together with the intent of not being governed by any other prison gang. bulldogs they re not as organized as your other gangs. they don t have the leadership in their organization. their rule of thumb is, that majority rules. if there s issues on the yard they have to try to resolve, the bulldogs would get together and take a boat, if you will. and the majority rules to go with that, there s no set leader of bulldog. if a bulldog has a chance to attack a southern hispanic, it s on sight. if they can get away from staff during an escort, a door accidentally pops, anything. if there s another bulldog they re going to go at it, attack each other. we met robert galvan, a bulldog locked up in the shu, for numerous attacks on other inmates.
in shu, but i ve seen them seriously injured. it would take either a threat of imminent death, you know, one inmate on top of another pounding his head against the concrete floor, or a threat of great bodily injury. that s when i m authorized to actually fire that weapon and in the security housing unit there are no warning shots because we ve got all this concrete. the last injury i ve seen in shu was an inmate, southern hispanic, speared by a northern hispanic in the chest and within centimeters from his heart. and he was rushed out by ambulance to the hospital. most dangerous time for correctional officer is after someone related to a gang has been executed. we get rumbles that the gang investigators pick up and say so-and-so is executed, they ve sworn to get a peace officer. the mexican mafia is reputed to have a hit out on staff any time
possible because in our big riot back in 2000, we shot and killed a southern hispanic. because he was attempting to kill somebody else. so more so than normal there are just a lot of tensions in prison at the moment. this place right here, if you let it, it can suffocate the life out of you. steve castillo is also serving time in the shu, convicted in 1987 for first-degree murder, his sentence is 35 years to life. escort coming in. i think probably the main thing is staying busy, trying to find something positive to do. people start getting that rage. before you know it, they start disrespecting each other and it gets ugly. i ve seen a guy sitting down playing chess all by himself with chess pieces made out of his own feces. guys walking back and forth just pacing the cell, buck naked. get these little small plastic state cups, issued cups and they will sit and they will just bang on that on the sink hours on end, all day, all night. just totally lost their mind, you know? so
february 23, 2000, started as a typical day at pelican state prison. but as the b facility inmates were patted down for release to the yard, one difference went unnoticed. while it is typical for some inmates to stay in their cells, every southern hispanic in the facility went to the yard. i was in this exact spot and i noticed over here, some people started stabbing each other and i looked around and all over the yard, there was fighting and stabbings going on. the southern hispanics had launched a calculated and brutal attack on the black inmate population. i ve seen over 300 stabbings myself, easily. been in lots of incidents and this was, by far, the worst one i have ever, ever seen. the riot persisted through tear gas, through pepper spray and through all orders to stop. for over 30 minutes, the inmates continued to attack each other in a frenzy of fists and homemade knives.
they affiliated or they joined together with the intent of not being governed by any other prison gang. bulldogs they re not as organized as your other gangs. they don t have the leadership in their organization. their rule of thumb is, that majority rules. if there s issues on the yard they have to try to resolve, the bulldogs would get together and take a boat, if you will. and the majority rules to go with that, there s no set leader of bulldog. if a bulldog has a chance to attack a southern hispanic, it s on sight.