oh, man. one, two, three. but not all inmates find camaraderie in jail. due to his classification by the state prison system as a gang member with a violent past, albert briceno is locked in a single cell 22 hours a day. here we have albert briceno and he s down here on appeal for his 150 years, the eight counts of robbery. right, right. he s the one that s trying to get some of the gang enhancements dropped so he can get some time shredded off. yeah. my guess is the gang enhancements are probably going to stick because it was found true during the jury trial. a lot of new tattoos, too. yeah. he got those up at delano. because he didn t have them back in 2001 when he was with us. he didn t have the horns. he didn t have the star. he didn t have any of his neck work done. wow. almost looks like a different guy in those two.
man, what s up, g ? he looked at me. and his eyes got all big. the recognition set in. the star threw him off, the tattoos that i got. he got all excited, you know? me and albert briceno have been around each other for like the last 22 years. we were neighbors in juvenile hall. briceno and bowles are not only old friends. they share long criminal histories. they are considered among the most dangerous and violent inmates in the entire jail. because of that, they will never have physical contact. they are housed in a unit where only one inmate at a time is allowed into the common area. we laugh at it now. we look at each other door to door. we re just laughing like, dude, what the hell are we doing? we re 34 years old. we re still like we re 10 years old in the heart. come on. come on. inside their cells the sinks provide the best sound transmission and serve as
any time we get decent intelligence, it s a good search. while authorities still consider briceno to be a powerful gang leader, his time at orange county has been spent trying to disassociate himself from that past. i m not involved in the gang stuff no more. that s when i was young, you know. i left all that behind. it s childish. you know? it s the reason why i m here. but briceno might have a motive for distancing himself from gang life. his current armed robbery sentences come with gang enhancements that could keep him in prison for the rest of his life. he will soon be going to court in hopes of convincing a judge to drop them. we committed robberies, me and another individual. and that was it. got arrested. you know, and both of us being gang members, that s when they hit us with the gang enhancements. while briceno s most serious conviction has been for armed robbery, he later implied he might have gotten away with murder. a lot of people don t know this.
the next group is bravo q. pierce. inmate moves are not uncommon in most jails. as thousands of men and women check in and out of jail, classification officers are constantly analyzing the population in order to house them in a manner that will help avoid conflict. next group is echo cube. hawkins. albert briceno is the latest inmate on the move. he has been transferred from the theo lacey facility to the central jail, three miles away. most inmates within the county jail are continuously on the move. we do have to screen and rescreen these inmates all the time. basically, how i look at it is, who can play with who. shortly after moving into his new cell, briceno discovered his neighbor was an old childhood friend, jeremy bowles. i recognized the tattoos. and then when he got up, i said,
due to his classification by the state prison system as a gang member with a violent past, albert briceno is locked in a single cell 22 hours a day. here we have albert briceno and he s down here on appeal for his 150 years, the eight counts of robbery. right, right. he s the one that s trying to get some of the gang enhancements dropped so he can get some time shredded off. yeah. my guess is the gang enhancements are probably going to stick because it was found true during the jury trial. a lot of new tattoos, too. yeah. he got those up at delano. because he didn t have them back in 2001 when he was with us. he didn t have the horns. he didn t have the star. he didn t have any of his neck work done. wow. almost looks like a different guy in those two. you take a look at the two pictures. it s definitely a difference. but, then, again, when you get