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That's exactly what one former inmate who grew up hustling drugs on the city's west side is doing. >> basically his entire life has been a dopey. probably at one time has been a little more successful than he is now. he had a nice car and a hot girl. when you come home and out of the realm maybe the younger guys are running the block. you can still work but you're never going to be the man on that block. so i think that will change your motivation a little bit. how much are you guys making on a day-to-day basis? >> about $3,500. >> $3,500. how often do you think the cops are on that block? >> ...

>> if you have a question about a guy's gang affiliation, this video will help you figure it out. >> they're getting ready to hit him on the phone there. >> that's them right there? >> yep. >> that's them right there. >> here he goes. >> you have 40, 50 guys on one tier that are killing each other out on the streets, and you're expecting them to get along. you know, eventually tempers throw and that's when we end up having our stabbings or fights. >> ciu members and correction staff face danger around every corner. 161 fights and 34 stabbings took place here in 2008. today, investigators sando...

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 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...

Occ, 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 anytime there's something going on. anytime there's any type of issue or anything like that, the section will split apart. >> certain words being 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, even if it's two differen...

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 general population....