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Order, arm. forward. left, one, two, three, four. left, right, left. >> while these inmates were once warriors, staff here must meet the challenge of managing a very different type of fighting force. >> in the last decade we've had an increase of gang-related offenses. the florida public corrections has a comprehensive security threat group program within each institution and each institution has a security threat coordinator assigned which keeps up with and tracks and monitors our gang activity within the facility that allows us to take proactive measures against those gang members. >> santa ...

Here, a lot of people are engaged in activities that put them in segregation. once they are in segregation, we are looking at a way to work them into the general population with our gang program. >> the security threat group program or stg was developed as an alternative to locking down suspected gang members indefinitely. >> you go through that program basically throw your hands up and you've fallen into what the state has, you know what i'm saying, what the state wants. >> there's a misnomer that it's a snitch program. that in order to participate in the program you have to tell on other peo...

Some people go through it, some people don't, right? >> once these gang members get here, a lot of people are engaged in activities that put them in segregation. once they are in segregation, we are looking at a way to work them into the general population with our gang program. >> the security threat group program or stg was developed as an alternative to locking down suspected gang members indefinitely. >> you go through that program basically throw your hands up and you've fallen into what the state has, you know what i'm saying, what the state wants. >> there's a misnomer that it's a snitc...

Violence. >> there's no doubt about that. records show i'm gang affiliated. >> ronnie ballou is doing ten years for felony possession of firearms. >> basically a gang program. some people go through it, some people don't, right? >> once these gang members get here, a lot of people are engaged in activities that put them in segregation. once they are in segregation, we are looking at a way to work them into the general population with our gang program. >> the security threat group program or stg was developed as an alternative to locking down suspected gang members indefinitely. >> you go throu...

Chicago-based gangs and crypts and bloods from the west coast, latino gangs. it all kind of came together in the middle of iowa. we had a lot of intergang violence. >> there's no doubt about that. records show i'm gang affiliated. >> ronnie ballou is doing ten years for felony possession of firearms. >> basically a gang program. some people go through it, some people don't, right? >> once these gang members get here, a lot of people are engaged in activities that put them in segregation. once they are in segregation, we are looking at a way to work them into the general population with our gan...