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A way to become someone else. every chance i got, i took. >> after years of taking classes, brook finally found a skill that could make him money. >> this is a certificate from the blackstone career institute as a paralegal and legal assistant. >> brook is a jailhouse lawyer. a position like this can be very lucrative behind bars, but success is based entirely on how many inmates you work with. >> he's pretty good at it. i've known him for about four years. he's pretty sharp. i pick his brain whenever i get the chance. >> this job has cost brook his anonymity on the yard, making it harder to k...

Assaulting and murdering his victim. the sexual nature of his crime may be the reason brook was so hesitant to show his papers. if his story leaks onto the yard, he could be a target for violence. suddenly, a small riot erupts in the yard, and inmate brook is involved. >> all i really know is that it appears that somehow or another it got out into the yard that he was a sex offender, and was confronted by a group of inmates and got into a fight around that. >> the brawl sends brook and the other white inmates involved to solano administrative segregation unit, otherwise known as the hole.

Crime, but admitting to sexually assaulting his victim is risky. the members in the group have agreed to total confidentiality, but with a crime this taboo, he still runs the risk of having his story make its way to the yard. >> he was really armored. he was very apprehensive that his crime was -- especially the sexual aspect of it, in here is a touchy subject. guys who do that kind of thing, that was -- he showed a lot of trust in the group to have shared that with us. >> it's been three weeks since ronald brook admitted to assaulting and murdering his

They have never been before. >> i think sometimes they try to protect us, and we don't see the reality of what it is here, and, yeah, this is a really hard place to be. >> administrative segregation is a prison within the prison. this area houses inmates who are under investigation, as well as inmates in protective custody who can't live with the general population. >> it's different than what i thought, in some ways, and it's also -- i don't know, it feels very -- it's a very oppressive feeling atmosphere. >> like the rest of the prison yard, the hole has its own social hierarchy. in here, it...

>> gloves is the biggest thing, you know. everybody carries gloves on them, and any time you've got to put your hands on an inmate, you're going to have some medical gloves on. >> these officers are trained to be prepared to handle any situation. it's not only accidental contact with infected blood that poses a threat. at any moment the peaceful prison yard can turn into a killing field. >> ever heard of the calm before the storm? that's what it is. if it gets quiet out there, start looking around. >> suddenly a fight erupts on the yard. two inmates in the same gang have gone down in a bloody ...