thank you. the assault has earned this inmate a 15-month cshu term. but reuben cruz who we last saw in a similar situation 17 stab wounds. and i came out with none. is now making himself at home on the sensitive needs yard. s.n.y. is just a name for honestly, i don t even know. you know? i love it. i honestly do. this is the first time that i could choose who i want to talk to, who i want to play basketball with. honestly, it s just a whole change of scenario. a whole change of lifestyle. it s better. honestly, it s a lot better. you know? this right here, as you can see, it is the same as general population, and the same people play basketball and people working out and people running their own program. they don t have to go through all of that other [ bleep ] that we used to go through before.
me a shank about that long, with a handle on it. and i just started stabbing him. stabbed him over 100 times, in the back, sides, neck, he was crying, telling me to stop, begging for me to stop. and he was still alive through all of it. that was one of my favorite ones right there, because he was a rapist, and i despise rapists, i cannot stand them. child molesters, rapists, the worst. in spite of his love of violence, robert eventually grew tired of the gang politics, and decided to drop out. he was transferred to the sensitive needs yard. they thought that all sny men were all equal. it s not the case. they celled me up with a convicted child molester, he molested his sister between the age of 8 and 14. so a couple of days later, i dealt with it.
for me, it was a hard, bumpy road. bad decisions have landed thousands of inmates in corcoran. that is the life i picked for myself, and it s really hard. in prison they ve got two choices, do their time and go home i ve got a baby brother who doesn t have anybody out there right now. if i go home and he can look up to that reporter: or become even more destructive on the inside. more crazy people in your cell, and crazy things happen. stabbings, killings, drugs, weapons. the path they choose could determine the difference between life and death. you take care of yourself, and the rest will fall into place. another alarm. i live on corcoran, 3c facility. it s a sensitive needs yard for
why is everybody looking at us, man? find you some business. while recreational options are limited on the sensitive needs yard, back in ad seg they re even more restricted. angel gets his first real human contact for the day when an officer escorts him out for his one-hour yard time. i thought you was coming with me. yeah. you got one open? like a dog pound. get an hour out here. it s better than nothing. but they put this because too many people getting stabbed. now what am i supposed to do? i don t need to work out in the yard. you don t work out because you don t want no one to see what you can do. so you keep the secret if you re
penetrated protective custody, at san quentin is referred to as the sensitive needs yard or sny. it is supposed to be gang free. a lot of guys go into sny not because they want to. a lot of these guys still want to be gangsters. many of these inmates come to sny because they violated gang rules and now need protection from gang retaliation. the easiest way to describe it is that even though you walked away from the gang, it doesn t change your gang mental state because what happens is that you ve already been trained by the gang. so it s easy, again, to reestablish yourself. it s a lot of them, they go into sny, they see these older inmates, weaker inmates and they band together again. whether as a formal gang, or dropout gangs or a group of four or five bigger guys that want to pressure other guys out of anything, money, clothing, food, anything they can get out of them. lieutenant munoz must now determine whether de la cruz is