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Have stayed on the main line. >> most of these people out on this yard, they could die right there, and i would watch them die. i don't care about them. when i came to this yard, i surrendered a lot of stuff. you know what i moon? my name is gone, i had a good name in prison. i was always respected. i lost all that. i don't care about that. what i care about now is me, timmy duncan. i don't like those people, but i don't have to associate with them. i can't tell you ten people's names, i've been in this building two years. i go to work 13 hours a day, i put the blinders on and i have to focus ...

With everybody. we don't get along with the north, we don't get along with the south, the blacks, whites. before they get us, we get them. i was on the yard and i stabbed a white guy like 17 times or whatever. and from there they took me to ad seg, i stabbed another white guy. that's what got me here. >> one challenge for corcoran's officers dealing with the bulldogs is a lack of a figure head. needing no permission to start fights, violence is just their way of life. >> we don't have no bulldogs that are validated. we're a street gang. they consider us a street gang.

So large, no part of the prison is safe from the politics. before officer garcia and the igi staff consider putting former gang members together on the sny, they must be convinced dropouts are sincere in their desire to leave the gang lifestyle behind. after the debriefing interviews have been conducted and the inmates have been approved, they move into the integrated yard program. >> this is phase two. what they have to do, is come over to this yard. it's an integrated yard program. they're going out to the yard with everybody that they used to, you know, consider their enemies. they all go o...

Do following these rules and regulations and all that of the circle. >> you've had the opportunity to be out there on the yard with other inmates in the same type of situation. how's that feel being amongst other inmates? >> it's good. it's good. one of my -- one of my best friends is an ex-associated member and another is an ex-nlr member. those are two of my best friends. in the past, even though we're on a respectful level, we're all enemies. >> i want to thank you for coming in here and speaking with us. being open with us, whatnot. we all wish you good luck. >> because of my situation i h...

No longer want to play in the politics of the gp yard. it's an interesting mixture, you'll get a lot of old time heavy duty gangsters who have gotten too old and don't want to be involved any more along with those sexual predators. >> the peculiar mix of inmates isn't celebrated by everyone. we ran into an inmate who dropped out of the aryan brotherhood gang who reluctantly calls this yard home. >> it's a cesspool of society on in yard. child killers and all of that. if i had known it was like this before i came out here, i would have stayed on the main line. >> most of these people out on thi...