aspect of prison life, especially for the members of those gangs. should any of them refuse orders to carry out hits on other inmates, the prison says they re likely to be assaulted or killed as punishment. their only other option is a process called debriefing, during which they agree to cut all ties with their gang and provide prison officials with detailed information. in exchange, these inmates are moved to a special-needs housing unit and permanently segregated from the rest of the prison population. an individual can be in good favor with the gang for years, can do their dirty work, smuggle drugs, stab people, beat people, do whatever. but if he says the wrong thing to the wrong person someday, or looks funny at somebody, somebody thinks they were disrespected by him, he s through. they ll stab him, they ll kill him. they ll toss him away like he s nothing.
from the rest of the prison population. an individual can be in good favor with the gang for years, can do their dirty work, smuggle drugs, stab people, beat people, do whatever. but if he says the wrong thing to the wrong person someday, or looks funny at somebody, somebody thinks they were disrespected by him, he s through. they ll stab him, they ll kill him. they ll toss him away like he s nothing. august 30th. i just got tired of prison politics. they re tired of being asked to go out there and assault other inmates. they just want to kick back, do their time and get out of prison. when we first visited corcoran, thomas spiller was a high-ranking gang member who requested a debriefing. he was just four years into a 35-year-to-life sentence for second-degree robbery. there s a process we have to go through. first of all, you have to turn over any weapons and then
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 i was going to go on a mission to go to 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 in the riot were no good because they wouldn 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 before everybody could get down.
unit and permanently segregated from the rest of the prison population. an individual can be in good favor with the gang for years, can do their dirty work, smuggle drugs, stab people, beat people, do whatever. but if he says the wrong thing to the wrong person someday, or looks funny at somebody, somebody thinks they were disrespected by him, he s through. they ll stab him, they ll kill him. they ll toss him away like he s nothing. august 30th. i just got tired of prison politics. they re tired of being asked to go out there and assault other inmates. they just want to kick back, do their time and get out of prison. when we first visited corcoran, thomas spiller was a high-ranking gang member who requested a debriefing. he was just four years into a 35-year-to-life sentence for second-degree robbery. there s a process we have to go through. first of all, you have to turn over any weapons and then refrain from associating with
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 said to me, you re going on a mission. my mission was to stab a man who came from another yard who was supposedly no good because they wouldn t jump off in a riot after they got attacked. the woods in that yard were no good because they wouldn 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.