it s going down. i think the officers who escorted tracy out to the sny area of the prison knew something was up because they could tell that when he mentioned to his cellblock, hey, i ll be back in an hour, i think they knew that he was working the system. during the long walk to sny, washington finally cleared up the mystery and admitted that he had, in fact, requested the transfer but he had no intention of following through. he had another motive. when they was trying to send me to a prison way up north about 1,000 miles away from where i live in l.a. county, i told them that i needed protective housing because the only purpose of me saying that was that that prison doesn t have an sny yard. once they changed the inmate to this prison, i came. as soon as i got to the
suicide watch last week and i just came back. why? what happened? they was trying to send me somewhere i didn t want to be. so what did you do? i cut my wrist with a razor blade. washington went on to explain that he cut his wrist to prevent the prison to transferring him to the sensitive needs yard, or sny. it s a place most inmates want nothing to do with. sensitive needs yard is certainly for inmates that meet certain criteria, mostly your rapists, molesters, dropout gang members. it used to be pc yard, protective housing yard. washington s neighbor and fishing partner told us how a move to sny makes an inmate damaged goods. sny isn t just so much rapists and child molesters, it s weaker guys, especially guys who are doing life sentences like mr. washington.
reception doors i told them all that was a lie so i can come back to the main line. i want to get visits from my family so i lied. that s the bottom line. you know what i m saying? i m a blood. i m an active gang banger. i got a lot of people that are scared of me. as we walked with him we were all kind of looking at each other, i think each of us thinking we ll see how fast this goes. if i stay over here before the day is out i can never go back to a main line. because my reputation would be ruined. i m now considered a no good. so i have to get off this yard. finally, washington is escorted into the cellblock housing sny inmates. when tracy walked into the cellblock it was all pretty routine until he stopped, threw down his bags. this is as far as i go. this is it. threw down his cane and said, that s it. i m not going. we all looked at each other and
said, now what s going to happen? [ bleep ]. you lucky. you lucky. most of you [ bleep ]. neither one of you all was on this tier when i walked in here. [ bleep ]. you [ bleep ]. they put me in that cell, i guarantee you the first time i walk out this [ bleep ], every one of you [ bleep ] out. washington, you re done. we re taking you back, buddy. put a lid on it already. i ain t got nothing in my file that say tra no coward. never in my life. i don t shot so many [ bleep ] it s pitiful. you can ask my momma. i was the craziest [ bleep ] on my block as a little kid. you know what i m saying?
it. whoever needs to go through your file and reverse that, they can do that at that time. suddenly washington makes an abrupt 180 and agrees to go to sny. i tell you what, send me over there right now. i m going to go. what are you going to do when you get over there? i m going to go in my cell. i m going to follow the directions and go over there. you aren t going to hurt nobody or hurt yourself? you can t hurt nobody over there. they re already hurt. just a short time later, correctional officers arrive to escort the inmate to sny. we got it. we got it. but washington surprised our crew once again as he began calling out to his fellow inmates that his stay in sny would not last for long. i ll be back in about an hour. i ll be back in about an hour. if you don t see me, hey, if you don t see me before the day is out, hey, go ahead and write me off.