due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. we have bloods everywhere. >> gang violence breaks out when a long feud boils over. >> trying to show force inside the jail. >> caught in the middle of the conflict is a young inmate. >> the victim received 50

stitches. >> stand up. >> jail staff responds with an all-out search for weapons. and -- >> hands at your sides. >> normally we call jail college for criminals. >> a group of officers attempts to change lives. >> we believe this is the future of corrections which is to put a stop to that. located on the eastern end of long island, new york, suffolk county is a collection of small towns, rural farms and long stretches of beach. but even here urban street gangs

apply their trade. behind the walls of the suffolk county jail's river head facility their numbers are on the rise. >> that guy you know he is a crip but he won't admit it. >> river head is operated by the sheriff's office and house a combined total of about 1,500 inmates. the majority are only charged with crimes but awaiting trial in the resolution of their cases but nearly all feel the impact of gangs. >> another day in paradise, i guess. >> got like four positive hits today. latin king, two bloods. >> combatting activities is up to a team of investigators headed by sergeant investigator. >> bloods are the biggest gang we have in this jail. almost every housing area in the jail have bloods in it. bloods in all workers, floors, pods. >> that could be changing. >> this has always been a blood jail for years. now we are getting a big influx

of crip s lately. they feel they have to take back what the bloods. we get a lot more fights. >> one of the crypts is awaiting transfer back to prison. >> they will tell you i hate bloods, they hate me. he is one that actually is afraid of the bloods. >> i am used to it. i have been in jail since i was a minor. this jail is like kiddy camp to me. i'm ready to go upstate where guys ready to cut you left and right. >> less is more. that's how i look at it. >> the jail surveillance camera

captures cox's willingness to battle bloods. he jumps out of a line of inmates and blind sides a blood member with a punch to the face before he is subdued by officers. cox is immediately placed in segregation. he will still be exposed to bloods. >> we don't have enough area to segregate them because there is blood throughout the jail. no matter where i stick the crips there will be bloods there. >> 24 hours after the arrival cox is allowed out of the cell. as he entered the common area he is immediately attacked by a group of bloods. >> we have an award go off on the fourth floor. had four or five bloods go after a crip. the officers responded, sprayed them with chemical agents. officers are not permitted behind the bars until appropriate backup. they attempt to end the brawl with a pepper spray.

some flee but cox and others continue to battle. as a third inmate rejoins the fight the inmates scatter. >> chemical agents were deployed and at this time we are decontaminating inmates from worst affected to least to give them relief. >> get you up front for a shower. just keep running cold water on it. >> have you been sprayed before? >> this stuff right here is way worse than the old one. i'm burning everywhere right now, back, arms. >> cox and other inmates are moved to holding cells in another part of the jail that will be questioned by investigators. >> when you are on the streets there is place to run.

in jail there is nowhere to run. >> reporter: cox is next door to one of the bloods he just fought. he lets ricks know he is pleased with the results. >> no marks on my face, nothing. four of y'all against me can't do nothing. i'm too big for y'all. eat your wheaties. >> cox put himself in disciplinary yesterday by being aggressive. it is just what happens with bloods and crips. >> we have interviewed all four bloods involved in the fight and are about to bring the crip in to get his side of the story. have a seat. what happened upstairs? tell me your side of the story. >> came out, started fighting. >> what was the fight with the blood about yesterday? >> same thing today, just fight. >> just because you are a crip and he is a blood and that is the way it is? >> we can't stay together. >> how many fights since you have been here? >> five or six. >> at least. >> every time i come out clean.

>> did you catch that chemical agent in the face? didn't come out that clean. >> i have been sprayed before. i'm used to it. >> we have to rehouse you to a different spot because you are the only crip up there. >> he comes face-to-face with another blood. >> stop. stop. >> can't do nothing with me. i'm still pretty. >> this is what happened. like going to a different spot and being escorted and met up here in the lobby. other officers right now. how fast it can go off like that. >> how are you? we are going to get a new location for the guy. he can't go back to the box because he had a fight yesterday with a blood and a fight today on the other side. we will probably put him on administrative segregation for security.

>> so i'm going to make the move now. >> we are going to take it to the next level and start cuff and shackling these guys. we will identify the guys fighting. some bloods and crips want to stay in the background. the leaders like cox who says it will be on every time he sees a blood. we will probably put five or six out. cuff and shackled everywhere they go and escorted. we send a message to them that we are not going to tolerate what is going on inside the jail. coming up nicholas cox is housed next door to a 16-year-old crip. >> and -- >> one, two, three. >> a groupf officers tried to reach young inmates before it's too late.

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outdoor recyards might seem like any. inmates are allowed on the yard one hour a day. only the most extreme weather conditions keep them from outdoors. >> their activities are closely monitored by officers with a 45 foot tower as well as officers on the ground only permitted to carry collapsible batons. >> officers stay in the catwalk and then an officer is required to enter the yard and do a supervisory tour. very rarely would an officer enter the yard. >> the process of going in is we have to -- you see the metal device in the back when we touch it. just records that we did a tour. >> you are looking for things, body language and tell when something is going to happen.

there is definitely a little heightened sense of awareness when you are walking in. it is definitely not the most comfortable feeling to be in there by yourself but something you get used to over time. >> while the yard may be a playground for adulted hardened by life experiences the jail hopes to reach the youngest before it is too late. >> one, two, three. at any one time some 10 to 20 young men are housed as a youth initiative. on your feet. guys, you know why? stuff on the bar -- right now we have 18s and 19 year olds. it is more of a paramilitary style. >> how are those guns? >> charges can run from misdemeanors to light felonies. nobody is in here for murder or rape or anything like that. if they had to do time for their

charge they may be looking at five years, seven years. it's not beyond repair. the kids have to qualify to come into this program. they are required to get up early or make their racks the same way. they are required to go to school and act and behave in a certain manner. >> everybody good to go? go to class today. >> it is a comprehensive rehabilitation program designed to keep young inmates out of the revolving door of incarceration. >> you want them to be the same consistency. >> 30 different agencies out of the facility that come in and out and help mentor the kids. >> go left and right a little bit. >> anger management, narcotics anonymous. >> we are trying to pick up the color. >> normally we call jail college for criminals. they talk to other inmates next time try this. so they learn better ways to

commit crime. that's generally been the culture in jail. we believe this is the future of corrections which is we are going to put a stop to that. >> this jail was built at that time when we were warehousing inmates. we want to get to the nature of corrections is which is to correct and make better people. >> suffolk county sheriff began the now 3-year-old program. >> a lot of the kids it's the first time they have been here. we are intervening here getting them rehabilitated working with the judges, prosecutors and attorneys and finding alternatives for these kids so they don't have to go to state prison. you send a 17-year-old kid to state prison you might have lost that kid for the rest of his life. >> you got gloves? >> yes, ma'am. >> victor cartgina came to jail

at age 17. he has pled not guilty and hopes his participation in the program can provide an alternative to prison should he be found guilty. >> if you could draw or paint anything what would you want to draw? >> a person. >> flowers. >> he came in he had this long hair down his back and would walk around and he was angry. he wouldn't listen to nobody. he was just this little thugged out kid. he was throwing up gang signs. >> i used to know a lot of gay men, members from different gangs. >> so you made a living as a drug dealer? >> you can say that. i thought i was the man. i used to love the life. >> he joined the youth tier when he turned 18. he said one of the most

important things he got out of it was the realization as a young parent he needs to set an example. >> i think about it every day when i wake up it hurts when i see her come to visit me. this is not the lifestyle i want to show my daughter. i came down to the program and i started seeing a lot of people that really care and want to help the young people. >> what did you look like when you came into the program? give everybody a quick run down on what your appearance was? >> my hair was down to here. had long hair. i thought the girl from the ring was coming out of the cell. >> everywhere i used to go people used to look at me as a gang member because of the way i looked. even the judge the first time i was like this for my indictment. i went in front of the judge and he thinks i'm a bad guy. >> he had this bad boy attitude. i was not a big fan. came off as violent, angry.

i didn't have a lot of faith in him in this program. where he is today he is 100% a different person. that didn't happen overnight. >> it was a very slow ice breaking process to where we are now. >> we brought you down to the barbershop. >> you originally made the decision. >> remember -- >> you wanted to donate it. >> all the youth inmates are supervised by corrections officers who volunteered for the assignment. he says the personal connections have convinced him to give up gang life. >> this lifestyle doesn't bring nothing, only negative things, jail, want hhospitals, death. >> coming up -- >> senior officers told me i was making a big mistake. they said never volunteer. >> how a group of corrections

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for years the most dominant gang operating behind the walls of the river head facility has been the bloods. >> step over the back corner. >> now their arch rival is out to change the pecking order. >> crips are trying to show force inside the jail. that is why we are having escalation in fights. everybody is aware of it. we kind of know who the bloods and crips are. >> still pretty. >> we try to keep them separated as much as we can but they will meet up. >> one member of the crips, nicholas cox recently launched a surprise attack on a blood. for initiating the first fight and not complying with orders to

stop during the second cox received 75 days of lockdown status. he will be confined to a cell 22 1/2 hours a day. he will be able to socialize with others. >> whenever he is out of his cell he will be in cuffs and shackles. >> this is for your own safety. >> protection. this is for their safety because somebody is going to get hurt. >> cox said after the latest fight it was only bloods who got hurt. >> i know how these guys move. they like to jump. my thing is i do what i got to do. i'm not going to walk around with a black eye. what that say? >> pretty. >> that's what they call me. i make an ugly situation look

pretty. >> in some instances minors usually those with violent charges are held at the river head jail. cox is housed next to a 16 year old who jail officials say is also a crip. >> i'm telling you now. they can't do nothing to me. >> he is like a friend of mine. i like him. he is young. he looks up to me. i be kind of schooling him. >> they join gang wide because they are looking to belong to something. it is mostly prevalent in the youth, 16, 17, 18 year olds here for the first time, scared. looking for safety and security and want to belong to something. >> battling gang influence is just one goal. >> this is going to connect to this but we need darker paint. >> professional artist represents one of the more than 30 outside organizations that team up with the jail to rehabilitate 18 and 19 year old inmates. >> i'm letting you know you have

skills. that's an important thing. i never ever joke about art. that's good progress, man. you went from not painting to being a painter. >> larson has been teaching the current crop to draw, paint and express themselves through art. he is with a nonprofit. >> their goal is to uplift and inspire and help heal through art. >> after weeks of preparation larsson and inmates are painting a 78 foot mural in the jail. >> we have probably 25% of the wall covered. >> vincent demarco created the youth tier initiative. he says it not only helps young people but has financial benefits. >> inmates are kept of jail out of sight out of mind but it is a very big portion of a county's budget. our goal is to make them productive citizens so they don't come back. we reduce the jail population and don't have to build more jails and people become

productive members of society and contribute to the tax base. >> we talk about that real stuff. >> they are at a very influential age. we think by having officers that want to work with the youth and give them vocational programs, resume writing, meditation, believe it or not, these kids go to meditation class. we have seen phenomenal results. >> while the program is still too new to measure long term effectiveness corrections staff say they are seeing fewer of the participants return to jail or prison compared to the national average. early on one of the biggest challenges is finding officers willing to work intimately with inmates. >> a lot of older staff here they were trained and taught to do something a certain way. that was to warehouse prisoners. we don't do anything for them. when their time is up you let them go. that was the way things were done. when i came here i wanted to change the culture. we had a lot of people eligible

to retire and we hired a lot of new officers and got to train them the way we wanted to let them train and got them to buy into our philosophy. >> give them your best, stay sharp, stay focused and learn this opportunity here. >> might look like one of the old school corrections officers but did not become a ceo until four years ago. one year before the youth tier initiative began. >> volunteered for this program. kind of like was a taboo thing because of where we work and what we do. took a leap of faith. we decided we want to do it. we want to take the incarcerated youth and educate. made a lot of bad choices. now you are in the right place because we are going to help you. believe it or not we are here to help. >> just try to clear some of that stuff up. >> translator: wh >> when i first volunteered senior officers said you are making a big mistake and said

you never volunteer. you have to slip between the cracks. you are not going to get through to them. these programs don't work. they always come back to jail. why would you want to do that? i couldn't really answer that. i just like the way the sheriff was portraying it as -- >> believes he has been a positive influence on victor who is facing several charges in connection to a gang-related assault. >> after being in this building you get a gift, a pit that will sit in your stomach and one day someone will say i got dudes i have beef with and i will feel that pit in your stomach. you are going to go i can't. i'm sorry. i'm going to stay home with my family and watch my niece. i'm going to spend time with my daughter. use that gift, stay out of

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viewer discretion is advised. > >> at the suffolk county jail's river head facility on long island most of the correctional staff said they are vigilant in monitoring the activities of inmates. but now with the recent violence between the bloods and the crips officers must be especially alert to signs of trouble. sergeant investigator heads up the jail's gang unit. one training tool is called a shank board, a collection of lethal weapons suffolk county inmates have crafted. >> most of the weapons were made from things that we give them, combs from our commissary, toothbrushes, toilet brush. some are locked in 23 hours a day and have all day to work on these weapons, make them, sharpen them, secure them, hide

them. that is a national geographic wrapped up inside plastic. they will wet it. makes it harder and heavier. brass knuckles made out of tape and some sort of sheet metal maybe left from a construction project which is why you see metal detectors. we use the board for training especially when we get new recruits we say we give them these things. we are giving them things they can use as a weapon against each other. our job is to try to stay a step ahead of them. >> you can take anything away. these bars can be a weapon. i can be back here all day trying to break this and make a weapon out of it. you have the cell. that thing i can make that as a weapon. >> nicholas cox remains on lockdown status. recently his 16-year-old neighbor and fellow crip is transferred to another unit. shortly after his arrival he found himself on the wrong send

of a shank. >> the victim was cut on both sides of his face. it's a pretty bad slashing. a couple inches either way could have taken out his eye. he is uncooperative. street code not to press charges, not to be a snitch. they will take care of it in the street. >> no doubt the attack was gang related and most likely carried out by a member of the bloods. >> he is young. he is 16. he is kind of new to this stuff. i have been it. >> cox has a good idea of what his former neighbor is feeling. he carries his own scar from a prior prison stay. >> this happened when i was 20. i'm 24 now. in a facility with a bunch of guys doing life. same thing happened to him happened to me. i don't know what it was. i can't really explain.

i was shocked at that moment. to me it don't matter what it was. >> after a search of yard four staff believe the shank has been recovered. >> the object that was used to do the slashing was dropped into this drain here. the drain has a large basin in the bottom so it was able to be recovered. >> from the storm drain out in the yard yesterday which may have been involved in the initial slashing. we won't know for sure until we get results back from the lab if there are any, if there is dna left on it. >> one of the confidential informants is told more shanks are hidden in the new housing unit. >> we are getting a crew together to do a search of the southwest disciplinary tier. the inmate was housed in the tier and they dumped the weapon after the slashing. we have to make sure nothing else is in there.

>> y'all stand up. >> after several minutes of searching one officer has found something. >> this was found in cell number 34 southwest number 30. this is one of the targets that we thought might have a weapon. officers did a great job. once i speak to the officer i will find out where it was hidden. this is a great find. you can slit somebody's throat with this. >> do you know their gang aff affiliation? >> blood. >> and a crip was slashed. >> correct. it was inside the finger from a glove. just like this. this carrying case would enable whoever had it to put it in a body cavity or could help

insulate it. this could save somebody's life. >> the officer who found the weapon was pulled off duty from his normal assignment to join the search. >> where was it? >> under the toilet. >> right where we pretty much thought it was. >> did you see this thing? >> i didn't open it. >> jesus. wow. that could do some serious damage. glad we found it. >> for officer the search for the weapon is a stark contrast to his work with the jail's youth tier. >> we are always correctional officer first and mentor second. they call you for shake down you kind of change your hat. you are no longer in rehabilitation mode but seek and find mode. >> the 16 year old who was slashed has permanent damage for the rest of his life. he made poor choices. it's frustrating because we don't have the ability to get to

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officers discovered two shanks one in a drain basin in the yard and another in a cell. >> go east again. my group will go west again. >> while no new weapons turn up. >> close 39. says the two that were discovered share something in common. the blades were wrapped in sheets of electrical tape which might help it pass through metal detectors. >> would that go off in a metal detector. >> put it in the pocket and see if it sets it off. if it does you have nothing to worry about. >> go back through. >> what does that tell you? >> could be walking around the building with it. >> everything sets it off. have to keep it -- a fine line

of what you can set it at otherwise fillings go off. >> while the inmate who was possibly slashed by one of the weapons recovers in the medical unit -- >> get your cups and spoons and have a seat. >> officer mccray makes her rounds. violence among 18 and 19 year olds is lower than other parts of the jail. >> you forgotten where you are supposed to go? you have to sit down. >> i guess they look at me as a mother figure because i make them make beds and don't sit on tables, pull pants up, don't say the n word. >> i know you didn't curse while i'm standing here. really? all that cussing is not necessary. you can find something else to say. >> this is my thing. i can relate to them in a way that works. i used to be a homeless teenager. my mom left us when i was 12. i was out on the street. i stayed homeless almost two

years sleeping in an abandoned house. >> how did you get from that to this woman with this career? >> faith in god and just the will to survive. i knew what i wanted to do. i knew what i wanted to be and i stuck to it. you don't have a plan. put it on paper. if you put it on paper nothing can go wrong because you say where am i going? you start looking at it like this is what i'm supposed to be doing. you have a plan. you can't just keep walking around maybe this or that. life is not like that. >> the first thing they say is you don't understand where we come from or where i live. i am like i understand 100%. i have a razor blade cut in my face that i am reminded every day of where i came from. >> i was doing good until i got lu locked up. i was at the wrong place at the wrong time. >> you know better than that. the lifestyle is what gets you

caught up. it's that hype, that false sense of i'm living that lifestyle when you don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out. when you talk about being in the hood and my homeys you are still talking as though you enjoy being in the hood and being around the hype, the violence. like i said, there is nothing wrong about being real about who you are. if that is what you like that is what you like. just know there is a consequence for that lifestyle. >> i can read through all the lines. i know when they are not telling the truth or i know what they could do to get out because i got out. >> you with the big boys now. >> they are hopeful that their participation in the jail's youth tier program will help them avoid further trouble.

>> i came in here as a mistake. this is a mistake to me. other than that i was doing good. >> something to learn from. you learn from your mistakes. >> yeah. >> you ready? >> officer yip is not part of the youth tier program he has come to see potential in barry stevens charged with second degree robbery pled not guilty and awaiting trial. >> uno. >> what inspired you today? >> he's got potential in him. he has talent. smart. so i took it upon myself to say let's play a game. >> you think you will see this young man again after he leaves here? >> always better on the outside but i prefer not to see him here.

don't think he belongs here. >> we take the time to talk to them and have a conversation. when i came to jail i had the same -- might as well i got to survive it. so i became just like that. they want to fight i'm going to fight. i just didn't care. >> just returned from a court hearing on charges of first degree gang related assault. he pled guilty.

>> place better than this. >> which is what? >> hope house. >> hope house is one of dozens of outside agencies that work with the youth tier initiative. it provides housing, education and transition for young offenders back into society. he could have gotten up to seven years in state prison he will now spend the next three years at hope house. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> excellent working with you. >> best of luck to you. >> thank you. >> all right. i want to see you outside, too. >> clean up. this place could use a cleaning. what are you looking at? >> he is waiting to be picked up by his family who with will drive him to hope house. >> about to get commissary. >> as he celebrates by giving away his commissary snacks

sergeant arrives with troubling news. >> i just got off the phone with the record room. record room is saying their order to release you is only to hope house, not to your family. nobo i spoke to the owners of hope house and they told me -- >> that is inaccurate. your court ordered release specifically states only to hope house. you have to get somebody on the phone. >> i guess i have to call my lawyer. >> if he does not get to hope house his plea deal can fall through. >> it seems the arrangement with the judge is that he gets to hope house today and if he doesn't get to hope house today that deal is off the table. >> their emergency line went to a homeless shelter that helps

people and he is calling his supervisor to get a direct line to hope house and are supposed to call me back right here. i told the story three times to different people so it should get through. >> hello. the way it was explained to me from the record room is that this has to happen today. this is a one-day offer. if i got the order correctly would be midnight. thank you. she's going to see what she can do. she said we are trying to get a representative of the hope house up here to pick him up. i just spoke to your attorney and she is trying everything she can to get somebody here to come get you. as of now we have to get -- >> all right. >> 25 after 8:00. they're probably a half hour, 40 minutes from here. hopefully there is somebody available.

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there we go. only six weeks after artist first introduced paint and brushes to the 18 and 19-year-old inmates in the youth initiative program the group completed work on the mural. >> environment is everything. where you are, what you are looking at can have a real effect on your life. so for people in here there is an opportunity to lighten the intensity of that environment a little bit. >> this is like the walk way to your way out to start a new life. >> yeah. that's amazing.

it's nice. >> not every inmate in the program will take that walk. his plea deal which will allow him to serve three years at a residential facility for young people came down to the wire. >> we got victor out of here right before midnight to comply with the judge's order. two weeks later we had a representative from a jail go check on him and he is doing really good. there are five other guys that got released from here. he is in plain clothes. in two weeks he has a probationary period where he gets approved if he can go to college or not. >> i got very good faith in him that he is going to stay out of this place and stay out of trouble in the future. i bumped into people at stores.

excellent people leave here to come back. will i be upset? yes. >> another youth tier inmate three weeks after officer yip praised the efforts of stevens he is no longer on the youth tier. >> i heard he got kicked out of youth program so i was up on the fourth floor. he came to me. i said what happened. he said he messed up. it was fighting. you can't fight in the program. he is in a regular housing unit. >> got into a little incident, altercation with somebody. i wasn't built for the youth tier. too much stress in my head. always worrying about the other kids around because they get on my nerves and the type of person i am i like to fight. you can't do that so everything is built up. it's stressful. >> i'm disappointed. i put a lot of man hours into

him talking about his future, where he could go and what he could do. it was all right here. all you have to do is these things. for him to make this choice to try to beat somebody up such a short vision to the long term picture. that is the hard part with kids. they are incapable of addressing the future. they live for the here now. >> how are you? >> how y'all doing? >> the setback is disappointing, officer says it will not deter him or the other officers from the mission. one which involves returning meaning to a word that many has been forgotten. corrections, the actual word. so when we apply the actual corrections to what we do i can't explain to you the reward that comes from it because we

have had kids leave here and have success. i ran into a former inmate in a public setting. he was at work. his dad was visiting him at work. i'm walking in and i hear -- there's that moment of -- i turned and i knew who it was. he came over and hugged me and his father grabbed me by the hand and shook my hand and said thank you for bringing my son back. welled up in the eyes, chills. good stuff. stuff you don't get paid for. >>

> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> why did you hit an officer? >> we have now been dispatched. >> the jail responds with force after an officer is assaulted, and inmates attempt to escape. >> how many times did you shoot him?