it fills you up right. >>> during our first day of shooting on the administrative segregation unit atolorado's limon correctional facility, inmates started a disruption backing up their toilets and flooding cellhouse tiers. >> get the [ bleep ] away from our door. >> the big thing is these guys are acting out, one, because you guys are here. it's their opportunity. two, it's evidently you're pulling sex offenders in and interviewing them. and we've had a lot of problems with the sex offenders and white supremacist groups. >> the flooding is led by inmate george grahf who is refusing to let correctional staff move him out of his cell. >> it's about grahf. and i want to put him on special controls, as well. >> the prison's emergency response team is ordered to suit up for a forcible cell extraction on grahf. >> i'm officer wilson. i'm the number one man on the cell extraction team. i'll be in charge of his head. >> each member has a specific function in these highly choreographed procedures. >> my name is officer scott. i'm the number four man and team leader. i'm responsible for securi

and what we did is we come up with administrative segregation unit and we isolated the ones that was doing all of this. after we did that we pretty much stopped our assaults and everything else. we still have assaults on these units up here on our disciplinary segregation unit but it's down about 85% in population. >> the men housed in ad seg are allowed an hour of recreation per day in an enclosed yard. the rest of the time they're confined to their cells. >> this is my lay z boy, my chair. sitting in a cell for years and years and years will mess your back up. because these steel beds. through the years people jump up and down on them so that makes them uneven give you a back problem the rest of your life. >> convicted for murder and attempted murder jock codailily 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. >> in ad seg, food books, legal materials, eve

you can't be in the security housing unit or administrative segregation.ou can't be a reception center inmate. you can't be on noncontact status. you can't be a condemned inmate. you can't be life without parole. >> ron golden is serving a 22-year sentence for armed robbery and prison staff assaults. four years ago while at another prison, he married hope golden, a woman he'd known since he was a teenager. he's been at kern valley for just a few months. >> we were corresponding from '98 to 2001, and we became intimate with each other. she wanted to come see me. she knew me from the streets. it just blossomed into something beautiful. we fell in love with each other. >> good morning. >> do you have your i.d.? >> it's in there. >> this will be ron and hope's first family visit at kern valley and the first time they've seen each other in five months. >> the orange shirt can't go in because it's orange. >> okay. now i know, i won't do that. >> okay. and the rollers can't go in either. >> okay. >> i'll give you a bag to put all this stuff in. >> before we were

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 nowhere 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 showed 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 mes

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. >>> basically, we have inmates who have assaultive behavior. and those range from stabbings, throwing feces on staff, assaulting staff in many different ways. >> it's generally inmates who have that antisocial personality. they just don't want to adapt and be a part of an institution. their behavior just dictates we have no other choice based on their behavior to segregate them from the rest of the facility. >> 200 men are locked up in segregation 23 out of 24 hours every day. for the remaining hour, they are allowed to walk up and down the corridor. >> you know, the walls

that's exactly where we met dennis hamilton, in the hole, solitary confinement in the administrative segregation unitat 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. >> 1

. >> what guzman can't accept is living in the administrative segregation unit for much longer. >> i'mng to see if they can take me out of here, man. >> yeah, get out of the ad-seg. >> what? >> you don't want these loud ass bitches all around. >> it sucks. certainly parts entirely. but it's mind over matter. i'm trying to be as sane as possible. >> just put this is my first time in custody, i understand the severity of my charges. however, while i'm here, i'd like to attend any of the classes available. can i please be down-classed to maximum security. then you can add whatever, thank you in advance for your time or whatever. >> erwin coaches guzman on how to fill out a transfer request form which could move her to general population. >> basically they get anywhere from sometimes four on a good day six hours of pod time a day. they get to eat outside of their cell. they get to communicate, interact with other inmates. i really -- i don't want to be here no more. >> classification that you want to go to classes or something. you could even -- they don't know if you have kids or not. you

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>> an act of violence or drug use inside the prison will bring an inmate here to the administrative segregation unitor ad seg. it is 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 shu, is for serious offenders who are 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 under my mattress. >> they think i'm a threat to the institution. >> inmates in the shu 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 shu isn't just a more intense experience for the inmate. correctional officers like diane vasquez are under the pressure of dealing with a different brand of criminal. >> working here in ad seg shu is very challenging. you deal with a lot of physical abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse. it just depends on how much you let it affect you. you hear yelling. you hear cursing. you hear banging, kicking on the do

suspect are those when rushed the door and isolate them in single person cells in the administrative segregation unit for further questioning. the inmates remaining in the dorm are placed on 24-hour lockdown. among them is brian edmond sr. >> right now my life is off track, you know what i'm saying? i just had a rough life, my whole 36 years of living. i was doing good in school. straight as and bs. i played basketball. i don't know. i just chose the wrong route. and this is where it landed me. >> mr. brian edmond sr. let me look at these charges. sodomy first, intimidating a participate in a legal process, persistent felony one. he was sentenced to 30 years. >> narrator: having been sentenced, edmonds awaits transfer to prison, a place he is familiar with. he's been there on three separate occasions serving a total of 14 years. >> tired of being in this jail. can't wait to get away from here. go to my next phase so i can get ready to, you know, get my appeal done. >> narrator: although no stranger to prison, he does find himself in unusual circumstances here. housed in a cell on another floor of the

extended stay" series, we found gilbert exactly where we had left him, in ad seg, the administrative segregated housing unit inmates are locked down 23 hours a day. it houses holman's most violent and destructive offenders, and it is where bobby ray gilbert has spent almost all of his 27 years in prison. >> i've got life without parole, i have two life sentences, two 99-year sentences, a 40-year sentence, a 20-year sentence and a 10-year sentence. yeah, i have anger issues. [ laughter ] >> gilbert's many convictions include robbery, assault and two counts of murder, one of which was carried out against another inmate in prison. during our shoot, we would see his anger erupt again. [ bleep ] >> five minutes trying to do it the right way! i'm going to show you what i'm made of! >> but gilbert proved to be more than just a violent man. he also showed us a thoughtful, creative side. in the last interview we did with gilbert, he seemed resigned to his fate of spending the rest of his life most likely alone in a small cell. >> at this point, you just look back and realize that the best part of it's over with anyw

weaver's role in the aryan brotherhood is one of the reasons he has been housed in administrative segregation. a lockdown unit>> 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. >> think i don't understand is they put me in here thinking i can make a hit. how does that save that person? 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. >> we check in on one of the most memorable inmates to ever appear on "lockup." >> not what they used to be. all of these guys telling on each other. [ bleep ] it's crazy, man. that's the worst thing you can do up in the joint, tell on somebody. >> one thing you don't do is snitch, be a child molester,

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 eastside of d cell house. >> what is this back here about a hit. he had put out on. >> that was part of the reason, part of the reason why we sent him over there. >> just his activity and his influence over the population being the leader of, within the, the -- stg group. is enough reason to keep him over there. >> just that. he can call shots and make things happen. and stand back. in the shadows. >> the thing i don't understand. they put me in add seg, thinking i ordered a hit on somebody. but how does that save that person? if i am in ad seg he is 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 that extortion i think he's lying. >> nick compton's story comes under fire. and later -- [ indiscernible question ] >> yes. can't really write. >> we check in on one of the most memorable inmates to ever appear on "lockup. " but that doesn't mean we're all the same. just like greek y

but when they get into trouble here, they go to administrative segregation, a lockdown unit where they spend 23 hours a day in their cells. >> segregation is basically the jail within the prison. and that's where some of the more colorful, disruptive types are housed. >> one of those inmates is jonathan hall. serving 40 years for murder. >> take that camera somewhere else. >> our crew first encountered hall while interviewing another inmate a few doors down. >> this is what i think of your story. >> i believe he threw -- well, he threw a liquid substance under the door. it smelled somewhat suspicious, so we're going to go report that. yeah, he threw pee under the door. >> did he? >> yeah. >> better double-check. >> okay. >> we soon learn that hall's anger had really begun the day before. >> he started off yesterday night, he drew a bunch of gang graffiti on the walls. staff attempted to go in there, restrain him, take pictures of the graffiti, he refused, became belligerent. this morning i went up there and talked to him. he decided he would cooperate. we did restrain him, bring him ou

cavagnolo's donner unit houses inmates meant to be segregated from the general population within feet of mainline inmates. >> we have in this unit, we have 2 1/2 tiers of administrativend the bottom half is a reception center. it makes it really difficult for us, because inmates on the bottom half of the unit, they have access through a lot of different parts of the institution, and then our challenge we have in administrative segregation is the inmates make fish lines and they'll tie a little weight to it and pass it down and pass kites or weapons, so it's a constant battle. just controlling contraband and keep an eye on these inmates, keep them in order. you never know what you're going to get in here. you have to be prepared. just last week we had an inmate slashed from the second tier reception center and we just came off of lockdown from that. yesterday we had an inmate cut his wrist coming off the fifth tier. like i said, we're five tiers high. we do not have suicide bars in here. one of the inmates came out in handcuffs and we're in an altercation and fighting for our lives up there. there's no recovery from a fifth tier drop. that's always in the back of your

laudone's allegations, holloman and wright were taken from their cells in housing unit number two and moved to administrative segregation, where they were locked down without their tvs, forcing them to miss the super bowl. the next day lieutenant jim fox, the prison's gang intelligence coordinator, took over the investigation. >> hey, little. hey, can you go down and pick up inmate holloman for me out of segregation? bring him to my office. we're probably unique in how we deal with the gangs out here. we've accepted the fact that there are going to be gangs and there's nothing we can do about it, so we try to control, you know, what they do. and we use the leaders a lot to control that. most of our leaders here have done a lot of time in our maximum security facility. they don't want to go back. and we hold that over their head. we tell them to keep their people in line or they're the first ones that are going to go down, because we know how gangs work. we know this gang member isn't going to do anything unless he's got it cleared to the top. come on in, have a seat. so you want to give me your story? >> well, i mean, t