america's prisons. dangerous, often deadly. there are 2 million people doing time. every day is a battle to survive and to maintain order. >> down on your feet, down! >> among the nation's most notorious institutions, san quentin state prison. our cameras spent months documenting life on the inside where gangs, drugs, and sheer boredom make up a violent mix.

this is "lockup san quentin: extended stay." >> san quentin is home to more than 5,000 inmates, ranging from the most violent offenders in california -- >> i tell you, i'll rob you in a minute. don't get me wrong. >> i pulled a gun on this man and shot him six times in his chest. >> -- to the all-too-common parole violators flooding the system. >> i do drugs. that's my violation. >> the overpopulated san quentin serves as the reception center for 17 counties in california. >> there's 384 inmates in this gym. right now i have six staff members. >> it's forced to house a dangerous mix of high- and low-risk inmates. >> you got the drugs, you got the inmates to manufacture alcohol, you got the gangs, the weapons. so it can be real dangerous at times.

>> i've been a pretty successful robber. >> level 4 inmates, the worst in california are housed at san quentin while awaiting permanent transfer to other facilities. >> i used to rob stores, you know, and that in itself is a rush that you can't explain. it's like, whoa, i can do -- i own the world. i can do whatever i want. i can -- it's better than any ceo in the world. i can instruct you to do whatever i want you to do, with a pistol to you, you know? it's adrenalin you can never get from anything else. unfortunately, there's the sequences too, you know. because i got a strike, my years was doubled, which is up to like

521 years and i got 11 consecutive life terms. i know why i'm here, but i can see why most of you are here. stupid. >> in our three months of taping, we never heard an inmate so willing to detail his own crime, especially with an appeal pending. >> i've invaded many a homes, not necessarily the ones i was convicted for, all right? i have invaded other people's homes, you know? people that play the same game that i play. sell drugs, whatever. i go in this home -- >> how'd you get in? >> well, i went through the front door. how do you get in? >> it wasn't locked? >> oh, of course. if it's locked, you go through it. you break down the door. the alarm goes off. each of us take a room, you got to cover everybody at one time, because it can be dangerous. you can get killed just as well. i take a room, which happened to be a son's room, kick him, wake up. wakes up, flashlight in his eyes

and black room, he don't know what's going on. snatch him up, throw him down, put his ankles together, zip them up, put his hands together behind his back, zip them up. it looked like he was like somebody in high school. he had trophies, you know, a little athletic sport guy, you know? played football, you could tell, things like that. you know? so i could see him trying to be a hero or something for his family, you know? so that was my concern, okay? maybe he might be a threat. not that i'm really worried about it. it just means that i might have to do something i don't want to do, such as shoot him or whatever, you know? i'm not going to fight. i'm not here to see who can win. i'm here to win. at this time, he's calling out to his little sister, which is just right next door, almost.

you know, hey, that's my little sister, she's only 14, bro. leave her alone and this and that. that's fine. you know, i'm not worried about her right now, i'm worried about you right now. i guess the father came down the stairs to turn the alarm off. at that time, he was greeted by other people, instructed to turn the alarm off. once you got it under control, this is going to sound like a dirt bag, but i'm just keeping it real. you can actually sit down, drink one of their sodas, make one of their sandwiches, hell, you can watch an hour of tv if you want. you can leave in their car when you're done. >> and that 14-year-old girl. >> okay. >> put yourself in her shoes. do you think you changed anybody's life in that -- >> oh, most definitely. i mean, i've wrecked on my bicycle when i was a kid and i remember that, let alone something like this. you know, i mean, i didn't say i didn't have no remorse for them.

you asked me the story. i told you. as one once said, you live by the gun, you die by the gun. there's so much truth to that. i mean, i may not died physically, but emotionally i might have died, you know? i've got to be forever here. a lot of people are like, man, bro, you've got good spirits. how do you do it? i couldn't even imagine being in your situation. i'm like, you know what, i think i deserve this. you know, i knew better what i was doing, i was doing. i knew the consequences. i knew the rules to the game. i played it and i lost. now to sit here and be miserable and make other people miserable because of my wrongdoings, it's not the right way to be, you know? i know how to live comfortable in here. coming up on "lockup:

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san quentin is home to the only operating execution chamber in california. and a condemned row that houses the highest level inmates in the state. >> as of today, we have 644 inmates on death row. and 622 of them are currently housed at san quentin. the other 22 are either out to court or seeking medical attention somewhere possibly in federal jurisdiction outside of the state. >> san quentin's condemned row houses california's most heinous

criminals such as the 1980s night stalker, richard ramirez, the man who killed polly klaas, richard allen davis, whose crime led to california's three strikes law, and scott peterson, who was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife. >> the bottom line is, we don't allow filming in condemned row simply because it's department policy. >> though denied access to condemned row, our producers found an inmate who lived there for nearly 20 years. >> when i arrived on death row, it was in the winter of '91. i remember because it was real cold, there was icicles on the ground. >> my conviction for the death penalty was the double felony. the murder and then the robbery. but, you know, the you move a person from one spot to another, in a certain many feet, it's kidnap. so they claimed it was kidnap, and threw another felony on there.

during that time, i was young. i was wild. i was angry. the jury verdict was it wasn't something i didn't expect. so, you know, at that time, and point, i wanted the death penalty, to be honest with you. because i wanted to come up here and you know, hang out until i was executed. but then that changed as time went on. death row was the worstest place on the planet. i mean, you've been sentenced to die. extinction. that's it. it's over with. the finality. you stay in your cell for orientation for several days until you meet the committee. and then you go meet the committee. and that's when the process really starts. from that point forward, then that's when you start to realize you're really on death row. a lot of people can't deal with it so they commit suicide. or they become introverts. and they start to go crazy. my case was overturned in 2003 for a violation.

so i was sent back to the county jail to have a new trial. i lost the trial again and they hung on the death penalty. so they decided after about several months not to re-file the death penalty. so they sent me back to san quentin. it feels good to be off death row, but it hasn't sunk in yet. you know, it will in time but it hasn't yet. >> they removed me from death row and put me in the reception center. the reception center is the most disgusting place in san quentin. i don't know how i ended up over there, but they removed my a1a status, and that means i was programming, and receiving all the benefits of programming. contact visits, you know, packages, yard. but they put me in reception center status which is zero status.

you receive nothing. you sit in the cell for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. two days out of a week, you get yard for three hours. and the rest of the time you're stuck in this cell, in a small cell with a cellie. i haven't had a cellie in 20 years, so that's kind of hard. learning cell etiquette. i don't know cell etiquette. i'm a fish out of water. >> he still hasn't learned yet. they should have gave him medical attention before they brought him in the cell. mental attention. >> mental attention. >> yeah. >> dude has issues still. >> yeah, got issues. you spend 20 years on death row, you're going to have issues. >> yeah, he has big issues. >> i was lucky, i was very lucky and they put me in a cell with an older black gentleman who's been around, and he's -- you know, he's open to teaching me, so he's teaching me about cell etiquette and prison etiquette again, because i don't know about prison etiquette any longer. i only know about death row

etiquette, which is different from main line etiquette. this is what we do all day. me and joe here, we sit here and say the stupidest things possible and we play cards. that what we do all day every day. >> and in case you're interested, if you see this woman right here, anywhere, you tell her to write me. and i mean that. >> he means that. and he's serious. >> with a full life now ahead of him, omar's focus has turned to helping others. >> now i want to lib. i want to live and i want to accomplish things. i want to help the young brothers. i want to help my people. during my incarceration, i've learned math and a be bunch of other things, histories. and i would like to share some of this stuff with some of the young brothers coming into prisons from the community i come from, who i know are going to come to prison, they're going to have dates, and when they leave prison, they're going to leave prison with the same thing they came to prison with -- nothing. and i want to get these brothers

a basic education, teach them basic mathematics, basic reading. i want to teach them this is not it. they don't want to come in and spend the rest of their life being told what to do. they want to be able to be free. and maybe when they go home, they'll be able to feel good about themselves and be able to do something different. take care of their families, take care of their children, and, you know, help another brother, you know? coming up on "lockup: extended stay," inmates unleash their long suppressed rage. ♪ and now the hatred is so bad that my heart is cold ♪ and this is what inspires us to create new technology. ♪ technology that connects us to everything the world has to offer and vice versa. ♪ technology that makes lightweight stronger, safer, and faster than ever before.

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despite temporarily housing some of the worst inmates in california, san quentin is actually a level 2 facility, permanently housing mainly lower level inmates who are serving out life sentences. >> i've been in prison 29 years this december. i was arrested at age 21 for a

second-degree murder. and i've been incarcerated ever since. >> i was so young, i just felt like my life is over. i've got a life sentence. it's over. and i came to prison and i started into the same behavior. i was, like, for the first nine years, i was using whatever i could -- drugs, prison alcohol. just trying to do anything that i could to escape the reality of my situation and what i'd done, you know? and that -- just self-medicating, again, the same way i was on the street. all the pain and everything that came up, for me, that was my solution, to self-medicate. and that's what i did. >> in his struggle to conquer addiction, rusty discovered a passion for counseling others. >> i've been in 12-step programs

for, oh, geez, probably about 18 years now, 19 years. but the current program i'm in, it's called a.r.c. it's addiction recovery counseling. >> it's a four-month program, which is a state of the art addiction treatment program. it's the first one ever in the world, as far as we know, that's completely and run has counselors who are inmates, who are trained inmates. >> it's one thing to sit across the desk from somebody in a suit and tie who's not in recovery, who's never been there, that doesn't know the first thing about getting busted, going in a county jail or going through a prison experience. it's a whole another thing when you've got a guy sitting across from them, right, that's been there, that can totally relate to what this guy is saying. >> in addition to helping his fellow inmates, rusty hopes his efforts may influence his parole. >> i work my points down through the years, after coming in to a level 2 facility, and i've been

to the board 17 times. i've received 17 one-year denials. i've been disciplinary free for 19 years. and in memory of the victim, and there's nothing to do to take back what i've caused, but all i can do is be who i am and serve mankind, serve humanity any way possible to make up for what i did. ♪ lord, i am tired of being lied on ♪ >> i'll tell you one thing, we've got flavor here! >> programs like the annual poetry slam provide inmates a creative release, helping them to avoid potential disciplinary write-ups and longer sentences. ♪ nobody's scrapped, but now i

all no my knees and raise my hands to the sky ♪ ♪ it's like i'm buried alive, but refusing to die ♪ ♪ i used to live like by the weed and rob to get high, but now i fall to my knees and raise my hands to the sky ♪ ♪ it's like i'm buried alive ♪ it's like i'm buried alive ♪ alive ♪ alive ♪ alive ♪ alive [ cheers and applause ] >> this is the poetry slam here sponsored by patton college university. i believe this is the fifth and the first time i've actually participated in it. >> brothers, let us read the scores for brother montgomery! snappy-do. we've got a 10, a 10, a 10, a 9.3. we'll drop the 9.3 and a 10 and

he's he got a 30. >> twisting strands of braided brown hair around scarlet fingertips, resting her palm on willow tree hips. >> this poem's entitled, "the funeral." wait a minute, let me get in character. a carnation rose and the smell of green. unlike a wedding, you can sit where you want. no usher hushing bride or groom? funny, all women look good in black. >> i think i'm going to do pretty good on the poetry. i'm a little nervous and i don't fully remember my poem, but i think it will come as soon as i get out there and it will just flow. >> please excuse me if this is a little graphic. i will cut as much of the cussing as i can out. >> keep it real, though, boy. >> i am. >> keep it real! >> ready? >> who would have thought the

penal law would send a boy to juvenile hall and give him 15 to life for taking another life, but never considering the fact that he wasn't right. a cold-blooded murderer who only thinks of him f'ing self, but couldn't it be sign for some f'ing ghetto, because all he's seeing was death and hell. i got tired of seeing my mom get beat, because one day i stand my new dad. until an ultimatum of his kids, the alcohol, and all she got was a pause down the hall, knocking down every picture or mirror down the wall. and a slammed door and never saw him no more, until i got older and finally answered the phone and there i was listening to his voice, the hole dug out of my heart, but it wouldn't close because now i'm frustrated and hated his ass even more, and now the hatred is so bad that my heart is cold. because there was no reason for you to just leave me and go.

now i'm a bastard and i don't want to see you no more. [ applause ] >> short people really got a lot of pent-up anger, don't they? don't let him call me dad. >> judges, we need to score for little mighty mouse that just went. we have a 9.5, a 10 plus, a 9.5, 9.8, 9.8. so the winner is -- who's first? that's all i want to know. >> montgomery! >> montgomery! please come up to the mic. >> i did very good. i came in second place, that's good. some people say i got cheated, but, no, that was very great. it was just fun all the way around. i'm very happy. this was my first time entering, so next year maybe i'll come back and win it. i'll put together some more material, some better material, and try to take it on. next on "lockup: extended stay," in for parole violation,

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san quentin's "h" unit houses level one and two inmates, many of whom are parole violators serving short sentences. >> down here is a little more laid-back atmosphere with the inmates, but at any time, they could turn on you. >> before i was working in donner section. >> when we first met co cavagnolo, he dealt with high level inmates in level one desegregation. now he interacts with level one inmates in a dorm setting. >> i have 200 inmates and it's only me. so it's like going totally other side of the spectrum. everything down here is observation. just watching, listening, getting the feel for the dorm. and if you're always watching, you can tell when something's

starting to go bad, hopefully stop it before it gets bad. but things happen down here all the time. you have a lot of drugs down here. my partner found two hypodetermihypodermic needles in this dorm about two, three days ago. so you got the drugs, you got the inmate-manufactured alcohol, you got the gangs, you got the weapons. so it can be real dangerous at times. i got to do three searches a day, so we just pick them randomly. this guy i haven't did yet since i've been down here, so his lucky day. i'm going to get him to unlock the locker. sometimes he's got -- >> what? okay, you guys got me in trouble. >> go ahead and unlock your locker, man. >> lock it? >> unlock it. >> it's unlocked. >> oh, that's yours right there? >> yeah.

>> is he around? >> no. can i move something out of mine real quick? >> uh-huh. >> come on, come on. >> this is the first time i think -- i got like nine days left. >> though parole violations bring these inmates to prison, internal violations could keep them here indefinitely. >> i'm looking for weapons, drugs, any type of contraband, stuff like this. he's got this. probably make an illegal stinger out of it to heat up food, whatever. but stuff like that, they can't have. it will blow out the power back here. >> so how long have you been in prison, on and off? >> a long time. i've had this number since like 1982. i'm not catching any terms or anything like that, i'm just having a hard time with parole right now. >> why? >> i do drugs. that's my violation right there. there goes my lighter. >> am i going to get wrote up?

>> can you explain it to me? >> it's a saltwater lighter. all you do is put paper clips through here and there and you got a hot one going through here to there. same thing here. then you run a wire from one to the other, fill this full of water and put two salts in it. it won't blow a circuit that way. >> what is it? >> it's a lighter. you plug it in and this gets red hot. >> for what? >> to light cigarettes. not that i smoke. i don't smoke. i was holding it for a friend, you know? >> you know we're taking this stuff. and let's take a walk up front real quick. straight up to the podium. >> this write-up may be minor, but enough violations could earn an inmate a cell in administrative segregation. >> well, my case right now is

from 2001. and i'm on parole right now. i've been on parole for the last three years. so i'm just getting violations. i haven't caught a new case. i'm just getting violations. >> i came to prison for a dui. they gave me 90 days with half, a six-month drug program. i'm in ad seg, because i left from the hole last time, a year and a half ago, they gave me an assault on staff, and since i was in the shu when i left, they brought me back in here. so now i'm going to find out when i'm going to get out. >> matthew usually returns to prison for petty crimes. he has a history of committing more serious offenses behind bars. >> he's, capable of a lot of violence in custody, in a prison system. in fact, he hasn't been in a

general population setting since, i think, maybe 2003. and that's because he keeps getting in trouble. he batters the officers. he's resistant. he uses alcohol in custody. ♪ >> whoops! >> how you doing, ward? >> good. how are you? >> good. >> this is institution classification committee. this is for administrative segregation inmates, and this is a due process issue, where we bring them in, review why they're in ad seg, and, you know, go over the issues of why they're locked up in ad seg and what they can expect from here. >> name and cdc number, sir? >> matthew nasholm. >> this hearing today's

classification committee is ward ayers. >> last incarcerated at cochran state prison. you were transferred and approved. you have done your time. therefore the recommendation is to release you to the rcgp. okay. do you have any problems with being released? >> yes, i've got a problem to gp, because i'm not a gp. i dropped out. >> you in a gang? >> yes, i am affiliated with a gang, yes. >> you're a dropout of what? >> out of the woods. but right now i'm just concerned about my housing, where i'm going to be housed. that's all i'm worried about right now. >> by releasing him today, we can make him a1 status, and that will give him the opportunity to parole today. so it doesn't matter where you're going to be housed at. we can go ahead and release you and keep you here pending your parole. >> you understand that, nasholm? >> yes. >> so if we grant you a one-time for the time you've been in ad

seg, then they take this up and run it through records office, and you parole today. you understand that? >> yes. >> okay? >> yeah. >> okay. >> okay, so we're going to go ahead and officially release you today. have a nice day. >> yeah, you too. >> you'll be staying in your cell until they come to get you to come to r&r, all right? >> okay, thank you. >> you have the right to appeal. >> a miracle happened or something. they said i was going to get released today and when i come back to prison, i won't come back to the hole. >> matthew's transition to freedom proves to be more complicated than he anticipated. >> well, what's going on, boss? >> come on in. let's do it. all right. in the chair. how you doing? >> good. how you doing? >> all right. we thought you were going home too. but you know how before you go home, the analyst takes a look at your case, sees if anybody's interested in you, and the

sonoma county sheriff's office is interested in you. looks like you had a little health and safety code violation and a contempt of court. >> oh, you know why? because, um, they said i have to -- they had -- i had to be there -- i had to -- i've been in custody. they said i had to go there, um, their, uh -- their dui class 21 days after my, um -- after my release from the court date. and i never got released, because i got four days time served and a violation here, so i was never out to make it over there. if i wasn't out there, i figured they would take care of it, but i guess they didn't. >> it looks like it's going to be a ride home. they're $20,000 bail, their misdemeanors, so you're not getting anymore jail time, but they're pickup arrangements. they're going to pick you up. do you have anymore questions?

>> no, i guess that's as plain as day, you know what i'm saying? >> all right. we didn't know. we thought you were on the way out the door too. you know how these things pop up. >> yeah. >> all right, mr. nasholm. >> yeah. >> matthew will leave san quentin, but instead of going home, he's headed extraing eed county jail. >> we're done with him for now, but if he violates his parole or commits another felony, we might see him again. next on "lockup: extended stay," no bars, no locks, no room for error. >> he's breaking all my rights! hello, i'm milissa rehberger. mitt romney calls running mate paul ryan a man of unrequequest sbeg ty. he introduced him at a rally today in virginia. president obama hasn't publicly commented on the ryan pick, but his campaign says the republican ticket would help the

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creating dangerous environments for its inmates and officers. >> down here, the dangers are pretty good. >> i'm left-handed. >> it's an open environment. >> gentleman! >> there's, right now i have six staff members. [ bleep ], this is like -- >> yeah, you're doing a good job, too. >> you're breaking all my rights. >> another day on the job. >> almost all my individuals down here are parole violators. they've been out on parole, couldn't hack it, got picked up for something, got sent back in here. they generally do six months, under a year, something of that nature. they either go mainline to another institution and do the rest of their time or they're released back out on to parole. the prison system is severely overcrowded. beds are at a premium. this is the rc overflow. we house 384 individuals.

the gym being it's an open dorm, we have tvs, we're considered pretty much the luxury suites of the reception center. i have three sets of showers. they're broken down by race in the gym. they self-segregate. we do not tell them where to go. the shower closest to the left within that is all whites. the middle shower will be only your blacks. the far right shower is your hispanics and others. the tables along the day room right here are broken up into races. >> this is -- >> who -- >> we're others. we're not gang members. we're other than black and other than white. >> this guys an american indian right here, a native american. >> we're all from different counties and different cities, but this brings us all together as one. >> it's a show of unity. everybody eats, we don't have to eat, but that's how you show love. >> it's anyone's table. we're just playing a game here, but, i mean, there's just certain races that you can play games with right here.

and for white people, it's -- what is it? >> american indians, and that's about it, right? >> and pisas. there's three different types of mexicans and we can sit with sorrenyos and we can sit with pisas, but we can't play, like, the black folks. i would get beat up. you'd get in a fight over it. that's just the way it is. there's more racism here than there is in, you know, in civilization, for sure. and if you don't come in prejudiced, you might leave prejudiced. >> anything we take for granted on the outside is worth money. books go for a premium in here. food is worth money. soups are 20 cents a piece. that's prison money. >> inmates will use virtually anything for bartering. many items not issued by the

prison can be purchased in the canteen. >> these are the treasured ice creams. they love these ice creams. we carry a full variety, at least four or five flavors. >> number? you need a spoon with that? >> yes, please. >> when the guy comes up to have an order filled, we have our workers fill the order by what he puts on this list right here. and if they've got enough money, we'll fill it. and we'll fill it up to the point that they run out of money. so if ice cream is on the end of the list and they run out of money, they don't get the ice cream. >> thank you. >> we have different categories of guys, so if you have what you call a1a status, which is the highest status, kind of like a credit rating, the highest status you can have, you can spend up to $180 at the canteen, and it goes down according to whatever your status is. you may have gotten in trouble, may be in the lockup unit, maybe

can only spend $70, some guys can only spend 90, so that limits your purchasing power. >> here you go. >> thanks. >> these are just some of the things we handle. we've got the chile cheese chips and potato chips. as you can see, there are all types of sodas. loaded on coffee. candy bars, of course. and the cooks are big. and the ramen, the noodles are probably the biggest seller. they buy those cases at a time. that's the staple of what they make. >> i just spent all my money. >> these are some of the things that we have to take off the containers of milk. things you take for granted in your home. this can be made into a slashing device. so we have to remove these, for the condemned especially. >> give me that bag! >> that's another thing you've got to worry about!

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while serving live sentences, some level 2 inmates participate in squires, an outreach program for at-risk youth. ♪ welcome, everybody ♪ >> good morning, gentleman. my name is shief.

what we need you to understand is that you're at san quentin this morning. you're at a place where no kid should ever want to be in. you should be out playing in the park, but you're here because of something you did. >> every saturday, we bring in groups of kids from san francisco, richmond, oakland, all over. you're not going to scare them with the story that i'm a murderer and i'm in prison doing life. that doesn't scare anybody anymore. >> what you ought to know, that this is your life, man. you have an opportunity to leave out of this place and never come back. >> we try to show them, like, this is what could happen if you keep doing what you're doing. >> all right, you guys. where you guys are at right now, you're at r&r, which is receiving and release. when you decide you guys want to commit crimes and the judge sends you a certain amount of time, this is the first place you're going to go when you get off of that bus. for you guys who like to wear your nice shoes, for you guys who like to with wear fubu and

nike, michael jordan, all of those good clothes, polo, that's all gone. this is your polo, these are your nikes. this is your filas and your reboxes. this is your fubu. this is your michael jordan gear. this is your polo. this is your nice 501 jeans, you guys. this is what you guys sell yourself for. who speaks spanish here. can you read that? [ speaking spanish ] >> what does that mean? >> something about sexual assault. >> sexual assault. they're warning you about sexual assault in prison, how to protect yourself against it. >> the inmates are, in essence, the deterrent that will guide these youth back to a life of contributing to society. >> this is the building we live in, north block. and this building, they have little small cells that are 9 x 4, 9 feet tall, 4 feet wide.

that's smaller than a walk-in closet, you guys. yet two men live in those cells in that building. >> look where you at, man! you're in a cage like an animal. have you ever been to a zoo? >> yeah. >> the cage for the monkey is bigger than this, right? >> yeah. >> so what does that tell you about this? >> they've got more freedom than this. >> the animals get more freedom than us, right? so you need to really be thinking about -- >> they're treating us like we're lower than animals, lesser than animals. >> okay, but you can't blame it on them. i said this is because of the consequences of your actions. when you do something wrong, when you do something wrong, this is where you could end up. these are the possible solutions to you committing crimes, is putting you in a cage! >> in addition to showing them the realities of prison, the inmates challenge these youth's assumptions of their lives on the street. >> this is why i connect with you. i love the same thing you love.

it was fun to put hands on somebody and show my homeboys, i'm the man. and you don't want that either. you get respect, right? what's your name? >> marco. >> what do they say in the 'hood? marco throw down. don't mess with marco. that's what they tell you. that's what they told me, because they knew i was willing to fight for nothing. on-site, let's go. you think you can whoop me, then let's whoop. but this is why i tell you this. that fighting, eventually it got tiring. because i was literally fighting every day. every single day of my life, i was fighting. the homeys already known, man, romeo, he throw down. i say, well, okay, i got to one-up them now. let me start carrying this knife. let me start carrying this pistol. and it took one day and all of about three or four seconds for me to pull my pistol out on somebody that i could have easily had just fought, whooped

'em, and been done with it. and i pulled a gun on this man and shot him six times in his chest because he liked the color blue. you're 15, right? >> yeah. >> do you want to come to jail at 15 years old? do you want to come at prison and have to be on the yard -- stand up. let me see how tall you are. this was me. this was me when i came to prison. >> yeah. >> this was me right here. how tall are you, about 5'1"? >> yeah. how much do you weigh? about 100 pounds? >> yeah. >> stand up, rhino. come on, man, now, what am i going to do? let's be real. what you going to do? >> what you mean? >> what you going to do to him? you going to hurt him? >> i probably won't hurt him. >> what you going to do to him? honestly. because this is the same thing i had to ask myself. what am i going to really do up in here? as good as i can fight, what am

i really going to do? >> inmates also challenge the youths to see all of the potential consequences of their actions. >> when i go -- when i'm going to juvenile court and they're telling me i'm not going to be tried as a juvenile, they're going to sentence me to life in prison, when the man told me that, because he specifically said, mr. monroe, you are a cold-blooded murderer and we want you to rot in prison. i'm sentencing you to life in prison. and he slammed down his little ham we are, and my mom screamed. imagine how that felt. how would your mom feel? >> this is what it took to get through to us. it took me to come to prison. it took the rest of us to come to prison to realize, you know, there's more value out there in society, in life, than committing crime. >> with the knowledge that they may never leave san quentin, the squires hope to never see these boys restrained by a security