evaluation. angel is currently serving a ten-year sentence for infliction of corporal injury. and despite his good behavior, he s being housed in ad seg. in talking to angel rodriguez, he s on my caseload. he wants to be released from ad seg, but we have information in our records that he was a validated gang member. even if, like, say the gang, they say, oh, no, angel is not a part of us, but we know him, it s up to the administration to believe it. and they don t believe it. so i m going to be stuck in the hole for a while which limbs my contact with my girl, my son. i want to go out there and hold my son and get contact visit. i don t want to be stuck back here, especially for ten years. okay. we can go and close the door. thank you. okay. so i looked over your file, and you were placed in ad seg primarily because you are a validated member of the northern structure. so i understand in your old file there was a lot of good information that you had been a dropout or that you
once an inmate debriefs, there s no going back. i don t like to run the yard. i like to play pinochle or cut hair. i don t really run around in the yard. george mariscal is an ex-northern structure gang member who lives in sny. because this yard is a mish-mash of inmates who can t function in general population, some people consider it an even worse place than ad seg. this is the dirtiest place of all places. if you re a pc, you re going to be amongst the garbage of the system. that s where we are right now. we are in the garbage of the system. because in the main line if you are not a gang member or caught up in any type of control aspect, dope trade or whatever, then you re nothing on the main line. here you can be whoever you want. you can be a rapist, child molester. or gang dropout, which is me. don t get it mixed up. i m not a rapist or i m a gang dropout. you can be whoever you want to be. you can be a transvestite. you can be a snitch.
to get out of the group, is that true? yeah. i not a dropout because i never affiliated myself. that s just on paperwork. i m sure there s information out there that says whether or not you are active or inactive, whether you re a dropout, whether your life is in jeopardy. all these things we looked at in that process, the same process that validates you, that can undo that. but it will take some time. okay, but here s my concern right here is that being that i was never really involved on an in-depth basis, right, seriously, so therefore, if i tell the igi, whatever, i don t really know nothing, and it s up to them to determine to believe me or not, right? so what if i really don t know anything? i m stuck. that s going to be between you and them. what s going to happen is there s a level of truth and there s a level of dishonesty. yeah. we ll know. yeah, because i don t want to do my time in the shu again. you won t. you won t. as long as you as long as your debri
one thing we learned about prison, doesn t matter where you re housed, your safety is never guaranteed. we believe you may have been a victim of a battery. joseph de la cruz is a gang dropout, serving nine years for attempted murder at california san quentin state prison. when we first met him, authorities had just discovered that he had been assaulted inside his protective custody cell. this morning, you come out of your cell, we did a sweep to find out how many people stayed behind. you were discovered with injuries. and here s the medical report. despite obvious injuries, de la cruz refused to give correctional staff any information about the attack. we re trying to find out who i want to tell them what happened. any specific individuals you know are your enemies? no, sir. how about any prison weapons offenses? no, sir. do you belong to a gang? no, i don t. aside from what you re being accused of being a victim, are you involved in any other batteries in yo
for daniel bobian, another gang dropout, early retirement was also involuntary. i ve been hanging with gang members since i was a kid, so it really wasn t news when i came to prison. i already knew what i was going to be, a northerner. now i ve got to take an individual called immediate on some names, and i took off on him, and he called me a punk or a [ bleep ], i m going to take off on you, especially in prison. but we cannot fight against each other, so for that, we were both removed. being removed means that the inmates are now considered enemies of their former gang. he got a slash, right here and i just got a little mark. at 5:00 in the morning, and i was drinking coffee most of that night, trying to stay up, but you can only stay up for so long.