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Two? what have you been feeling? >> i feel like the world's been lifted off my shoulders. i had so much responsibility. i was always concerned about everybody else and what i had to 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 respe...

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 calls this yard home. >> it's a cesspo...

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. it's not structured, we're not

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 on me. think about $250 a month. i take care of the whole building as far as the electrical, ...

Been for your phase one, phase two? what have you been feeling? >> i feel like the world's been lifted off my shoulders. i had so much responsibility. i was always concerned about everybody else and what i had to 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 pas...