why? because they re my homies. so you consider them associates, homies? homies being your friends? why not? i know them. okay. has anybody tried to recruit you to be in a gang? no. do you have any tattoos that identify you as being a gang member? yeah, i do. street gang. what street gang do you belong to? west side. west side out of where? from mt. magordo. what we re going to do is we re going to keep this for now. we re going to make copies of the names and inmates you have in there and put it in your file then give it back to you. do you have any other questions? all right. armando hasn t been validated as a prison gang member yet, but he s on his way. back in level vi, happy is headed to the parole board. i just came back from rec and
in for an interview about his possible gang affiliation as part of the validation process. we did shakedowns in your unit today. i m sure that you know. that s why you were out in rec yard for awhile. during the search we found this book here with a bunch of gang writing, gang symbolism, on it. so we just want to ask you about it. what about it? tell me what information s on there? what do you have written? what does it say? i m asking you. that s why it s come on, man. you guys are going to do what you re going to do, know what i mean? says what it says. that s what it is. there s some numbers, some letters, some initials, you know? if you think they re gang? then take the necessary let me explain to you explain to me what the meanings are to you. why? they re for me, they re not for you, for anyone else. they re for me. in the back pages of your phone book, you have a lot of inmates names and numbers.
maintaining the safety of the facility. i found that hanging here on his vent. once he s validated an snm or lc member, he s never able to go to a level b facility. so it has a lot of bearing on an inmate s future once he gets validated. you can take that and i ll write him up for possession of gang paraphernalia. he ll be documented as a suspected street gang member and we ll start a file on him if one has not already been created. and that way, wherever he goes, whether it s to another facility or goes out into the streets, he ll be identified as a suspected gang member. what the officer found in the letters here in the cell, she found a looks like a diagram or a pattern of a handcuff key. the crude makings, the beginning of it. obviously it s in the manufacturing stages.