psychiatrist. before going awol sanchez was forced by the orejone gang to fight his cellmate. then he was kicked out of the gang and sent to a protective custody unit. when sanchez was rearrested, he mistakenly believed he was returning to an orejone housing unit. so he threatened suicide. we don t want to put you anywhere where you re going to be assaulted or an officer s going to get hurt. come on. make a right up here. when he came back in for his booking he was told he was going into unit b.a. well, the last time he was here that particular unit was an active gang unit. so he did think he was going to go back to an active unit. go ahead and have a seat here on the blue couch. but since he s been gone some things have changed. housing unit b.a. no longer houses active orejones. but newly arrived arrestees pending assignment to permanent housing units. he panicked a little because he was afraid. and he admitted to nap.
tomorrow if you want to be one. orejones recruit on a daily basis. you send one orejone to population, within 24 hours he s going to have three people with him. what started as a few members of orejones quickly grew into hundreds of members. and we went from having a small problem to having a large problem. orejone, baby! we eventually had to get all the orejones we confirmed and basically corral them to one living area, to four units. you send the mafia over here, the orejone over there, and you close the door to keep them away from each other. coming up, juan rubio gets his wish. but it comes with a price. if i hadn t been there to stop the fight when i did, there would have been some serious bodily injury done to him. and throwing knees, elbows at each other. banging each other s head on the wall, the door. the orejones pit two friends against each other. it s just like when they put two animals in a cage to fight.
insists on going back with the actives we ll have to make an executive decision and either place him with the xs or just isolate him by himself. while sorting out what to do with him rubio is put in a temporary segregation cell away from both active and ex-mexican mafia members. but rubio has accepted his punishment from the mafia and is ready to rejoin them. we re good. i respect what they did. they respect that i went in there. i don t run from it. according to jail officials, the mexican mafia runs with military-like control and discipline. but in the units run by their rivals, the orejones, things are different. what s up? the screang and the pounding and everything, for them iactually is quite normal. 210, baby. what s up? they have nothing better to do. and they think they re some kind of gods or something. and orejone leaders have just taken their wrath out on two young cellmates who were recently classified as orejone recruits and placed in their
own baby name book. it s embarrassing. oh, yeah, they re all pen pals and it s a big mistake and don t use tattooing for prison. since coming to jail, peggy perales has also developed a pen pal relationship. but the male inmate she writes to is a member of the largest jail gang, the tango orejones. she also writes to her boyfriend, a member of the orejones archrival gang, the mexican mafia. jail officials intercepted a suspicious letter the orejone pen pal wrote to perales. a big concern on our part to determine what information is traveling to and from the buildings and another big concern we have is why are two rival gangs communicating with one female. are they even aware they re both communicating? so i m going to talk to her to let her know we re aware of it. if officials determine perales is colluding with either
flags with the jail s gang intelligence division. security intercepted some letters that inmate perales received from male inmates. one of them being a member of the mexican mafia, the other of the tango orejone, both are writing to her. the mexican mafia member is perales boyfriend. but perales says she asked few questions about his gang activity. i ve heard stuff i don t want to know, seen stuff i don t want to know. i was like, you hang around with me, don t bring it to me. he would just come home with money. i mean, i had a clue, i mean not a rocket scientist to figure that out. perales says the orejone inmate who wrote to her is a pen pal, she met him through a girlfriend after her boyfriend stopped writing her.