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I had this cellmate who's an axe-

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he killed a man with an axe handle [br]on an airforce base.

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Good dude. I know, you're saying[br]"what do you mean, 'good dude?'"

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Good dude. I trusted him.

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Hi, I'm Larry Lawton,[br]America's biggest jewel thief.

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Join me as I walk you[br]through my past robberies,

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how I planned them, executed them

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and ultimately got caught.

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I'm gonna show you how[br]we did things in prison.

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Like: making a tattoo gun, making wine,

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making white lightening. It's going to[br]very educational.

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These are the untold stories.

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Hey everybody, Larry Lawton here[br]for another great addition of

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Untold Stories and this is going[br]to be a good one.

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This is called the 10 Unwritten[br]Rules You Need to Know About Prison

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We're really trying to build this[br]thing for a lot of good reasons

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and the main reason is to build[br]up a prison reform group

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that's going to be making changes[br]in a system we all know is broke

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So let me get into this next thing [br]I wanted to tell you guys about.

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It's called the 10 Unwritten Rules,[br]and it's about prison.

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Because if you didn't know these,[br]one: you could lose your life,

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get stabbed, have a really rough time

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I get called all the time about[br]people who made mistakes

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they will be going to prison and it all,[br]of course, depends on what level prison

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you're going to.[br]Let me get right into the Unwritten Rules.

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Cause they're important things you would[br]need to know if you went to prison.

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The first thing you do: obviously when you[br]go into prison,

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don't believe anybody there is your buddy.

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But the first unwritten rule is to look at[br]what people are wearing on their feet.

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You're saying to me, what are you[br]talking about Larry?

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Here's exactly what I'm talking about.

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When I was transferred, and [br]I was transferred a lot

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because I was a, I guess[br]you would just call me

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a troubled inmate, a convict who[br]didn't care,

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would fight the system, they gave[br]me diesel therapy

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they did a lot of things[br]to make my life rough in prison.

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Well, they transfer you. Obviously,[br]I ended up having a very good reputation

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so I was a convict and people knew me[br]and you'd go from one place to another.

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You're in what they call "Con Air," [br]the air transport

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which I'll be doing a video on.

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But anyway, as far as[br]the 10 Unwritten Rules,

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that first rule is: What are[br]people wearing?

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and here is why it is important:

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If I go into a prison[br]and I come on the yard

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I got my bed roll,[br]I'm getting assigned

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to one of the units,[br]you walk into the unit

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you see people milling around[br]all the time

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They could be up on[br]the tiers looking down at you,

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it's kind of intimidating if you don't[br]understand what's going on.

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They're sizing you up, seeing who you are,[br]seeing what kind of guy-

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how you carry yourself.[br]Are you meek, are you aggresive,

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are you tough, the way[br]you walk, the way you look at people.

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the way you don't stare them down,[br]but you don't look away.

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It's an art to all of that.

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One of the first things I do,[br]is look at what they're wearing.

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Here's why. If I see people wearing,[br]flip flops...

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I'm looking, it's not ready[br]to jump off.

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If you see people wearing[br]boots, their prison-issued boots

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If you see people wearing their boots,[br]"Why are they all wearing their boots?"

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If you see people in sneakers and boots[br]and stuff like that,

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you're saying to yourself, "what's[br]going on here?"

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Usually when people are wearing[br]stuff like that,

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especially, if you're in the unit[br]and you come in later in the night

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or sometimes you come in[br]after chow

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they'll release you from R&D,[br]depending on what time they release you

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when you get to that unit, if you see[br]people with sneakers milling around

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You can feel it. You can feel tension,[br]something might jump off.

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You're not involved, I'm not[br]saying to get involved,

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and don't get involved, but[br]something might jump off

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so you'd better be on your Ps[br]and Qs.

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You'd better be ready, at all times.

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Step back, get outta the way[br]watch two guys go at it,

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you don't try to break stuff up,[br]you just back away

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It's not your beef,[br]you just are a convict,

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no lookin' at him.[br]But you'd better know that.

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Now if I see people just[br]joking around,

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and they're walking around[br]in flip flops and stuff,

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they just got out of their shower,[br]and it's like "old home" week here,

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this place is not going to [br]scare me too much. It's ok.

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It's a prison, things can happen.[br]But ok, it's not a tension-filled place.

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You'll know tension right away[br]in a prison.

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Absolutely right away you'll know it.[br]And boy, I get that feeling

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to this day no matter what I do.[br]I can feel tension, all the time.

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It's just who I am.

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The second thing you wanna know[br]in the Unwritten Rules:

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What's the shower situation?

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Listen, I like to be clean.[br]I don't ever want to be a dirty person.

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You don't want to be a dirty person[br]in prison.

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The worst thing you can do is[br]be a dude who smells,

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doesn't clean up after himself,[br]and be with a celly.

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I once took a dude's face and[br]grabbed him by the back of his hair

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and smashed his face into a concrete wall.

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Blood started pouring all over the place,[br]he just falls down

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I did that because after two times.[br]He used to shave, we all shaved-

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They have the sink and the toilet together.

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Here's a picture of it, right here.

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And in that, you'd better[br]clean up after yourself.

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If you brush your teeth, you don't [br]leave toothpaste in the bottom of that.

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If you shave, you don't leave your [br]shavings, you know, the hairs, in there!

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Whatever it is, you clean that out. [br]Just like you take your toilet

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you know, you have a single unit. As you[br]can see in the picture, its the

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single units, when you go there,[br]you use that toilet, you clean that.

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You take a piss, you take toilet paper and[br]you clean that toilet, that "seat cover."

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There's no seat cover, you're sitting on[br]stainless steel.

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But you wanna be seeing[br]piss stuff on that?

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If I got a celly and he walks in,[br]and you know,

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say they assign someone usually you don't[br]let that happen depending on the place

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they get a guy and he comes in your cell[br]and he says "hi, how you doing?"

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I'll know within 5 minutes what kind[br]of dude this dude is.

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Is he a convict, is he a newbie? Is he[br]scared so he doesn't know how to act?

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The way he handles himself[br]right around that toilet area,

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I'm going to know what kind[br]of guy he is.

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And I wanna know what kind of guy he is.[br]I wanna know what I'm dealing with.

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The guy that I smashed,[br]I didn't just smash him.

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I told him a few times, I said,[br]"Listen man, clean up man.

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We eat, we get water out of that sink. We [br]fill up our bowls, we put water in there

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You might get that water for your rice and[br]then you're going to put your rice

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in the microwave. Or you're going to make[br]hot water.

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You're going to make the water out of[br]that, you go boil it in the microwave

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for coffee[br]in the morning.

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Listen, you clean up after yourself.[br]That's important.

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But you wanna know, the second rule,[br]is the shower situation,

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What's it like? Where do they go?[br]Who showers who?

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So, when you're going in that unit,[br]you wanna know the shower situation.

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What I mean by that is, the have six[br]showers on each side of the unit

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and the top left was where the white[br]dudes used to go.

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That was kind of their shower.

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Another shower is where the Hispanics go.[br]Another shower is where the blacks go.

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Another shower is maybe where[br]you, you know, shit's going on.

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Like we used to make wine in on.[br]So a lot of times guys couldn't

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take a shower, because we were[br]literally cooking wine and we made

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the wine out of that shower. So it's [br]important to know the shower situation.

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And you don't just walk around. Like[br]obviously, when I say watch

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the shower situation, you gotta watch[br]for a minute.

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When you see people go to shower,[br]or you see a person go to the shower,

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are they going with their bag and a towel [br]and just not giving a crap?

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It's okay, like there's no tension? Or are[br]they walking to that shower with

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their boots on and their[br]friends with them?

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And then you'll see their friend just[br]stand on a rail, you know,

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outside the shower, just looking[br]around, watching, you know.

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Seeing what's coming.[br]Because his friend might see

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two dudes coming up,[br]maybe trying to hit that guy.

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Maybe that guy's got, you know,[br]something wrong, something happening

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and his friend is going to say,[br]bang on that door

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and say, "Man, get-" and[br]the guy puts his boots on

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and he gets his shank[br]and he's ready to go.

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I don't care if his weiny's[br]hanging out. Doesn't mean anything.

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He's got his shank and he's[br]got his boots.

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Cause you sure don't want to be [br]left with your dick hanging

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in your hand if they're[br]coming after you with a shank.

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So it's important to know[br]the shower situation.

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Watch it, because if you see, you'll feel[br]it. You'll see how people are reacting.

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What times they shower. You'll get an[br]idea of how the groove goes.

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Are the showers even open in the day?[br]Sometimes they're not.

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Who's cleaning the showers? It's [br]the orderlys in the unit,

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but you don't want to just[br]disrespect a dude and just

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and go in while he just did something[br]he didn't get inspected by the CO

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He's going to look at you like[br]who's this dude?

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You wanna know the shower situation,[br]it's important.

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The next rule you wanna know is

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the TV Rules. What's going on [br]in the TV rooms.

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In Atlanta, we had 4 TV rooms.[br]We had a black TV room, a

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Hispanic TV room, a white TV room,[br]and a sports TV room.

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Everybody hung out. Now that does[br]not mean Larry can't go to the

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black TV room. He's not gonna,[br]he's not gonna take a spot from

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somebody in that room that's[br]going in there all the time,

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Vice versa, the black guys don't come[br]into the white guys rooms.

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Now, all your friends, you come on in,[br]"Hey Larry," you know,

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"What's going on, I need to [br]speak to you for a sec."

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"Sure, come in for a second,[br]what's going on?"

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or, "Hey," you're running a football[br]ticket and "I had a winner, man,

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look at the game, look at the ticket. It's[br]guaranteed cause see I didn't

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mess something up." You can talk to them.[br]It's not like you can't meet people

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or talk to people in TV rooms.[br]But you see which TV room is yours

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or with your race. They can say "oh,[br]there's no race going on in prison--"

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there is. Depending on the prison you're[br]in, the prison actually

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promotes it. As sad as that is.

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Because they'd rather have the blacks[br]fighting the whites, or the Hispanics

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fighting the blacks so they're not worried[br]about themselves, the prison.

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They actually, trust me, they like that,[br]in their own way.

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The fourth is politics.

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What's the prison politics?

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When I went into Atlanta, you know,[br]I hated the mob politics.

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I call it the mob politics, and the mafia stuff.

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You get these old timers,[br]"Hey, you should talk to him,

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wait man, that guys no good,[br]you'd better be careful with him."

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As much as you might not like it,[br]you gotta know it.

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You gotta know who's the guy to [br]go to.

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You gotta know who the shot caller is[br]in each group.

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And the black guys got[br]a shot caller,

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the Hispanics got a shot caller,[br]the Indians got a shot caller,

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the white guys got a shot caller.[br]Those are the guys you go to

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if you have a big beef with someone[br]before you do something on your own.

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They might say "wait, lets[br]talk to this shot caller"

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and they might say "listen, hit him,[br]do what you want.

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Stab him up. Do what you're gonna do."[br]You know, "It's open, do what you want."

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Fifth: Chow Hall Seating. You're gonna[br]hook up with somebody

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and then you gotta know, again,[br]the chow hall, which side to go to

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cause usually there's two sides,[br]where is your seating area, give or take.

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I watched a man get killed[br]for sitting in the wrong section.

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Killed. For sitting in the wrong section.

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Obviously, people don't just[br]come up and stab you if that happens.

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But you might think they're trying to [br]intimidate you and you try to buck up

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and sit there, and before you know it[br]you're in a situation over

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sitting in the wrong seat. And when [br]I saw wrong seat

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maybe the shot caller sits in that spot [br]everyday at 12 o'clock.

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Why would you start trouble by[br]sitting in that seat like you're a badass?

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You don't test them like that.[br]This isn't the county jail where you

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gotta hit someone to make it known that[br]you're not gonna be pushed over.

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This is prison.

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This is where you are going to live,[br]for the next X number of years.

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And you want to survive it.

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Depending on where it is, [br]you wanna survive it.

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Next is the commissary.

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The commissary is the store of a prison.

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And let me tell you how important[br]the commissary store is.

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You go to commissary every week.[br]You have a certain day of the week

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to go to that store,[br]by your number.

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My number was 52-224-004[br]So 224. Mine would be the last 4.

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They might say all even numbers[br]go on Tuesdays.

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All odd numbers go on Wednesday.[br]Or whatever system that prison

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has set up. You gotta know the commissary.

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In Atlanta, when I went to Atlanta,[br]Atlanta was so wild.

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You would get robbed[br]coming from commissary

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cause there was what they call[br]a "blind area."

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So people would literally get robbed[br]like it's a shake-down or robbery.

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You gotta know, what kind of place[br]it is and who to go with

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and you gotta get to know the right people[br]that you're not a pushover

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you're not gonna give your shit up.

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What are the items that are hot[br]in this prison.

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You know, certain things are needed.[br]And then, that goes into the next rule.

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You gotta know who the storemen are.

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You go, "what do you mean,[br]what's a storeman?"

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A storeman is a guy in prison[br]who runs, literally, a store.

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And he'll charge 2 for 3.

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So if you borrowed 2 soups from him,[br]you gotta give him 3 soups back

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on his commissary day. If you borrow[br]a bar of soap, you might have to give

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him two bars of soap when you come back.

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Or he'll give you two, [br]and you gotta give him three bars of soap.

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You can buy pretty much[br]anything off a storeman.

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Some of the storemen sell[br]actually sandwiches

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They'll sell drugs of course,[br]or some sell anything

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from sex, to drugs, to whatever.

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But the storeman usually sells[br]items that are on the commissary

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and that dude wants his shit back[br]and if you don't pay him,

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you're gonna get stabbed.[br]Trust me, you will get stabbed.

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And it's important to know[br]the good dudes.

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Who's solid, who you can talk to.[br]If you had an issue, you know,

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money didn't come, the guys not gonna[br]really get offended cause it was

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a legit thing. You know, people aren't[br]assholes in there.

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They want their money, they lent[br]you something, you give it back.

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You wanna borrow a book of stamps,[br]you gotta give him a book and a half back

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that's how the money is in prison.[br]Stamps.

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You gotta understand what the[br]money is in prison.

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The most unwritten rule when I was in,[br]and it has changed a bit since I was in,

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but not totally, is who's your[br]cellmate?

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Trust me, who's your cellmate?

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I had a cellmate who killed[br]a man with an axe handle on airforce base.

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Good dude. I know you're saying,[br]"what do you mean, good dude?"

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Good dude. I trusted him.

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You gotta know who's your "celly"[br]cause there was a "celly" there

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who stabbed his "celly" in the[br]chest. Killed him.

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Put a shank right in his chest.[br]And went back to bed.

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You better know. Unwritten rule?[br]You gotta be able to read people

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and get that "celly" that's[br]normal.

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Cause trust me, it's worth you[br]bucking it, and going to the hole

0:16:11.585,0:16:14.946
and fighting, than getting into a cell[br]with the wrong guy.

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Cause how would you like to be [br]locked down with a guy

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who's a psychopath and at[br]10 o'clock at night

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when the doors are locked[br]and there's really no guards around

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even in the units, you could be[br]dying in that unit

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and they don't give a shit. This guy kills[br]you, cause he's a violent psychopath.

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You gotta feel that out.[br]You gotta know a couple dudes

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You gotta rap with people, you gotta[br]know how to speak. Understanding how

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to talk to people is probably the[br]best skill you could have.

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Number 9, very good[br]important rule.

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Who's the snitches in that place?

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Trust me, there's snitches[br]in all prisons.

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You'll see them, the little freakin'[br]weasels.

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They're up near the guard, talking[br]like they're litte buddies

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and stuff, and you look at them like,[br]"who's this asshole?"

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You gotta watch who the snitches are.

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And they have what they call [br]"note droppers."

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Or "dry snitchers."[br]You know, people who would do it sneakily.

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Sneak a note under the counselors[br]door.

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Hand a note out at night and[br]they put in the mailbox.

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And then the guards check the mail [br]every night when they get it out

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And when they get it out,[br]and they see a note, you know,

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"Lawton's got a shank in the cell."

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That's how you get people shaken down.

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And people, [br]you gotta kind of know who they are.

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You can watch the prison for a little bit

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and figure out who's the stand up guys.[br]who's the convicts,

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that is super important.

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And finally, a very important[br]unwritten rule in prison is the yard.

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You want your rec, you wanna get out[br]there, and you wanna have rec.

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You wanna play handball, you wanna[br]play basketball, you wanna workout,

0:17:53.689,0:17:58.449
you wanna go do pullups, and dips,[br]and you wanna walk the track,

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feel the fresh air, and get sun on[br]your face.

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You gotta know the yard rules.

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In prison you'll see different groups[br]in different sections of a yard.

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You can feel tension on a yard right[br]away and you'll see something jump off.

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In a penitentiary though, they will[br]shoot down on that yard

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with the gun towers that [br]are around that yard

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and they will fire down on that yard.

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Man, when they say "get down,"[br]on the yard, boom, you drop.

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Cause they will shoot you. They have[br]bean bags, they have rubber bullets

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they have other things but they[br]also have live ammo.

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So they will shoot you.

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I've seen them shoot down on a yard, man[br]and I'm telling you,

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you don't know if it's you next.[br]You sit there, man.

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You're still as you can believe.

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But knowing the yard rules is[br]when you go there,

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you're going to see a lot of things[br]on a yard

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dudes sharpening shanks along a [br]concrete, along a fenceline,

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and they're leaning against the fence [br]and they're sharpening the shank.

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They're just sharpening, and [br]sharpening, and sharpening.

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What do you think, you [br]look at them? They don't wanna know

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that you're even looking at them.[br]You're going to see drug deals go down.

0:19:08.868,0:19:12.201
You're gonna see punks getting fucked[br]in the corner sometimes.

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You're gonna see stuff go down[br]on the yard.

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You gotta know the yard rules.

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Where do you go? Who do you see?[br]You need something,

0:19:20.861,0:19:25.211
who's kinda running the yard? Where are [br]the guards stationed on the yard?

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You know, There's usually the guards in the[br]tower, you can check them out

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you can't see, but you can blind them.

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But there might be guards on the yard.

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There usually is, you'll see them [br]walk around.

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Something that you gotta know, gotta[br]have that feel.

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You gotta know the yard rules.[br]If you want rec,

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and you sure want rec,[br]believe me, you wanna get out of that hole

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When you're in that hole, when[br]you're waiting to "get on the compound"

0:19:50.606,0:19:54.856
they call it, you're gonna wanna get out[br]in the fresh air, get sun on that body.

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I'm telling you. And you're gonna wanna[br]connect with the right people

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and that's where you do it, [br]on the yard.

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Listen guys, I don't want you in prison,[br]but if you gotta go I want you to survive.

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And no matter what it is,[br]be respectful of others.

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In life and in prison. [br]Just because you go to prison

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doesn't mean you respect people.[br]In fact, you respect them more.

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The dudes you disrespect just might[br]kill you.

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Alright ladies and gentlemen,[br]have a great day.

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