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Why he's not standing with the fam? why they let jackson out? why he's not standing with the fam. why they let washington out? why he's not standing with the fam, you have to answer. >> they were not snitches but you have to stand up if you want to walk the right line, if you want 0 to get out of the lockup situation you have to stand up and be an individual versus a group think, like most gang members. >> do you have the heart? do you have the courage? it's easy to follow. i say to you all today, follow your own mind, be your own leader, be your own man. >> this is what i admired about sam, h...

We have reports of what are known as checks, the term the orejones created, and the check means you have to prove your heart to stay in the unit. and they're checking every inmate that comes into the unit. you're not going to force somebody to prove their heart unless you're trying to structurize, who is the weaklings, who are the actual members? they're weeding out those that don't belong and this is clearly identifying the factor for a structurized group. >> structure, often translates into a more effective criminal organization. but in jail, it's up to the gang investigators to prevent crim...

Sometimes it would end up stabbing their own brother thinking it was one of us. see, that's the kind of psychological warfare that i liked to ploy. >> victor says that he sees parallels between the early days of the mexican mafia and those of its younger wilder rival the tango orejones. >> the mexican mafia basically started like the orejones now, let's do this to protect ourselves so nobody else will get extorted so nobody's going to get beat up, but then eventually they start doing the same thing, it's like david and goliath thing. first you're david and then turn into goliath. >> ironically...

We're not get anything out of it? and as time progressed, they realized that, they outnumbered the true members of the mexican mafia. so in 1997, they decided to break away. >> even though the two feuding gangs were cut from the same cloth, today, they're very different. >> the mexican mafia and the orejones have a different personality. you can spot them by talking to them. >> mexican mafia members tend to be older, run their gang with a military-like hierarchy and strict accordance to rules. >> they do not want media attention. the mexican mafia would not talk to us at all. >> they keep a lo...

In 210, san antonio. >> represent 210. >> our gang coverage in san antonio revolved around a rivalry, there was a different story inside cleveland's cuyahoga county correction center. most of the problems there swirled around one dominant gang. >> oh, that's raw. >> the heartless felons. but its members referred to it by another name, the family. because they say that's what they really are. >> heartless felon is like a family for real. it started for me in juvenile, people from other cities, they here, columbus, cincinnati, they go down there, take our stuff, and pick on us, we formed a group...