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.
inmates off the block, it happens. this is life. this is the consequences for being 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.
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. what i mean by the man is the system. we run the prison. we have the towers.
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. what i mean by the man is the system.
anywhere. what are they going to do? that really doesn t bother me. i really don t have a control issue that way. they let us control and manipulate how they live and what they do. they got their rules. we got ours, you know. there s a code of conduct in here that you got to follow if you want to, you know, make your time easy, you know. you don t rat on people. there s all kinds of stuff you don t do. that code of conduct is the convict code. and the penalties for violating it can be severe. the fourth deck s pretty high, you know. people take 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. utah state inmate tony duran is well-versed in the convict code. he has spent the majority of the past 23 years behind bars for burglary, robbery, and a slew of parole violations.