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Be enemies. they are former gang members, gay men and accused sex offenders. >> they all sit together and it's -- it's very powerful. >> trust me this is not happening in other houses. but it is happening here. so you ought to be grateful to god he allowed you to be a part of what's happening here. >> they put aside race. they put aside what their crimes and classifications are. the things you just don't see in this institution. >> jimmy silva, known as jimbo is a gang dropout who in the past has followed the convict code that virtually requires inmates to assault accused sex offenders. >> wha...

>> by cephis saying he was a convict, he was basically saying his crimes were not against a child or of a sexual nature against a woman, and he lives by the convict code, which in prison is a big deal. >> the laws of the convict is you don't respect others, you don't steal, you pay your debts, you can never become a punk or a bitch. i've done that. my reputation is clean. >> but pacific pasco's status as a convict was threatened by another distinction in prison's complicated social structure. >> are those animals out so we can go eat? feeting time at the zoo. >> we were interviewing cephis at ...

Tattoo trade took them from trail blazers to targets among fellow inmates. inman got the message in no uncertain terms. >> apparently another inmate or two went into his cell and put some knots on his head and said don't be giving us anymore heat over here. we seen inman a day or two later, of course, he won't tell what happened or what it was over or anything like that, because that's a convict code. but we know what it was over. i got enough people out there telling me what it was over. >> and now things are about to heat up even more for inman as the prison disciplinary board takes up his c...

Uncertain terms. >> apparently another inmate or two went into his cell and put some knots on his head and said don't be giving us any more heat over here. we've seen inman a day or two later, brought him to medical, and of course he won't tell what happened or what it was over or anything like that because that's the convict code. but we know what it was over. i got enough people out there telling me what it was over. >> and now things are about to heat up even more for inman as the prison disciplinary board takes up his case. >> he has been charged with tattooing or possession of tattoo para...

>> got the blood out of my shoes. that's why i stopped fighting because i seen blood on my shoes. >> two weeks after his brutal stabbing, ellerman has returned to general population. >> i was stabbed ten times. i think i won the fight, he won the war. >> stafford received a year in the hole despite ellerman's refusal to cooperate with the investigation. it's all part of the convict code. >> i'm a convict. you don't tell nothing. that's just the way it is. i mean i've got to live here the rest of my life. i don't want anybody thinking that i'm weak, that i'm going to talk, that i'm going to say...