i remember planning it out. he was a senior member of the snm. but in the 80s, around the time of the prison riot, he was also a member of the nuestro familia. you can t do that. you can t be from two cliques. you just can t. word was put out to kill the guy. i happened to be in the jail with him at that time when the word was put out. there was consistency with the corrections officer, so we had the same officer coming in four or five days a week. then he d have two days off. he would then come back on. i studied him and his mannerisms and his behavior. once i arrived at the point which i felt comfortable, i made my move. it was after they opened up all the cell doors for evening chow. while everybody was eating, i took animal histories into his room. i sat down next to him on his bed and talked to him. he got up. turned on his light, which sat across the desk on the wall to roll a cigarette. bible paper.
conditions in the shu, gang members still find ways to make weapons, sometimes carving them right out of their own cells. this was made by an arian brotherhood member in a security housing unit. they re in there with nothing, certainly nothing to cut through metal. this guy, he got ahold of some kind of cutting agent. the cell doors is all mild steel. if you take a spring clip like part of a fingernail clipper and that is spring steel, hardened skill and they ll sharpen that, they ll cut the weapons right out of their cell doors. they ll simply choose a section of the door and scribe on the door the same size as a weapon that they want to cut and they ll just keep scribing it until it cuts all the way through the mild steel. when gang members in the pelican bay shu make weapons, they re expected to use them. i was involved with the aryan brotherhood back in 1984 when i was at folsom prison.
it was about shakespeare. it was really bizarre. because the inmates are not allowed out of their cells. so they re having this lively conversation through the pie flaps in their cell doors, but other than that, it was like being in a college classroom, listening to a literary debate. macbeth is a general, and he got strategies. i think he might have been prepared for that, so when it came, he would have been, like, my god, how you doing? you know what i m saying? through a program called shakespeare in the shu, inmates here have a brief escape from the relentless boredom of being locked down. indiana state university professor laura bakes started the program. i went door to door, cell to cell and had experiences like walking up at one cell and completely unannounced, mentioned shakespeare and the offender started quoting from shakespeare. had no idea this was coming.
often punctuated by his frequent battles with holman s warden. grant culliver. at the time, culliver and a disciplinary committee were about to review gilbert s recent behavior and a prison transfer to a prison closer to his family s home. within moments other inmates had seen that lockup cameras were present decided to disrupt the hearing in the shoe by banging on the cell doors. that s when warden culliver decided to take matters into his own hands. beat on that door again. beat on the door again you, you do it. beat on the [ bleep ] again. i don t beat no [ bleep ] beat on the [ bleep ] door again. [ bleep ] put his ass out the door. [ bleep ]. once the inmates calmed down gilbert s hearing got under way. his appeal for a transfer was
a-1 to a-4. gilbert s life behind bars is often punctuated by his frequent battles with holman s warden. grant culliver. at the time, culliver and a disciplinary committee were about to review gilbert s behavior and his request for a transfer to a prison closer to his family s home within moments other inmates had seen that lockup cameras were present decided to disrupt the hearing in the shoe by banging on the cell doors. that s when warden culliver decided to take matters into his own hands. beat on that door again. beat on the door again you, you do it. beat on the [ bleep ] again. i don t beat no [ bleep ] beat on the [ bleep ] door again. [ bleep ] put his ass out the door. [ bleep ].