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Gang sister disciples, so vice lords, there 625 gangs in chicago often warring it internal factions. there are drug disputes and never ending cycle of vend debt tas. chicago pioneered a database that tracks gangs and turf battles. even lower level gang members are entered when they pop up on the police radar. if a guy gets shot, police see who his friends are. we can quickly assess conditions. we can make predictions where retaliations might be likely to happen. >> reporter: now the person you saw shot in that report is a member of the mickey cobras street gang. he has a bunch of buddies who f...

>> education is the key. whether it's getting your g.e.d. or going to college. the biggest factor that's going to tell whether you come back to prison or not is education. >> 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. >> g.d. and the vice lords, they wouldn't talk. in here since they'reç isolate they have to. they realize they're the same. they're m...

Have been here. >> there's going to be retaliation. >> the attack took place on a maximum security deck while nearly half the inmates were on exercise break. it happened in a matter of seconds. four of his assail yents jumped him and knocked his head into the floor. they had no weapons only their fist and feet and sent him to the hospital with massive head trauma. all the guys were separated. we interviewed them one-by-one. we were able to get the main suspects involved. >> the lead suspect belongs to the atgs. the others are vice lords. they also oppose the gangster disciples. >> thanks. >> t...

Now that a guy like this gets hit, retaliation is going to have to happen. >> a perfect storm appears to be gathering inside chicago's cook county jail. at the center, the gangster disciples, the biggest gang on the compound. their chief of security has been beaten and nearly killed by rifle gang members. the alleged assail ents belong to two groups, atgs and vice lords. they exposed the leaders were vulnerable, a result of their own internal disarray. the gang's senior ranks are split in two. one faction that is in power and the other that is trying to take over.

Now, the question is whether the attack by the atgs and vice lords will remain an isolated incident. or whether it will spark a bigger war onç multiple fronts. that's what investigators have to find out, quickly. they are leaning on many sources for intel, including an inmate whom we have been calling franklin. he belongs to the side of gangster disciples plotting a takeover against their current leaders. >> people are smelling the blood in the water right now that you aren't on the same page. they take some of you for being weak. >> they taking them -- let's keep this clear. >> the vice lor...