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Someone came home, i laid in wait or whatever. they came through the garage door, i put the gun in their face, told them to shut up, sit on the couch, i finished robbing the house, left, and that was it. >> we had numerous off-camera conversations, but everything switched when it became an on-camera interview. there's a convict code that many of these guys have to live by. and part of that code is to not reveal too much information. the most challenging part of interviewing alejandro steele was when i started asking him about his most visible crime. >> that crime occurred while steele was serv...

They think that badge gives them power. that power can be stripped and taken away in a moment's notice. >> and you help them see? >> no, allegedly. >> yes, alejandro was playing a cat-and-mouse game, absolutely. part of it could have been the convict code not to reveal too much information, and part of it could have been the fact that he was kind of delighted to be out of his cell to be 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 get g...

His own business. he don't get off in other people's business. what he sees he keeps to himself. it's none of his business. inmates are one that would tell in a minute. they're rats. i'm a straight convict. 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 pe...

>> tell me what's going to be 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 ahea...

. i am a straight convict. i am not an unmate. >> robert spears was your typical convict. he lived by the convict code. he didn't blame anybody. he was a tough guy. >> when i came to prison. some people have been hurt, i have been hurt. that's a way of life here, spears has tangled with the ha most of his life. >> for one is that the time that i have lost, i regret leaving my