there are separate housing units for active and ex-gang members. but that is just the start. the jail also attempts to identify and segregate gay inmates in their own housing units. >> it is one of our interview questions when they first come in. we'll ask them, are you currently a homosexual? if they say yes, we have to give them an option to house in the homosexual unit for safety and security. if they feel that they cannot house out in general population, they have the right to go into the homosexual unit. >> within the homosexual unit, inmates are classified as either masculine or feminine. >> so are you masculine or are you fem? >> i'm gay. i'm gay. >> okay. >> i'm just gay. >> not me, honey, i am fem. >> you have your masculines are more manly looking, but i'm straight acting, straight looking. >> okay. what's really going on? >> then you have your fems that are, you know, some of them take hormones so they act like girls. >> they live their life as women in the world. transsexuals, drag queens. they're walking around with bras, thongs, things in their hair, being drama

rubio held out hope that he would be reinstated so he refused to be housed in the ex-gang unit.reconsidered that decision. >> he has come forward and said hey, i defected. i no longer want to house with these guys. >> but the jail officials worry, they fear he may be plotting something. >> we received information he was no longer active with the gang. but at the same time we were told if he assaulted an ex member he could come back with the gang. a true x has no chance of coming back, we can't afford him the housing unit he is requesting. we have to go ahead and wait a little bit and just watch. >> until then, rubio will remain sequestered in a single cell, away from both the active members and the mexican mafia. adam verlander claims allegiance to the aryan brotherhood. but his actions in and outside the jail puts his membership in jeopardy. now, the bed rock that verlander has built his life on is crumbling. he just received a letter informing him he has been x 'd out of the group. >> i was on the run, you know, am i supposed to go hold down a 9 to 5:00 job and be on alert? >>

. >> the ex-gang unit was night and day different than any of the active units we had been to.mates had a sense of relief that getting out of the gang provided them, and it showed. >> the ex-gang unit is the only place where those affiliated with warring gangs live together peacefully. but they're fully aware their decisions to leave their gangs carry consequences that could follow them forever. >> we always tell any ex-member of any major prison gang, your life is in danger. there is somebody out to get you. it is going to happen. just remember that you were part of a criminal enterprise and you left it, and there is by their bylaws a hit on you. >> that's the way it goes. you're in it for life or you're dead, you know, there's no -- there's no way out of it. >> victor, who requested we only use his first name for security reasons, once a lieutenant in the mexican mafia. he defected, while serving a prior 23-year prison sentence for kidnapping and aggravated assault. victor was back in the bexar county jail on a parole violation. >> when a mafia member decides to defect after

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