the information provided by former gang members, like inmate spiller, is used to identify and track high-ranking gang leaders inside the prison. it has also proved invaluable to law enforcement. they ve actually solved homicides on the streets that they had no suspects on through the debrief process. debriefing is not enough to destroy the vise grip of prison gangs at corcoran. it s just one tool from breaking some of these gang members up from the gang. because for every one inmate that debriefs you have ten in line waiting to get into the gang. since our last visit here, officers say they have seen a big shift in the type of inmates who are joining gangs. the changes i have seen in gang members coming into csp corcoran have been a lot of the younger kids coming off of the street. coming into a gang they feel is going to take care of them and come in here and find out it s not that way at all. and because he wants to make a name for himself, will be the first one to grab a
to return to the united states, where he hasn t been for a very, very long time? he needs to meld medically and emotionally get his act together and he ll do that. the next stage, unfortunate, because it probably won t take place you want his buddies in combat loonk back up with him. we re getting discordant voices he probably had challenges, maybe the unit had challenges. it is all about leadership. you d love to have that leadership embrace him coming back. i m not saying that s going to take place, but we need to make sure that he is also part of a debrief process so that we can extract great intelligence from him. he s an intelligence source. he s been in the camp of the enemy for five years. we need to figure out what he knows. james spider marks, always good to see you. thanks so much. thank you, fredricka. all right. it is a race known as the test of a champion, and many are betting california chrome will
gang, the debrief process must occur in secret. usually an inmate will pass a kite to the officers who will remove the inmate from their cell under the guise of something like a medical checkup. you want to disassociate yourself to be honest, i got tired of all the corruption. i seen a lot of bad calls and innocent people getting hurt. and seeing too many people doing things they didn t want to do, being forced to do. it s like the higher you go up, the more you see. the debrief process takes months, sometimes even years. because the igi must verify the truth of an inmate s autobiography. for myself, back in 2001, when i was in county jail, they ordered me to hit my own uncle because he was a dropout. and then after that, that s when i got my little points, what they call points. they train us to do all that. how were you trained?
you know what? the first thing that popped in my head, i m going to go ahead and do this dude. and after sitting there rotting by myself, it finally popped in my head that, third, but unthinkable, you know, come this way as far as do the debriefing process. go out on program. and you feel comfortable with that decision? it s funny, i honestly i honestly believed that because the decision itself tore me up, it was tearing me up, and the few days that it was actually in my head and as i was writing the kite to the floor officer, it was tearing me up. i ve been in some straight wars. i ve been hit. i ve been shot. i ve been ran over, crowbarred. and i ve done the exact same damage. and i can honestly say that that was the roughest thing i ever had to do. that was my life, my whole
for some inmates sny is freedom. the iyp is a small taste of what s to come. after over a decade in the shu, inmate angel chaves looks forward to a more interactive prison program. i feel like i got let down by the familia. the situation was, i was doing time for the familia. i ve asked for assistance. i m not going to specify what assistance. i asked for assistance to handle business for me because i was in the business for them. sure. and they never came through although they said they would. at that point, i felt like, what s the point of this? since you ve entered the debriefing process, up until now you re getting ready to get endorsed to an sny, how has it been for your phase one, phase two? what have you been feeling? i feel like the world s been lifted off my shoulders. i had so much responsibility.