was he a rival gang or -- >> no, he was a white gang.t 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 he was taken out, what happened? did you personally -- >> my job was to go in there and kill him. and i went in there with the intention of killing him, but i stabbed him several times and the damn knife bent. we used a knee brace. we have to be real resourceful in the shu, what we can use for weapons. we used an aluminum knee brace. this was a big guy, so i went after this guy and i hit a bone and the knife had bent on the third time. so he got lucky. >> like other inmates who find themselves growing old in the shu, farmer eventually quit his gang. >> i got tired of the impulsive subjective reasoning for people doing things. we were actually killing people that didn't deserve to be killed. >>> coming up

we're a street gang. they consider us a street gang. it's not structured, we're not considered, you know, like mafiawise -- we don't control the outside, money laundering and things like that, you know what i mean? they can't validate us. >> what do you want to do with the bulldogs? >> whatever it takes. this is my life now, there's no chance for me to get out. i'm going to have to die sometime. i might as well go out with a bang, you know? >>> coming up, even in the shu, robert's always ready for battle. >> this is my shoe, i don't mess with my hands. i count, it's as close as we're going to get to pullups. >> and later a gang dropout struggles with life on the sensitive needs yard. >>> we're headed over to c facility. >>> we're headed over to c facility. it's a full programming yard. it's dropouts. people would have problems on the gp yard. mixture of some sex offenders. people who dropped out of gangs. no longer want to play in the politics of the gp yard. it's an interesting mixture, you'll get a lot of old time heavy duty gangsters

gangs.son officials say the white supremacists pose one of the greatest threats. >> my whole family's in here. i was raised that way. my dad, my uncles, all my cousins. i have been getting tattoos since i was 13 years old. once you start getting tattoos, it's addicting. the ink is addicting. the pain, to an extent, to me, is addicting. >> curtis is serving 1 to 15 years for burglary, forgery and escape. >> a lot of people see the swastika and say that's hate. to me, that's not what i wear it for. i wear it as a symbolism of pride of who i am and a symbolism of good luck. and i have a lot of them. >> curtis is locked down with gang leaders in uinta two because he's considered a threat to inmates in general population. >> in uinta two, that's where we house our maximum security gang members. this is generally the leadership, those who are trying to run the gang. >> they are the more active gang members. that's the reason we have them here because they are so active. and they're the ones who li

we're a street gang. they consider us a street gang. it's not structured, we're not considered, you know, like mafiawise -- we don't control the outside, money laundering and things like that, you know what i mean? they can't validate us. >> what do you want to do with the bulldogs? >> whatever it takes. >> would you die for that? >> this is my life now. there's no chance for me to get out. i'm going to have to die sometime. i might as well go out with a bang, you know? >>> coming up, even in the shu, robert's always ready for battle. >> i count, it's close as we're going to get to pullups. >> and later a gang dropout struggles with life on the sensitive needs yard. over time, my lashes thinned. after 40, i didn't have enough lashes. i'd heard of latisse® but had questions. my doctor said... latisse® is the only fda approved prescription treatment for inadequate or not enough lashes. now with latisse® my lashes are longer, darker, with more than double the fullness in 16 weeks. if you are using or have used, prescription products for ey

>> gang bangers, violence. >> why are so many people attracted to the gangs?omebody to look up to basically. like they don't have a father in their life or somebody that's trying to keep them on the right path, on the right road. >> marcus and montefiore are trying to convince them gang life is not the right road. but they also know they can't help every child. the wall of the principal's office is a shrine to students felled by gun violence. and those that don't get the message and bail out of here, the future isn't bright. >> what happens after here? >> jail or the psychiatric hospitals. >> it is a bad boy school like everybody called it. it's not. >> how would you describe it. >> none of us crazy, we just need to learn how to act. you know. >> and marcus reminds them each day spent here trying is a small victory. >> each day you get up and come to school, you're my hero. even if you disagree with some of the things i say, you're still my hero because you're here. and i am my brother's keeper. >> not far from this school is another school, struggling to keep

>> you have to join a gang.g 15 to life ♪ ♪ 15 to life ♪ ♪ 15 to life ♪ ♪ doing 15 to life ♪ doing 15 to life. that's it. >> in an isolated part of california's central valley is corcoran state prison, one of the state's largest maximum security institutions, housing many of its most violent criminals. now, corcoran first opened in 1988 and was the site of so-called gladiator fights in the mid-1990s in which inmates fought to the death in concrete yards while guards allegedly looked on. the guards were charged and acquitted of subjecting prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment. but when we first brought our cameras into corcoran in 2000, the prison was still recovering from that scandal. in this hour, we'll take you back into the highly charged facility to see whether it has overcome its notorious past. >> home again. ♪ >> my life's in danger. if i stay in there, then i end up getting stabbed. >> that's stored under extreme pressure. it's a powder keg. it's a powder keg. >> basically, it's pure hell. it's hell

the victim was a southern mexican gang member. but all violence in prison is gang-related.specially when you're talking about an assault where weapons were used where a guy was hurt this badly. it just doesn't happen without it being ordered or authorized by the gang. we believe right now that it was other southerners that attacked him. he was probably in trouble for one thing or another that he did in his past, violating gang rules. you can hear them doing their little solidarity inside the unit there. we don't know exactly what he did. hopefully we'll know in the next few days. >> it's important to get somebody, you're going to get to you. coming to prison made me more violent than what i was. it's about getting basically your little piece of america, but in prison. if a new yard opens up, you're going to fight for that handball court. you're going to fight for some tables. we're going to get our peace for our people and we're going to secure that area, but if you are a northerner, and you come into the areas, you're going to get stabbed. it's a whole different lifestyle

gang lifestyle. with the cooperation of supervisor campos, and i am sorry he cannot stay. but with that cooperation, they are actively getting some of these gang members jobs through the supervisor, and there are some guidelines that have to abide by. but i think it is amazing and laudable but they're out there trying to save these gang members that they're out there restingarresting. that is officer cafe and officer sans, and i think they deserve a great big round of applause. [applause] again, i cannot go into too much detail about the program because we cannot risk exposing these kids were trying to get away from the gangs. as the press release indicated, in cooperation with the community is paramount, and we realize that. these are some of the organizations that we collaborate with. you saw four recognized mini that we work with. i am sorry that susana rojas left. but at this time, i would like alfredo to come over here alfr. alfred no has worked with many organizations within the mission. he was

he's a seasoned member of the gang task force. >> what caused the increase in gang crime? morris miya's job is prosecute gang members. his boss, district attorney says gang cases are difficult to try in court. >> they have the most documentation, more than our murders in terms of paper work because have you to go through prior conduct of the people they've been involved with to show this is a gang not as one judge said, how doi know it's just not like a college fraternity and all wear red? >> ethnic gangs are growing in numbers. one color is red. and others wear blue. >> and we're seeing around 1400 that are not documented all of them but that would be estimate. and others slightly less, 600 to 700. >> sargeant doug davis says gangs are now recruiting kids in elementary school. >> they may not be a member of a gang, but we're seeing children in clothing that are gang apairal yell and learning how to show gang signs at that young age. >> investigators say members are becoming more sophisticated and society adapts to internet so do gangs. this inspector can s.with san franci

we use them not just for the gangs. a lot of our violence and shooting is in the black community but we are using with young people who are out on the street in general and it has been a critical part of our gang task force within the city and coalition and i know that the rest of our cities use them similar for intervention projects. >> quickly, we lament the passing of earmarks. city mayors, i could sell my case for intervention and prevention to my congress persons and they responded. i have two operation centers in the heart of the most challenged areas of our city kept alive by a half million dollar earmark from congressman jerry lewis and that expires and they don't come back i end up the loser. largely, we did a sale and got a 50% thumbs up from our city to do that. most of that, most all of it has again to the police department. i was hoping to have a little more for prevention and intervention but the council said give it the p.d. so we have supported our programs largely by applications like those earmarks and

>> what gang are you affiliated with? how do you deal with your gang affiliation once you leave here? >> i'm going to ignore them and go to school. >> you think ignoring them is going to work? >> hopefully. >> did it work last time? >> no, last time, i didn't have future plans. i got out, i didn't have my ged. i didn't have no future plans. now i do. i got an education. i got my ged. i'm going to go to college and play football. >> what was your intent with the gun? why did you have it? >> protection. >> from? >> other gang members. >> let me ask you this -- if i sent one of my sergeants to shake your room down right now and your release was dependent on whether or not there was stg material in your room, are you leaving or not? >> coming up on "lockup, pendleton juvenile." >> you were just talking about your victims, you were smiling. why were you smiling? >> tension-filled hours for andrew and abel. there's no guarantee either will go home. later, we find out what happened to the officer marcus branch attacked. they're

gang. some 300 gang specialists are middle easting at the marriott hotel and exchanging information about gangs they know of and learning about those they may not have heard about. once the sargeant was one of two officers killed by members of the sovereign nation. a fragmented group. his father was a key fot speaker and told the conference the group is like any other violent gang who should be considered dangerous and says the killers were in the bay area before the murders. >> they were here. they made videos here. they said on the video if you have to kill one speaking of law enforcement, i can't stop. very to kill other ootz goal of the three-day conference is for officers to share information and discuss strategy to fight gangs. >> our county you can get that back a. >> detective draper led a seminar on the latest techniques. >> what caused the gang crime? >> the job is prosecuting gang members. his district attorney says the cases are difficult to try in court. >> they have most docum

, an offshoot of the notorious bloods gang, in all 35 maryland gang members accused of crimes like murders, robberies, assault, drug trafficking and witness intimidation. >> we don't know how many crimes won't be committed now because these people are going to be behind bars for a long time. >> they reached from cumberland to frederick out to salisbury with fractions in numerous county and south side brims operate not only in maryland but up and down the east coast with local gang leaders reporting to their higher ups. >> one of the things you see from this operation is that crime doesn't know any boundaries, it's all over the place, it's moving back and forth. >> authorities say their big break came when law enforcement discovered this, a three-page roster including their nicknames, rank and phone numbers let behind. the alleged ring master at the top of the gang's food chain, this man, nicknamed red rum, murder spelled backwards. murder is exactly why he's serving 50 years at cumberland prison where he was still running the gang's activities from behind bars according to u.s. attorney. >

but wouldn't that also endanger members of his own gang? i mean, they're surely going to be the target of the retaliation. you see, now you're making this rather large assumption. i mean, how do we know that the shooter is a gang member? david: a serial killer? megan: targeting gang members for the same reason other serial killers target prostitutes. because nobody really cares about the victims. exactly. and then they can go on killing for longer without anyone noticing. i mean, this guy's been out there for like two years. and if he hadn't killed rhimes, we still wouldn't know who he is. ( cell phone rings ) charlie says he's been maximizing retaliations. he'd have to know a lot about gangs. i mean, about their structure, how they function. you're right, that's how he knows who to go after. all right, yeah. yeah, i got you. that was ballistics. one of the slugs we've been testing hit on the computer. turns out the same gun that fired it was used in a liquor store robbery-homicide. well, let's run down the guy who owns the gun-- find our s

>> what are your thoughts about using civil gang injunctions as a tool for addressing gang violence? >> i think in opprobrious circumstance, that might work. i will partner with the public defender and city attorney to see if we could decide on what, if anything, needs to be done, and i think that opens another issue -- can a district attorney use a city attorney in certain matters? i think they can hear it when i was a young prosecutor, we engaged in collaboration with the district attorney in shutting down businesses which were selling illicit drugs, and i mean serious drugs -- heroin and things of that nature -- by recognizing it to be a public nuisance and by using sections of the welfare and institutions code and business and professions code. as district attorney, i would contact the city attorney to see whether they might do like they do in los angeles and prosecute minor misdemeanors but more importantly, work with the city attorney in looking at areas not currently being addressed -- labour code violations, health code violations, business and professional code violations an

tl more gang. this is 7 news. >>> 5000 dollar reward is being offered tonight to for information leading to the arrest of an armed robber in san mateo. pet smart offering reward after the gunman shot a clerk during a store robbery over the weekend. police release the sketch of the man who is described as 5 feet 9 inches tall. about 1 80 pound pounds. he went into the store on el camino saturday demanded cash and then fired several shots at the clerk before leaving. >>> no arrest tonight after bit of a cat and mouse between a group of homeless nevada advocate and police in san francisco. group called home not jail up vacant property to make their case. that empty housing should be used to house the city homeless. san francisco pd had to close geary between poll being and van ness for few minutes tonight as they search inside the vacant charlie hotel. about 20 officers in riot gear removed banner and other belongings. police say those inside were going to be arrested for trespassing and didn't find a

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. but he wasn't dead yet because i wanted him to feel exactly what was going to happen to him. i didn't want him to make a lot of noise, because the co is 15 tiers away. he could have heard me at any time. and another inmate passed me a razor shank, and i slashed his throat repeatedly. blood was everywhere. and then another inmate passed me a shank about that long, with a handle on it. and i just started stabbing him. stabbed him over 100 times, in the back, sides, neck, he was crying, telling me to stop, begging for me to stop. and he was still alive through all of it. th

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gang, a lot of authority with the street gang, and position.y rodrick has terminated his association by removing the tattoos on his arm, which is a measurable feat. >> how significant a step is that for somebody that's been affiliated with a gang to remove the gang signs from themselves? >> a monumental step. a remarkable feat. >> do you believe that it would be safe for him to be released to the care and custody of his mother? >> yes, i do. >> thank you. that's all the questions i have, judge. >> rod, let's talk first of all about what brings you here today. you're being charged with possession of marijuana and resisting law enforcement. are you going to cooperate with the prosecutor's office in identifying the person whose marijuana it was? >> i can do that. >> will you do that? >> i will do that because it's not mine. i'm not going to jail for nothing that's not mine. i've been working too hard this year, sir. too hard this year. i've improved my whole life. my mother told me a long time ago when i was in boys' school if i ever in my life fr

you go from one gang, as a dropout and you form another gang.eem to end. >> these people in here, they want you to do something else. i'd rather take care of my business and see my family one day, you know. >> when you come to prison, it's still our obligation to protect you no matter what. the department's view about gangs is to disassemble, get those individuals to drop out, tell on each other. because we gain better control of our population. it's an ongoing process that never stops. >> let's go, gentlemen, let's go. >> i'm in protective custody because i'm a dropout. >> you gave up everything you had to give up to get a place over here. if you try to fake a debrief, they'll know about it. they'll put you at the back of the list and maybe you wait again. that's another five, six, seven years because people are dropping like flies. there's a lot of people just like them. involved in drug trafficking, involved in assaults. involved in any type of violence you can possibly think of. i was that bad ass, too. i wanted to be. my hand was raised for

bug, we just exported the gang life out there. >> randall's gang activity led to his incarceration at the youth facility and soon after, prison. there he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla family. >> ended up in 15 years solitary confinement. tried to get back into the main line, but it was kind of hard. after facing walls for 15 years and handcuffs everywhere i went, i didn't adjust too well. i still became more assaultive, more combative, more violent. >> after 25 years of incarceration, randall had plenty of violent episodes to share. >> i had threw a bomb in an inmate's cell and blew his toilet off the wall and blew a patch of his leg off. an officer came to my door. i made a zip gun out of some magazines and i shot him in the face. >> as the story unfolds about why he's there, what he's done in prison, it can send chills up your spine. then it occurs to you, i'm sitting right in front of this guy. anything can happen to me. >> most of randall's violence was directed at his cellmates. >> i don't have a problem taking a cellie but what i have a problem with is crackh

they were confirmed gang shootings, one gang against the other. it was a vicious cycle back and forth. at that time, we immediately had meetings with the chief of police and myself. we met at mission station with four or five people from various community organizations, and we had a discussion as to what can we do here? we have to put a stop to this. the people from the community organizations, they were out in the street. they were at spots for the shrines were, because the gang members of the victim gang were there. they were talking to people, trying to deal escalates, and at the same time we have to bolster our forces. i mentioned earlier the importance of our beats. when something like this happens, the first place it goes is to beats. we put them in the area where we know the gangbangers hang out. it only takes three or 4 week for the word to get out, because we have informant telling us this that there still mad at the other day but the heat is on so they're not coming to the mission for any sort of violence. as time goes by, the acrimony s

that's a gang under the folk nation. the first gang experience was probably when i was probably 14. part of it was just kind of like another family, and the other part of it was just fitting in. it's an adrenaline rush. it got your adrenaline pumping and i don't know. a lot of teenagers, that's kind of what we do it for is that adrenaline rush. i got my first felony when i was 9, and like a lot of my family kind of -- they was with me at first and then they kind of gave up on me. because they seen i kept getting locked up and they figured there was no hope for me. >> the adolescents, sometimes when they go through the court system, i like to say they're a three-time loser. many of the parents have been through court, numerous times, they've seen their child kicked out of school, kicked out of the community. honestly, once they come in to our system, a lot of the parents have said i can't do this anymore. >> indiana department of correction commissioner david donahue says it takes a special kind of person to work with the juvenile population. >> our community support or lack thereof