in the four months we spent in corcoran, our crews witnessed plenty of inmate-on-inmate fights. this time an alarm sounds in the chow line at the sensitive needs yard. by the time our crews had reached the yard, officers had broken up the fight and separated the suspects for questioning. i moved food off the chair and it almost hit the other gentleman, and he felt like i was disrespecting him on purpose, and we exchanged some words. and the next thing, we were fighting in the chow hall. he kicked some egg that was sitting on the seat violently towards my way. violently? violently. he did it with a frown face, so, you know, i m thinking, you going to say excuse me, sir? i didn t say sir. i said, you going to say excuse me, the slang. and he said, excuse me. and i left it at that. i thought it was over with. we all sat down, and he was still running his mouth. so you re at the same table? we re at the same table.
race. the fact we were lifers, we were probably going to have to stab people. first thing that got into my head was, we better get some knives. living on the street, you learn one thing. you survive by any means necessary. you do whatever it takes to get out of a situation like that. so if that means i have to become an accomplice, so be it. i m not going to die. you know, i m just too young. it became it came from there. one day they came up to me and said, you re going on a mission in ad seg. my mission was to stab a man who came from another yard who was supposedly no good because they wouldn t have jump off in a riot after they got attacked. the woods on that yard was no good because they didn t attack the blacks after they got attacked. i stabbed this man three times and i got away with it. i walked off into the middle of the yard before the buzzer went off on the yard for everybody to get down. i had blood all over my hands.
so where and how are you getting these knifes around? it s easy. anybody who s got a sewing needle can make a knife. a sewing needle is made out of stainless steel. and stainless steel will cut this metal that they use. so over a period of time, you can shape a knife out of your toilet as long as the cops don t find the pattern cut in your toilet. there s many things you can do to make weapons back here. it s not that hard. usually in high desert we got them out when we got haircuts. because they haircut they pull us out of the cell and take us to the concrete yard to cut hair. that s when we would drop the knife off. and when they came to search for us for yard, they didn t find anything. we went out to yard and found the knife we stashed previously, and that s how we got it out. some inmates choose to do it a little immorally. they put it in places where the sun don t shine, and they carry it out to yard. that s how they get their knives out.
clue. we just found some kites up here. we found more. what do you have in there? we haven t opened up yet. wrapped in cellophane. tied with string. you don t have to open it yet. any time officers find kites, there s a potential wealth of information. after completing their search, the isu and igi teams head back to headquarters to decode the message in hopes of learning more about the hidden weapons. the kites, they just take a pen, and sharpen it down and write as small as they can. they practice a lot. they write a lot of these kites. for us, we re not used to reading small like that. so we take them, blow them up, and we re able to read them a lot better. a lot easier. from the one kite i read already, it s about weapons, razor blades in the yard. officers finally have the information they have been seeking, the location of the weapons on b yard.
themselves. in no place is this more evident than on the yard. it s a level three yard. two level fours on here waiting for transfers. generally all our whites hang out over here, and our asians on this side. you have a lot of southern hispanics on the other side playing handball with the whites. head in toward the tower you got a lot of northern hispanic inmates and a lot of black hispanic inmates hang out over there. that s where they work out over there. this is considered the west side of the yard. just on the other side of the yard, the east side of the yard where the bars and everything is at is where all our southerners and whites work out at. in front of the buildings is where your blacks and your northerners generally hang out. wait at the tables. they took our tables. that s why we playing right here. we the only one got no tables. blacks. every other race got the tables. they won t go to urinals unless their race is only there. they always got guys posted. two in the f