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If we keep them all locked down. so it gives the cops a chance to see how the other inmates are interacting with each other. it gives the cops a chance to interact with the other inmates. it isn't like that all the time. it's just how you conduct yourself among the inmates and how the inmates perceive your actions. but at any given time, at any given moment, something could go wrong. all it takes is just something to let it off and it becomes a forest fire. >> though the staff believes they've resolved the current situation with the southern hispanics, the politics of race-based prison gangs w...

Through being in the mainline to avoid having to go through anything like this. i get there and i go through it anyway. >> do you understand what happened today? >> yeah. >> okay. what's happening? >> you guys are validating me for something. you guys are saying i done but i didn't do nothing. you guys are saying i have been destructive. what have i been out there that has made me destructive? why am i being validated for it if i haven't done anything wrong? >> an investigation, obviously you understand you did receive your lockup order explaining the reasons for your placement in ad seg. did ...

Go ahead and handle what they're asked to do or what they're told to do. >> something like this is going to help us validate those inmates we take them off the active gp facilities, put them over in the shu where there's a more controlled setting for them. which protects staff and inmates. >> these are the heavy duty inmates that we want to get off the yard, because they're heavily involved in that criminal activity. >> in addition to the prison gangs, the officers in corcoran also have street gangs to deal with, the most violent and unpredictable of all, the bulldogs. >> the bulldog street ga...

>> for a level one yard, we're hard on these guys. this is where we have all the workers for corcoran. our northern inmate population seems pretty active, we're trying to combat that right now. these are really hard to find. >> there's codes of conduct, it's like respect yourself and others. treat everyone equally. have a positive attitude, be well mannered. the last code of conduct is no fraternizing with the canine or enemy, which is us. >> these are handed over to the igi. it's up to this elite group of officers to monitor gang activity on all the yards in corcoran. >> we folk us on the pri...

Do they have a history of conducting gang-related activity. strong-arming in the units. group assaults, things of that kind of nature. in conjunction with their tattoos and that history, we can establish whether or not the guy is a gang member. >> raymond diaz is up front about his gang-related tattoos. >> the stuff i got on me, a lot of it is gang related. they call them like stamps, you know. everything was done behind bars with a staple. we don't use fancy needles and all that. the main part on my chest, it's the blast and that's for dongo blast. it's probably one of the biggest prison gang...