california state prison, corcoran. you'd never know it by talking to easley. >> i got it pretty good. it's all right. it's fine. this is something that i like doing, you know? it's kind of like a relaxation, you know? >> ernest had a legitimate job given to him by the administration in the kitchen, but he was smart in that he had figured out a way to have a little hustle on the side to make extra money. >> i usually charge, like a suit, a pair of pants is a suit, a shirt is a suit. i wash clothes. i don't wash boxers or socks. that's what i don't wash. you know, other than that i charge, you know, a dollar to wash, a dollar to iron their clothes. you'd be surprised. a lot of people, well men, they aren't really into washing or ironing, so i do it. >> one of the first things that struck me about ernest was he had a happiness about him you don't often see in a prison and then we came to find out why. >> well, i have a significant other. he's a very good person. you know? his name is robert. and he's a good man. you know?

. >> when we visited california state prison corcoran for "extended stay," we came upon clarence leehe was moving into a new cell with an old friend from the neighborhood. a place he might never see again. lee was a veteran of the crips street gang and is serving a life sentence for murder. the majority of inmates belong to gangs. >> welcome into our little casa. >> lee's old friend reginald maiden who preferred to be called terry was in a distinct minority. >> we go to school together. help each other with schoolwork. go to chow together. i have no problem sitting with terry. i have no problem doing whatever with terry because i look at him as a human. i understand all of the things he went through. to others it seems like we're more than homeys because they don't understand how long i've known terry. >> terry was a very overt transgender inmate. then we meet clarence who comes off as this very strong, straight-looking guy. and because terry was constantly running into problems with his cellmates, he needed protection, for lack of a better word, and clarence was willing to offer tha

but this one yard at california state prison corcoran that's supposed to be gang-free. >> it's called sensitive needs yard, sny. it's where gang dropouts or sex offenders or high-risk inmates go for their own safety. but even here gangs can spring up, and we found one of the most unorthodox gangs. they call themselves gbg, the gay boy gangsters. >> it's a group of men that are gay, that are not transgender, and who are gay men who like men who do not want to be a woman. okay, that's it. we're pretty thick actually. we're pretty much respected. we don't get into fights. we don't get into that sort of thing, but we have a pretty good following. we're just a group of people that are gay and stand for our own. >> clement, who prefers to be called wicked, is serving 20 years for three counts of robbery. and he's not the only gay boy gangster on the sensitive needs yard at corcoran. nicolas turner, who goes by the name demon, told us the gbgs should not be taken lightly. >> we hurt anybody that -- inside the prison system, anybody that tries to forcefully take property or rape or in any way

. ♪ ♪ as we sing holy holy holy >>> when we met brian at california state prison corcoran, we had a prettyhunch that the origin of his nickname would play a major part in his story. >> my nickname is lefty. never been called lefty, it's because i have one arm. at 18 i was the victim of a drunk driving accident when i was in the air force. >> the other thing that was significant about brian to me was he was the height of irony on a lot of levels. he was a good example as to why you don't want to take justice into your own hands. his crime was that of a vigilante. >> you know being a christian means you don't have to be scared of your past because your sins, no matter how ugly they are, and we have some ugly ones in this room -- >> he is an inmate preacher at the prison's chal and ca trace the ugliest of his sins a bizarre series of events that began with the loss of his arm. >> after the air force medically retired me, i retired to little rock, arkansas, started selling clothes in the mall. all i thought about all day long was having one arm, being in the big city where i didn't know anybod

. >> duncan was serving 28 years for home invasion, kidnapping, and robbery at california state prison corcoran culmination of a criminal career that began at a very young age. >> i came from a good home. i can't say that i had a bad childhood. i just got mixed up with the wrong people. i started committing petty crimes when i was a kid because i actually did get strung out on heroin. my first shot was probably when i was 10 or 11 years old. >> duncan had spent most of his life incarcerated. in that time, he developed a reputation as an inmate to fear. >> these are some weapons that they say they discovered in a cell that i once occupied, allegedly. myself, personally, i'm a nice guy and i don't believe in violence. that's a damn lie. it was my responsibility on the yard to ensure that, one, our people were not harmed by another race. i took care of the drug debts if one of our people became delinquent in a drug debt to another race, it was my responsibility to either cover their drug debt or have them stabbed, in which case we would send one of ours to stab them. >> duncan's loyalty to his gan

prison or about 1 in 28 kids. 25 years earlier it was only 1 in 125. >> you like that? >> during our extended stay smoot in california's corcoran staterison we saw those statistics come to life. >> and they got stabbed up. but that's what hams in prison. >> it was during a program in which inmates and corrections officers visit local schools to steer youngsters away from crime. >> how many guys have either a family member, parent, cousin, aunt or uncle in prison now? raise your hand. >> i was really surprised when all those hands went up. i shouldn't have been so surprised because we've kind of dealt with that throughout the years of filming "lockup." but still it just seemed shocking and very sad to me. >> my dad's been in and out of prison since i was like born. we've just been living together alone and just going back and forth to my grandma's and my mom's. >> jonathan was a sad little soul. he seemed like such an innocent. when he sat down to interview him he was very quiet but very compelling in his story of having grown up in a home where his father was pretty much in prison the whole time. >> if you could talk to your dad righ