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Say nothing. you do your time and mind your business. we met one inmate who observed the convict code but was also open about being gay, and that's a combination you rarely find in prison. >> hi. all the men in there. hey! kenneth morgan is serving nine years for forgery and drug trafficking when we met him during our extended stay shoot at the penitentiary of new mexico. >> i told him i had more legs than a bucket of chicken. i do, i tell you. >> he was known to most of the prison by his nickname, peaches. >> you going to get a tattoo on your back? >> it says peaches all the way across the ba...

Inmates facing sanctions for rule violations. >> on this i'm going to try to get you suspended sanctions. >> while morgan lived in the minimum security level two section of the penitentiary of new mexico, he was awaiting transfer to an even less restrictive level one prison, commonly known as the farm. >> i told them, it's like disney land. oh, i'm going to disney land. go find a ride. >> the farm is a lot more freedom. it's four-foot fences. you know, you're pretty much on your own will. you do what you want to do, you know. it's all trust that you build up. >> peaches was told he had six mon...

Or what skbloo no i was telling him that he shouldn't have been doing that actually. >> all right so you can understand my concern, right. >> yes. >> later, morgan explained to us that the convict code demanded he proves innocence even in the face of evidence to the contrary. >> this is a prison i don't care if it's level one would be two or three or four, five or six i don't care what it is. it's the ethics. hear no evil speak no evil. i'm turning around and walk away. you know what i'm saying i'm turning around because i didn't see it. >> morgan was due to be held in segregation until an off...

Safety could come down to the inmate's own code known as the convict code. >> there are certain prisons where even when you've established a certain rapport with inmates they've made it very clear to me that if another inmate attacks me they will not come to my aide. that's against the convict code. other prisons inmates say they will protect me. i have been told they are watching me to make sure nobody hurts me. >> in certain high-security housing units lockup field teams are required by the prison to wear stab-proof vests before entering. >> the first time i put on a stab vest was in indiana...

After a fight in his dorm, surveillance video caught morgan trying to clean up the blood. >> you could be a firsthand witness to an actual crime, but if you live by the convict code, you see nothing, you hear nothing, and you say nothing, and that was the case unfortunately with peaches. he was witness to a crime. but he wouldn't cop to it. >> morgan was moved to the segregation unit pending an investigation into his role in the fight. but he denied any involvement, even when confronted by deputy warden jodi brown. >> hey. >> they said i was involved, jodi, and i wasn't involved. >> okay. but ...