whoever don t like it, i don t care. i don t [ bleep ]. i m going home. that s it, period. why would i lay in here and let you kill me, over something dumb? or do something to you over something dumb? shepard eventually met with prison officials to discuss his safety and even the possibility of transferring to another prison. how are you doing, mr. shephard? how has everything been since you ve been up here? it s all right. i mean, it s solitary confinement, really, but if that s what i got to deal with until i go home, that s what i m going to do. because i m up on 900 days. and if it takes me staying in that cell until i go home to avoid all the craziness going on out there, do this or do that or get this or end up having this done to you, all that, they can keep all that. i m going home. okay. i will get with internal
usually meant to discipline inmates, but in this case it s to protect him. it means he ll be locked inside his cell 23 hours a day and allowed out only for a shower or supervised rec time. check the cell out over, make sure there ain t nothing in here. this is like a dungeon in a dungeon. i guess that s the price you pay before you ever kill somebody or get killed. ronnie s story was not an unusual one for us to encounter. we ll start following somebody s situation and then it will completely go in another direction because prison life is pretty unpredictable. and what happens is, these guys basically not only have to face the consequences of their actions outside prison, but they often have to deal with them inside prison as well. while prison officials developed a plan for shephard s
shephard s tattoos tell a story. in this case, it s about his past membership in a white supremacist gang. i m retired. so i m no longer there, but i still have the tattoos. retired means you re no longer with them, but you was honorable when you left. first chance i get, i m covering my tattoos up. i don t want them. yeah, that was me. but i m done with it. i m done. you know? it s over. i m just me now. you know? accept it or don t. why did you choose to leave the life? because it s it s not the life i want, you know? but the life shephard claimed to want was still deeply entangled in the life he used to have. the next time we saw him, shephard told us his former gang had sent him a message. they weren t accepting his retirement. while i m tattooing on this
it was interesting to talk to ronnie. because in prison everybody gets tattoos. even though it s illegal in every single prison, the fact of the matter is they manage oftentimes to get away with it. he would only show us certain things because he didn t want to get caught. i don t have my tattoo gun out right now. because of the lockdown. i don t know if they re going to come, shake me down. they re not going to take any of my inks or anything like that. i can order them out of the catalogs. but the only they would take them is if they found my tattoo gun. and i got it put up. like, where? a good hiding spot that they ve never found it since i ve been locked up. i would show it to you but then they d know where it was at. like most prison ink, some of shephard s tattoos tell a story. in this case, it s about his past membership in a supremacist gang. i m retired. so i m no longer there, but i still have the tattoos. retired means you re no longer with them, but you was hono
completely go in another direction because prison life is pretty unpredictable. and what happens is, these guys basically not only have to face the consequences of their actions outside prison, but they often have to deal with them inside prison as well. while prison officials developed a plan for shephard s safety, we were allowed to give him a videocamera to record a personal diary. this cell that i m currently in is not really a very nice place to be, i guess. let me show you what i m talking about. stretch my arm out. if you see my arms to my elbow, that s one elbow. basically, one arm length long, is this cell. it wasn t long before shephard s thoughts returned to the white supremacist gang he had once belonged to, but now had turned on him. just going to take this in