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Aside for inmates who are requesting protective custody. the inmate has to notify us, he has to request to be placed in protective custody. from that point we ask him to go ahead and draw up or write his autobiography, detailing his involvement with the gangs from the street to the county jails to the prisons, and back out to the street. anything he's been involved in, anything he's witnessed. everything. right now there's quite a few inmates that are dropping out. you know, they're realizing there's no future in these gangs. >> because gang dropouts become immediate targets to the former gang...

Requesting protective custody. the inmate has to notify us, he has to request to be placed in protective custody. from that point we ask him to go ahead and draw up or write his autobiography, detailing his involvement with the gangs from the street to the county jails to the prisons, and back out to the street. anything he's been involved in, anything he's witnessed. everything. right now there's quite a few inmates that are dropping out. you know, they're realizing there's no future in these gangs. >> because gang dropouts become immediate targets to the former gang, the debrief process must...

>> the information provided by former gang members, like inmate spiller, is used to identify and track high-ranking gang leaders inside the prison. it has also proved invaluable to law enforcement. >> they've actually solved homicides on the streets that they had no suspects on through the debrief process. >> debriefing is not enough to destroy the vise grip of prison gangs at corcoran. >> it's just one tool from breaking some of these gang members up from the gang. because for every one inmate that debriefs you have ten in line waiting to get into the gang. >> since our last visit here, offic...

To return to the united states, where he hasn't been for a very, very long time? >> he needs to meld medically and emotionally get his act together and he'll do that. the next stage, unfortunate, because it probably won't take place you want his buddies in combat loonk back up with him. we're getting discordant voices he probably had challenges, maybe the unit had challenges. it is all about leadership. you'd love to have that leadership embrace him coming back. i'm not saying that's going to take place, but we need to make sure that he is also part of a debrief process so that we can extract ...

Gang, the debrief process must occur in secret. usually an inmate will pass a kite to the officers who will remove the inmate from their cell under the guise of something like a medical checkup. >> you want to disassociate yourself -- >> to be honest, i got tired of all the corruption. i seen a lot of bad calls and innocent people getting hurt. and seeing too many people doing things they didn't want to do, being forced to do. it's like the higher you go up, the more you see. >> the debrief process takes months, sometimes even years. because the igi must verify the truth of an inmate's autobio...