. >> to battle overcrowding, officer cavagnolo's unit houses inmates meant to be segregated from theal population within feet of main line inmates. >> we have in this unit 2 1/2 tiers of administrative segregation and the bottom half is a reception center. makes it really difficult for us. because inmates from the bottom half of the unit, they have access to a lot of the different parts of the institution. then our challenge we have in administrative segregation is the inmates make fish lines, tie a weight to it and they'll pass kites or they pass weapon stock or razor blades from these units down below. so it's a constant battle with 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 wrists coming off the fifth tier. like i said we're five tiers high and we do not have suicide bars in here. one of the inmates came out in hand

. >> when we first met cavagnolo,ñ he dealt with high level inmateq in administrative segregation. >>totally other side of the spectrum. everything down here is observation, just watching, listening, getting the feel for the dorm and if you're always watching, you can tell when something's starting to go bad, hopefully stop it before it gets all the time. w÷ here, partner found two hypodermic needles in this dorm (váhptjy you got the drugs, the inmate manufactured alcohol, you got the gangs, you got the weapons. so it can be real dangerous at times.@xn do three searches a day so we just pick them randomly. this guy i haven't did yet. his lucky day.-é'd i'm going to get him to unlock the locker. sometimes you got7d internal violations could keep them here indefinitely. >> looking for weapons, drugs, any type of contraband, stuff like this. probably make an illegal stinger out of it to heat up food, whatever, stuff like that they can't have. could blow out the power back here. >> how long have you been in prison, on and off? >> a long time. like since 1992. i'm not catching terms or any

. >> when we first met co cavagnolo, he dealt with high level inmates in administrative segregation. level one inmates in a dorm setting. >> i have 200 inmates and it's only me. it's like going totally other side of the spectrum. everything down here is observation, just watching, listening, getting the feel for the dorm and if you're always watching, you can tell when something's starting to go bad, hopefully stop it before it gets bad, but things happen down here all the time. you got a lot of drugs down here. partner found two hypodermic needles in this dorm probably about three days ago. so you got the drugs. you got the inmates, manufactured alcohol. you got the gangs. you got the weapons. so it can be real dangerous at times. i got to do three searches a day. so we just pick them randomly. this guy i haven't did yet. since i've been down here. so it's his lucky day. i'm going to get him to unlock his locker. sometimes -- >> what? okay, you guys got me in trouble. >> unlock your locker, man. >> lock it? >> unlock it. >> my locker's unlocked. >> oh, that's yours right there? >> y