if you look up, the fourth deck is pretty high, you know. you see people taking an elevator ride. the problem is, there ain t no elevator. the fall doesn t hurt them. it s the sudden stop at the end. the inmates have created their own hierarchy in this unit based on their own form of respect. the old-timers live on the top tier. a lot of them respect me. not because they re scared of me but because i ve spent a lot of time in here. tony duran is one of the influential inmates on a-east. he s been in and out of prison for 20 years for robbery, and burglary. murderer, robbers, they re up here. child molesters, rapos, they re down here. it s a food chain, you know? everything is about respect in this place. how you carry yourself determines how you live. this joint here ain t like the rest of them. when i first got here in 84, convicts used to run this joint. the man runs this joint now.
prison s white inmates, including hall and grapf. we re now told we can t go into ad seg because it looks like we re creating the problem. tell me what you think that and what s happened. no, i don t think you guys have created it. i think those guys are young, and they won t listen to anybody unless you re white, unless you re you have authority. the reason they listen to me is because i m their friend. but sex offenders that you guys have been interviewing, if they truly are, they re some of them were caucasian and they hate that. they don t want them guys on camera. and that s where the problem arose, that they said oh, look, they re representing us as we re a bunch of the white dudes are a bunch of sex offender, child molesters, rapos, homosexual rats. you know, a whole laundry list of things. while the prison took disciplinary action against grapf and hall, huff claims he intervened as well.
from this point on we ll assess whether we ll allow the camera crew to come back in to segregation. the next day, we learned more about the incident from another inmate, who had insights to share. dan huff, serving nine years for aggravated murder. is considered a leader among the prison s white inmates, including hall and grapf. we re now told we can t go into ad seg because it looks like we re creating the problem. tell me what you think that and what s happened. no, i don t think you guys have created it. i think those guys are young, and they won t listen to anybody unless you re white, unless you re you have authority. the reason they listen to me is because i m their friend. but sex offenders that you guys have been interviewing, if they truly are, they re some of them were caucasian and they hate that. they don t want them guys on camera. and that s where the problem arose, that they said oh, look, they re representing us as we re a bunch of the white dudes are a bun
i ran the organization. drug trafficking, making money, just a lot of violence and a lot of [ bleep ]. i m in protective custody because i m a dropout. i get to live with child molesters and rapos and weirdos, people that are mentally sick. this is what i get for debriefing. look, i got married. shy boy give it to you? what? shy boy proposed to you? yeah. people that i have met since i ve been in this type of unit are in my yard. i have met people that i have actually befriended and know a lot about. out on the mainline, i wouldn t have even talked to them. we would be trying to kill each other. and now we are right next door to each other. we eat out of the same bowl. they are my friends. we re together as one in here. how i met speedy gun, he was a good drawer, right, and my wife, she like art, right?
of [ bleep ]. i m in protective custody because i m a dropout. i get to live with child molesters and rapos and weirdos, people that are mentally sick. this is what i get for debriefing. look, i got married. shy boy give it to you? what? shy boy proposed to you? yeah. people that i have met since i ve been in this type of unit are in my yard. i have met people that i have actually befriended and know a lot about. out on the mainline, i wouldn t have even talked to them. we would be trying to kill each other. and now we are right next door to each other. we eat out of the same bowl. they are my friends. we re together as one in here. how i met speedy gun, he was a good drawer, right, and my wife, she like art, right? that s really how we met up is he showed me some of his good work. he has good work. he can draw real good. the type of stuff that i send