this is "lockup, corcoran, extended stay." inmates have been dreaming up ways to smuggle in contraband since 1988. >> there is drugs in prison, obviously. >> whether in the form of drugs. >> it's usually like this. >> or weapons. >> looks like it's made of aluminum. >> piece of stainless steel here. >> off a food court. >> always a race against time for the officer to find the contraband. >> look at that. before it's too late. during the months our crew spent inside corcoran we witnessed our fair share of searches. today on a yard maximum security facility we caught up with an officer beginning his shift with one of three standard cell searches. looking for contraband, stuff they're not supposed to have. not too many apples -- razors, they break them apart. an awful lot in the cell. good weapon. piece of metal. just sharpen that. can't tell what it came out of, but sharpen that, that would make a good shank. make a couple weapons out of that. >> is it sharpened to a point? >> no, not yet. >> we can only book him for having dan

this is lockup corcoran extended stay. corcoran is a turbulent sea of gang politics. >> most of these people on this yard they could die right there and i would watch them die. i don't care about them. >> when it comes down to it, you miss one beat, you're going to miss the whole burrito. >> from old school prison gangs, to destructive street gangs, it's a dangerous mix for staff and inmates alike. >> bulldogs are at war with everybody. >> in an effort to control known gang activity, officers move known gang members into the shu where they have a choice, stay in the gang or drop out. >> you're going to have to die sometime. i might as well go out with a bang. >> california state prison corcoran has the largest housing unit or shu in the state. holding more than 1,200 inmates, and split between two units, the shu houses some of the worst inmates in california. the majority of these are validated gang members or inmates too violent to be housed in the general population. shu inmates are kept in 8x12 foot cells and receive on

i guess they've heard a lot about corcoran. >> what do you know about corcoran? >> i know there ain't no justice, that's what i know. i know it's a serious business. >> corcoran's a pretty rough prison here. this is one of the roughest prisons. >> this is serious. it is like that, i don't care what they tell you, it is like that. it is -- it's hardcore like that. >> corcoran's general population inmates are split into three main areas. low security inmates, many of whom are in on parole violations. b yard holds the medium security level three inmates. and a yard is home to the maximum security inmates, who are serving time for more violent crimes. but first they have to get past sergeant rangel. >> i'm currently assigned as a receiving and release and i'm responsible for testify yo all operations of the intake of the inmates and the outgoing departures of the inmates that are paroling, transferring to another institution. we'll get them processed, i.d.'d, give them a little orientation speech. what's your number? >> date of birth? >> 4/3/81. >> how old are you? >

>> among the toughest, california's state prison, corcoran! severely overcrowded and plagued by racial tension, we spent months in side where officers try to maintain order with an institution with a notoriously violent past. this is "lockup: corcoran: extended stay." >>> inmate altercation is violent at best. >> he told me he was going to stab me. i went in and got my knife and he got his knife. >> whether it's with officers -- >> you are the captain! >> disputes with other races or gangs. >> i got in a fight on the level one yard. i had lied to some homeboys, and i guess i had it coming. >> or even a prison romance. >> i had sex with my cellie. >> in corcoran, it's not a question of if there will be violence, but when. [ alarm ] >> get down! >> violence flares in the gym on "a" yard and officers move quickly to reclaim control. david salazar, the victim of the battery, refuses to identify his attacker. and the corcoran officers launch a massive investigation. >> let me see your knuckles. >> flip them. can you pick up your shirt? >> take it a

he is actually doing time right now at corcoran. all right?e brought a program it's called "another way." what the "another way" program does is it talks about the realities of the choices that you are making right now, okay? the choices that could lead you to prison. >> i can tell you how to get to prison. it's not that hard. we're here to tell you how to stay out of prison, if you want to hear it. we all know there's crime out here in these streets. we all know there's gangs out here. but how do we stop it? that's why i'm here. all right? mr. sanders? >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> my name is sanders, my number is do-9582. i've been doing time since the early '80s. every morning you wake up, get up at 5:30, you go eat chow, you go to your job assignment, whatever. it's no fun. you know what i mean? >> how many people in here have family in prison? >> yeah, family or friends. >> i have. >> how many have brothers and sisters and family and cousins that say it's cool up in there? oh, they say it's cool up in there, huh? come jo

lockup crews have also been frequent guests at california's state prison corcoran. >> you might have to fight. you might have to stab. you never know. depends on the situation. >> a lot of times it is fist fights 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 are dealing with 1,000 different attitudes. you never know what can happen on that certain day. all you can do is think the worst, 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. >> the rules you want to live by behind the walls you want to give everybody the same respect that you expect to receive from them. >> without order we have anarchy. when we have anarchy we have people die here. >> robert morales serving 30 years to life for burglary under california's three strikes law. his cellmate has a 16-year sentence on sever

barbara corcoran reports. >> reporter: new york's west village has always had a unique flavor of itsmian, artistic and for the past decades, expensive. celebrities like sarah jessica parker call this neighborhood home and one distinct house has been captivating the imagination of tourists and resident for over 100 years. located at 75 and one-half bedford street, past residents, cary grant, john barrymore and a poet. a real estate broker recently gave me an exclusive tour. the whole house was built on a carriageway? >> it was. >> was that typical of this time? >> it was not. a very atypical house but everybody in new york wanted to yew the space and squeezed this little house between the two that were here before. >> reporter: i had to measure of house myself just to believe it. 9.6. >> i told you. >> reporter: at 990 square feet, it's a little like living in a doll house. >> it's like entering a rabbit hole. your mind expands the room and it's just a great state. >> reporter: let's see if it works on my mind as i speed through this little kitchen. four working fireplaces. original b

and he's not the only gay boy gangster on the sensitive needs yard at corcoran. nicholas turner, who knows by the name demon, told us the gbgs should not be taken lightly. >> we hurt anybody that -- inside the prison system, anybody that tries to forcefully take property or rape or in any way hurt a homosexual who can't defend themselves. that's where we step down. >> demon had a very striking appearance. first thing i noticed about him was he had a tattoo over each eyebrow, one said gay, one said boy. he had no teeth, and he had a mohawk. >> it started out as a joke, and i just kind of like -- i was looking at it in the mirror, i'm like that's punk rock. i like that. >> turner is serving three years for trespassing and making a threat to cause bodily harm. he told us he wanted a cell with contreras as much for the pairing of their nicknames as anything else. >> that would be cool, demon and wicked would be really punk rock. that would definitely be one of those once in a lifetime cellie happenings, you know what i mean? >> but contreras didn't seem as eager to b

pelican bay, tehachapi and corcoran. they had their core support. they have a list of demands about overhauling how the units are run and why and how inmates get in and how they get out. the big plaint among inmates and their supporters is to get out you have to betray the gang or have to snitch. for a gang member that's dangerous. if you're not in the gang and you're expected to renounce the gang, you're in something of a catch-22. >> belva: so where does this go now? with both sides saying they haven't -- one saying there was a give and the other said there wasn't. >> the department has said they're conducting a system -- a widespread comprehensive assessment of their policies in terms of gangs and these security housing units. they haven't said they will make any major changes but they're doing an assessment. we found out this week they made an assessment four years ago. there were recommendations. they haven't been imp llementim. we have to wait and see. >> belva: josh, your story has nothing to do with prisons or gangs but the one topic in this

walk into the-- now, would i take it to a robert mapplethorpe-- i walk in with my five-year-old to corcoran, and i see two men engaged in-- in outrageous sexual behavior. a man is urinating in another man's mouth. my child sees this; they fall down on the floor with an aneurysm. they rush him to the hospital-- i mean, okay, i'm joking, but so what? the child's-- they look at me-- "what--what is that?" you know, now i've got to talk to them about human sexual behavior. now, did that--could that work have really hurt them? now, okay, i'm-- i'm a good catholic, and i understand that andres serrano has submerged a christ in urine. i am--i'm gonna have bad dreams. i'm gonna go to hell. i mean, i'm gonna-- lord is gonna-- i mean, what-- would it hurt me? now, shouldn't i go, in a free country, and talk to somebody about-- talk to the artist? "why would you do that? do you know it offended me?" you know, "do you want to offend me?" i don't believe any of the issues that we've been talking about. you know what i mean? could i watch--okay, a snuff film, you know. let's say a child being killed ritua

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