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>> you know why? because they said i have to -- i had to be there -- i had to i was in custody. they said i had too go to their -- their dui class 21 days after my -- after my release from the court date. and i never got released because i got four days time served and got a violation here. so i was never out to make it over there. i figured they would take care of it. i guess they didn't. >> it looks like it's going to be a ride home. $20,000 bail. they're misdemeanors. you're not going to get any more prison time for them. so know county is going to pick you up. we never tell you exactly whe...

Originally designed to house just over 3,000 inmates, san quentin is now home to more than 5,000. the overcrowding has forced the prison to convert every extra square foot into living space, creating dangerous environments for its inmates and officers. >> right now. >> down here, the dangers are pretty good. i'm left-handed. it's an open environment. >> gentlemen. >> there's right now, i have six staff members. >> [ muted ]. >> you're doing a good job. >> breaking all my rights. >> another job be. >> almost all the individuals down here are parole violators, been out on parole, couldn't hack i...

Because i was literally fighting every day, every single day of my life i was fighting. the homies already knew, romeo, he throw down. i thought let me start carrying this knife. let me start carrying this pistol. and it took one day and all of about three or four seconds for me to pull my pistol out on somebody that could have easily just fought, whooped them and been done with it, and i pulled a gun on this man and shot him six times in his chest because he liked the color blue. you're 15, right? >> yeah. >> do you want to come to jail at 15 years old? do you want to come to prison and have ...

>> different counties and different cities but this brings us all together as one. >> it's a show of unity. everybody it's. we don't have to eat, but that's how you show love. >> it's anyone's table. we're just playing a game here. >> but i mean, there's just certain races that you can play games with right here. and for white people, it's, what is it, ami, american indians. that's pretty much about it, ain't it? there's three separate types of mexicans and we can sit with terranos and pisces. don't ask me why. but we can't play with the black folks. i would get beat up. you'd get in a fight o...

From that point forward, then that's when you start to realize you're really on death row. a lot of people can't deal with it so they commit suicide. or they become introverts. and they start to go crazy. my case was overturned in 2003 for a violation. so i was sent back to the county jail to have a new trial. i lost the trial again and they hung on the death penalty. so they decided after about several months not to refile the death penalty. so they sent me back to san quentin. it feels good to be off death row, but it hasn't sunk in yet. you know, it will in time but it hasn't yet. they remo...