gang. so it's easy, again, to re-establish yourself. >> so a lot of them they go in sny, they see older inmates, weaker inmates, and they band together again whether as a formal gang. we have dropout gangs. or even just a group of four or five, you know, bigger guys that just want to pressure other guys out of anything, out of money, out of clothing, out of food, out of anything they can get out of them. >> lieutenant munoz must now determine whether de la cruz is a victim of a gang or an active gang member himself. perhaps one who has requested protective custody under false pretenses. >> one of the two terms that they use is sleeper. it's one of the names. you know, he's a sleeper. he's coming in under radar. the other one they term they use, he's a torpedo. he's coming in and he's got a target and he's going to find his target, and explode on a guy. so i questioned him about that. >> while de la cruz still refused to give officials any information about the attack, later, he was willing to tell us why he decided to drop out, and seek protective custody. >> because in my hood, they're all lik

it indicates gang activity has penetrated the sensitive needs yard or sny. >> it is supposed to be gangguys go into sny not because they want to. a lot of these guys still want to be gangsters. >> many of these inmates come to sny because they violated gang rules and now need protection from gang retaliation. >> the easiest way to describe it is that even though you walked away from the gang, it doesn't change your gang mental state because what happens is that you've already been trained by the gang. so it's easy, again, to reestablish yourself. >> it's a lot of them, they go into sny, they see these older inmates, weaker inmates and they band together again. whether as a formal gang, or four or five bigger guys that want to pressure other guys out of anything, money, clothing, food, anything they can get out of them. >> lieutenant munoz must now determine whether de la cruz is the victim of a gang or an active gang member himself, perhaps one that has asked for protective custody under false pretenses. >> sleeper is one of the names they use. he's a sleeper, he's coming in under radar

gang-free. >> it's called the sensitive needs yard, sny. re 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 hurt a homosexual that can't defend

process before inmates are allowed into protective custody in order to ensure that the sny population remains safe. this ex-gangate, but he wants to be returned to sny. >> there was a battery that was in 2005, the current charge, though, is of threatening another inmate. >> he doesn't want to be housed with inmates who have sex-related offenses, whether it be against women or children or such. even though he's kind of in the same boats because now he's also requesting protective custody, he has to be safeguarded from the rest of the general population. realistically whether he is a gang dropout or has sex crimes, as far as the general population goes, it doesn't really matter. but he still wants to have that mentality that he is a little bit better than a particular inmate in the prison setting. >> did you have a problem going back out to that particular housing unit? >> you know what -- >> refusing a celly? >> like i said, i was out there, never got in any trouble while i was out there. me personally, right, it's like if i don't know anything about you, i'm just trying to do my time and go home. you know, i di