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Supposed to be gang-free. >> it's called the sensitive needs yard, sny. it's where gang dropouts or sex offenders or high-risk inmates go for their own safety. but even here gangs can spring up, and we found one of the most unorthodox gangs. they call themselves gbg, the gay boy gangsters. >> it's a group of men that are gay, that are not transgender, and who are gay men who like men who do not want to be a woman. okay. that's it. >> how much clout do you guys have? >> we're pretty thick actually. we're pretty much respected. we don't get into fights. we don't get into that sort of thing, but ...

Take my line. i have to make another one. >> shoot it out. >> but our producer was about to find out that there was a far more dramatic story surrounding inmate washington. >> i was on suicide watch last week and i just came back last week. >> why? what happened? >> they was trying to send me somewhere i didn't want to be. >> so what did you do? >> i cut my wrist with a razor blade. >> washington went on to explain that he cut his wrist to prevent the prison from transferring him to the sensitive needs yard or sny. it's a place most inmates want nothing to do with. >> sensitive needs yard is b...

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. i took my boxers apart and took the string out and braided it up and on either end i put a slip knot and rolled up two socks and waited one night while we were watching tv. i picked a fight with him. once he stood up, i put him in a dual choke hold. he was already passed out. i put the garrote around his neck and killed him. i put my f...

>> i live on corcoran, 3c facility. it's a sensitive needs yard for inmates that cannot program around the general population inmates. people with sex crimes, child molesters, gang dropouts and people like myself that have testified. my path to prison started when i began selling drugs in little rock, arkansas. three years after selling drugs, i ended up going with a buddy. not really a murder-for-hire, but we were supposed to beat a guy up really bad and make it look like a robbery. i told my father about it later on that night, and six months later, my father called me on

Have to go by the regs. so you got any questions? >> no. >> okay. 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,...