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We're headed over to c facility. it's a full programming yard. it's dropouts. people would have problems on the gp yard. mixture of some sex offenders. people who dropped out of gangs. 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

Bulldogs. >> the bulldog street gang originated in fresno, that group of hispanic population not being from southern california, not being from northern california, they affiliated or they joined together with the intent of not being governed by any other prison gang. >> bulldogs they're not as organized as your other gangs. they don't have the leadership in their organization. their rule of thumb is, that majority rules. if there's issues on the yard they have to try to resolve, the bulldogs would get together and take a boat, if you will. and the majority rules to go with that, there's no se...

Which, you know, he teaches you how to do all your warfare tactics and your weaponry, and then you got your kill squad. once you learn all that, you learn the pressure points on the body, where to hit them, how much inches to the heart, hit them in the jugular vein, the main vital arteries, right? you learn all of them. the weapons, you learn which weapons to effect a kill. an effective kill in the yard you get a metal piece. goes straight to the heart, and it sticks to the bone before you go too far. then have you other weapons like spears, right, crossbows, right, they don't really do no dam...

For the rest of the night. >> clearly the gang problem is 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 that 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, and it's an integrated yard program. now they're going out to the yard with everyb...

I'm always a target. little it is nerve-racking to do next door. it can be cool one day, if you have to go out on a bad day, he found out about my charge, he'd just go off on me, it's nerve-racking. it keeps you on, you know, toes every day. other than that, it's [ bleep ]'d up. other than that, if no one finds out for 9 years, 3 months, i may be able to fool them, but i highly doubt that. next on "lockup, extended stay" -- a rare glimpse into the process of dropping out of a gang, where an inmate risks his life by giving up vital information to officers. >> you learn which weapons to use to...