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>> was this d.a. stabbed? >> according to court documents and papers. >> what was the evidence against you? >> i don't know. that i was in the courtroom, that i witnessed it from the jury, the transport officers, my own lawyer, and the witnesses in the case all pointed the finger at me and said i did it. >> and you're saying? >> i had nothing to do with it. >> where were you? >> i was in my cell. >> all right. alejandro, how on earth do you really say that? you're a smart guy. you physically know where you were, everybody saw where you were, right? >> no. i had nothing to do with it. >> what d...

Of trouble. >> i never had to face consequences, so i figured i was pretty much untouchable. and i rebelled against them being so straight and i went crooked bad. >> steele's rebellion culminated in a 60-year sentence for residential burglaries, armed robbery and false imprisonment. >> i was robbing a house, boom, someone came home, i laid in wait and they came to the garage door, and i told them to sit on the couch, i finished robbing the house and left and that was it. >> we had numerous off-camera conversations, but everything switched when it became an on-camera interview. there's a convic...

That i witnessed it from the jury, the transport officers, my own lawyer, and the witnesses in the case all pointed the finger at me and said i did it. >> and you're saying? >> i had nothing to do with it. >> where were you? >> i was in my cell. >> all right. alejandro, how on earth do you really say that? you're a smart guy. you physically know where you were, everybody saw where you were, right? >> no. i had nothing to do with it. >> what do you admit here? >> i admit to being prison number 508507 and admit to my mistakes i made to come to prison. >> steele was convicted of attempted murder ...

>> about 90% of the staff they get working here are the people who got picked on in school. they come over here and now it's payback time. they think that badge gives them power, that badge is only an illusion of power. that power can be stripped and taken away in a moment's notice. >> and you help them see? >> no, allegedly. >> yes, alejandro was playing a cat and mouse game, absolutely. part of it it could have been the convict code not to reveal too much information, and part of it could very have been the fact that he was kind of delighted to be out of his cell and able to have this exchan...

Door, and i told them to sit on the couch, i finished robbing the house and left and that was it. >> we had numerous off-camera conversations, but everything switched when it became an on-camera interview. there's a convict code that many of these guys have to live by. and part of that code is to not reveal too much information. the most challenging part of interviewing alejandro steele was when i started asking him about his most visible crime. >> that crime occurred while steele was serving his original sentence and got him an additional 23 years. it was an assault that he carried out litera...