this is the consequences for being if you look up, the fourth deck s pretty high, you know? people take an elevator ride. 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 been 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. murderers, 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. see, when i first got here in 84, convicts used to run this joint.
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. the convict code is a person that carries himself with respect. he doesn t he only talks to the man when he has to. you know, he don t sit there and kick it with the man. you don t tell on nobody. you don t let nobody know your business. you don t get in other people s business. you respect yourself. you respect others around you. but these days old-time inmates like duran all agree the convict code is changing. well, because the different
block. there is a pecking order that they go by. as far as them moving other inmates off the block, it happens. this is life. this is the consequences for being if you look up, the fourth deck s pretty high, you know? people take an elevator ride. 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 been 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. murderers, 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
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 done 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. murderers, 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 it used to be. when i first got here in 84, convicts used to run this joint. the man runs this joint now.
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