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His crimes were not against a child or of a sexual nature against a woman and 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. >> the pasco status as a convict was threatened by another distinction in prison's complicated social structure. >> are those animals out so we can go eat? feeding time at the zoo. >> we were interviewing cephis at his cell. and he was awaiting the bell for chow hall. he came out. he was w...

And escalated. >> vasquez says he was honoring the long-standing convict code which says snitches should be punished. >> telling them something about somebody else, technically it is snitching. he kept calling me a bitch. when we started to beef over lunch. and i was like you a bitch man. what the [ bleep ] you say to the detectives. >> that was the right thing for me to, do was to tell. if anybody -- if anybody do anything to anybody's food they deserve to be told on. >> it wasn't a real thing. it was a joke. i mean, if anybody else would have said that in that pod, if they were giving their ...

She's very educated, very knowledgeable and wealthy. 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 him out of trouble. >> i never had to face consequences, so i figured i was pretty much untouchable. and i rebelled against them being so straight and i went crooked bad. >> steele's rebellion culminated in a 60-year sentence for residential burglaries, armed robbery and false imprisonment. >> i was robbing a house, boom, someone came home, i laid in wait and they c...

Snitch. >> so he was moved down to here to get away from that pod because he had informed on them up there, and when he came down here he kind of was bragging about that incident and how he came forward and gave us the information, and vasquez said, well, you're a snitch. started from there. and escalated. >> vasquez says he was honoring the long-standing convict code which says snitches should be punished. >> telling them something about somebody else, technically it is snitching. he kept calling me a bitch. when we started to beef over lunch. and i was like you a bitch man. what the [ bleep ...

That was not wrong at all. >> tolbert had been housed in the same unit as jeremy merithew. he was the first to report merithew's comments about the sandwiches to officers. >> extra mayonnaise, that's what i said. >> but in the eyes of some inmates that made tolbert a snitch. >> so he was moved down to here to get away from that pod because he had informed on them up there, and when he came down here he kind of was bragging about that incident and how he came forward and gave us the information, and vasquez said, well, you're a snitch. started from there. and escalated. >> vasquez says he was h...