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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 ] you say to the detectives. >> that was the right thing for me to...

About that incident and how he came forward and gave us the information, and vazquez 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. >> you don't tell something about someone else. technically it is snitching. he kept calling me a bitch. we start, you know, had lunch and i was like, you a bitch, man. [ bleep ], the detectives. >> that was the right thing for me to do, was to tell them. if anybody -- if anybody do anything to anybody, they deserve to be told on. >> it wasn't a ...

To extend the convict code to their own father. >> my father was in here for -- i don't know the exact charge, but he was in here for messing with kids. and, you know, i ain't cool with that. brad and michael love are serving time for murder at animosa state penitentiary in iowa. >> i was never incarcerated with him. when i found out he was getting incarcerated, what he did time for, what he's charged for, they asked if there are any problems if we're in the same prison. i said, yeah, i probably would end up killing him. i cannot condone that. >> "lockup" has profiled many inmates who spew hat...

>> but perez left us with a piece of advice for any inmate thinking about joining a gang. >> my advice to him is to rug two things -- one is that he's not in control of his life because as long as he's a part of this gang, there's someone he has to answer to. whether he believes he's his own man, that's a myth. because someone's running his program. so he can walk with his head puffed up, his chest out and everything and think he's really badass, but he's going to follow orders just like anyone else. for every badass, there's someone badder. coming up on "lockup: raw" -- >> i'm a man that is...

In every prison profiled on "lockup" our producers have found subtle differences in how inmates enforce the convict code or the unwritten rules by which they live, but one aspect rarely changes -- the position of sex offenders on the inmate hierarchy. >> murderers, robbers, they're up here. child molesters, rapists, they're down here. them guys on the bottom deck, most of them guys are sex offenders, you know? i don't like them. i just tolerate them. i used to beat them. i used to prey on them. >> they normally mark the sexual predators by cutting them across the face with a razor blade or a k...