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Stressing, and it's hard to deal, but they know i'm locked up. they understand i'm just locked up, but i hate them having to know that i'm locked up. but i put myself here, and maybe me letting them know where i'm at and telling them how i feel about it will help them from having to come down this road that i do. >> gerald ritchie is only one week away from completing his two-year sentence. >> do the right thing. got it figured out. i got it licked. i got it licked, i promise. i'll get the opportunity to get out twice. got out and ended up coming back both times. i've got brothers in here, man...

I'm absolutely a racist. people like to say we're in a quote/unquote post-racial society and that race doesn't matter and that race is insignificant. if race didn't matter, there wouldn't be different races. all people ain't the same, you know? >> ritchie is four months away from completing a two-year sentence for intimidation of a peace officer. he is also a member of a prison gang called the saxon knights. >> they're both white supremacist organizations. they both share similar ideology in their cedes and in their oaths and in their by laws. >> that's another one right there that i'm most pr...

See these things, man, and i'm on the right track and doing the right thing, man. it makes me feel good. >> when weather permits, confinement inmates are allowed one hour of outdoor recreation. it's in a small cage-like enclosure, but it provides the one chance ritchie has to see friends, like brandon siverly. >> what's happening? >> just chilling. >> it's hot out. >> super hot. >> good we got out here in the afternoon, though. >> a lot better out in the afternoon. you don't get chance to see the sun a whole lot. >> ritchie, he's a really good dude. don't let anybody say you can't make friends...

This is how you're going to live and we're going to take these rules to the nth degree. >> ritchie says that even though he's in confinement for being one of three white inmates caught assaulting a black inmate, the fight was not racially motivated. but he admits his tattoos are. >> my swastika. even though it's not necessarily the best artistically, it's one of the ones that i'm most proud of, because it means the most on the whole. it's empowering and uplifting. it's a symbol, man. not only does it elicit a response from others, but it elicits a response from myself. that's what symbolism do...

General population. and i've given him multiple chances, so that's the reason i chose to place him in administrative segregation. >> ritchie feels the prison went too far, and during his interview had something to say to staff about it. >> with all due respect, you know, to you guys, you know, mind your business, man. mind your business, man. if i'm not killing this man or little joey down on the range ain't getting raped, man, just be cool, man. be cool. we don't want no trouble. we live here. >> ritchie claims the fight wasn't racially motivated, but over a small debt. >> it was over a coupl...