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>> at utah state prison, staff estimates that almost 1,000 inmates, roughly one-quarter of the prison population, are active gang members. >> we are around our rivals all day. anything can happen to me. >> stick with your gang. stick with who you know and where you're safe. >> it's not a gang, it's not an organization. being a skinhead is a way of life. >> it's not illegal to belong to a gang. however, when those gangs start becoming involved in criminal activity, then we will separate those gangs. and we will classify them as a security threat group. >> usp security threat group, or stg, was ...

Crap that they do, people are going to look at us bad. >> at utah state prison, staff estimates that almost 1,000 inmates, roughly one-quarter of the prison population, are active gang members. >> we are around our rivals all day. anything can happen to me. >> stick with your gang. stick with who you know and where you're safe. >> it's not a gang, it's not an organization. being a skinhead is a way of life. >> it's not illegal to belong to a gang. however, when those gangs start becoming involved in criminal activity, then we will separate those gangs. and we will classify them as a security t...

Wow! and are you going to bring me some clothes, right? i'm happy, too, mom. i'm going to make this quick and make sure that you come on friday after -- at 4:00, that way you can be waiting there for me. i love you and i'll see you soon. okay. bye. four more days and a wake up and i'll be home. i'm going home to my mother. i'm going to parole over there. everybody is happy. i'm just really scared. still ahead, happy is what they call short to the door. he's not a free man, yet. >> you never know what's going to happen. >> plus, the threat of a gang attack wears on staff. >> it's taking it's ...

Stg, was formed in 2001 after five inmates were stabbed in a massive gang attack. >> it was almost to the point where, if an inmate came in, he almost had to join a gang just for protection. it was at that time that we realized that we need to do something to try to curb gang activity within our prison system before it led to a violent nature. >> captain darren smith is the head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangs inside the prison. >> we have our hispanic gangs, which basically fall under southern cal or southern hispanic or northern cal, northern hispanic. we h...

And we will classify them as a security threat group. >> usp security threat group, or stg, was formed in 2001 after five inmates were stabbed in a massive gang attack. >> it was almost to the point where, if an inmate came in, he almost had to join a gang just for protection. it was at that time that we realized that we need to do something to try to curb gang activity within our prison system before it led to a violent nature. >> captain darren smith is the head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangs inside the prison. >> we have our hispanic gangs, which basicall...