Evaristo Salas Jr.

there's nothing to lose there.

If I had that money there, I would definitely be a target for extortion or those kinds of things.

If the gang wasn't there to protect, you know, so, man, and I hadn't been down so long.

So people know that they don't really kind of mess with me.

Yeah.

Even though I try to kind of, uh, be more open.

I, I mean, some of the things when you come to close custody, you have a certain aura of you that, that you don't really see it, but everybody else does because you've lived in that environment and it's hostile.

I mean, I'm real quiet.

I don't really, I'm kind of an introvert.

I don't speak much.

I kind of stick to myself.

that automatically makes people kind of weary of me, you know what I mean?

And knowing that I've been in close custody for 20 years and not in the middle, they get a little weary.

So they don't really mess with me in that sense.

And then when they do talk to me, they're a little bit surprised because I have a sense of humor, you know what I mean?

I read all these books and then they're like, oh, I thought you were just mad all the time.

I just, you know, I just do my time.

My whole point is staying out of trouble.

So I have to really, you know, when you make that amount of mistakes in the beginning of your sentence,

you've got to prove to the system or to the administration that you're not that person anymore.