aside for inmates who are requesting protective custody. the inmate has to notify us, he has to request to be placed in protective custody. from that point we ask him to go ahead and draw up or write his autobiography, detailing his involvement with the gangs from the street to the county jails to the prisons, and back out to the street. anything he s been involved in, anything he s witnessed. everything. right now there s quite a few inmates that are dropping out. you know, they re realizing there s no future in these gangs. because gang dropouts become immediate targets to the former 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
several other interviews we conduct with you. the debriefing process means severing all ties with the gang member s affiliation. i m a drug habit. whatever i have to do to support my drug habit. the sentence i m on right now, three strike case. i m doing life for a $20 bag of meth. it was like i had to establish myself in order to survive basically, and one aspect of doing that was to associate myself with a gang, a prison gang. a strong prison gang, which was the aryan brotherhood, it s something you don t just grab on to, you have to earn that. you have to work your way into that. i did a lot of inmate assaults, stabbings. you re a drug addict who comes into prison.
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 lifestyle. giving that up that s what that was on that piece of paper. throwing that away was crushing me. once they walked me off that tier, a huge-ass weight was lifted off my shoulders, and i can say that honestly.
it s a learning experience. i am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation. she shot me a little glossy, i cuddle with it at night. no, i m just kidding. once an inmate is validated as a gang member in corcoran, they have a choice, stay in the gang or drop out and debrief. our officers were allowed to follow officer garcia into the debrief process. there s one building set aside for inmates who are requesting protective custody.
the debriefing process means severing all ties with the gang member s affiliation. i m a drug habit. whatever i have to do to support my drug habit. the sentence i m on right now, three strike case. i m doing life for a $20 bag of meth. it was like i had to establish myself in order to survive basically, and one aspect of doing that was to associate myself with a gang, a prison gang. a strong prison gang, which was the aryan brotherhood, it s something you don t just grab on to, you have to earn that. you have to work your way into that. i did a lot of inmate assaults, stabbings. you re a drug addict who comes into prison. yeah. and becomes. a killer. i hate it. i hate life right now.