

>> and you help them see? >> no, allegedly. >> yes, alejandro was playing a cat and mouse game, absolutely. part of it it could have been the convict code not to reveal too much information, and part of it could very well have been the fact that he was kind of delighted to be out of his cell and able to have this exchange and kind of get people going. >> but eventually, steele came clean about the attack on the d.a. >> couple months before -- a month before, i knew he was the one that was going to. when they told the jury all rise, i saw that that was my opportunity and i stabbed him in the ch...

A good family compared to a lot of the families i hear about in here. my dad's a retired naval officer. he retired from the navy and joined the national guard, retired from the national guard and then started going to the county for a job. he retired as the county jail administrator. my mom, she's a secretary. she's very educated, very knowledgeable about things. she quit her job to stay home with me so that i would have someone there for when i got home from school. do my homework, make sure i do what i had to do. >> but that didn't keep steele out of trouble. >> i never had to face consequen...