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That idea, especially uncomfortable about having to give over their protection now, completely to the prison authorities. they were not able any more to rely on their gang for protection. >> do i feel safe? you never can feel safe in a prison environment. i don't depend on prison administration to protect me. yeah, they're going to take steps to sure we're secure. but at the same time i'm going to fall back on what i learned in prison to make it in here. >> in some ways you feel like you hung up your balls. now you have to rely on the administration to handle things in a way you learned to han...

Previously on the main yard would have been trying to kill each other. but now, we're all mixing -- there were books, there were counseling sessions, a much less tense atmosphere from the rest of the prison. the irony, though, is that some of them still carry this weight of being snitches, of having divulged information to the prison authorities. >> i just seen a lot of the people that were involved with the nazi low riders starting to debrief. i used to look down on it, because i grew up thinking that child molesters, rapers and snitches were all in the same category. >> many of them still we...

Quality about him. a little surprising to see in a prison environment. came out of prison as a teenager. and almost as if something stopped in him at that age. >> drake's teen years were troubling. and he frequently ran away from home. everything they taught me. i learned. i didn't like home work. i didn't like going. >> running away, eventually led drake to murder. he shot and killed a man known for giving troubled teens including himself and some of his friend a place to stay. drake testified in court he killed the man in self defense. >> i didn't really intend to kill him so much. he had my...

With inmates and other times they're part of a sanctioned rescue program like the one at indiana state prison. >> introduce me to your friend. >> this is cletus. he's 16 months old. they said we can adopt cats from the humane society, so i adopted this one. >> benjamin ritchie was in for a pretty horrendous crime. he's on death row. death row is a very dark, depressing place. but when he started playing with his cat, cletus, there's some kind of bonding. there's a display of affection that you would never normally see in a prison environment. >> you wouldn't believe what a cat would do. i'm no...

If it's cold, that line to get in the school, will be out the door. so no, i don't agree. the any of you have friends have guns or arm themselves to feel safe? >> no, not at all. >> so this notion that the gun is the solution is not true? >> not at all. >> so what makes you feel safe at school? >> personally, my school is not so much an education environment, it's more like a prison environment, like dennis said. i have a clear plastic backpack, i have to put it on a conveyor belt, walk through a metal detector, get searched, all of that. and that in itself does not make me feel safe in school...