one is located at pelican bay. >> many of them are in here indeterminately.y'll never leave shu until a committee decides they are not a part of a gang anymore. >> this officer works at the shu. he told us a simple lapse on his part could result in gang warfare. >> if i were to pop two doors at the same time and they were, the mexican-american from los angeles and a mexican-american from sacramento, the odds are very, very good they would immediately commence to fight because that is expected of them in prison. that's the rules of the game. if word got out that they had an opportunity and didn't go after someone, they would have some explaining to do. that's just life in prison. >> they are restricted to their cell for 23 1/2 hours a day. they only get a half hour outside in their little hard yard right next to their cells and then they're right back into their cells. >> despite the restrictive conditions in the shu, gang members still find ways to make weapons, sometimes carving them right out of their own cells. >> this was made by an arian brotherhood memb

and apparently the resort of pelican hills in california. >> the resort at pelican hills voted the numbere united states. >> i get it the guy is rich. all of his donors are rich. but as you look at that i want you to understand something, okay. they talk -- you see them in the diners and pizza shops. that's not where they raise their money. the resort at pelican hills is where they raise their money. and mitt romney's his small donors are only 18%. all of the money comes from those fancy places where they meet their fancy republicans. tomorrow tara swift? what the hell all of the "young turks"? unbelievable. check that out. "countdown" is next. ♪ >> i just think it's a great thing that if rick santorum gets to the nominee for the republican party . . . [ laughter ] >> all right. turns out we still have some time. danny devito is great, don't miss that tomorrow. can i do newt real quick? oh now we're out of town. newt said you can't put a gun on a volt. turns out you can.

us, pelican bay, and tehachapi house all the prison gang members.the street gangs are run by the fellows in the back, the prison gang members. >>"guys in the back" is a polite way of referring to guys locked in solitary confinement in the shu? >>yeah. (laura) i just don't want them to get too unruly. (man) let's do it really fast. they can see us, though. (laura) i know. i think people are going to start stripping or something. uhm. over here, you can see that these guys are locked up in cages. that's because this is what's known as the shu, the security housing unit. this is for the most violent offenders. people don't get stuck in these isolation units because of what they do on the streets they get stuck in here because of violent acts they've committed inside prison. it's amazing because we've been hearing about the power structure that goes on in the prison. people will be answering orders that come from the top. and the top means guys who are locked up here, these guys who are totally locked up in isolation. the mexican mafia, nuestra familia,

and why the ice not so nice for these rare pelicans whose food has been a frozen out by the late cold snap your forte on the race to save the birds on our website. the u.s. soldier accused of giving hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to . wiki leaks has declined to enter a plea at his arraignment bradley manning's already spent nineteen months in custody but only just been charged he could spend the rest of his life in prison if found guilty of aiding the enemy one of twenty two charges against him hundreds of top u.s. lawyers have been voicing their anger believing the conditions manning has endured amounted to torture many think a fair trial is now impossible after president obama remarked the whistle blower had broken the walk the next hearing set for march fifteenth attorney kevin zeese from the come home america group thinks the wrong person may be standing trial. well this is a case of very low level classified documents in fact there's questions as to whether they should be classified at all we have to also realize that one. released the pentagon papers thos

. >> at pelican bay, we saw the definitive guide to distilling white lightning.it explains to his friends in the tier how to manufacture pure alcohol. >> they're actually making it. 150 proof. that's not your regular pruno. a little more sophisticated. >> this is the final result. this here is about the equivalent of grain alcohol. extremely potent. >> how does this taste? >> white lightning tastes exactly like whiskey without any cut. some guys will cut it with say kool-aid or something because it is too strong. then you have other guys, they just down it. just raw. and a lot of these dudes that make this stuff, they don't realize that the bacteria in the stuff they're drinking will give them tuberculosis and other diseases. because it is nothing but rotten food that it is made from. >> since drunken inmates can lead to big trouble, correctional officers are constantly on the lookout. >> they're out there searching. they'll find it. three days later, the same cell, they're making alcohol again. it is just constant. we have over 3,000 inmates doing this. >> comin

all pelicans are named pete.ke an aquarium here. >> reporter: front yard, backyard is all atlantic ocean? >> that's correct. there is a little bit of isolation but i don't feel claustrophobic at all. >> reporter: back in the '60s a shirtless president lyndon johnson vacationed here. that is him with the flipped up hat. but islandia is and always has been more of a ruse than a real city. this was the only intended road. there is no courthouse. no city hall. in fact, there is not even a mayor. it was all just a classic get rich quick scheme to pry florida taxpayers for bridges and development. but then lbj signed islandia into biscayne national monument but its incorporated status remained, creating an annual bureaucratic headache for nearly 50 years. >> they have never filed their state papers. they do not cash checks that are made to them and they do not file the reports and pay their fees. >> reporter: so islandia is going away forever. >> bye. >> reporter: you never have rush-hour traffic. no bumper-to-bumper s