Basically he owned the block, no one fucked with him, no one fucked with any one under him, he owned three cats that ate better food than most inmates, everyone was afraid of him, the hacks were afraid to tread on him, the blacks respected/feared him, he owned a refrigerator, he played hand ball, some new black guy who didn't know no better told him to shut up and Teresa told the black guy that if Galante put an X on him he was a dead man so the kid straightened up.