Evaristo Salas Jr.
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It was mainly race-based everything.
And there was stabbings happening all the time.
Riots, staff assaults were locked down all the time.
For me, there was only probably about 40 or 50 Hispanics there.
But they kind of, we all, like I said, they pretty much protected each other, kind of stayed out of a lot of the stuff that was going on.
They had their own drama, but it was like in the other unit.
But it allowed me to kind of just kind of be separated from that stuff, and it gave me a little wiggle room.
And then the fact that I was part of the gang that I was part of before meant that even amongst the Hispanics...
Because there was two kind of dominant gangs, and then there was one that kind of controlled everything.
And you were from any three of those ones, they couldn't tell the other ones what to do, so they would kind of leave you alone.
And just kind of, you're still under their umbrella, but they wouldn't be able to come tell you, like, oh, we'll go do this, or go take care of this business, or here's a shank, go do this, man.
So they couldn't do anything to me because I was part of that gang that I was on the streets.
And that gang had a little small kind of following within the prison system, but enough to kind of keep them at bay.
But there was other individuals that were coming in that were, you know, white or black, mainly white, that would come in and they used to prey upon their own people.
They would take that little 18-year-old, give them a weapon, and tell them to go do this or go do that or do any worse things to them because they didn't really care about what happened to them.
And so, yeah, you've seen a lot of that kind of stuff, you know, and it was a really, really violent place.
But I had to go to a level four prison for four years because at first of your murder, you go to a level four for four years before you can go down to lower custody.
And then from there, I went to the Washington State Penitentiary.