i renounced publicly through doing interviews like this, i ve renounced with officers, i mean, to every extent. i ve ruined myself. i ve made it public knowledge. i ve made it to where everybody knows. i don t have a chance to go back to that lifestyle. i don t want to go back to that lifestyle. in fact, he even works with ings some organizations to combat racism. i m a source of information of the southern poverty law center, to one people s project, the anti-racist action. i ve done all i can to change myself as a person and not only to renounce and to become a hermit from that lifestyle but to actually take an opposition against it. but there was a price for coming clean. you re basically deemed a snitch, so that s why my custody is what it is. i mean, if i m ever put in general population, i m as good as dead. any prison gang would be happy to get their hands on shawn gaines.
it s kill or be killed for me now, so i ll spend my time in protective custody, more than likely slammed down the entire time. while his public confession may have put gaines life in danger, it also generated some welcome attention from the outside world. apparently, i m writing my fiancee. you have a fiancee? yeah. is this someone you knew before you were incarcerated? no. i met her since i was in here. the interview i did with southern poverty law center. she actually read that and just dropped me a couple postcards of encouragement, commending the changes i ve made and such. so, we ve been pen pals for almost two years now and been together for about the last year. she s beautiful. she s good heart, smart, funny, loves me to death, takes good care of me. so, i couldn t ask for more. and not to mention, she s willing to stand by me and do the time with me, so i m pretty blessed. coming up
and then boom. right become into the cell without ever interacting with another inmate. so it has a very ominous feel when you walk through the special management unit. and this is the path that i took when i went to meet shawn gaines. 29-year-old shawn gaines had spent most of the last six years in the special management unit, awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge that could land him on death row. i ve lived here longer than i ever lived in one spot in my entire life even growing up as a kid so it s just, you know i have yet to call it home, but it is what it is. gaines may not have wanted to call it home, but his security threat ranking dictated it. he was segregated because he was once a major player in a violent arizona skinhead movement. i was the notorious leader of that skinhead group. my lifestyle was full of hate and violence.
walk out and they have their 45 minutes of recreation each day, and then boom. right back into the cell without ever interacting with another inmate. so it has a very ominous feel when you walk through the special management unit. and this is the path that i took when i went to meet shawn gaines. 29-year-old shawn gaines had spent most of the last six years in the special management unit, awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge that could land him on death row. i ve lived here longer than i ever lived in one spot in my entire life even growing up as a kid so it s just, you know i have yet to call it home, but it is what it is. gaines may not have wanted to call it home, but his security threat ranking dictated it. he was segregated because he was once a major player in a violent arizona skinhead movement. i was the notorious leader of
doing interviews hike this, i ve renounced with officers. i mean, to every extent, i ve ruined myself, i ve made it public knowledge. i made it to where everybody knows, i don t have a chance to go back to that lifestyle. i don t want to go back to that lifestyle. in fact, he even works with some organizations to combat racism. i m a source of information of the southern poverty law center, to one people s project, the anti-racist action. i ve done all i can to change myself as a person and not only to renounce and to become a hermit from that lifestyle but to actually take an opposition against it. but there was a price for coming clean. you re basically deemed a snitch, so that s why my custody is what it is. i mean, if i m ever put in general population, i m as good as dead. any prison gang would be happy to get their hands on shawn gaines. it s kill or be killed for me now, so i ll spend my time in