>> i think it would be inaccurate to say there's never a dull moment in prison. actually there's plenty of dull moments in prison. it's just that all that monogamy is broken up by sheer terror. there's a lot of bottled up, negative energy in prison. and as our "lockup" crews have

found many times, you never know when thing are going to explode. >> i have a bad impulse problem. >> the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officer's face yesterday. >> a sad jail. they thrive on chaos! that's all they know is chaos! they lock us in here like animals in a cage. the day we arrived at the colorado state prison, we found a sterile environment. steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day. despite his surroundings, inmate sean shields was in high spirits. when he sat down with us, he was eager to help our producer get the interview underway.

>> quiet on the set, you boneheads! >> it's a prison, you know. >> then, he calmly told us how he got 16 years added to his original sentence of 12 for robbery. >> me and another man had an altercation. manipulated the door so that it wouldn't latch completely, and when he came out to walk, i came down after him and proceeded to stab him. >> why? >> it was just a verbal altercation. >> does that happen a lot in here? >> there is a lot of verbal altercations between people. you got to understand, there's 16 men living together behind closed doors with stress, animosity toward one another in some cases, and it's not always a pleasant place to be. >> when inmates erupt, no one is safe, including correctional staff.

>> we had an inmate on his way to the rec yard and used a derogatory statement toward an officer. i told him his recreation was being taken for that comment. he decided to lean forward as if he was going to brace himself and then just bit into my left arm. this is my left arm the day that the bite occurred. he bit in so fast and so hard that i didn't even feel him biting in. and he severed the nerve in my arm where i now have permanent damage. >> while officer mills' bite wound was severe, his ordeal wasn't nearly as terrifying as the nightmare one of his fellow officers experienced. in this previously unaired footage provided boo "lockup" by the prison, hostage negotiators are outside the cell of inmate willie hill.

moments earlier, hill overpowered a female correctional officer, shackled her with her own restraints, and was now holding her at knifepoint in a cell. >> she's keeping him distracted. >> meanwhile, riverbend's emergency response team suits up for action. while the negotiator speaks with hill, the team quietly assembles undetected outside the cell door. >> here we go. coming in. >> at a precise moment, the door is opened, and the team rushes the cell. setting off a flash bang grenade. [ explosion ] [ screams ] >> the team uses pepper spray to subdue the inmate. [ yelling ] within seconds the still-shackled officer is pulled

to safety. a short time later, hill is also removed from the cell. though dazed by the effects of the pepper spray, hill is uninjured. his assault on the officer earned him two months in punitive segregation and an extension of his sentence. riverbend's emergency response team regularly trains for crises where a cell extraction is called for. our crew was there to cover one session. >> as you can see, when you get that many people in one spot or cell as it is, it makes havoc about being able to operate in

it. straighten him out, there you go. straighten him out now, pull him down. that's the reason why we do some more training. the more training you get to do, the better you get. the less injury you have on the inmate or the staff. >> during the course of our shoot at riverbends, the extraction team would assemble once again. but this time it would be for real. the incident was triggered when officers conducted a routine cell search for weapons in the prison's maximum security unit. >> these inmates are in here because of behavior, assault. and if they can get their hands on pieces of metal protection, they will sharpen it and make shanks and knives. >> we search a lot. we search as much as we can to make sure that they're not

stealing contraband items like weapons, drugs, money. >> it was during the cell search that we met inmate terrell shropshire, serving an eight-year sentence for carjacking. >> they shaking us us down, all the time, right. to see if we got illegal things on us that we ain't supposed to have. stuff like that. >> shropshire's cell is thoroughly searched. >> some hide shanks or homemade knives a lot of times. they'll come in here and tear the soles up, put stuff in the bottom of them. they've got 24 hours before they can put stuff. it's an endless process. >> so what are you doing? >> they're not allowed to have anything on the doors or walls. i'm just taking it down. >> this guy looks like he's in a waiting room. got in some magazines and things. >> yep. >> even something as seemingly harmless as a set of headphones

can be considered contraband. >> is there a number on it? >> no. no number, it's contraband for the taking. >> every item had to be documented and approved by prison officials. there was no record of sharecropshire's headphones, so -- sharecropshire's headphones, so they were considered contraband. >> later he was led back. >> we followed him and had no idea how he would react. we weren't expecting anything in particular. as it turned out, the headphones were really a big deal. inmates have so little when they're in prison that the slightest thing becomes a precious possession. >> why you take my headphones? >> there wasn't a number on them. >> a short time later, shopshire appeals to another guard for his headphones.

>> what am i supposed to do. >> those are brand new. they come in here and open up every one and they're brand new. ain't nothing in it. trying to talk to you like a man, you don't want to hear that. these are the type of things we go through every day. they come through here like animals in a cage. that's the only thing they know. we already got a lack of ever being back here. we're under the jail. it's like being buried alive back here. though detained, our producer attempts to interview him about being in maximum security. tirell? >> i'm here. >> tell me what life is like in maximum. >> asking me what being back is back here it's like having cancer. it's like it's equated to be inhuman on a day to day basis. ask me what i feel like.

>> our producer didn't know just how meaningful her next question would become. >> have you heard about officers being assaulted by other inmates? can you talk about that? >> i don't know about that no guards being assaulted. i don't know about that no inmates being assaulted by other inmates. yon that about them. i'm here to do my time. i'm here to focus on my time. i don't know nothing about no guards being assaulted. if anything i know about guards assaulting inmates. >> the next day our crew found the cell extraction team suiting up for action. shropshire had assaulted two officers. the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an office ear's face yesterday. congratulations. congratulations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire businesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making communities greener... congratulations.

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during a routine cell search in maximum security in tennessee, a pair of contraband

headphones was removed from the cell of tirell shropshire. by the next day, things had escalated. >> the riverbend cell extraction team has been called to remove all items out of unit 3201. he was assaultive toward staff last night. the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officer's face yesterday and also a coke bottle full of water thrown and hit an officer in the back of the head. the unit manager discovered this today and he wanted all hard items removed from the cell. we tried to goin gain compliance from the inmate. he refused so we need the cell extraction team. >> when they are called, it is meaning that they are going to forcibly remove an uncooperative inmate from his cell. when you see them all geared up, you see the seriousness of the threat, and the danger it could

pose. they let us follow at a safe distance. >> inside of the cell block, they give him one last chance to comply. >> okay. i am going to ask you one time to comply and if you don't, we will have to come in and get you. do you comply? >> i'm going to ask you one more time, and that's it. >> with shropshire still refusing orders, the extraction team moves in. >> on the bed. face down. don't resist. don't resist. >> i ain't resisting. >> turn him over. face down. >> gentlemen, take him out to the rec yard. >> he is taken outside while his

cell is cleared. >> don't resist now had we take these off. >> medical staff is always called in after a cell extraction to check the inmate for injuries. though they do not find any, he continues to complain. >> you are cutting off my circulation. >> nothing i can do. >> if you can comply, then we would not have to go through this. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] these cameras here, and that is why you did all of this [ bleep ] stuff. these [ bleep ]. >> everything went the way it was supposed to. the inmate was taken to the rec yard so everything could be removed from the cell, all of the hard items and drinking materials he used the assault staff with. took him out, got him restrained

in the rec yard. medical checked him out. no injuries, and basically all that he was doing was theatrical. we moved him back into the house, and he will be in there for a minimum of two hours. >> as his demeanor and he wants to comply with the policies and procedures, he will be removed from the restraints. it went excellent. nobody got hurt. >> shropshire eventually completed his sentence at riverbend and was released in february, 2008. but another memorable inmate featured on "lockup" may not ever know such freedom. >> i was accused of assaulting an inmate with a padlock, so that is why i am in here. >> when we met dante bullock at the state penitentiary in iowa he was spending the third day in the administrative segregation

unit, also known as the hole. authorities say he stuffed this padlock inside of a sock and brutally attacked another inmate with it. >> do you think that you have a violent past or history or angry, or what is your situation? >> i am violent when i am provoked. >> bullock is already serving a life sentence for kidnapping, but if the charges stick, he could be locked in ad seg for 23 hours a day. >> i was in the wrong place at the wrong time. the inmate had been assaulted and my defense to them was telling them i was in the area and pushed out of the way as the inmate was trying to get away from person assaulting him. >> bullock was anxiously awaiting a hearing with the prison's administrative law judge to plead his case. in the meantime, he let us know that while it meant losing his television, the location of the cell at least made it possible to keep up with current events.

>> this cell right here is in front of the police station, and to me, it is the best cell on this range due to the fact that you get a lot of movement and who is coming in and out and inmates and c.o.s, catch scoop of who they move, whoever got into that may be. >> so you know what's happening between brad and jen? >> between brad and jen? >> yeah. they are divorced. >> three days later, bullock was about to face his own life altering event, the hearing on the assault charge. >> we are coming up to see the judge today. he is being charged with a serious rule violation, and we, anybody who is locked up gets belly chains put on them and handcuffs. and the dog's just a little extra security. >> the dog is not only to protect staff from bullock, but since bullock is believed to have assaulted another inmate, it will also protect him from

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at the anamosa state penitentiary in iowa, he faces one year in the hole for allegedly assaulting another inmate with an illegal weapon, a lock in a sock. >> in this hearing anything that you say can and will be held against you in a criminal prosecution. >> our cameras were with him as he was about to plead his case in a discipline hearing. >> have a seated, mr. bullock. your number? >> 742968. >> after addressing procedural matters, administrative law the judge read s the correctional

officer's account of the assault. [ bleep ] >> with a weapon and sustained injuries to his head above the right eye and required stitches and broke his right hand trying to block the weapon that required a cast. i have here photos of the scene, of the incident that i will share with you. the victim of the assault, and injuries. also, before me, i have a sock with a padlock and combination lock inside. i have a statement from the staff member that located that. >> i didn't have nothing to do with this though. when the assault took place, i was on the stairs. an inmate ran by me. i could have easily been mistaken and that is what i believe that i was mistaken that by me being pushed aside that i was believed to be the one who assaulted him. >> inmates who saw the assault and provided statements remain anonymous in hearings like this, but it is up to the judge to

determine the credibility. >> do you have any enemies in the institution, mr. bullock? >> no, i don't. >> tell me some people who might make things up about you? >> people i gamble with. >> who are they? >> i'm not going to disclose their names. >> i'm trying to help you with your defense. i am giving you the opportunity of names of people that may not be credible. if you choose not to give me the names, that is up to you. >> how can i defend myself when you say there is a weapon involved, but i don't know what the weapon is. >> i showed it to you. >> now you tell me what the weapon is, but in the report it don't say nothing about what the weapon is. >> anything else that you wanted to say today? >> yeah, you ain't got no evidence. how can you put a padlock with me. >> let me assure you, that there were multiple witnesses to the incident. >> how do i know they are credible? >> that is my responsibility to

determine their credibility. just as i determine your credibility. you have been given every opportunity to be given a defense, and -- >> i gave you a defense. >> no, your defense was that you didn't have nothing to do with this. that's what you told me. >> you guys have the opportunity to report clearly what states when, where, how, and who. >> the standard of evidence is some evidence. the courts have ruled that that can be the report of the staff member. now, hopefully, i am going to be using a greater standard than that for you, and i usually do, but that is all that is required to make a finding of a violation of the rules in the administrative hearing in this institution. now, whether you accept that or not is entirely up to you. i have answered the questions and i have given you an opportunity to present your defense and at this point i will conclude your testimony, and you can have a seat in the chair outside. >> and how are you -- >> you are telling me the padlock is mine and you aren't -- >> well, you have asked questions, and i have given you the answers. >> what are --

>> have a seat. >> i believe i probably have a clear understanding of the due process. i'm not certain that he does. we have met that requirement. >> i understand it is a serious issue and you would take it serious, you know what i mean? and -- look at, you know, saying what really happened. >> it is is a matter of moments before the judge is ready to render a decision. >> mr. bullock my finding is assault with a weapon, it's a class a violation for our policy and the accountability for that is 365 days of disciplinary detention and a forfeiture of 365 days of earned time. you are also required to pay any medical costs associated with this incident. your have been locked up for six days awaiting for the hearing and i will give you that six days toward the 365 days. you may go.

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signs point to faulty power lines. now back to "lockup." when producers traveled to the joliet prison floors, they they walked through one of the most historic institutions. constructed of standstone, it this castle-like prisonen was built prior though civil war and the friction between staff and inmates seems ever bit as old. >> [ bleep ]. >> during our shoot in jol yet, a disruptive new inmate had just been removed from his cell and was being take on the segregation.

our cameras were there as captain morgan attempted to make the transfer. first, a brief stop to process paperwork. >> don't hit me, man. he hit me, man. >> that particular inmate was from the rnc unit. we just received him in from the county. he was upset for one reason or another, i don't know what it was. he was being aggressive. i told him to have a seat in the back of the cell and remain quiet. he wasn't. disobeyed and he was insolent toward myself and the lieutenant and it progressed then. >> don't hit me, man. he hit me. >> as captain morgan processes the paperwork. >> he hit me in the back of the head. in these handcuffs he twisted my head. >> the inmate continues his tirade against him.

>> captain morgan completes the paperwork and then escorts him toward segregation. a 23-hour-a-day cell for inmates who violate rules. >> i was taking him to north segregation to lock him up in the seg unit. >> when the inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation would soon get much more intense. >> that is when he tried to pull away from me and turn around on me. >> he is grabbing on me. >> that is when i tried to secure him to the ground until i could get more security help. >> no, no, no. huh-uh. >> i got it. >> i'm going to walk.

>> no, you ain't walking. >> those particular charges that i charged the inmate with were insole lens, disobey ing a direct order, assault, he attempted to spit on me and turn around on me. this inmate will go to an adjustment hearing, a panel of hearing officers and plead his case against my disciplinary report that i give him and that will do whatever is just. >> reporter: while this inmate received an extended term in segregation, combative inmates risk suffering physical consequences as well. wherever inmates congregate, common areas, cell blocks, the yard or cafeteria, this is usually an overhead postmaned by armed correctional officers. if extreme violence breaks out, these officers may use lethal means as a last resort but they

ublly stop most results from verbal orders. if that doesn't work, they have an arsenal of non-lethal weapons including ones that firewood blocks. though not deadly they can leave a lasting impression as we discovered in a prison in california. >> i don't remember being shot. i don't even know if i got shot. >> we often talk to the correctional officers about the nonlethal weapons they use, but it is not often that we end up actually seeing what those weapons do, and such was the case with george johns. this was something that happened just the night before. we were lucky to talk to him. >> escort! >> during our shoot at kern valley, inmate george johns serving eight years for being involved in a high speed chase while parole, started a fight in the cafeteria and was hit in the head by a wooden block. we met him the following morning. >> tell me the story. tell me what happened.

>> well, i had a personal problem and i ran over to handle it, but i didn't make it all the way. i was in the chow hall eating and i got irritated and decided i didn't like this guy and fight him. that's it. >> next thing you remember? >> they were dragging me out, telling me i got hit in the head with a block. >> can we see your head? >> the shooting left johns with seven staples in his head and a wound still caked with dry blood. he says that the scar running to the back of his head was the result of getting run over when he was younger. >> so you knew the other guy that you got into the fight with? >> kind of, sort of, apparently didn't like him. >> i was eating my dinner, baked potato and gravy at the corner of the chow hall and the guy was running and i didn't see him and i saw him and i ran into him and hit the cement and got a smack on the back of the head. >> jeff is the inmate johns

attacked. >> the deal is that he wants to go around intimidating other people, and try to throw his weight around and try to manipulate or whatever. >> though asked a number of times by the producer why he started the fight, johns was never specific. >> if you can't tell me what was going on, then just tell me you can't say what is going on. >> i am telling you as far as i can go. i ain't going to tell you i don't know why i didn't like him. he didn't spit in my soup or nothing, but it just progressed to the point where i felt like i had to kick his ass, that's it. i exploded. i have a bad impulse problem. >> but ahart has his suspicions about why the attack occurred. he thinks that johns wanted to be sent to the hole in order to be segregated from other inmates for his own protection. >> he chose to hit me, attack me right in front of the cops in the tower, right in the chow hall. so i consider that to be a protective custody pc move on

his part. >> he was just saying that the other guy, johns, was doing a pc move and trying to say he owes drug money on the yard or something like that and the reason he is doing that is so he's in the hole now so he doesn't get stabbed on the yard or whatnot. so if he is in the hole, he won't have contact with the inmates on the yard. if they do something in front of the cops they will be locked up and sent to the hole and they will stay here until a later date. they will have to eventually have the deal with it, but for a short time, he is safe in here. >> johns in fact did get sentenced to time in the hole, but never confirmed whether it was on purpose or not. >> so, was it worth it? >> not really. >> but at the time, yeah, i didn't think about the consequences. i didn't think about falling down and getting pepper sprayed and burning still. i didn't think about getting staples. i didn't think about none of that. >> up next -- >> prison mate whiskey, they

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working as a sparring partner to a heavyweight boxer. >> every time i -- he was jab me and hit me real hard. man, are you hitting me too hard. he kept on doing it. he kept on doing it. i kept on attacking him, and i knew i could not beat him hand to hand, so i bit him. and when they broke us up, they wiped off the blood, it was in the shape of a gator. i don't know how it happened, i just bit him. >> what is your nickname? >> cocoa joe. >> skunk. >> stinky, because it sprayed me. >> everybody said i kind of looked like dracula and people started to call me drac for short and it kind of stuck. >> and cocoa for cocaine or cocoa man or what? >> i don't know, they gave me that name. you have to hustle, and that is how i got the name hustle. >> being quick, i don't know how i got that one. >> coyote. >> what does it stand for?

>> it is a nickname my grandfather gave me as a baby. >> and i am the littlest guy out there, and that's how i got those three. >> they call me outlaw. >> outlaw? >> yeah. >> self-explanatory? >> yes, it is self-explanatory. >> they call me doo, like the coal miner's daughter -- and not the daughter part, dude. but doolittle on there. >> and the name hustle got me here, too. sometime it ain't good to hustle. >> while nicknames are common in prison, we have discovered something else is as well, but it is not as harmless. >> what is that? >> prison-made whiskey. >> they call it prune juice and it has prunes in it and waits until it ferments good. >> what does it smell like?

>> it is a strong whiskey aroma. >> inmate-manufactured alcohol goes by many names prison julep, juneau, white lightning, whatever it's called, our crews have seen it, heard about it, smelled it. it exists in every prison. >> alcohol is used daily. alcohol in our correctional institutions are a very big problem, because it only takes a small amount of time to make the alcohol, and just about everyone does it. so it is a constant cat-and-mouse game. >> this is a bag of pruno that we discovered in an inmate cell a couple of days ago. a regular garbage bag and inside, you can smell the sweet smell of the prune oil itself and the apples. >> how much could that make? how much could that make? >> well, it is actually, i would say it would serve up to five or ten people depending, because some of the inmates actually sell the pruno.

>> you have a cocktail there? >> well, i guess if you go to the right person, i am sure you could. i don't know the particulars of it. they say i have got caught of it, but i don't know the makeup or how to do it, and even if i did, i probably wouldn't divulge that. >> but we have met plenty of officers and inmates who would. >> we give them everything they need for pruno. you need fresh fruit which we have to give them and you need something with sugar in it, and most fruit have some, and i mean, extra sugar helps and we don't give them that, but you can get candy from the canteen issue, sugar coat, and you need containers to keep it in while it is heating. we give them little milk cartons and if they want to destroy state property, the mattresses and pillows and everything are in plastic cases. and they can be torn apart and they make nice bags. then you need heat. you have a light fixture in there and lamps give off heat.

fruit, sugar, water, container, and heat. three to five days, and you have drinkable pruno. >> like a vintner selecting a certain variety of wine, inmates can choose from a wide variety of ingredients to make their hooch. >> kool-aid, apples. >> corn, corn cobs. >> >> ketchup, tomato paste. >> pineapple. >> grapefruits. >> peaches. >> sugar and yeast. >> get the hands on prune and what they like to use. >> of the many experts we have met, the truest connoisseur had to be tyrone outlaw, an inmate at kern valley state prison. ironically, located right in the heart of california's central valley wine country. >> we have two types of alcohol. we have pruno made from oranges and fruit that you let sit and rot and we pour it into a bag and make mush out of it and then add a lot of hot water to it and add sugar which ferments it to

make the alcohol base. then we take it from the bag and pour it into the pillow case and strain it and keep all of the mush out of it and put the liquid in the bag to be used for apples and two boxes of sugar and you will have three gallons of pruno, and you can sell it and each part is $10 for a tumbler. that's a 16-ounce tumbler. or you can sell it $15 apiece or you can just get drunk off it all you want. >> outlaw then told us about a much more potent concoction. >> the second version we do is called white lightning, that is similar to jack daniels, henessey, and in fact 150 proof. >> according to outlaw, white lightning has a very dark side. >> pruno can get you drunk and riled up and get you just that intoxication under the influence trip whereas white lightning can cause you to drink a half a cup of white lightning and it will

actually, if the c o's asked to see your i.d. card, because you had that white lightning in your system you immediately get violent. a lot of times they do that and they have to take the dudes to the ground because they are on white lightning and takes six or seven cos to bring them down. >> at pelican bay, we saw the definitive inmates' guide to distilling white lightning. confiscated in a cell search. >> i found it in his cell and it explains to one how to make clear alcohol. they're actually making it. 150 proof. that's not your regular pruno. a little more sophisticated. >> this is the final result. this here is about the equivalent of grain alcohol. extremely potent. >> how does this taste? talk to me about the taste.

>> white lightning tastes exactly like whiskey without any cut. some guys will cut it with, say, probably kool-aid or something because it is too strong. then you have other guys, they just down it. just raw. and a lot of these dudes that make this stuff, they don't realize that the bacteria in the stuff they're drinking will give them tuberculosis and other diseases. because it is nothing but rotten food that it is made from. >> since drunken inmates can lead to big trouble, correctional officers are constantly on the lookout. >> they're out there searching. they'll find it. three days later, the same cell, they're making alcohol again. it is just constant. we have over 3,000 inmates doing this. >> coming up -- >> one of the items he makes the most of, these scorpions and spiders. >> the confiscated artwork of america's most infamous inmate.

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while some inmates may spend their time behinds bars creating mayhem, we've met plenty of others who choose a very different path. they use their time in prison to do something constructive. for many, that mean turning to art. paul majors had been in and out of prison for most of the last 23 years. we met him at the riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee. >> it's therapeutic for me because it gives me a chance to escape and release a lot of tension. i can look at the situation in the world today and what i can't say verbally, i can say in a picture they say a picture paints a thousand words. and i guess this is my way of saying a thousand words.

the critics want to call it chalk pastels, pen and ink, if they gave me a stick in mud, i would use that. anything i get my hands on, i can use. >> some prison artists, especially those confined to high security cell nearly have to go to such lengths to create art. >> i got different techniques. but sometimes i just take the colors off an m&m, i fold it and the color come off. i can use that color. and a pen. >> because of his high security level as a confirm gang member, we could only shoot david's art outside his cell. a corrections officer offered to hole it in place for our camera. but at another california prison, one inmate's artwork is either immediately confiscated and destroyed or kept in a secured location.

the inmate is charles manson. >> we have some manson memorabilia that charles manson has created since he's been incarcerated here at corcoran. >> during one of our shoots at california state prison corcoran, our crew barely got a glimpse of manson before he covered up his window. a recent mug shot shows how much he has aged since first coming to prison in 1971. but his artwork provides a unique insight into his life behind bars. >> here a scorpion that he's made. basically, taking thread from various types of items, socks and t-shirts and towel, he creates it and uses -- it looks like a marker to color it. this is probably one of the items that he makes the most of. scorpions and spiders. i would assume this is something like a harp. and he's made it out of toilet

paper and newspaper. it looks like some dental floss, a small stick, and probably for the coloring, he use kool-aid. to get the coloring for it. >> why do you have it? >> he's not allowed to have it. occasionally, we go through and do cell searches and confiscate all items. he doesn't have a hobby card and other inmates try to sneak it out and put it on ebay and sell it. so we go in and dispose of it. >> how does he react when you take his stuff? >> sometimes he's passive. occasionally he gets pretty angry and threatens us. for the most part, he is usually pretty passive. he knows all he will do is make more. >> there's one other remnant of manson's artistic interest hanging on the wall of the prison's investigative services office. >> this is one weather manson was in the protective yard.

the inmates that were on the maximum security yard were able to defeat the security lock and got through there. manson was out in the yard playing the guitar and they ended up breaking it. i don't know if they hit him with it. they ended up breaking his guitar. we took it. he wasn't hurt or anything. we quelled it pretty quick. the guy that came into the yard was more scared than manson. he came in real quick and broke the guitar up and got down. he complied with the orders. >> any idea what song manson was singing? >> no, no. i have no idea what he was playing. >> helter skelter? i don't know.