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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 attracted to young women. god forbid. 99% of us are. >> ho...

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 knife, and the other inmates know that hey, this guy's no good, they call him trash. >> we even met a pair of brothers who...

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And to hear it, to know it -- i know i'm here for it. that charge. but it's just still sickening. next on "lockup: raw" -- >> i want to go home with her. >> yeah, i'm taking this one home to the country. >> the convict code takes on a new dimension when the inmates are women. >> we call it bulldagging, women relationships here, that's a slang word for bulldagging, and that's two women together. e up in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it's hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of t...

Due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. the vast majority of prisons we visited over the years have been male institutions. but when we've taken our cameras inside women's prisons, we've met inmates living by a very different convict code. >> the biggest difference between male and female inmates and how they get along with each other is basically looked at in two ways. one, male inmates tend to find gangs to get involved with. it's their kind of security blanket and protection. on the other hand, females find it through interpersonal relationships.