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35-year-to-life sentence for second-degree robbery. >> there's a process that we have to go through. first of all, you have to turn over any weapons and refrain from associating with any of your former gang member friends. list everything that i've done and all my activities. hits i've ordered, hits i've done, who sponsored me into the gang, so on and so forth. >> state your neighbor and number for the committee. you are here for your cdc annual. we have some question about your request to debrief. >> deputy warden marv mesky, social worker janelle johnson and captain nate dill have to decide ...

I told her, be strong, and you'll get through this. it's a learning experience. i am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation. she shot me a little glossy, i cuddle with it at night. no, i'm just kidding. once an inmate is validated as a gang member in corcoran, they have a choice, stay in the gang or drop out and debrief. our officers were allowed to follow officer garcia into the debrief process. >> there's one building set aside for inmates who are requesting protective custody.

Freedom. the iyp is a small taste of what's to come. after over a decade in the shu, inmate angel chaves looks forward to a more interactive prison program. >> i feel like i got let down by the familia. the situation was, i was doing time for the familia. i've asked for assistance. i'm not going to specify what assistance. i asked for assistance to handle business for me because i was in the business for them. >> sure. >> and they never came through although they said they would. at that point, i felt like, what's the point of this? >> since you've entered the debriefing process, up until now ...

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 occur in secret. usually an in...

Interview, there's going to be several other interviews we conduct with you. >> the debriefing process means severing all ties with the gang member's affiliation. >> i'm a drug habit. whatever i have to do to support my drug habit. >> the sentence i'm on right now, three strike case. i'm doing life for a $20 bag of meth. it was like i had to establish myself in order to survive basically, and one aspect of doing that was to associate myself with a gang, a prison gang. a strong prison gang, which was the aryan brotherhood, it's something you don't just grab on to, you have to earn that. you hav...