. >> today castellanos is concerned about a white inmate named aaron yost. >> watch out for this guy on the yard. he's calling the shots on the block for the whites. we're expecting something today, but we don't know. >> before coming to prison, yost was a drug addict with a burglary and attempted burglary on his record. when he was arrested for manufacturing methamphetamine in 1996, he fell under california's three strikes statute and got 35 years to life. >> that means i might possibly be eligible for parole in the year 2028. but i'm like 43 right now, and that's a lifetime away. it's an insane -- it's an insane, incredible amount of time to sit somebody who has no history of violence. i don't have violence on my record at all, none. >> but since coming to prison, yost has been repeatedly written up by the staff for violent behavior. >> it's predatory. prison is predatory. your necessities and your wants, right, run on a razor's edge, you know? when -- it's just an analogy, but when a pen all of a sudden has the value of a corvette, you'll live and die over it. >> for the past 2 1/

. >> at kern valley state prison in california, we met inmate aaron yost who participates in another, yet very common practice behind bars. tattooing. >> mine's art work. you know what i mean? i did this myself. >> where? >> in a cell like this. >> how? >> how? see this cassette player? i ripped the motor out of it, and i attach a tube to it with the needle, spin the needle back and forth. and i make the ink. burn plastic or baby oil, and the soot will go up. i collect the soot and mix it with shampoo to make a thick black ink. >> tattooing in prison is illegal and poses a variety of health risks, but we've met countless inmates who have gotten their ink both on the outside and inside. many tattoos represent gang affiliation and are documented by prison officials. most of the rest have a meaning all their own. >> what my trip is is physics. my tattoos represent it. on the back of my legs it says quantum physics. i've got an atom on my hand. i study what the ultimate nature of reality is. it sooths me. it soothes me to try and figure out what i am, what all this is, what it's all abou

in fact, aaron yost serving 35 years to life for burglary and drug possession under california's three says the racial divide has less to do with gangs than it does with human nature. >> we're animals, aren't we? a man's history is like, is racial, you know? you have all different groups of people that invade other people's country that take what they want, their resources. we're animals, we evolve. you have different ethnicities. it's inbred in us. it's genetic, isn't it? you see something that's different. all animals are like that. why should it be any different here. but in here you have to -- this prison, you know, the conditions in here were set, you know what i mean when prison first started. how is it going to change. >> how do you survive that? >> no one wants to change. >> two other kern valley inmates also claim they felt threatened by their minority status. >> what are your tattoos about? >> just white power. you know what i mean. you grow up in a situation like this, you got to do something, you know what i mean? everybody's clicked up. >> that's how the whole system runs.

yost not right. we're trying to correct that right now while maintaining the safety net in a viable crop insurance program that can work. i encourage my colleagues to support the amendment. the chair: the gentleman tees time has expire. the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. lucas: i yield myself whatever time i have to say to my colleagues, the system works, as my colleague also noted, it is critically important to farmers to ensure their financing and while ultimately like most provisions of the farm bill that raise the food and fiber, the consumers at the end of the chain benefit from the highest quality, most affordable price of food and fiber in the history of the world. please protect this important resource to production agriculture. please continue to enable farmers to farl. vote no on this amendment. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from wisconsin. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the o