this was the aryan brotherhood. i covered this up two years ago. i came into prison august 17th of 2006. i covered this up september of the same year. three weeks after me being in prison. i had a case with another aryan, which they say i told on them. so i get down here and the same guys i supposedly told on are here in this prison. >> at the prison we've had a lot of problems with an aryan organization. the big problem is instead of fighting between each other, the whites and the blacks, what's been happening more recently is problems with the aryans going after each other. and a lot of it is because there's been influx with the organization, and their leadership, and there's a struggle for control. >> since dropping out of the aryan brotherhood, nick compton says being attacked is only one problem. >> i'm being extorted for money. my mother and sister sent me over $500 since i've been here. >> can you identify? >> yeah, no problem. >> compton is due to be released from prison in three months, but risks putting himself in greater danger with the

. >> one of the inmates here is steven parker, a self-proclaimed shot-caller in the aryan brotherhood parker recently landed in seg for slashing a fellow inmate's throat with a box cutter. >> i was gonna get some swastikas tattooed on the side of my neck 'cause i just thought it would look cool. i wanted to get them on each side like a frankenstein bolt, and me and him had worked a deal, and i kept going back to him. and we kept going around for about two months. he said he was gonna pay somebody else to run 'em. i said, "well, you just need to give me my money back." and he didn't want to do it. so i went for the [ bleep ]. >> parker has been in trouble before. at another prison, he nearly strangled an inmate to death. he's serving a life sentence for murdering his stepmother and almost killing his father. >> i went and rang the doorbell. when they opened it, i shot them at point-blank range. a lot of people, you know, they villainize me for that, but like i said, i grew up with parents that didn't give a [ bleep ] about me, and i'm not trying to excuse my behavior. i wasn't racist u

>> walter farmer is a former member of the aryan brotherhood.ng a 23-year sentence for murder, he spent several years in the shoe before making the decision to leave the gang. >> in some ways, you feel like you hung up your balls, you know, because you to -- now you have to rely on the administration handling your issues as opposed to you handling them in a way you were taught to handled issues. but now i play sports with people that i once was enemies with. >> the big issues that i wrestled with is am i going to get killed by dropped out? is my family going to get killed by dropping out? i was in the nazi low riders and i joined basically out of self-preservation. what soured me on the gang life is they will call you brother to your face but then stab you in the back at the drop of a dime. >> it is all a bunch of betrayals and lies. >> miguel perez was one of pelican bay's top drug runners on the yard. since he moved into the thu, he has been instrumental in helping staff crack down on drug operations inside the prison. >> what soured myself on

. >> the aryan brotherhood and saxon knights are white supremacist organizations. they share similar ideologies in their creeds and bylaws. >> here i have the saxon knights representatives. and other ones right there that is my saxon knights crest with the bolts. >> he was the president for the organization at one time. the organizations take possession of certain parts of the facility such as where they were working out. the saxon knights will say they own that part of the facility and no other offenders can go on that turf. >> ritchie and two other white inmates dished out consequences when they attacked a black inmate. >>> coming up -- >> the three white guys assaulting the one guy here. >> the prison staff break down the assault and two other inmates bridge the racial divide. >> doing this on camera is a jeopardizing situation the for real but i'm 185 pounds of something vicious and i don't think they want to see that [ bleep ]. >>> at the wabash valley correctional facility in southwestern indiana prison officials allowed us to give cams are to the inmates to

. >> joe sears was part of the aryan brotherhood.ne of the big boys in that faction, let's say. >> joe sears was arrogant. he had something to prove. no problem getting in your face at any time. >> he has not adapted well to the lockup setting. the system has made him very hard. >> this place, what it does is it builds up a lot of frustration and anger and stuff in you because of the environment that you've been placed in, you know? you don't have much jobs, don't have much education programming here. don't have much recreation. we're isolated with everything. we are isolated in our cell. we come out here to the rec area, and we're isolated. i try to do the right things, but there have been times, yes, that i got into a fight over certain things. >> i myself had many a run-ins with inmate sears. had to lock him up out of population several times. >> the only conversation that we really are -- or social contact that we really have or anything, as you can see, is yelling. i've had to do things i didn't want to have to do, you know, bea