that's why they've been placed in administrative segregation.lted inmates and they've assaulted staff. >> there are more than 900 correctional officers at san quentin state prison, nearly 200 of whom are women. officer mannix is one of them. >> hi, miss mannix. >> hey. >> i'll see what i can do and let them know that you're still here. >> okay. >> okay? all right. >> all right. >> being a correctional officer, i'm at work and that's full time when i'm there. when i'm home, i'm a full time mom. >> here, john, you want to help out? >> it's been 12, 13 years. she's had a couple of minor incidents, but for the most part, you know, it's a job. >> i thought only guys were prison guards for the longest time. then my mom said, yep, i'm working at san quentin. i'm like, really? i thought that was only a guy thing. >> i got to go upstairs and change. >> okay. >> all right. >> i'm proud of her. that's basically it. >> she does good at whatever she does. >> yeah. >> i respect what she does because it takes a strong woman to do that. >> not everyone gets it.

since then he's been in administrative segregation. >> the holy koran, i read this every day. >> while koran has helped him grow spiritually, the other books in his cells have helped him grow physically. >> this is what i call my weight bag. i do these curls. i do these, what they call shrugs, i do these. i do back arms like this. like this. this is probably about 55 or 60 pounds. >> mcquay has spent years trying to earn his way back into general population but his history as a violent offender continues to haunt him. >> i basically gauged it as an emotional response to being disrespected. >> i was warned when i came into this job regarding offender leonard mcquay. leonard is very smart, very, very clever. he can talk a great talk. >> though caseworker beverly gilmore has raised several questions, her goal is to give inmates an opportunity to prove themselves so she recently made a controversial decision. after mcquay successfully completed a prison lifeskills program, she gave him a job in his housing unit. >> i did make him a sanitation worker. now, that was to the dislike of some of

he asked to be released from departmentwide administrative segregation.i'm coming down to speak to him about that review. he'll be meeting with the team manager jerry synder, casebook manager beverly gilmore and myself. >> hello. hi sir, how you doing. haven't seen you in a long time. >> i know, it's been a long time. >> yeah, yeah, it's been a long time. >> some staff have recommended you be released from departmentwide administrative segregation. some staff haven't. okay? so with that being said, it's now in my hands to make a recommendation to central office. >> though trotter has shown improvement one of the first things superintendent brown wants to address is a conduct report that he received several months earlier. >> chris trotter started saying over and over "f" the police, kill the police. that sounds like a threat to me. >> no, but that wasn't it at all. that wasn't it. we were working out together on the range and we had our chin after the workout and he took it out of context and nobody said kill the police or anything like that. i'm not in h

. >> ad seg is just short for administrative segregation. like i said, in essence, it's a prison within a prison. >> inmates housed in ad seg are not allowed contact visits and must remain in their cells 23 hours a day. when they are allowed out, they are handcuffed and escorted by an officer. >> they're in trouble. most of the time they're in gangs and violence, so for our safety as well as everybody else's safety, we handcuff them behind their back and escort them everywhere they go. >> if you would have came yesterday, i just sent her a portrait i did of her, all red with hearts on it like valentines. she touched my heart. that's why i get weak. i mean, that's my son. i can't be with them for ten years. you know? that's hard. >> angel rodriguez has spent two months in administrative segregation. he's automatically placed there because he's labeled a validated gang member. >> that means administration has labeled you as being a participant or an associate of those who are known as gang members. so if you're an associate in the administrati

he was transferred to administrative segregation in the custody control unit or ccu. >> welcome to theelly of the beast, man. i hate lockup. [ bleep ] back here, for real, for real. just make your time hard. all you do is think. ain't no books in this. nothing. when you're in ccu, you don't get really nothing but a bar of soap, some toothpaste, a pair of shower shoes. so you're really in survival mode back here. my hair [ bleep ], i ain't able to get a hair cut or a shave, [ bleep ] none of that. i've been back here just slumming it, you know. this is the downside of prison, you know what i mean? violence happens. what you expect? you throw a bunch of violent offenders together and you expect us not to clash? at the end of the day, you better pray you're the one left standing and not hurt. >> as authorities continue to investigate the stolen tv, wright has petitioned to be placed back into his original housing unit. >> i don't know at this point what's going to be allowed with wright, if he's going to be allowed to "p" house because of the animosity he caused for himself that night bec

his assailants were sentenced to six months in fulsom's administration segregation unit.e of the most violent gang attacks have taken place here at california state prison corcoran's security housing unit, or shu. we visited the shu's now vacant exercise yard, which has been the scene of some of the prison's most brutal violence. ♪ >> i can see why fights went on in that exercise yard. because it was literally like a cage. there was no where for you to go. and if you really wanted to take someone out, that was the place to do it. it's literally -- like the most extreme ultimate fighting thing you would see. >> correctional officers show our cameras how they quell the violence with an arsenal of their own. one that includes nonlethal and lethal weaponry. >> get down! get down! >> the first rounds we fire are wood blocks. hopefully the hurt will make them stop. if we really have to escalate with our nonlethal options, we use what's called a scat round. which is really irritating. see those are a little bit louder, the smoke you see there, that's cn gas. it's no fun. it mess

. >> house one is also known as administrative segregation, where inmates are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. >> all the worst management problems in the entire state system, they end up here. this is the end of the road for them. >> i was originally charged with contract murder and drug trafficking and gun charges. i joke about it sometimes and say the only thing they didn't get me for was sex offenses. >> even though spring creek houses the worst and most disturbed offenders in the state, outbreaks of violence in the prison are surprisingly rare. >> we have assaults but they're not as many as like the lower 48. you know, we have the same mindset and same type of criminals. here they'll work up and talk to you and we'll deal with issues and problems and we help them out as much as we can. >> prescott. >> yeah. >> do you have any more questions about transferring out tomorrow? >> no. >> i'm way outnumbered but i have a radio and, you know, i have good people working with me. you know, everybody here looks out for everybody else. >> for officer ed massey who came to spring creek f

. >> schreiber could be heard throughout the administrative segregation block, and it infuriated his neighbors. >> i never flashed anyone younger than 13, but i have a predilection for 13 to like 18, somewhere in the danger zone. >> schreiber was just getting started. over the next several weeks he seemingly raised the ire of inmates and staff alike. >> these fools don't see that i'm the problem of the [ bleep ] century. >> we eventually came to learn that schreiber's behavior was his way of trying to stay in the prison segregation unit, a place most inmates are sent as a punishment. >> yeah, if my friends could see me now. >> for schreiber it was a safe haven. keeping him in solitary confinement, away from other inmates. at one point we set up a camera outside his cell, pressed the record button, and left him alone to share any of his thoughts and he outlined his plan. >> there's no way i'm going into general population and risking getting my ass kicked, coming out of prison, you know, maimed, crippled, disfigured, broken arms, broken legs, maybe even stabbed or killed. wasn't going

and what we did, we came up with administrative segregation unit and isolated the ones doing it. and after we did that, we pretty much stopped the assaults and everything else. we still have assaults over on these units up here in our disciplinary segregation unit but it's down about 85% in population. >> the men housed in ad seg are allowed one hour of recreation per day in an enclosed yard. the rest of the time they're confined to their cell. >> this is my la-z-boy, my chair, sitting in the cell for years and years and years. it will mess your back up. because of the steel beds. through the years people jump up and down on them so that makes them uneven and give you back problems for the rest of your life. >> convicted of murder and attempted murder as a teenager, jocco bailey was given a 40-year sentence. he has spent more than 11 years in ad seg. >> it's challenging being locked up. here in the a.s. unit because you have the opportunity to be still and decide what you want the rest of your life to look like. it's boring and it's cold and it's lonely. it's not a fun place to be

there is administrative segregation. >> although the confinement unit is an eighth of a mile away forecurity purposes all inmates transferred there have to be excorted by two officers and transported by van. >> 60 days is the beginning of summer. i will be missing this summer this year's pretty much. the beth couple months out of the year. it don't make no difference. have to try to keep my nose clean and stay out for next time. >> he'll be back. [ bleep ]. it's one good thing about prison ain't nobody going nowhere. >> sometimes it's good to be by yourself to get you that alone time that you need. but on the other time will the be boring because i don't have nobody to talk to. this is it, though. >> new home for a while. >> what's your first impression? >> i've been in the hole before. different scenery, you know, still locked up doing time. >> though carr and harper have come to depend on each other in prison they may be going their separate ways before long as well. >> i'm assigned transfer papers to go to a lower security prison. before they could refuse them. but now you can't re

. >> the next step for esdale is administrative segregation or asu hearing that will determine how longremain in segregation. >> you'll most likely be seeing asu tomorrow. yes. >> i'll be there. >> all right. >> i'll be there. >> all right. >> yep. it was nice seeing you, though. >> you, too, daniel. >> it's always nice seeing you. you're always going to be good in my book, no matter what. always going to be good. get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> while he deals with the consequences of his actions, it's time for espinoza to do the same. he's been called to a disciplinary hearing for a brutal attack, a three-on-one attack on another inmate. a fight jail officials called one of the worst they have seen in years. >> as you know, it could be a big incident. he might charge it criminally. before we ask you any questions, you must understand your rights. >> since most fights are broken up before there are serious injuries, they usually are handled internally, with punishment as a stay in segregation. but for espinoza the fight was so violent, he could face new criminal charges. >> you have t

they are going to seven cell house, one of ksp's administrative segregation units.n here, they will be confined to a stark 8 x 10 foot cell.♪ >>> next on "lockup" -- >> a lot of these guys are not mentally stable. they need some type of psychiatric treatment, you know what i'm saying? >> serving time in the hole. >>> and later -- >> i took a knife and stabbed him with it three or four times until he was dead, and then i butchered him with it. >> a man who took drastic measures to get sent to ksp. ♪ ♪ ♪ that should do it. enjoy your new shower. [ door opens, closes ] i got your campbell's chunky soup. mom? who's mom? i'm the giants mascot. the giants don't have a mascot! ohhh! eat up! new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice and beans. hmmm. for giant hunger! thanks mom! see ya! whoaa...oops! mom? i'm ok. grandma? hi sweetie! she operates the head. [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty m

well, i was here for approximately two weeks and they came and put me on a "d," which is administrative segregation violent behavior. battery, my robbery cases, beating up staff. >> get the cable fixed. >> ain't no reason for me to get a [ bleep ] writeup. she's going to write it up and i'll rip it out. point blank, it's simple. i'm rip this whole [ bleep ] out. >> i call him youngster. that's his nickname. if you want me to call him josh, i'll go by josh but his name to me is youngster. i met his father years ago, his real dad. you know what i mean? years ago in prison. we got along pretty well. we wasn't real tight, but i respected each other. i heard a lot about little josh, what he was doing and how he was getting in trouble and stuff. >> tell me about your relationship. how long have you known him? what's it been like? >> we got to talking and he's really just a lonely kid, you know what i mean? he wants to be -- play tough, but actually, he just wants to know someone cares about him. and he got to calling me dad, you know what i mean? i'm old enough -- i'm sorry about that, i'll old enough to

he's in administrative segregation. for powell who's in jail on 14 felony charges includie inin assault and robbery, conflicts are common. so much so, jail officials have difficulty inkars rating him. >> it's hard to keep shuffling him around and finding a spot where he can be in a dorm and actually have the same privileges due to his keep froms. it's kind of hard to find him a spot. he ends upmostly in single cells because it's easier to deal with his behavior. >> i have a reputation. when i first got here, i took initiative, beat up people, controlled the floors, running floors, having it my way. every time i've came back, it's gotten worse and worse. >> powell says his convictions all stem from a drive to be looked up to and feared by his peers. >> but now, this last time i came back, i have not been that person. no matter how much i change, people still accept me as the same person. >> powell hopes his good behavior could warrant an early release to general population. but that will be up to chief of staff and his c

mcmillen had requested to be put in administrative segregation. >> he had had an operation recently whend him, and he was having i guess a lover's quarrel with his current boyfriend, and because he was afraid it might escalate into something violent, he had himself locked up. >> the person that i was with, we was on the verge of separating, but they didn't want to, and it got to the point where it started being threats made and -- >> kenyatta had indicated to us that he had been involved with a number of men at the prison romantically. he seemed to rely more and more on tommy as a big brother figure. >> i mean, he got to make his own decisions, but now before he do any of that he'll ask what i think about it. and i'll give my opinions. and when we sit down and agree upon it, it's going to be whether he want to deal with the dude or he don't. as simple as that. but as far as if he do get a relationship with anybody, then i know what type of individual he is, and he don't get in no trouble, he don't bother nobody then nobody ain't got no business putting their hands on him. i get offensive

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. >> under pelican bay's state of emergency, much of the mainline facility was moved to administrative segregationil within the prison. here, inmates are closely watched, their activities and movements severely restricted. >> inmates in here are handcuffed and walked everywhere in handcuffs. these inmates that you see on the yard right now are southern mexicans and they align themselves with the prison gang called the eme. we don't let them mix the race to come to the yard out here. they go with their own race, to the concrete yards. >> this is a camera that oversees the yard that i'm working on right now. within a millisecond, these guys will stab each other and they will try to toss the weapon, so the camera comes into good play. >> every door in inmate housing is operated from the upstairs control level. the officers up here control every aspect of inmate activity. only the downstairs officers have physical contact with the inmates. their colleagues upstairs are their eyes and ears, and their protection. >> this is the l-88. it fires rubber rounds. it's an intimidating weapon. as you can see, i

. >> when we gave a camera to billy groves, he was in administrative segregation after his girlfriend was caught attempting to smuggle cell phones and tobacco to him. >> ma'am? stop. ma'am? stop. >> i look at the incident that just happened and i talked the person that i love to bring stuff in here. i ask myself, man, did i really love her? because if i did, why would i ask her to do that? was it selfish of me? when i was a kid i never thought i would wind up in a place like this. i was a pretty intelligent kid. i exceeded at school in academics, sports, academics, all of it. i guess my mother was poor. we didn't have much. we had love. >> we gave cameras to inmates on death row as well. 28-year-old ben richie was here for having shot and killed a police officer. >> this ain't no joke. they execute people here, and if you don't work on your case on death row they'll march your ass over there and strap you to that table and murder you. on death row our cells are a little bigger than population's, but i'd rather have one of them smaller cells. [ bleep ], i'd rather go home. >> richie re

. >> gallop is housed in the administrative segregation unit. in order to minimize his contact with other inmates, he's in a single-man cell and even takes his recreation time alone. gallop is currently serving two years for the distribution of narcotics. he also has an open case for assault with a dangerous weapon, to which he has pled not guilty. but his reputation at suffolk county stems from a prior conviction for attacking another inmate during an earlier stay here. >> one day i was sitting down and i was like maybe i could take the mirror off. i started playing with it and i learned how to take it apart. i ran into another kid's cell and stabbed him. >> the inmate was stabbed 19 times. >> myself and the staff responded. as we entered the unit, we observed the cell door was wide open. and when we got down there, he was inside the cell and stabbing the inmate that was inside the cell with a manufactured weapon that he had made. there was blood on the walls, on the floor. all over both inmates. >> the victim survived the attack. >> i believe

administration does not. it has come in, in the bob jones ' case, on the side of segregated academies. it came in on the side of discrimination against women, the handicapped, and the elderly. as a matter of fact, in the congress we just passed overwhelmingly the civil rights bill of 1984 in this republican-controlled senate killed it in the last week or two in congress. so there is a real difference how the mondale-ferraro will address the issue of civil rights, particularly in that area. >> in the area of affirmative action, what steps do you think government can take to increase the representation of women and minorities in the work force and in colleges and universities? specifically would you support the use of quotas to achie those goals? >> i do not support the use of quotas. mr. mondale and i feel strongly that affirmative action to correct inequities. we believe steps should be taken both through government and, for instance, the small business administration. we have supported set-asides for minorities and women-owned businesses. that's a positive thing. we don't feel you are

administration does not. it has come in in the bob jones case on the side of segregated academies and homicide of discriminationgainst women, handicapped, and the elderly. in congress, we just passed overwhelmingly the civil rights bill of 190084. -- of 1984, and this administration killed in last week or two in congress. there's a real difference in how the mondale-ferraro administration would address civil-rights. >> in that area of affirmative action, what steps the thing government can take to increase the representation of minorities and women in the workforce, colleges and university and would you support the use of quotas to achieve this goal? >> i do not support the use of quotas. mr. mondale and i feel very strongly about affirmative action to correct inequities. we believe steps should be taken both through government, for instance the small business of ministration. supported set-asides for minorities and women businesses. that's a positive thing. we do not feel you are s -- but you are hurting anyone else by reaching out with affirmative- action. on the contrary, if you have a growing economy, if yo