but inmates who behave badly are sent to the administrative segregation unit. >> segregation is an area where we house roughly 200 inmates, and all these inmates are individually celled and they are all here because they broke a rule infraction here in prison. >> human contact in segregation is extremely limited. and interaction with others is at a minimum. this deprivation can take its toll on an inmate both physically and mentally. >> you've got a lot of inmates back there that have been in single cells for a long time. and they, of course, build up hostilities. it's a highly explosive area. >> i did not do what they said i did. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> another typical day in ad seg. that's part of it. >> these officers work here and on a daily basis they deal with these inmates and you build up a relationship with these inmates. some are good and some are not so good. >> most people said when i started, i wouldn't make it. three days until i had a point to prove and i proved it here. then they said i wouldn't make sergeant, and if i did i wouldn't be a successful sergeant. so i li

. >> the brawl sends brook and the other white inmates involved to solano administrative segregation unitas the hole. officers will keep all the men involved under lock and key until they can get to the bottom of the incident on the yard. as rumors swirl about what caused the riot, the counselors wonder whether brook's confession of his sexual crime is to blame. if the trust in the group had been breached, it would mean the end of the therapy program. >> my big concern is that it didn't come from this group and that's the part that i'm trying to process, and i'm going to feel a lot better when we find out, really, who started it as far as outing him into the yard. because that's very serious. >>> coming up, the counselors learn the truth about the riot and get their first glimpse inside the hole, as members of the group confront the impact of their crimes. your finances can't manage themselves. but that doesn't mean they won't try. bring all your finances together with the help of the one person who can. a certified financial planner professional. cfp. let's make a plan. ♪ [ sighs ] hey!

his assailants were sentenced to six months in fulsom's administration segregation unit. some 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

. >> this is administrative segregation unit, this where the inmates come from, the gp yard whenever they are in trouble. >> clear. >> turn and face the wall. >> ever been in the hole before? >> no, sir. >> all right. >> we're all waiting by the bathrooms that are outside the yard. this guy comes strolling into the bathroom with a bloody pulp, like, bloody face. the officer came out of the office, whoa, what the hell? pressed the buzzer. took us all out in the yard, inspected us and here i am. i don't have a mark on me. how am i going to break somebody's jaw? i'm not even a violent person. i don't even know what to think really. now apparently they found something in my locker or laundry bag that ties me in with whatever happened? so in the office i didn't pick a fight. there ain't a mark on me on my face or my hands. >> ironically, carlton was on the receiving end of a fight similar to this one not so long ago. >> i am in the 3a gym because i got in a fight on the level one yard back in march and wasn't willing to give up who i got in the fight with. i got beat up pretty bad. so the

>> an act of violence or drug use inside the prison will bring an inmate here, to the administrative segregation unit or ad-seg. it's valley state's prison within a prison. while ad-seg houses those on temporary lockdown, the other side of the building known as the security housing unit or shoe is for serious offenders considered a more permanent problem. >> i was set up. i was set up. that's what i was, inmates were afraid of me and they put a shank in my locker. >> inmates in the shoe are kept in their cells almost 23 hours a day. they are allowed out for only three showers a week and ten hours in the recreation yard. life in ad-seg or shoe isn't just a more intense experience for the inmates, correctional officers like diane vasquez are under the pressure of dealing with a different brand of criminal. >> working here in ad-seg shoe is very challenging, you deal with a lot of physical abuse, mental abuse. emotional abuse, depends how much you little affect you. you hear yelling, cursing, you hear banging, kicking on the doors. this is how it is 24/7. at night time they don't sleep. you have to be r

this will be the first time any tv crew has filmed inside the solano's administrative segregation unitnown as the hole. >> what were you doing? i came by to see you. >> hey, now. how you doing? >> i'm doing fine. wow, it don't look like you can see too well, huh? >> no. i'm in prison, but this is the prison within the prison, and this is where you don't want to be. had a little incident on the yard on monday. i ended up under three individuals who were pummeling me in the face. my left eye is mashed up pretty good. i got a -- i think i got kicked in the ribs once, and i started just backing up trying to get the hell out of there, waiting for the cops to come and save my ass, which they did. if the cop hadn't come over and got them off me, i'd have probably been in worse shape than i am. all i can think of is getting to see my wife. that's all i want. >> while mcgarey's in the hole, the prison will investigate the incident and determine who will get a permanent write-up called a 115. one of these could jeopardize any chance he has of parole. >> five months to the board, so if i get a 11

that's exactly where we met dennis hamilton, in the hole, solitary confinement in the administrative segregation unit at kern valley state prison. it was the second time his refusal to share a cell had landed him there. but his time in the hole was about to end. and he was scheduled to return to general population, where sharing a cell is mandatory. >> to me the cells are too small. i think the cell in itself breeds an environment for homosexuality. >> dennis hamilton was an unusual inmate. he just believed he didn't have to live with another man. i think he had a fear about living with another man. >> and to me it's like you don't even want these people in society, but you want me to feel safe inside a cell with this person. >> ironically other inmates might not feel safe around hamilton either. he's serving a life sentence for kidnapping, carjacking, robbery, and say salt with a deadly weapon. nine years in, he's only now decided to make his stand against taking a cell mate. >> there's no rule that says i have to take a cellie. two, i don't want to live with another man for the rest of my life. >>

when an inmate commits any crime inside corcoran, he is sent to the administrative segregation unit, or asu, until his case is heard. >> this is a pretty secure unit, everything is controlled as far as any kind of movement, incoming, outgoing, whatever. so canteen, walking to see a visitor. here everything is controlled. for meals, we bring them. there is a set program that we go by. >> how are you guys doing? all right? good, good. >> today our producers are granted access to a case being heard by the institutional classification committee. >> morning, morning. i am here today to review your asu placement, to determine if your housing is appropriate, and to ensure that due process has been available to them. >> inmate ed duane smith and his cellmate are charged with prison murder. >> i've been trying for the past month to get my 115 heard. >> did you not postpone to the d.a.? >> yes, but it says, according to -- >> do you have your request with you? >> no, but i did submit it. >> who did you submit it to? >> i sent it to captain fields, one to grimsley. >> this is what we can do, sm

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. ♪ we were skipping stones and letting go ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, rich dark chocolate, toasted oats. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast speeds. we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small businesses that want to grow use 4g lte technol

. >> 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 deadly weapon, to which he has pled not guilty. but his reputation at suffolk county stems from a prior conviction against an inmate during an earlier stay here. >> when he was sitting down 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 that he enjoyed the

he was housed in the prison's administrative segregation unit. >> they got the right one. >> i had fiveg with a teenager which i was 16, she was like 15 i believe. i ended up you know what i'm saying, the mom and the daughter, came in 15 years, done got 15 more. >> originally convicted of rape and theft wilson earned his second 15 year sentence while behind bars after he brutally beat a corrections officer. >> ended up i gave him early retirement. cracked his ribs jaw broke his collar bone, too. to me it was no thing. >> do you regret what happened? >> he didn't die, he won't be a correction officer no more. >> despite his attitude and behavior, some are trying to help wilson turn his life around. >> i've known ken several years i have a history with him. he is a young man, acts out through anger. that is what we're trying to deal with now. >> that ain't no problem. i'm angry because i'm not with my family. i'm angry because the way they treat you, the things they do to you. it ain't never a happy day in prison. >> at the time of our visit wilson had completed an anger management progra

weaver's role in the aryan brotherhood is one of the reasons he has been housed in administrative segregation. a lockdown unit located on the east side of d cell house. >> what was put out on it. >> that was part of the reason why -- that's part of the reason why we sent him over there. >> just his activity and his influence over the population being a leader with the stg group is enough reason to keep him over there. just at that. bu he can call shots and make things happen and stand back in the shadows. >> the thing i don't understand is they put me in ad seg thinking i ordered a hit on someone. how does that save that person? if i'm in ad seg, he's still going to get hit. if i had the authority to do that, which i don't. but my past haunts me. and it's bloody. >> coming up -- >> as far as the extortion, i think he's lying. >> nick compton's story comes under fire. and later -- >> you miss your mother? >> yes. i can't bring her back. >> we check in on one of the most memorable inmates to ever appear on "lockup." [ male announcer ] juice drink too watery? ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announc

he has been in administrative segregation at wabash's segregation unit. >> read the quran every day. >> the other books in his cell have helped him grow physically. >> this is what i call my weight bag where i every day i do me some curls, right? i do these. i do shrugs. what they call shrugs. do these. do back arms like this. like this. this is probably about -- probably about 55 or 60 pounds. >> mcquay has spent years trying to learn his way back to general population. but his history continues to haunt him. >> i basically engaged in what i considered an emotional response to being disrespected. >> i was warned when i came into this job regarding offender leonard mcquay. he is very smart, very, very clever. he can talk a great talk. >> those caseworker beverly gilmore has raised serious questions about mcquay's trust worthiness, her goal is to give segregation inmates an opportunity to prove themselves. she recently made a controversial decision. after mcquay successfully completed a prison life skills program she gave him a job in his housing unit. >> i did make him a sanitation w

administrative segregation. >> although the confinement unit is an eighth of a mile away for security purposes all inmates transferredrted 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 refuse it. >> what is going to happen to you? you'll miss him. >

he was transferred to administrative segregation in a 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 this. when you're in ccu, you don't get really nothing but a bar of soap, some toothpaste, a pair of shower shoes. you're a 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. this is the downside of prison. violence happens? you know. what do 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 hurting. >> as they investigate the stolen tv, wright has petitioned to be placed back into his original housing unit. >> at this point, i don't know what's going to be allowed to happen with wright, i don't know if he'll be allowed to return to p-house because of all the animosity he caused himself that night because of his tv, so i'm sure we'll be evaluatin

unit. >> due to his behaviors in the past, trafficking, extortions, intimidations we consider him to be a risk to our safety. therefore he was placed on administrative segregationrotter has spent many years in confinement reading and writing. he has found particular meaning in mary shelley's "frankenstein." >> as a child i always watched the movie "frankenstein" so i recently read the novel. i was like, hey, i started to look at the monster kind of differently. i was like, who is really the monster? to me this place is dr. frankenstein and we are the monsters. and i call this the belly of the beast. we're the outcast. we're the forgotten. >> all right. >> in my spare time i like to write, and i've been contemplating on writing a book. i started off like this. frankenstein, the moment you created me, you condemned me, rejected me, crucified and despised me. abandoned me emotionally, unleashed the very hell in me, often overlooked stepped upon crushed, no one stops to notice that my movements are poetic. my stride is determined. my love is unconditional. my spirit is free. although i'm a monster, there is a soul inside of me. >> i do not believe there is an emplo