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>> your name came up in a report, victor. you don't know the report we're talking about? roughly 20 days ago? no, someone else was in fair view. the report says that this guy fears that you and a bunch of other inmates are basically strong arming him and other inmates and that you're ex-mexican mafia. you have a history of being identified as a gang member in the past. the thing is, there's 44 units in that unit. why would he do that? >> i don't know who he is. >> it doesn't matter who he is. the point is he identified you. we want to go ahead and try to weed out the major prison gangs from ge...

The inmates are the population of the small city, and correctional officers are the police force for that small city. >> a specialized group of officers is responsible for monitoring gang activity. this is the investigative services unit or isu. >> i've been spending a lot of time challenging isu to get out and take the lead. be the spear tip out there to challenge gangsters and tell them, you can't do that on our yard. >> we're tasked to cover anything that affects institutional security. gang activity, in-prison drug trafficking, responding to disturbances, crime scene investigations. prison...

A certain request is done, they 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 bu...

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 prison

With the life sentence that i'm in prison for right now. but, i'm in here because i was a member of the snm and now i declare i'm on my own, the state is not going to let me out to the population because they are not sure if i'm going to get hurt or they're not sure if i'm manipulating to them or lying to them. as a result, i'm stuck. good or bad. still ahead, convinced he'll never reach general population in new mexico, federico files for an out-of-state transfer. >> i've done that i've signed that form about five or six times over the last year. >> they continue their crackdown on prison g...