we have a mexican mafia, we have the northern structure, the aryan brotherhood and nazi low rider. these guys are here because of their criminal activity. it's either drug related, assaults on staff assaults on other inmates. we do house the worst of the worst here, security is paramount. while you've been validated as a gang member, you're going to remain in shu. >> one of the most dangerous inmates in the shu is a child who was made to lead the mexican mafia. he is shackled by two officers, they insisted our staff wear puncture resistant protection. >> i'm german mexican, but my heart's always been brown. i was in l.a. county jail for 3.5 years. they put me on trial for murder/robbery and possession of heroin. whether i was innocent or not, just by looking at me, i was guilty. and i was pissed. there was no way i was going to let the system give me life in prison unless i earned it. so -- oh, i owned it all right. >> we listened to tapes of a jailhouse admission to a murder christian committed. >> it was an individual from my area. he had put himself in the wrong position by -- i

the aryan brotherhood is a very structured, very, very structured. bylaws, pledges, oaths and decrees, just like any other organization has. they believe in the expansion of the white race. christopher genrich is a confirmed aryan brotherhood member. >> i've been down eight years now, down for business murder, 13 counts. we were basically burglarizing veterinarian clinics for special k and pcp, stuff like that. >> since his incarceration in wabash valley, genrich has been involved in many fights with staff and other inmates. >> say i want to get into a fight with somebody. there's a problem i have with one of his brothers or whatever. we can make it to, all right, he's going to shake me down, and i'm going to shake him down, you know what i mean? there are people who are going to shake us down and our people are going to shake them down and we're going to go on fighting. we can only fight for what we are and we are white. >> chris is currently in our transition unit. he also has the opportunity to go home within the next six months. so far he's been

. >> a convicted murderer seeks legitimacy for a religion that the prison suspects is a aryan brotherhood. >>> and we turn the cameras over to the inmates themselves. >> wabash, extended stay. welcome to the belly of the beast. >>> hate wabash, you know what i mean. they make sure that you know you are in prison eh day. >> who wants to be locked in a room with another man 19 hours a day. taken three and a half hours we come out is to go get the worst food you ever ate in your life? i don't know how they call it food. >> every day things that people take for grant wed cherish right now. >> wabash valley correctional facility. a maximum security prison on the western edge of indiana, the center piece of the rural town of carlisle. the inmate population of 2200 outnumbers local residents four to one. many of indiana's most violent offenders are sent here. >> the break down for offenders who have committed serious offenses against a person, murder, vehicular manslaughter, battery, assault is 35 to 40% of the population. >> the most violent are housed in single-person cells 23 hours a day in t

. >> i was involved with the aryan brotherhood back in 1984 when i was at folsom prison.w, we had some work that needed to be tended to. so i put in some work, stabbed an individual. he needed to be taken out. >> walter "big foot" farmer's involvement in the white supremacist gang the airryan brotherhood, eventually landed him in the pelican bay shu. but that didn't end his loyalty to his gang. >> of course, you have to earn your bone, which basically means you have to earn your blood in, blood out. you know, and i got my assignment and went after that. >> and what was the assignment? >> it was to take out an individual that was on the hit list for the aryan brotherhood. >> and who was that person, and what did it involve? was he a rival gang or -- >> no, he was a white guy. he wasn't an asset to us as a gang or he wasn't an asset to his own race. and he was just a headache. >> most shu inmates are single-celled. but due to overcrowding, that's not always possible. a circumstance farmer used to his advantage. >> i moved in with the guy to take him out. >> and when you say

member, and that began my life as a prison gang. >> the aryan brotherhood used robert to carry out theirirty work. >> prison gangs involved everything from stabbings, killings, drugs, weapons, whatever needed to be done. i did it. >> we warn you. the details of his violent acts is extremely graphic. >> there was an inmate that came up here. he was accused of raping a woman out on the street. because i was up in coming in a gang at that time, it felt to me to either make another inmate kill him or i myself kill him. i chose to kill myself. if i didn't kill this guy, or if i didn't have this guy killed, then i myself would be killed. that's how the prison gang system works. so me and two friends of mine, fellow gang members, went into his cell to play cards with him. the plan was for his partner in pinochle lose on purpose and to get him down to do push-ups. and when he got down to do push-ups, i got down on his back and applied a little pressure. that was my excuse to get up next to him. at which time, i put my arm around his throat, kind of choked him out a little bit to make him weak. b

. >> he transitioned from a drug user on the streets to an enforcer for the aryan brotherhood in prison, responsible for collecting drug debts. >> my policy was if one of pie people got in a drug debt i would pull them up and say you're done, cut up their credit card, get together with white, pay their debt and he's done. if he gets drugs again then we'll stab him because he violated and i agree with that. there is drugs in prison, obviously. you get on a phone and cry to mom, i need $100 i broke a tv, whatever lie you want to tell. you get it to the street to the connection their old lady brings the dope and bring it back in. somebody will come to visit and they'll have their little balloons and they stick them up their ass, when they come back they [ bleep ] them out and clean them up, paper it up and cell it. >> coming up, tim's drinking is about to get worse. >> a slight hint of alcohol smell, so -- >> and, they've hit inmates at the job site. now the isu team is targeting their home. >> get to the door. pop them. >>> plus -- >> urine analysis. >> last-minute drug test could end the

but the majority here belong to white supremacist gangs like the aryan brotherhood and the saxon knights. officials believe that a growing religious might be a front for white supremacist gangs. marcus murray one of the leaders at wabash denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture more dominant over another or a religion. believers believe that our religion is fine and yours is fine. >> guy ratliff who has been practicing the religion for several years here says there is one group is not welcome. >> few we found out that someone was a child molester he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it's a bylaw. you cannot be a sex ondffender d be in the group. ratliff who uses another accepted pronunciation of the group's name defended the fact that some members have swastikas on their bodies. >> the swastika was around long before adolf hitler came along. i don't have nothing against uncle adolf but he took something from my religion which was a sun wheel and made it part of his party. it goes back

but the majority here belong to white supremacist gangs like the aryan brotherhood and the saxon knights. prison officials suspect that a growing religious group known as asatru might be a front for white supremacist gangs. marcus murray one of the leaders at wabash denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture more dominant over another or a religion. believers believe that our religion is fine and yours is fine. >> guy ratcliff who has been practicing the religion for several years here says there is one group who is not welcome. >> if we found out that someone was a child molester he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. >> ratcliff who uses another accepted pronunciation of the group's name defended the fact that some members have swastikas tattooed on their bodies. >> the swastika was around long before adolf hitler came along. i don't have nothing against uncle adolf but he took something from my religion which was a sun wheel and made it part of his party. it goes back to ancient civili

. >> parker claims to be a leader of the aryan brotherhood prison gang. >> i wasn't racist until i startedlanded in jails and prisons and kept getting jumped on over and over again. then i became racist. i wear it proudly. i got the swastikas and got the bolts. >> when we met him, he was serving his time in administrative segregation because his desire for another tattoo nearly turned deadly. >> about six months ago, i cut a dude's throat down in population. he was supposed to do some tattoos. i was going to get some swastikas tattooed on the side of my neck. he didn't want to run them. i said, well, you just need to give me my money back. he didn't want to do it. i pulled out a box cutter and i cut the side of his throat. and he went running away and tried to run behind an officer. like an officer is going to stop me [ bleep ]. they put him on a helicopter, flew him to the hospital, did some kind of surgery, put his jugular vein back together. >> our producer learned that the total debt owed to parker was $60, payable in snacks and toiletries purchased at the prison canteen since inmates