andrews oversees cell extractions on a weekly basis. >> we do wear protective gear in a cell extraction force, calculated-type use of force. but on some occasions, staff do get injured. i have seen occasions where staff have been injured to point of broken arms. i have seen staff receive feces thrown in their face. i have seen staff where they actually had their headgear broken into pieces because they was hit so hard when they entered the cell. >> after extracting him from a shower cell in the crisis unit, officers are transporting this inmate to the shoe for destroying prison property. >> he beat out a window with a handle. we had to go inside the cell, take him out. this is a spit mask. it's required by our institution so the inmate does not spit on us. >> this inmate will have to pay for the broken window and will have up to 90 days shoe time added to his sentence. while three months in the shoe may seem like a long time, some prisoners spend years within these walls. >> when i first got here, i thought, oh, wow, this is going to be a world of hell. and sure enough. it's been -- it'

and a cell mate. >> his little cell is his domain. something doesn't go his way, he doesn't appreciate that. >> the possible gang-related brawl leaves investigators with questions. >> your eye is a little bit red, are you okay? did you get poked in the eye? >> you just got one eye that's red. >>> the downtown branch at the sacramento county jail system is its own gang investigation unit. it exists to keep pace with the ever-growing networks of gang-affiliated inmates. deputy gaming is assigned to the unit. >> we do have quite a few of gang members in sacramento county jail. a lot of it now has to do with the hood you're from or from the area that you're from. it's not always as easy to identify who's on the same team or who gets along. obviously we kind of have to try to keep our finger on the pulse as much as we can. >> officers have just responded to a ruckus between four known gang members. since it occurred inside a cell, the surveillance footage only tells part of the story. >> it appeared that a fight was going on. we don't have

i mean, placing this inmate in a cell with me. we're not outside that cell all day. we're inside that cell all day. >> but that should have been a consideration before you went to prison. >> all that stuff in a pillow case. >> hamilton is given a half hour to pack his belongings. he's being transferred to a new cell with a new cellmate. >> you're going to get your yard, you're going to get your phone calls. >> that's right. packages. >> all the restrictions are down. >> for how long? that's what i'm saying. you know. >> it all depends upon you, how you behave. okay? if you program good, everything will be all right. ♪ >> hamilton gets all the way to the door of his new cell, but then refuses to go in. >> refuse. >> you refuse? go ahead. close it. >> close it! >> are you sure? you didn't look at who -- >> okay. we're going to turn back. >> what is the problem? >> to me, i wasn't going to take a cell. >> why? >> because i don't want to. >> for now you'll probably be going back to the hole. how many times have you been in the hole for this? >> i think this is my third t

>> cell four. >> put him in cell four. >> i'm the psychiatrist.atrist is attempting to persuade another inmate to cooperate with medical staff. >> we need to come in, give you some medications. >> nope, not taking no medications, you ain't coming in. >> medical staff are now left with no choice than to hand over the situation to the prison security staff. >> i'm captain carl. i'm the custody operations captain. >> the inmate is refusing to remove the mattress which is blocking his cell door, and security staff fear he may be planning to use his metal food tray as a weapon. >> i'm going to give you one more opportunity to comply with staff instructions. i want you to take the coverings down, turn around and submit to mechanical restraints. >> do what you got to do. >> medical staff stand back to let custody officers introduce noxious oc pepper spray into the inmate's cell. the irritant gas should quickly persuade him to let officers handcuff him. >> cuff up. >> despite the stinging cloud of gas filling his cell, the inmate is still refusing to be c

went to the next cell, 410. i said, come on, go on in your cell. he said, i'm not going in. i said, just go in. and i had never had an incident. never had cross words with him, and he kept slow walking and this was totally out of the norm. at that time a sick feeling just overcomes you and you think, wow, something is not right. so i called for my sergeant on the radio. he said it'll be a minute. and the guy just hit me. and the first hit, i believe, knocked me out. i remember going down and i don't remember the actual impact of hitting the ground. >> she was up against the expanded metal in the fetal position and he kept kicking at her, aiming at her head, her stomach, trying to get to her kidneys. another officer on the unit, assigned to the unit, had come up the back stairwell and seen an incident, called the signal seven and came to her aid. >> both of my eyes were busted right in the eyebrow. i had 50 stitches in my eyebrow. he broke my jaw. it was broken in two places. i had on my forehead -- he kicked the skin from my skull. i had lost over a pint and a half of blood

strip cell.oming out of his cell only wearing his underwear, at that time he was on a strip cell. i think at that time it was for resisting staff or trying to assault staff before. we have had trouble with him on about every range we've put him on so far. >> i can't get along with people too much. especially when they're evil. >> one of the people mccombs claims was evil, officer sachen. >> an average day in the shu can be pretty mundane. you have recs and showers to do. chow to serve, md sick call, so on and so forth. some days like today get a little more exciting. we had an offender who became belligerent in the shower. >> the offender was mccombs who told us he had good reason to be upset. >> try to get me to take a shower. but they don't have no soap or nothing. i said, ma'am, i just came from the other side, it was nasty where i come from. i need something to wash, a bar of soap. she's talking crazy to me. right? okay? she come up here and talking to me and started, talked to me, well you [

>> locked in a cell. one comes out. >> just weeks away from completing his sentence, an inmate is accused of murdering his cell mate. >> front page news, i am. holy cow. looks like i'm a real topic. >> one month later, an unrelated killing acures in the jail. >> if i asked me a year ago, i would have said we have a pretty good track record. >> a large woman with a personality to match loses everything to meth. >> i left my youngest son at the hospital. i was high when my water broke. too scared to call 911. >> an inmate causes a disturbance on the jail's transfer bus. now he vows to cause more problems. >> i'm just going to be a havoc to these [ bleep ]. >> i think he wants to make sure we're doing our work correctly. i think he's been trained by the officers. >> super secret cat-based intel. it's been very successful. been very invaluable us to. >> you want to sit here and [ bleep ] this. will you get trouble? you want to wake up to this? come on. >>> the birth place of the california gold rush. sacramen

we don't even know how many cell phones we've got here. >> tell me why cell phones are such a problem in prison. >> for one, it's a way for them to communicate without us being aware of it. they can virtually do anything they need to. they could set up -- if need be, they could set up hits, let information out. >> i've got to make a couple of phone calls. i'm going to see if i can send somebody to jail today. >> brandy, tell me why this happened. >> because i'm struggling for rent. i have no job. i have nothing. my old man's in here. they're trying to keep him for 90 [ bleep ] years. i mean, it's stupid. >> why did you do it? why did you take such a big risk? >> because i didn't think i'd get caught. because i'm sick and tired of not having nothing. guess what? i'm gonna be right with him. i'm going to be [ bleep ] in prison with him. >> prison officials, however, do not have the power to make an arrest. >> state police are en route to the facility right now. their supervisor will make a decision on the arrest. if she is not arrested today though, i will get with my prosecutor so we c

each cell block holds up to 800 inmates in cells that are stacked on tiers five high. at its best, this is an inefficient design. officers are always having to climb stairs. >> where are the elevators? >> we're the elevators. a human elevator. >> but at its worst, the design of san quentin's cell blocks expose officers to inmate assault. >> with the age of the building, the way it's set up, almost anything you do, you're in direct contact with the inmates. >> hey how are you doing? >> when it's time for the inmates to go to the showers or the dining hall, an entire tier is released simultaneously. and astonishingly only two officers are assigned to orchestrate it. >> fifth tier is going down right now. >> just now, the fourth tier. you'll be next, five minutes. >> the front bar -- >> an officer uses an original, antiquated key called a spike to unlock each cell door, one by one. only then can the doors on that tier be released with the push of a mechanical bar. with so many inmates and so few officers, the opportunity for violence looms large. the only visible deterren

. >> cell searches, there are 24 hour searches that are designated cells to be searched on each shift. priority wise it should really be high. with the shortage we have, there are any number of times when the cells don't necessarily get searched because you got other things that takes precedence. so cell search is not necessarily at the top of the list. so when we get information and we get information from seg just as we do from general pop, about guys having different things in their cells. you know, if we do the 24 hour searches, we get a answer to pull some stuff out of the cells. >> officers are looking for contraband ranging from drugs and weapons to items not allowed in administrative segregation, like tobacco. if an inmate violates rules in segregation, he winds up in disciplinary ad seg where even most reading material is considered contraband. >> that's evidence about the -- i'm telling you -- that's evidence, man. you know you violating the law. you ain't got no business [ bleep ] with my legal [ bleep ]. you know it's against the law to do what you're doing, bitch. >> i've

there are staircases, closets, other people's cells.ke a cloak and dagger game with the guards. my case, i'm just good at it. i never get caught. ten years. this is my fourth time -- fourth time in prison. i know how to -- i know how to work around the guards pretty easily to get the sexual things i need done. >> a week after getting caught in the prison chapel with another inmate, joseph gilchrist prepares for a disciplinary hearing. >> i'm going to go see the administrative law judge today. he didn't really like me very much. i see him too many times. >> disciplinary report. approximately 9:00 a.m. inmate gilchrist came to the chapel for buddhist services. he was approximately six to eight feet from the annex room observed gilchrist on his knee, his face and hands were in pendleton's crotch area. >> i'm going to say not guilty. it didn't look like what it was. the video cabinet is tall. he was standing there watching the movie, rewinding it. i was in the bottom half of the cabinet. i was putting away videos we had already seen. and th

it's an orion cell phone detector. it looks for microprocessor circuits that are in all cell phones. this will detect cell phones whether they are turned on or off, active or not. okay. i'm getting an indication right here. unfortunately, it also picks up walkmen, things like that. so 99 times out of 100, it might give us a false indication. but the one time we do find a cell phone, you know, it will all have been worth it. >> with the death of officer morgan, brushy mountain staff are always on high alert. >> we was security-minded anyways, but i look harder. we all look harder. if we see anything whatsoever funny, that inmate is not going out. and everybody knows there may be something up. >> morgan's fellow officers still think about him every day. >> he was a good one. you know, he's watching over all of us, and he's going to make sure that everything is all right. and we loved him, and he loved all of us, so we know he's here because we can still feel him in our hearts. >>> coming up -- when prison love letters go

we trying to get everybody to get one in their cell so our pod wouldn't be smelly. >> cell mates devon toy harris and joseph bass who are housed in the same unit as rucker also use the soap sock, along with a method of their own. >> deodorant, put it down the vent. it release a little nice odor so it will smell good. >> at the kent county jail in grand rapids, michigan, dennis jordan told us no amount of artificial air freshener could substitute for elbow grease. >> i'll pull them out just like this. then ail take this rag right here and i'll clean the insides of it. inside this cell every day, i completely wash these walls down at least three times a day. i also wash the floor about three times a day. i keep the floor clean enough to where i can actually take my socks off and walk around without my feet getting dirty. >> i have never seen such a clean cell in all the time i've been here. i have seen clean cells but nothing quite like that. for this guy to clean walls three times a day, clean the floor two or three times a day it's amazing. his toilet was so clean you could actually se

temporarily incapacitated, roberson is finally removed from his cell and cuffed. roberson is then taken to a holding area to rinse the pepper spray from his eyes and face. >> oh, my god. are you guys going to be here forever? you should at least be proud that i fought back. i wasn't [ bleep ] >> everybody okay? thumbs up, thumbs up. >> ain't nobody really got hurt. well, i didn't get hurt, because i didn't try. i'm not trying to really get hurt until i'm ready to get hurt. if i do get hurt, well, that's just one of the consequences of doing battle. >> not far from roberson's cell is an inmate also known to treat prison as a war zone. >> most of my interests are like firearms and stuff. this is one of my doodles. >> that's a pretty detailed doodle. >> well, i have plenty of time on my hands. >> for inmate, john bright, plenty of time means a 99-year sentence for murder. >> i got in trouble for being a hit man for organized crime. i thought organize crime was cool. i thought drug dealers were cool. i watched scarface 20 times. i bought the video when it cost $100, 1

they searched the cell. they never found nothing, they didn't smell nothing, i don't get visits, i don't get nothing in here. as you see since i've been here, i ain't been in no trouble, you know what i mean? >> i see you haven't been in any trouble, but just because you haven't had a visit, doesn't mean you can't get tobacco from somebody else. >> i don't have any. >> and the officer's clearly stating that he saw you throw it in the toilet and flush it. >> i haven't been in no trouble here, man, i'm not trying to get in no trouble. i never been through this, man. >> yes, you have. >> when? >> you really want to know, i'll let you know, back in 2000, you did 20 days in the box. back in 2003, you did 13 days in the box. 2003, you did 31 days in the box. you had two other write-ups that you didn't come to the hearing because you were ridden out to nassau in 2003 and you got discharged to downstate. so no, you're not new at this, it's just been a while. >> that's what i'm saying, i've changed. you haven't reall

cell. >> can we film him? what's going on? >> this is what they call cell warriors. they know they can't get at each other. so, they just try to stir each other up. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ]. >> abuhl is expected to serve out the rest of his sentence, if not his life, in the highly restrictive, single-person cells of spring creek's max unit. he left our crew with these words. >> i have redeeming qualities. i'm not some bully looking around to [ bleep ] somebody. i'm not that. i just want to be left alone. and that's all. and if that -- if i could give them that, i -- i don't know. i try to think positive. there's always things getting worse. things can get worse. i hope they don't. >>> when we traveled to riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee, we encountered a young inmate who was also driven to kill. and his story was absolutely chilling. >> i murdered my aunt with a butcher knife. i threw on a hockey mask, brown overalls and brown boots. >> why? >> i had bottled-up anger. i was mad at my mom f

and i came back to the cell and i started stabbing him. >> another incident, he was in the cell and ripped off a corner bead of the room, which he made into a shank. >> he's a threat to staff simply because we don't know from one day to the next what his demeanor is going to be he has shown spurts of violence. in an instant he can go to just a ball of rage. >> while he's incarcerated here, at the hamilton county justice center, he will be on administrative segregation because he cannot get along with the general population. can't get along with staff members. can't get along with anybody. >> he is a ticking time bomb. at some point something is going to push him over the edge to where there will be a burst of violence. >> hinkston has pled not guilty to all of his current charges, which include trafficking of cocaine and heroin, illegally carrying a firearm and felonious assault. for allegedly shooting a man twice in the chest. >> this is something i am capable of doing. this is something i have done in the past. i did five years for felonious assault where an individual was shot in the ch

i remember when they took over one of the cell houses and they set it on fire. and times that they held hostages. >> things may well have continued unchanged at stateville until something happened that couldn't be tolerated. something that shocked the entire nation. and forced stateville to undergo drastic reform. >>> coming up, a mass murderer's exploit at stateville sparked massive prison reform. that's next on "lockup." [burke] hot dog.seen it.covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if other treatments haven't worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works by focusing right in the gi-tract to help control damaging inflammation and is clinically proven to begin helping many patients achieve both symptom relief as well as remission. infusion and s

he builds the cell.e recruits and socializes the others and functions as the link between the cell, trans national networks and conflict zones. the entrepreneur is the one that trans nationalizes the phenomenon and brings structure and organization to the other types involved. the protege is very similar to the entrepreneur. he is usually functioning as a second in command or also has certain skills that cell needs for some purposes. for instance, technical education or the like. as for the misfit, he is drawn in from a difficult life position. he is the outsider. he may suffer a personal crisis, have experienced problematic childhood, come from a broken family. he may have dabbled in crime or may have been into drug abuse. for the misfit, terrorism becomes a way out from despair and meaninglessness in a sense. there may be an element of cleansing oneself from sin especially coming from a traditional muslim background and you have done things that does not conform with islam in a sense so it becomes kind

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he builds the cell. he recruits and socialize the others and he functions as the link between the cell, transnational networks and conflict zones. the entrepreneur is the one that transnationalizes the phenomenon and he brings structure and organization to the other types involved, this affected majority. the protege is very similar to the entrepreneur and he's usually functioning as a second in command or he also has certain skills that a cell needs for some purposes. for instance, technical education or the like. as for the misfit, he's drawn into a cell from a different life position. he is the outsider. he may suffer personal crisis, have experienced problematic childhood, come from a broken family. he may have dabbled in crime or he may have been into drug abuse. for the misfit, terrorism becomes a way out from despair and meaninglessness in a sense. there may also be an element of cleansing one's self from sin especially when you come from a traditional muslim background and you have done things th

we went in the cell and got a fight.g was okay. >> i beat his ass. he did not like it, you know what i am saying? that's why he wanted to fight again and he did not like to get his ass beat the first time i told him no. take it like a man. that's how i really started. >> what happened? i don't know. i rather not say. the shower is very slippery. [ laughter ] >> according to him, i got in an argument and that was about it. >> after reviewing the footage, we found there were four individuals. those four will be going to the disciplinary area until it is heard and completed. >> doyle and sheppard both received 25 days in disciplinary lockdown. >> it is all the same to me. i have done so much time, it don't matter if i am here or five days or 30 days or 90 days or a year or twelve days. i don't care, it does not bother me at all. 24 hours a day and 365 days in here, i don't care where i do it at. >> i only wish i had about a minute and 30 seconds. >> follow him in the shower. >>. >> coming up javier elijah continues to havoc

i've seen cell fights in shu.e never seen anybody killed in shu but i've seen them seriously injured. >> it would take either a threat of imminent death -- one inmate on top of another, pounding his head against the concrete floor -- or a threat of great bodily injury. that's what i am authorized to actually fire that weapon. in the security housing unit there are no warning shots because we've got all this concrete. >> the last injury i've seen in shu is an inmate, southern hispanic, speared by a northern hispanic in the chest and within centimeters from his heart. and he was rushed out by ambulance to the hospital. >> most dangerous time for a correctional officer is after someone related to a gang has been executed. we get rumbles that the gang investigators pick up and say, if so-and-so is executed they've sworn to get a peace officer. the mexican mafia is reputed to have a hit out on staff any time possible because in our big riot back in 2000 we shot and killed a southern hispanic. because he was attempting

we have to conduct three cell searches per day. was three per tier, now they want three per officer. so, you've got three officers, that's nine searches per day, and we have to do it to control the contraband. if you're hitting nine cells a day really good, you're going to cut down the contraband, especially when we find razor blades. that's a weapon now. it can be in the form of a full shaving razor. it's administrative segregation. we know it came from downstairs, you fished it up here. it could easily be broken down. that's a weapon. right here's a fish line, so if he's using this to -- they use this as a weight and they'll send this off the tier to the lower tiers, most likely, where they're allowed to have razor blades, stuff like that, and the inmate will attach a razor blade to this and they'll fish it in. as you can see, they've got a lot of line right here. they'll go all the way up the tier. they'll go up, they'll go down, they'll go side to side, and this is how they pass contraband right here, so, we'll definitely take

one is directly involved in searching the cells and the items found in the cells while the other team, the so-called intervention team, provides backup. >> officers quickly discover what appears to be a pair of shanks, a cause for alarm in american prisons, but apparently not a big concern here. >> could it be used as a weapon against somebody? >> translator: while such incidents are rare, it does not mean it could not happen. many of them use it to cut things, such as food. >> a lot of these guys have food that are brought in to them by their visitors. they use it to cut up their vegetables and the meats they have. so it wasn't a big deal. >> but when it comes to security, the rules are unbendable. >> the warden of cz had a background in military. he was actually a high ranking member of the special forces. he carried himself like a military man. and i was very surprised when i asked the warden what the inmate on staff, the assault stats were. >> translator: in the six years that i have been the warden here, we have not had any such cases. it might seem improbable to you but we did n

but i think the cell phone companies may not agree to wait six months because some cell phone companies have a smaller batch of numbers that they're going to want to recirculate. but if i might -- >> you might. >> several of us agree on this panel that one way of dealing with the calls to reassign numbers is for there to be a mandatory database that all cell phone companies participate in that would allow callers to access and ask when was the last time this particular phone number was transferred and once that answer is provided, the caller would know whether or not they had valid consent. the problem with the situation now is apparently there are no full databases that are -- include several companies, i think several of us on different sides of the issue have all been encouraging both the cell phone companies and the fcc to either voluntarily do this or mandate it but that would solve a lot of the litigation against the -- about the wrong number of calls. >> it just seems to me, mr. chairman, that we have two very different problems here, one it's really easy to be outraged out about

but i think the cell phone companies may not agree to wait six months because some cell phone companies have a smaller batch of numbers that they're going to want to recirculate. but if i might, i think that several of us agree on this panel that one way of dealing with the calls to reassign numbers is for there to be a mandatory database that all cell phone companies participate in that would allow callers to access and ask, when was the last time this particular phone number was transferred? and once that answer is provided, the caller would know whether or not they had valid consent. and the problem with the situation now is apparently there are no full databases that include all the cell phone companies. so i think several of us on different sides of this issue have all been encouraging both the cell phone companies and the fcc to either voluntarily do this or mandate it. but that would solve a lot of the litigation against the wrong -- about the wrong number calls. >> it just seems to me, mr. chairman, that we've got two very different problems here. one, it's really easy to be out

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will search every square inch of their cells.irst, all the inmates are removed. frisked for weapons, then taken out to the yard. these surprise raids are usually successful in finding weapons. but present a unique challenge for "lockup" crews. >> it is action. it's real action. the only thing that you have to be careful of, you don't want to piss off the cell block. kind of run the risk of alienating the very guys you're trying to extract stories and cooperation from. so, we always hope that if there is going to be a raid, that it's towards the end of our tour at the prison. >> but tv crew concerns are the last thing on the minds of these officers. what they uncover can be the difference between life and death. >> it's an old joint. you can hide stuff anywhere. like at the i-beams up here. i'll go out here and check these. it's a beam, you walk under it every day. but the best place. somebody walking to the chow hall. a lot of guys know where it is, but they're not going to tell because they don't want to get killed or hurt for r

he builds the cell, recruits and socialize and he functions as the link between the cell, transnational network and conflict zones. the entrepreneur is the one that transnational lies is the phenomenon. he bring structure and organization to the other types involved. the prodigy a is a very similar to the entrepreneur and he is usually a functioning at the second in command where he has certain skills that the cell needs for some purpose. for for example technical help. for that misfits are drawn, he is the outsider, he may suffer personal crisis, have experience a problematic childhood, come come from a broken family, may have traveled in crime or maybe into drug abuse. for the misfit terrorism becomes a way out from despair meaninglessness, and a sense. there may also be an element of cleansing oneself from sin especially when you come from a traditional muslim background and you have done things that does not conform with islam in a sense. so it becomes a turnaround operation. the victor has no characteristics behind the social tide to insiders. it could could be a brother, brother-i

if i give up my cell phone number, is there a definite period that that can be available? how long is taking the four somebody else is answering the number i used to have that i give the hospital or the bank or the college, how long might be for somebody else has the number? >> it depends upon the provider. it can be as short as 30 days. ait sixight -- w months. it is kind of a hodgepodge. the business doesn't know who the cell phone provider is n any given number. >> but if it was six months -- well, say we had a rule that you can do it in a quicker than six months from anybody they got my cell phone number earlier wouldn't have any certainty that it was to my number. until they call it, does that sound right to you? >> yes, butbut i think the cell phone companies may not agree way six months because some companies have a smaller batch of numbers that there going to want to recirculate. i think that several of us agree on the panel that one way of dealing with the calls to reassign numbers is for there to be a mandatory database that all cell phone companies participating

he's been moved to a holding cell pending further investigation.ut deputy rose says he witnessed the incident. >> i saw the punch. the victim was punched in the face. he kind of sat back in the seat right here and fell backwards. and so the blood came out when his head struck the floor. the whole thing lasted maybe about 20 seconds. everybody knew it was coming. they had been arguing on and you have a all day long. >> white guy walked up onem black dude said something and dude hit him. anybody hit their head on that ground it is going to cause some damage. >> he'll stay down here until they take care of his head. he'll be gone a while. all right? bye-bye. >> the sergeant is investigating. >> what is the real issue going on upstairs? >> he's been extorting people and taking people's [ expletive ]. took dude's magazine. had some dude's shoes last night and trying to extort him for phone time this rning by giving his shoes back. just lame. it's. >> okay. >> he's u.s. -- >> he the only one or more than one. >> just him. >> just him. >> he's the main on

instead he's created a unit where' where highly dangerous cell mates are out of their cells with extra security around. he's also moved the seriously mentally ill into units with intensive therapy. his most controversial and even radical idea may be this one, to be the first jail in the country to get rid of solitary all together for the younger inmates, 18 to 21 years old, a small percentage of the population, the most difficult to control. a third of the violent -- >> a third of the violence. >> reporter: doesn't that give you pause, getting rid? >> it's not easy. these are difficult, dangerous people we're dealing with. i'm not saying it's easy, but it's a much better hopeful outcome than what we were doing. >> reporter: you've never been shaken in that belief? >> i haven't. >> reporter: we're walking in the part of solitary with younger inmates. the sound wild and deafening. [ screaming ] [ bleep ]. >> reporter: he says study after study shows the adolescent brain is still forming until the age of 25. isolation could change the wiring. this 21-year-old chained to the wall. are you

i mean, i despise this cell and any other cell and i have a lot of problems with the officers becauseet them lock it. it's the worst part about doing time when you know you can't leave. >> rodney has been in prison for 16 years. when he was 18 he shot and killed a man while robbing a restaurant. rodney was sentenced to life for murder. he occupies his time with the prison job he's allowed to have in unit six. >> my job, i come here on death row. i feel trapped already. you see it's getting dark coming up in here. no way out. just one way in. when i go from unit six to death row, i'm always, like humbled. i know that that could have been me. because they threaten me with the death penalty. >> another advantage to living in minimum security is visitation. these inmates can receive visitors three days a week. >> kiss. i have mixed emotions when i'm in visit with my mother. i know that she's hurting for me being in here. i know she may blame herself sometime for what happens. >> her birthday is next week. >> mine is coming up. >> you think she's going to be mad if i won't be able to get a

>> pauley: a study links cell phone radiation to cancer in rats. steve hartman with a soldier's remarkable recovery from death. >> i was put in a body bag, toe tagged and taken to the morgue. >> pauley: and his last request of you. >> one day a year we're asking somebody to do something. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pauley: and good evening. scott is off tonight. i'm jane pauley. the memorial day weekend is off to a rough start in parts of texas. over the past 24 hours, more than a foot and a half of rain has left homes and roads under water. at least one person has died. several others are missing. there's also a tropical system threatening beach communities from georgia to the carolinas this weekend. but we begin with don champion in bastrop county, texas. >> reporter: for the last 24 hours, rescue choppers have been plucking desperate people off rooftopes of homes and submerged cars in several texas towns. near austin, there have been at least 75 people rescue. in brenham, rain poured down in b

there is some term called cell slug. >> cell slug? >> yeah. who stays in his cell all the time and never leaves his cell so the other celly never gets real privacy. >> i hate it bring it up. but you know what i'm going to say. >> what that? >> the toilet. >> yeah. >> when go to the bathroom, i like privacy. i want to be alone. don't want anyone talking to me. >> most cellies negotiate that is if my celly has it use the rest room, i will just find something to do. he normally leaves at 6:30 in the morning so my regular system is hooked up so after 6:30 i'm good to go. >> is it like when women live together their cycles also align. >> yeah, you got it. yeah. >> you guys make sure you're not on the same gastro intestinal cycle. >> and finding a celly. that's one of the things. will you leave. that's the cell slug. that's where the cell slug comes in. >> thank you. we can step on out of here. starting to get claustrophobic. >> one thing that has become clear to me in my short time here, every inmate is open to talk about the reason they are in san

. >> it sounds like at least the two from different cells went in to another cell. and you can see why that's a rule. i mean obviously when you're going into another man's dwelling, problems happen. and sometimes it's under the ruse of being a friend. that they go into these cells and obviously that's a bad recipe. bad things can happen.

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not wish to be on camera through his cell door.officer stevenson and another inmate. although kelly says he did not witness it, he accuses officer stevenson of using excessive force while escorting the inmate back to his cell. >> you shouldn't do that man like that, man. that's playing too much. that's playing too much, man. >> officer stevenson says the inmate refused to return to his cell at the end of rec time. he denies doing anything wrong. >> i told the inmate he needed to go back to his room, he wouldn't. i went downstairs and put him in the escort hold, was bringing him up the steps. he decided he was going to hold on to the railing. so i drug him up the steps. >> what's the escort hold? >> grab them by the back of the arm with one hand and the wrist. mr. kelly, he's in a room where he couldn't have physically seen what i was doing to the inmate. but mr. kelly was saying i was playing too much. >> ain't got time to play with you, man. you don't do that, man. don't play. easy time, it's a snap, man -- >> don't snap on me. >>

you get limited time out of your cell every day.ost people, even in a prison setting, that's not the best place to live. but it's designed not to be the best place to live also. >> chow. >> even the daily routine of feeding inmates can pose a potential for danger. >> here, they just give you packs of toothpaste, like these right here. you can only have these on this wall. >> in the instance of the toothpaste, you know, what they will do, they'll take a normal tube of toothpaste and pack it with feces, and then that's one of the ways they'll assault staff with that. sometimes in the institutional setting, you'll have inmates save their feces and throw it as projectiles on officers. >> duane harper's explosive temper is what landed him in this jail within a jail in 2002. >> i fight sometimes. but i argue with the guards that but i'm not violent. >> having been incarcerated most of his life, harper admits, he still misses life on the outside. >> i've done a lot of time. i've been doing time on and off since i was 12 years old. the only

cell where he is medicated by a prison nurse. but another inmate in the hospital wing is proving to be less cooperative. >> i'm a psychiatrist. we need to come in and give you medication. >> nope, not taking no medication. you ain't coming in. >> are i going to cuff up? >> no. >> are you going to take your medication? >> nope. >> i'm captain cobbs. i'm the operations captain. i'm going to give you one more opportunity to comply with staff instructions. i want you to take the coverings down, turn around and submit to mechanical restraints. >> do what you gotta do. >> okay. i'm telling you now, this is your last option. >> listen up, he has a mattress. so therefore i want you to go ahead with the barricade removal device. >> the extraction team prepares to disperse pepper spray into the cell using a cannon-like device that will also ram the mattress away from the door. >> this is block commander. cuff up. >> after a final warning, the team takes action. >> cuff up! >> with other prisoners egging on the inmate, the team sprays a sec

you sit in your cell. sleep in your cell. >> strip out right now. >> get down! >> yeah. >> as long as i keep busy, then i'll be all right. but the second i'm at a standstill, i don't know what to do and i'm looking for something to do, i'm going to get myself in a wreck. i'm going to get in trouble. >> pacing back and forth, two or three hours at a time. everyone here is like animals. back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. nothing happens. so it's like one day goes into another. and the next thing you know, weeks go by, months go by, years go by. >> a new day begins at san quentin. >> good morning, gentlemen. >> how are you doing? >> california's oldest and most notorious prison. with its own zip code, almost 6,000 inmates and more than 1,500 staff members who walk through its gates every morning, a typical day at san quentin is, more often than not, just like hundreds, even thousands, of other days. for 19-year-old troy commiskey, the best part of his morning is a cell made cup of joe. >> i sleep all day, drink coffee, read a book. this is your good cl