WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.592 I had this cellmate who's an axe- 00:00:01.614 --> 00:00:04.304 he killed a man with an axe handle on an airforce base. 00:00:04.846 --> 00:00:07.662 Good dude. I know, you're saying "what do you mean, 'good dude?'" 00:00:07.838 --> 00:00:09.829 Good dude. I trusted him. 00:00:10.270 --> 00:00:13.170 Hi, I'm Larry Lawton, America's biggest jewel thief. 00:00:13.337 --> 00:00:16.528 Join me as I walk you through my past robberies, 00:00:16.752 --> 00:00:19.236 how I planned them, executed them 00:00:19.387 --> 00:00:20.969 and ultimately got caught. 00:00:21.119 --> 00:00:23.561 I'm gonna show you how we did things in prison. 00:00:23.686 --> 00:00:26.244 Like: making a tattoo gun, making wine, 00:00:26.369 --> 00:00:29.460 making white lightening. It's going to very educational. 00:00:29.569 --> 00:00:33.309 These are the untold stories. 00:00:33.417 --> 00:00:34.216 Hey everybody, Larry Lawton here for another great addition of 00:00:35.015 --> 00:00:37.757 Untold Stories and this is going to be a good one. 00:00:37.949 --> 00:00:40.590 This is called the 10 Unwritten Rules You Need to Know About Prison 00:00:44.713 --> 00:00:47.172 Before I get started again, check out our member programs 00:00:47.192 --> 00:00:49.455 check out our Instagram, Facebook 00:00:49.622 --> 00:00:51.029 Please check out our merch, whatever you can do, 00:00:51.171 --> 00:00:53.488 don't forget to subscribe. And please tell friends. 00:00:55.455 --> 00:00:58.237 We're really trying to build this thing for a lot of good reasons 00:00:58.336 --> 00:01:00.713 and the main reason is to build up a prison reform group 00:01:02.721 --> 00:01:05.786 that's going to be making changes in a system we all know is broke 00:01:05.961 --> 00:01:09.669 So let me get into this next thing I wanted to tell you guys about. 00:01:09.778 --> 00:01:13.285 It's called the 10 Unwritten Rules, and it's about prison. 00:01:13.375 --> 00:01:17.392 Because if you didn't know these, one: you could lose your life, 00:01:17.440 --> 00:01:19.858 get stabbed, have a really rough time 00:01:19.885 --> 00:01:22.645 I get called all the time about people who made mistakes 00:01:22.795 --> 00:01:25.535 they will be going to prison and it all, of course, depends on what level prison 00:01:28.243 --> 00:01:30.743 you're going to. Let me get right into the Unwritten Rules. 00:01:30.852 --> 00:01:33.443 Cause they're important things you would need to know if you were at the prison. 00:01:33.543 --> 00:01:34.792 The first thing you do: obviously when you go into prison, 00:01:34.884 --> 00:01:40.092 don't believe anybody there is your buddy. 00:01:40.184 --> 00:01:46.758 But the first unwritten rule is to look at what people are wearing on their feet. 00:01:47.183 --> 00:01:49.707 You're saying to me, what are you talking about Larry? 00:01:49.825 --> 00:01:52.299 Here's exactly what I'm talking about. 00:01:52.449 --> 00:01:54.848 When I was transferred, and I was transferred a lot 00:01:55.007 --> 00:01:57.506 because I was a, I guess you would just call me 00:01:57.615 --> 00:02:00.148 a troubled inmate, a convict who didn't care, 00:02:00.264 --> 00:02:03.006 would fight the system, they gave me diesel therapy 00:02:03.149 --> 00:02:06.531 they did a lot of things to make my life rough in prison. 00:02:06.673 --> 00:02:09.050 Well, they transfer you. Obviously, I ended up having a very good reputation 00:02:12.564 --> 00:02:16.038 so I was a convict and people knew me and you'd go from one place to another. 00:02:16.163 --> 00:02:19.846 You're in what they call "Con Air," the air transport 00:02:19.970 --> 00:02:21.371 which I'll be doing a video on. 00:02:21.545 --> 00:02:25.778 But anyway, as far as the 10 Unwritten Rules, 00:02:25.886 --> 00:02:29.152 that first rule is: What are people wearing? 00:02:30.816 --> 00:02:34.082 If I go into a prison and I come on the yard 00:02:34.153 --> 00:02:36.220 I got my bed roll, I'm getting assigned 00:02:36.494 --> 00:02:38.609 to one of the units, you walk into the unit 00:02:38.828 --> 00:02:42.469 you see people milling around all the time 00:02:42.634 --> 00:02:45.402 They could be up on the tiers looking down at you, 00:02:45.527 --> 00:02:48.592 it's kind of intimidating if you don't understand what's going on. 00:02:48.701 --> 00:02:50.617 They're sizing you up, seeing who you are, seeing what kind of guy- 00:02:53.118 --> 00:02:57.408 how you carry yourself. Are you meek, are you aggresive, 00:02:57.517 --> 00:03:01.533 are you tough, the way you walk, the way you look at people. 00:03:01.666 --> 00:03:05.024 You don't stare them down, but you don't look away. 00:03:05.107 --> 00:03:08.632 It's an art to all of that. 00:03:08.732 --> 00:03:11.666 One of the first things I do, is look at what they're wearing. 00:03:11.769 --> 00:03:15.872 Here's why. If I see people wearing, flip flops... 00:03:16.031 --> 00:03:19.680 I'm looking, it's not ready to jump off. 00:03:19.939 --> 00:03:24.488 If you see people wearing boots, their prison-issued boots 00:03:24.623 --> 00:03:27.687 If you see people wearing their boots, "Why are they all wearing their boots?" 00:03:30.271 --> 00:03:33.712 If you see people in sneakers and boots and stuff like that, 00:03:33.811 --> 00:03:36.812 you're saying to yourself, "what's going on here?" 00:03:36.987 --> 00:03:41.435 Usually when people are wearing stuff like that, 00:03:41.553 --> 00:03:44.603 especially, if you're in the unit and you come in later in the night 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.436 or sometimes you come in after chow 00:03:47.561 --> 00:03:50.585 they'll release you from R&D, depending on what time they release you 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:54.092 when you get to that unit, if you see people with sneakers milling around 00:03:54.201 --> 00:03:57.152 You can feel it. You can feel tension, something might jump off. 00:04:00.618 --> 00:04:03.291 You're not involved, I'm not saying to get involved, 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.366 and don't get involved, but something might jump off 00:04:06.466 --> 00:04:08.224 so you'd better be on your Ps and Qs. 00:04:08.342 --> 00:04:10.916 You'd better be ready, at all times. 00:04:11.024 --> 00:04:15.032 Step back, get outta the way watch two guys go at it, 00:04:15.141 --> 00:04:18.098 you don't try to break stuff up, you just back away 00:04:18.198 --> 00:04:21.156 It's not your beef, you just are a convict, 00:04:21.298 --> 00:04:24.247 no lookin' at him. But you'd better know that. 00:04:24.348 --> 00:04:26.940 Now if I see people just joking around, 00:04:27.140 --> 00:04:30.430 and they're walking around in flip flops and stuff, 00:04:30.605 --> 00:04:35.038 they just got out of their shower, and it's like "old home" week here, 00:04:35.188 --> 00:04:39.153 this place is not going to scare me too much. It's ok. 00:04:39.354 --> 00:04:44.694 It's a prison, things can happen. But ok, it's not a tension-filled place. 00:04:44.863 --> 00:04:47.353 You'll know tension right away in a prison. 00:04:47.469 --> 00:04:51.269 Absolutely right away you'll know it. And boy, I get that feeling 00:04:51.469 --> 00:04:55.543 to this day no matter what I do. I can feel tension, all the time. 00:04:55.769 --> 00:04:56.910 It's just who I am. 00:04:57.110 --> 00:05:00.768 The second thing you wanna know in the Unwritten Rules: 00:05:01.025 --> 00:05:02.650 What's the shower situation? 00:05:02.943 --> 00:05:06.751 Listen, I like to be clean. I don't ever want to be a dirty person. 00:05:06.868 --> 00:05:08.442 You don't want to be a dirty person in prison. 00:05:08.442 --> 00:05:10.017 The worst thing you can do is be a dude who smells, 00:05:10.258 --> 00:05:13.499 doesn't clean up after himself, and be with a celly. 00:05:13.648 --> 00:05:18.229 I once took a dude's face and grabbed him by the back of his hair 00:05:18.379 --> 00:05:22.487 and smashed his face into a concrete wall. 00:05:22.895 --> 00:05:25.912 Blood started pouring all over the place, he just falls down 00:05:25.912 --> 00:05:33.911 I did that because after two times. He used to shave, we all shaved- 00:05:33.911 --> 00:05:38.002 They have the sink and the toilet together. Here's a picture of it, right here. 00:05:38.002 --> 00:05:43.569 And in that, you'd better clean up after yourself. 00:05:43.569 --> 00:05:47.228 If you brush your teeth, you don't leave toothpaste in the bottom of that. 00:05:47.228 --> 00:05:52.143 If you shave, you don't leave your shavings, you know, the hairs, in there! 00:05:52.143 --> 00:05:56.433 Whatever it is, you clean that out. Just like you take your toilet 00:05:56.433 --> 00:06:00.866 you know, you have a single unit. As you can see in the picture, its the 00:06:00.866 --> 00:06:03.550 single units, when you go there, you use that toilet, you clean that. 00:06:03.550 --> 00:06:10.482 You take a piss, you take toilet paper and you clean that toilet, that "seat cover." 00:06:10.482 --> 00:06:14.381 There's no seat cover, you're sitting on stainless steel. 00:06:14.381 --> 00:06:18.459 But you wanna be seeing piss stuff on that? 00:06:18.459 --> 00:06:23.296 If I got a celly and he walks in, and you know, 00:06:23.296 --> 00:06:25.834 say they assign someone usually you don't let that happen depending on the place 00:06:25.834 --> 00:06:29.421 they get a guy and he comes in your cell and he says "hi, how you doing?" 00:06:29.421 --> 00:06:33.994 I'll know within 5 minutes what kind of dude this dude is. 00:06:33.994 --> 00:06:37.519 Is he a convict, is he a newbie? Is he scared so he doesn't know how to act? 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:42.181 The way he handles himself right around that toilet area, 00:06:42.181 --> 00:06:46.743 I'm going to know what kind of guy he is. 00:06:46.743 --> 00:06:50.155 And I wanna know what kind of guy he is. I wanna know what I'm dealing with. 00:06:50.155 --> 00:06:53.404 The guy that I smashed, I didn't just smash him. 00:06:53.404 --> 00:06:56.504 I told him a few times, I said, "Listen man, clean up man. 00:06:56.504 --> 00:07:01.766 We eat, we get water out of that sink. We fill up our bowls, we put water in there 00:07:01.766 --> 00:07:06.129 You might get that water for your rice and then you're going to put your rice 00:07:06.129 --> 00:07:08.816 in the microwave. Or you're going to make hot water. 00:07:08.816 --> 00:07:12.991 You're going to make the water out of that, you go boil it in the microwave 00:07:12.991 --> 00:07:15.976 for coffee in the morning. 00:07:15.976 --> 00:07:19.989 Listen, you clean up after yourself. That's important. 00:07:19.989 --> 00:07:24.187 But you wanna know, the second rule, is the shower situation, 00:07:24.187 --> 00:07:29.362 What's it like? Where do they go? Who showers who? 00:07:29.362 --> 00:07:34.724 So, when you're going in that unit, you wanna know the shower situation. 00:07:34.724 --> 00:07:39.836 What I mean by that is, the have six showers on each side of the unit 00:07:39.836 --> 00:07:44.797 and the top left was where the white dudes used to go. 00:07:44.797 --> 00:07:46.822 That was kind of their shower. 00:07:46.822 --> 00:07:53.435 Another shower is where the Hispanics go. Another shower is where the blacks go. 00:07:53.435 --> 00:07:58.834 Another shower is maybe where you, you know, shit's going on. 00:07:58.834 --> 00:08:01.946 Like we used to make wine in on. So a lot of times guys couldn't 00:08:01.946 --> 00:08:06.045 take a shower, because we were literally cooking wine and we made 00:08:06.045 --> 00:08:11.558 the wine out of that shower. So it's important to know the shower situation. 00:08:11.558 --> 00:08:15.182 And you don't just walk around. Like obviously, when I say watch 00:08:15.182 --> 00:08:18.119 the shower situation, you gotta watch for a minute. 00:08:18.119 --> 00:08:22.567 When you see people go to shower, or you see a person go to the shower, 00:08:22.567 --> 00:08:27.517 are they going with their bag and a towel and just not giving a crap? 00:08:27.517 --> 00:08:32.691 It's okay, like there's no tension? Or are they walking to that shower with 00:08:32.691 --> 00:08:35.054 their boots on and their friends with them? 00:08:35.054 --> 00:08:38.553 And then you'll see their friend just stand on a rail, you know, 00:08:38.553 --> 00:08:42.928 outside the shower, just looking around, watching, you know. 00:08:42.928 --> 00:08:46.029 Seeing what's coming. Because his friend might see 00:08:46.029 --> 00:08:49.827 two dudes coming up, maybe trying to hit that guy. 00:08:49.827 --> 00:08:53.452 Maybe that guy's got, you know, something wrong, something happening 00:08:53.452 --> 00:08:56.227 and his friend is going to say, bang on that door 00:08:56.227 --> 00:08:58.789 and say, "Man, get-" and the guy puts his boots on 00:08:58.789 --> 00:09:01.176 and he gets his shank and he's ready to go. 00:09:01.176 --> 00:09:03.987 I don't care if his weiny's hanging out. Doesn't mean anything. 00:09:03.987 --> 00:09:06.462 He's got his shank and he's got his boots. 00:09:06.462 --> 00:09:08.887 Cause you sure don't want to be left with your dick hanging 00:09:08.887 --> 00:09:12.611 in your hand if they're coming after you with a shank. 00:09:12.611 --> 00:09:15.973 So it's important to know the shower situation. 00:09:15.973 --> 00:09:21.249 Watch it, because if you see, you'll feel it. You'll see how people are reacting. 00:09:21.249 --> 00:09:26.623 What times they shower. You'll get an idea of how the groove goes. 00:09:26.623 --> 00:09:30.135 Are the showers even open in the day? Sometimes they're not. 00:09:30.135 --> 00:09:33.735 Who's cleaning the showers? It's the orderlys in the unit, 00:09:33.735 --> 00:09:36.972 but you don't want to just disrespect a dude and just 00:09:36.972 --> 00:09:40.621 and go in while he just did something he didn't get inspected by the CO 00:09:40.621 --> 00:09:42.958 He's going to look at you like who's this dude? 00:09:42.958 --> 00:09:46.431 You wanna know the shower situation, it's important. 00:09:46.431 --> 00:09:48.869 The next rule you wanna know is 00:09:48.869 --> 00:09:52.956 the TV Rules. What's going on in the TV rooms. 00:09:52.956 --> 00:09:56.693 In Atlanta, we had 4 TV rooms. We had a black TV room, a 00:09:56.693 --> 00:10:02.830 Hispanic TV room, a white TV room, and a sports TV room. 00:10:02.830 --> 00:10:07.880 Everybody hung out. Now that does not mean Larry can't go to the 00:10:07.880 --> 00:10:11.917 black TV room. He's not gonna, he's not gonna take a spot from 00:10:11.917 --> 00:10:16.017 somebody in that room that's going in there all the time, 00:10:16.017 --> 00:10:20.454 Vice versa, the black guys don't come into the white guys rooms. 00:10:20.454 --> 00:10:23.704 Now, all your friends, you come on in, "Hey Larry," you know, 00:10:23.704 --> 00:10:26.403 "What's going on, I need to speak to you for a sec." 00:10:26.403 --> 00:10:28.952 "Sure, come in for a second, what's going on?" 00:10:28.952 --> 00:10:32.838 or, "Hey," you're running a football ticket and "I had a winner, man, 00:10:32.838 --> 00:10:36.701 look at the game, look at the ticket. It's guaranteed cause see I didn't 00:10:36.701 --> 00:10:40.038 mess something up." You can talk to them. It's not like you can't meet people 00:10:40.038 --> 00:10:44.837 or talk to people in TV rooms. But you see which TV room is yours 00:10:44.837 --> 00:10:49.162 or with your race. They can say "oh, there's no race going on in prison--" 00:10:49.162 --> 00:10:52.874 there is. Depending on the prison you're in, the prison actually 00:10:52.874 --> 00:10:56.086 promotes it. As sad as that is. 00:10:56.086 --> 00:11:00.910 Because they'd rather have the blacks fighting the whites, or the Hispanics 00:11:00.910 --> 00:11:05.011 fighting the blacks so they're not worried about themselves, the prison. 00:11:05.011 --> 00:11:08.648 They actually, trust me, they like that, in their own way. 00:11:08.648 --> 00:11:11.284 The fourth is politics. 00:11:11.284 --> 00:11:12.921 What's the prison politics? 00:11:12.921 --> 00:11:16.958 When I went into Atlanta, you know, I hated the mob politics. 00:11:16.958 --> 00:11:20.107 I call it the mob politics, and the mafia stuff. 00:11:20.107 --> 00:11:23.432 You get these old timers, "Hey, you should talk to him, 00:11:23.432 --> 00:11:26.919 wait man, that guys no good, you'd better be careful with him." 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.306 As much as you might not like it, you gotta know it. 00:11:29.306 --> 00:11:31.057 You gotta know who's the guy to go to. 00:11:31.057 --> 00:11:33.743 You gotta know who the shot caller is in each group. 00:11:33.743 --> 00:11:36.168 And the black guys got a shot caller, 00:11:36.168 --> 00:11:39.668 the Hispanics got a shot caller, the Indians got a shot caller, 00:11:39.668 --> 00:11:43.306 the white guys got a shot caller. Those are the guys you go to 00:11:43.306 --> 00:11:46.304 if you have a big beef with someone before you do something on your own. 00:11:46.304 --> 00:11:49.203 They might say "wait, lets talk to this shot caller" 00:11:49.203 --> 00:11:52.041 and they might say "listen, hit him, do what you want. 00:11:52.041 --> 00:11:57.314 Stab him up. Do what you're gonna do." You know, "It's open, do what you want." 00:11:57.314 --> 00:12:02.778 Fifth: Chow Hall Seating. You're gonna hook up with somebody 00:12:02.778 --> 00:12:07.214 and then you gotta know, again, the chow hall, which side to go to 00:12:07.214 --> 00:12:13.063 cause usually there's two sides, where is your seating area, give or take. 00:12:13.063 --> 00:12:16.163 I watched a man get killed for sitting in the wrong section. 00:12:16.163 --> 00:12:19.364 Killed. For sitting in the wrong section. 00:12:19.364 --> 00:12:23.262 Obviously, people don't just come up and stab you if that happens. 00:12:23.262 --> 00:12:27.762 But you might think they're trying to intimidate you and you try to buck up 00:12:27.762 --> 00:12:31.412 and sit there, and before you know it you're in a situation over 00:12:31.412 --> 00:12:34.622 sitting in the wrong seat. And when I saw wrong seat 00:12:34.622 --> 00:12:37.948 maybe the shot caller sits in that spot everyday at 12 o'clock. 00:12:37.948 --> 00:12:42.559 Why would you start trouble by sitting in that seat like you're a badass? 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:46.009 You don't test them like that. This isn't the county jail where you 00:12:46.009 --> 00:12:50.246 gotta hit someone to make it known that you're not gonna be pushed over. 00:12:50.246 --> 00:12:51.659 This is prison. 00:12:51.659 --> 00:12:55.883 This is where you are going to live, for the next X number of years. 00:12:55.883 --> 00:12:57.696 And you want to survive it. 00:12:57.696 --> 00:13:00.869 Depending on where it is, you wanna survive it. 00:13:00.869 --> 00:13:03.045 Next is the commissary. 00:13:03.045 --> 00:13:06.191 The commissary is the store of a prison. 00:13:06.191 --> 00:13:09.844 And let me tell you how important the commissary store is. 00:13:09.844 --> 00:13:14.743 You go to commissary every week. You have a certain day of the week 00:13:14.743 --> 00:13:17.429 to go to that store, by your number. 00:13:17.429 --> 00:13:24.342 My number was 52-224-004 So 224. Mine would be the last 4. 00:13:24.342 --> 00:13:27.879 They might say all even numbers go on Tuesdays. 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:32.028 All odd numbers go on Wednesday. Or whatever system that prison 00:13:32.028 --> 00:13:35.615 has set up. You gotta know the commissary. 00:13:35.615 --> 00:13:39.027 In Atlanta, when I went to Atlanta, Atlanta was so wild. 00:13:39.027 --> 00:13:41.714 You would get robbed coming from commissary 00:13:41.714 --> 00:13:44.064 cause there was what they call a "blind area." 00:13:44.064 --> 00:13:49.275 So people would literally get robbed like it's a shake-down or robbery. 00:13:49.275 --> 00:13:53.050 You gotta know, what kind of place it is and who to go with 00:13:53.050 --> 00:13:56.925 and you gotta get to know the right people that you're not a pushover 00:13:56.925 --> 00:13:58.938 you're not gonna give your shit up. 00:13:58.938 --> 00:14:02.348 What are the items that are hot in this prison. 00:14:02.348 --> 00:14:06.811 You know, certain things are needed. And then, that goes into the next rule. 00:14:06.811 --> 00:14:08.760 You gotta know who the storemen are. 00:14:08.760 --> 00:14:11.097 You go, "what do you mean, what's a storeman?" 00:14:11.097 --> 00:14:16.709 A storeman is a guy in prison who runs, literally, a store. 00:14:16.709 --> 00:14:18.335 And he'll charge 2 for 3. 00:14:18.335 --> 00:14:23.209 So if you borrowed 2 soups from him, you gotta give him 3 soups back 00:14:23.209 --> 00:14:29.320 on his commissary day. If you borrow a bar of soap, you might have to give 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.683 him two bars of soap when you come back. 00:14:31.683 --> 00:14:35.107 Or he'll give you two, and you gotta give him three bars of soap. 00:14:35.107 --> 00:14:38.070 You can buy pretty much anything off a storeman. 00:14:38.070 --> 00:14:41.781 Some of the storemen sell actually sandwiches 00:14:41.781 --> 99:59:59.999 They'll sell drugs of course, or some sell anything 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from sex, to drugs, to whatever. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But the storeman usually sells items that are on the commissary 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and that dude wants his shit back and if you don't pay him, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you're gonna get stabbed. Trust me, you will get stabbed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it's important to know the good dudes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who's solid, who you can talk to. If you had an issue, you know, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 money didn't come, the guys not gonna really get offended cause it was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a legit thing. You know, people aren't assholes in there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They want their money, they lent you something, you give it back. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You wanna borrow a book of stamps, you gotta give him a book and a half back 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's how the money is in prison. Stamps. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta understand what the money is in prison. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The most unwritten rule when I was in, and it has changed a bit since I was in, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but not totally, is who's your cellmate? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Trust me, who's your cellmate? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I had a cellmate who killed a man with an axe handle on airforce base. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Good dude. I know you're saying, "what do you mean, good dude?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Good dude. I trusted him. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta know who's your "celly" cause there was a "celly" there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who stabbed his "celly" in the chest. Killed him. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Put a shank right in his chest. And went back to bed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You better know. Unwritten rule? You gotta be able to read people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and get that "celly" that's normal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Cause trust me, it's worth you bucking it, and going to the hole 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and fighting, than getting into a cell with the wrong guy. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Cause how would you like to be locked down with a guy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who's a psychopath and at 10 o'clock at night 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when the doors are locked and there's really no guards around 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 even in the units, you could be dying in that unit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they don't give a shit. This guy kills you, cause he's a violent psychopath. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta feel that out. You gotta know a couple dudes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta rap with people, you gotta know how to speak. Understanding how 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to talk to people is probably the best skill you could have. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Number 9, very good important rule. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who's the snitches in that place? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Trust me, there's snitches in all prisons. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You'll see them, the little freakin' weasels. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They're up near the guard, talking like they're litte buddies 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and stuff, and you look at them like, "who's this asshole?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta watch who the snitches are. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And they have what they call "note droppers." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Or "dry snitchers." You know, people who would do it sneakily. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Sneak a note under the counselors door. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hand a note out at night and they put in the mailbox. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then the guards check the mail every night when they get it out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And when they get it out, and they see a note, you know, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Lawton's got a shank in the cell." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's how you get people shaken down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And you gotta kind of know who they are. You can watch the prison for a little bit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and figure out who's the stand up guys. who's the convicts, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that is super important. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And finally, a very important unwritten rule in prison is the yard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You want your rec, you wanna get out there, and you wanna have rec. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You wanna play handball, you wanna play basketball, you wanna workout, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you wanna go do pullups, and dips, and you wanna walk the track, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 feel the fresh air, and get sun on your face. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta know the yard rules. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In prison you'll see different groups in different sections of a yard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can feel tension on a yard right away and you'll see something jump off. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In a penitentiary though, they will shoot down on that yard 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with the gun towers that are around that yard 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they will fire down on that yard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Man, when they say "get down," on the yard, boom, you drop. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Cause they will shoot you. They have bean bags, they have rubber bullets 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they have other things but they also have live ammo. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So they will shoot you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've seen them shoot down on a yard, man and I'm telling you, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you don't know if it's you next. You sit there, man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You're still as you can believe. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But knowing the yard rules is when you go there, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you're going to see a lot of things on a yard 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 dude sharpening shanks along a fenceline, and they're sharpening the shank. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They're just sharpening, and sharpening, and sharpening. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What do you think, you look at them? They don't wanna know 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that you're even looking at them. You're going to see drug deals go down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You're gonna see punks getting fucked in the corner sometimes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You're gonna see stuff go down on the yard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta know the yard rules. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Where do you go? Who do you see? You need something, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who's running the yard? Where are the guards stationed on the yard? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's usually the guards in the tower, you can check them out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you can't see, but you can blind them. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But there might be guards on the yard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There usually is, you'll see them walk around. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Something that you gotta know, gotta have that feel. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta know the yard rules. If you want rec, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and you sure want rec, believe me, you wanna get out of that hole 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When you're in that hole, when you're waiting to "get on the compound" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they call it, you're gonna wanna get out in the fresh air, get sun on that body. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm telling you. And you're gonna wanna connect with the right people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and that's where you do it, on the yard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Listen guys, I don't want you in prison, but if you gotta go I want you to survive. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And no matter what it is, be respectful of others. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In life and in prison. Just because you go to prison 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 doesn't mean you respect people. In fact, you respect them more. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The dudes you disrespect just might kill you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Alright ladies and gentlemen, have a great day. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Check out our merch below, please sign up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Subscribe to our channel, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pass the word, you know that always helps 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Thanks for your support. I really mean it. It means a lot. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Have a great day everybody. Stay safe, have a great one.