. >> 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's a scorpion that he's made. basically just taking thread from various types of items, socks and t-shirts and towels and he creates it and uses a marker to color it. this is probably one of the items that he makes the most of, would be scorpions and spiders. this is, i would assume, something like a harp and he's made it out of toilet paper, and newspaper. this looks like some dental floss, a small stick and probably for the coloring he used kool-aid to get the coloring for it. >> why do you guys have this stuff? >> he's not allowed to have it. he occasionally -- when we go through and do a cell search, and just confiscate all items. he doesn't have a hobby card. other inmates try to sneak it out and put it on ebay and sell it and whatnot so we go in and confiscate it and dispose of it. >> how d

. >> we've never seen a more bizarre display of this gut-churning activity than at california state prison-corcoran. it happened during a routine shoot at the prison hospital. >> we were there for like about ten minutes, did a couple interviews with a couple doctors and initially it seemed like it was going to be kind of mundane and going through the process. so we decided to leave. we were all packed up, ready to go back into the other section of the prison when all hell broke loose. >> we have four inmates in four different cells that are holding food trays, some of them have started flooding the tier, which means they're causing the toilets to back up and causing water to come out onto the floor. i'm going to first go out and try to talk to the inmates and try to get them into complying with staff instructions. if the inmates fail to comply with staff instructions we'll probably have to extract them. >> one by one, the cells just started popping off. you know. one guy just started throwing feces, the other guy was covering up his cell. and i was like, wow, this isn't boring. this is pretty inten

"lockup" crews have also been frequent guests at california state prison corcoran. >> you might haveo fight. you might have to kill. you might have to stab. you never know. it depends on the situation. >> a lot of times it's just fistfights out here. but i would say maybe every other month we get a righteous stabbing. when they do stab each other, they go for the kill. they don't just stab each other to play around. >> every morning you wake up you dealing with a thousand different attitudes. you never know what could happen on that certain day. all you can do is think the worst and hope for the best. >> we met two inmates on the yard at corcoran who are much more pro-active when it comes to surviving life in this powder keg. they gave our crew a tutorial on how they do it. >> some of the rules that you want to live by behind these walls is you want to give everybody the same respect that you expect to receive from them. >> without order we have anarchy. when we have anarchy, people die here. >> robert morales is serving 35 years to life for burglary under california's three strikes

. >> at california state prison corcoran, we met one young inmate was ordered to attack an older, weaker gang member simply to thin out the herd. he asked that we not use his name. >> i accepted that because that's the way it is. you know i didn't question it. some things i was against but i just dealt with it and accepted it because that's the law of the land in here. >> he explained that the hit was ordered because the older victim was unable to keep up with the gang's military style exercise program. >> he couldn't keep up with the exercise. you know, that was the reason. this is how stupid this is. you know, the dumb reasons they have in here. when i did speak up for him, it was placed on me. well, since you're speaking up with him, you'll deal with it. i dealt with it because that's what it was about. >> the older inmate survived the stabbing and his assailant quit the gang. >> finally i made my stance and went against them. now i'm a christian and i go for that. i wrote him a letter and i apologized that i was sorry i had to do that i was so weak. and i didn't protect him. i should

. >> in the exercise yard at california state prison corcoran, we met an inmate whose art is inspiredl me your name. >> kevin moore, m-double o-r-e. >> what were you convicted of? >> doing a parole violation for sales of marijuana. >> the yard is an interesting place because you never know who you're going to run into. you never know who you're going to talk to. you never know what personality or who they are. i kind of just started looking around and trying to find interesting looking faces. so i happened upon kevin moore. he started telling me that he's a rap artist. he's a ghost yeutter. >> i got a record deal waiting on me at death row records for anybody, anybody wrap fans that's listening my aka is sassooon and i've got a demo coming out in a few months. >> when you start talking to inmates, you're not really sure what to believe. they start telling you these stories and you're kind of like saying all right. >> i've been a ghost writer in the wrap industry for about 13 years. a lot of stuff that i've written from behind these walls i've sold to other artists that have been out t

manson of course is serveing a live sentence at a california state prison in corcoran for mastermindingmurders. he has been denied parole 12 times and is not eligible again until 2027. >>> six passengers force united airlines flight to return to chicago o'hare international airport. the six passengers reportedly became sick because of a pressurization issue with nausea and ear pain. emergency responders met the plane at gate and we're told those passengers were treated on the plane and of one else is doing okay. >>> it's long been said that plants respond to a affection from their growers. to some that means talking to your garden but bun denver based marijuana grower is now using music to get the most out of this plants. fox's boris sanchez has the story. ♪ >> hello again girls. >> reporter: among the necessary components needed for all plants to 35 -- >> plants have very basic needs. they want light they want water water. >> reporter: expert marijuana grower adds one more fundamental hmm g that's what they need. you know, what do they want? they want live. >> reporter: love in the for

. >> in an isolated part of california's central valley is corcoran state prison, one of the state'saximum security institutions, housing many of its most violent criminals. now, corcoran first opened in 1988 and was the site of so-called gladiator fights in the 1990s in which inmates fought to the death in concrete yards while guards allegedly looked on. the guards were charged and acquitted of subjecting prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment, but when we first brought our cameras into corcoran in 2000, the prison was still recovering from that scandal. in this hour, we will take you back into the highly charged facility to see whether it has overcome its notorious past. >> my life is in danger. fy stay in there, i'll end up getting stabbed. >> corcoran under extreme pressure, it's a powder keg. a powder keg. >> basically pure hell. it's hell up in here. it's hectic. >> it's nothing here. ain't no roses growing up out of here. >> bottom line, it's punishment. there's nothing rehabilitative about this. >> you lose your freedom, man, you lose everything. >> it's not the place to b