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It ain't about bringing you happiness. it's about you want to be on the higher level than the average person. you want to be somebody that you are not made to be. >> education is the key, it's getting your ged, going to trade school or going to college. i mean, the biggest factor that will tell whether or not you come back to prison or not is education. >> program director eric courtney oversees the program that puts rival gang members side by side. >> what kind of things do you want to teach your daughter that maybe your father wasn't around to teach you? what kind of things different do you ...

Different in rival gangs, but they're really more similar than they are different. >> i got a little brother. if he got locked up i feel like i was a bad role model, because he followed in my footsteps. >> me, too. i was very nervous. i feel scared on the inside. on the outside i try to make myself look tough to go and let them know i wasn't playing games and it wasn't what i thought it would be. >> we found our own respect up in here. and we feel that we got to do something in life besides just killing each other. we just got to find a way to throw the gang in the trash and become something i...

Along. but not everybody thinks that way. there's other gangs that just don't -- just don't want to get along. >> felix solis is a member of occ, ogden's craziest chicanos, a local utah gang. he's serving 11 months for possession of a controlled substance. >> i've never seen so much gang all in one place before. if you're gang-banging, and you're down for your set, you're down for it, no matter what it takes. >> you can tell any time something's going on. any time there's any type of issue or anything like that, the section will split apart. >> certain words will be said. there's some obvious ...

One reason or another. and you stick them all together, some people do get along, some people don't. >> it has its ups and downs. rival gangs bring problems from the streets in here. that brings problems for everybody in here. you know. >> part of getting along you have to learn how to be a human being and put your hate behind you. >> so there's always this kind of uneasy truce. but for the most part, if they have respect for each other and each other's space, then there's usually not a problem. >> while segregated from the rest of the general population, within this unit the inmates are integ...

From rival gangs have already caught the attention of the bexar county jail's gang intelligence division. >> you got a guy that you have a child with but you're writing to somebody else as well? correct? >> one of the letters written to perales was intercepted by mail room staff, who suspected it might contain gang codes. now, she has some new trouble. >> perales? since the last time we spoke to her we did a background check in the facility and her last incarceration, involved in a report, she was an aggressor, and accusing the inmate of being an informant in reference to some narcotics that m...