Brown, who is classified as a "High Notoriety" inmate, can only be housed on sensitive needs yards (SNY) which are facilities for "drop outs," inmates who are inactive former gang members looking to stay out of trouble in hopes of making parole and doing their time in relative peace. Not to be confused with Protective Custody, such as the Protective Housing Unit (PHU) at Corcoran State Prison where Charles Manson is housed, SNY facilities are for incarcerated celebrities, inmates with high profile cases like Phil Spector, The Menendez Brothers, Sirhan Sirhan, and Tom Sizemore. Inmates whose lives may be in immediate danger due to case factors, such as former prison gang members and ex-street gang members are housed on SNY facilities as well, after undergoing an extensive process known as debriefing, which requires them to provide information about their former gang to the prison administration. "Street gang members who retire are not required to debrief, nor are high profile inmates and celebrities. Former prison gang members however must debrief in order to become SNY status," States Brown's attorney. "So we're talking about a bunch of guys who gave up information about the Norte in order to become SNY, then they got on an SNY facility where it's safe and stared calling themselves the Northern Riders, the Playboys, and took the Playboy Bunny as their logo, and we want to know how that was allowed to happen."
Raided walked the mainline for 10 YEARS. Now due to him constantly embarrasing CDCR by continuing to drop albums, and him getting national press about his albums, and CDCR not being able to "figure out" how he is doin it, THEY placed him on special needs yard. Why?, cause you got haters, like these drop outs that wanted to be rappers and he wasnt fuckin with them. Dont nobody ask to be on special needs yards unless they piece of shit muthafuccas like these fools who tried to attack X. High Notoriety and/or Celebrity status. Suge Knight was on special needs yard, not cause he couldnt handle himself, but because he was a celeb, and he was SUPER breaded up, so everybody and they mama would have been viewin him as a target to get some of that. Then you have to have an understanding of Prison Politics. Crips CANT be "drop-outs" unless they are straight PC'd up, cause Crips are not classified as a Prison gang....Title 15 say that...go check with your Big Homies....every REAL convic know that Title 15..