i'm a cover-up for the aryan brotherhood. 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 your attackers? >> yeah, no problem. >> compton is due to be released from prison in three months, but r

the aryan brotherhood is a very structured, very, very structured. and they have 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

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 the shocking details of a jailhouse admission to a murder christian committed. we warn you, this story is extremely graphic. >> it was an individual f

. >> 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

member, and that began my life as a prison gang. >> the aryan brotherhood used robert to carry out their dirty 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.

>> walter farmer is a former member of the aryan brotherhood.entence for murder, he spent several years in the shu before making the decision to leave the gang. >> in some ways, you feel like you hung up your balls, you know, because you -- now you have to rely on the administration handling your issues as opposed to you handling them in a way you were taught to handle 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 dropping 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 gang life? i

. >> 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 of gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs like the aryan brotherhood and the saxon knights. prison officials suspect a growing religious group known as asatru might be a front for white supremacist gangs. markus 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 or one culture more dominant over another nor one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe that our religion is fine, your religion is fine. >> guy ratliff who has been practicing asatru for several years here says there is one group who is not welcome. >> if we found out somebody in the asatru was a child molester, he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it's a bylaw. you cannot be a sex offender. >> he, who uses another accepted pronunciation of the group's name also defended the fact some members have swastikas tattooed on their body. >> the swastika was around long before adolf hitler come along, okay? now, i don't have nothing against uncle adolf, but he took so

. >> 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