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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 want to do with yours? >> teach her to get an education. >> in general population, gd, and the vice boards, they wouldn't associate, they would be against each other, they wouldn't talk. in her...

And the vice boards, they wouldn't associate, they would be against each other, they wouldn't talk. in here, since they're isolated, they have to. they have to, they realize they're more the same, more the same than different. maybe they were brought up 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 pl...

For protection. it was at that time that we realized that we need to do something to try to curb gang activity within our prison system before it led to a violent nature. >> captain darren smith is the head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangs inside the prison. >> we have our hispanic gangs, which basically fall under southern cal or southern hispanic or northern cal, northern hispanic. we have crips, and we have bloods, and then we have our white supremacists. >> the most active gang members at usp are segregated into one section of the prison, away from the gen...

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 words, punk, bitch, stuff like that. >> going up to somebody saying "f" your hood or something like that. >> even if it doesn't involve you, ...

There's a civil war brewing inside chicago's cook county jail. two opposing factions of the gangster disciples are fighting for control of their organization. >> just a quick question. >> investigators drake carpenter and adrian sandoval want to stop them before the conflict turns violent. they've identified 26 senior members of the gangster disciples either in power or trying to take over. >> a lot of times, until one person from the street comes in that's heavy enough that says, hey, listen, this is what it is, and both sides green, then there's going to be violence and people here are going...