brotherhood back in 1984 when i was at folsom prison. you know, we had some work that needed to be tended to. so i put in some work, stabbed an individual. he needed to be taken out. walter big foot farmer s involvement in the white supremacist gang, the aryan brotherhood, eventually landed him in the pelican bay shu. but that didn t end his loyalty to his gang. of course, you have to earn your bone, which basically means you have to earn your blood in, blood out. you know, and i got my assignment and went after that. and what was the assignment? it was to take out an individual that was on the hit list for the aryan brotherhood. and who was that person, and what did it involve?
for some, destroying the life of a loved one is offset by the profits generated by drug trafficking behind bars. one gram of black tar heroin on the street will cost somewhere between 40 and 80 dollars, once it comes inside prison it can go for as much as $800. and a gram is very easy to get in. a demand along with the lure of easy money, has drugs flooding into prisons. pitting inmates and corrections officials in a constant game of cat and mouse. often played in the prison mailroom. they go through hundreds of pieces of mail a day. sometimes we get lucky and find something. when you do it through mail, you have to get heroin on a sheet. like a plastic sheet of paper
many of them still were a little bit uncomfortable with that idea, especially uncomfortable about having to give over their protection now, completely to the prison authorities. they were not able any more to rely on their gang for protection. do i feel safe? you never can feel safe in a prison environment. i don t depend on prison administration to protect me. yeah, they re going to take steps to sure we re secure. but at the same time i m going to fall back on what i learned in prison to make it in here. in some ways you feel like you hung up your balls. now you have to rely on the administration to handle things in a way you learned to handle things. now i play sports with people i was once enemies with. it s a big step.
indoors, they learned that kern valley s dominant hispanic gang controlled the exercise session. because all their practices are shrouded in secrecy, they would not work out in front of our cameras. but they can t avoid prison surveillance cameras. notice right now you have what a call a cadence call. it s an exercise routine, there s a certain group of inmates that initiate it. and, therefore, the race have to follow as long as they show respect. everything in prison is about respect. we found another example of an inmate bridging the racial divide. when we ran into dillon dunn at work in kern valley s kitchen. how unusual are you here? in this prison i m the only one. the only what? the only white krip. i think the whole crew was surprised to find out he was a crip. a white guy as a crip.
what s even more fascinating is what came out of his mouth. the california department of corrections is solely responsible for the madness that goes on in this prison system. and i ll tell you why, because when a big white boy like me goes to prison, he is expected to do his part for the white cause and it s the same for the blacks, the mexicans, the indians, the orientals, asians, everybody else. they re expected to go to prison and do their part. why? because the inmates who run the prisons are the inmates doing life and life without the possibility of parole and they don t give a damn about my parole date or anybody else s. and these guys doing life and life without, they re hopeless. they re so full of hate just because of the sentences they have that they don t care what kind of chaos they cause in there.