i assumed it had to have been a major insult. what? who called me that? you talking [ bleep ]? what are you [ bleep ], [ bleep ] say, who said chomo? chomo is prison slang for child molester. but it can also be used to define anyone who has a sexual offense. we caught up with pasco later that day. he was at the cell block microwave preparing his evening meal. call that spaghetti. i call that wet noodles. at first, pasco was reluctant to talk about the earlier confrontation in the hallway. talk out there later. oh, [ bleep ], i ll talk now. i ve been down 20 years. i m a murderer. i m a convict. nobody disrespects me like that. i got some little punk coming in. he s been in for a little time and [ bleep ] runs his little mouth, [ bleep ]. fine.
as fierce as pelican bay s mainline housing can be, there is a place that inmates fear even more. in prison slang, it s known as the hole. while pelican bay houses some of the worst inmates in the state of california, the security housing unit, or shu, has always housed the worst inmates in pelican bay. now this might look concrete to you, but it is not comparison to the shu program. everything is concrete. no ground, no grass, it s all cement. lights all the time. noisy. the yard, you look up at the roof and it s like this. you don t see the sky, you still see bars, you know what i mean? you know, you can drive yourself crazy like that just sitting somewhere for 23 hours a day. i wouldn t want to see my worst enemy go back there. it s no place for any human being.
you talking [ bleep ]? what are you [ bleep ], [ bleep ] say, who said chomo? chomo is prison slang for child molester. but it can also be used to define anyone who has a sexual offense. we caught up with pasco later that day. he was at the cell block microwave preparing his evening meal. call that spaghetti. i call that wet noodles. at first, pasco was reluctant to talk about the earlier confrontation in the hallway. talk out there later. oh, [ bleep ], i ll talk now. i ve been down 20 years. i m a murderer. i m a convict. nobody disrespects me like that. i got some little punk coming in. he s been in for a little time and [ bleep ] runs his little mouth, [ bleep ]. fine. that gets you killed in here. i m a murderer. straight-up convict. the more cephis tried to convince us he was a convict,
a lot of these weapons were confiscated on the yards. in prison slang they re known as shanks. they re the deadly weapons inmates create from behind bars, with an ingenuity that almost defies imagination. what they ll do is get a disposable razor, put both blades, one on each side of the toothbrush. they come across their enemy. and slice them across the neck. because the two blades are so
inmates purchase from debit accounts funded by friend and family. this is my fifth cup of coffee today. i m about to start sweating profusely. colin mccaffrey is the type of new inmate that could be the prime target for predatory extortionists. whenever they give you, they want something back, want you to do favors for them, so that s how you get caught up in it. that s how you get into fights, because they expect something from you. yeah, whether it is sexual or not, it happens. i have to remind myself every day. this is prison. people are doing a lot of time. mccaffrey is known by other inmates in his general population housing dorm as jit, short for jitterbug, prison slang for a young, naive inmate. smile for the camera, baby face. look over here. tell me how you living. i come from a good family.