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I threatened everybody in her family tree and this husband and her dog, too. When we shoot lockup extended stay, our crews film for four months inside a single prison. On the last day, its usually an easy day. Were doing something called broll or doing pickup shots, kind of exteriors. Most of the time were thinking about the flight home. But in prison, you never know who youre going to run into. In one such instance, the person we ran into was rick clapsy. He was serving a life sentence at the penitentiary of new mexico. It was our last day of filming, and we were getting some b roll of a part...

If i did that, that's what would happen. okay, phillip, if you keep running the streets and gang banging and using drugs you're going toned up in prison. that's what happened. you can only lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. you know what i'm saying? >> kirkpatrick was 13 years old when he joined a notorious hispanic gang, one that rarely admits caucasians. >> it doesn't matter if you're white, black, mexican, any kind of race, as long as you're down, as long as you're there for the cause and the struggle. as long as you're there for it. >> kirkpatrick says he relished gang li...

You need to get me out of here before something more serious happens. >> kirkpatrick turned his back on his gang. he requested a move to protective custody. reconnecting with his family was difficult. not only because he had rejected their advice in the past, but because most of them were now employed by the same system incarcerating him. >> phillip really floored us. it seemed that most of his family worked in corrections, and here he was an inmate. he started naming off one relative after another that worked in different california state prisons. >> my grandfather before he passed away was a...

>> surrounded by other gang dropouts in protective custody, kirkpatrick also began to realize that not only would his former gang take him out for making a mistake, they were never really the family he thought they were. >> don't nobody care about me. nobody from my neighborhood wrote me a letter. >> that's right. nobody from the neighborhood wrote you a letter. nobody cares no more. >> the only people that care is your moms. >> is your mom. and you only got one or two friends. >> while kirkpatrick still had challenges ahead of him inside san quentin, the biggest challenge he faced was outside...

[ bloop ] huh? hey? i paused it. bam, family time. so how is everyone? find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. in a world where relationships mean everything, 24-year-old phillip kirkpatrick had already managed to lose the two families he's ever known. >> i used to send letters to the streets with stamped envelopes saying, write me back, the address is right here. all you got to do is address and say [ bleep ] whatever. you know what i'm saying? never got any of that. >> we met phillip in san quentin prison in california. and he really stood out as this young kid in a...