i charge pelican bay with racism, promoting inmate-on-inmate violence. how it was in the beginning it shall be in the end. the righteous shall live and the wicked shall perish. >> ever since it opened in 1989, pelican bay state prison in northern california has always had a reputation as one of the most violent and volatile penitentiaries in the nation. when we first visited the institution in 2000, it was under lockdown, still reeling from one of the worst prison riots in u.s. history. five years later, we went back inside pelican bay, where the staff has worked to curb gang activity and prevent violent outbreaks. but in an environment simmering with bitter rivalries and racial tension, finding any long-term solution is a never-ending battle. >> inmates on the general population yard right now consider everything a state of war, so they're ready for everything. >> some guys gonna get their head blown off, some guys are going to get stabbed real good. >> there's no hope. >> we are in the new alcatraz. >> isolated along the remote northern coastline some

one is located at pelican bay. >> many of them are in here indeterminately. they'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

where is the pelican? >> i don't see a pelican, but it was a cell phone video. was higher and out of focus. >> i never saw any type of low-flying object, bird, plane, what have you, and neither did my friend sitting next to me. >> the insurance company accuses house of intentionally driving the bugatti into the lagoon to destroy the car and collect insurance worth $2.2 million. house denies the allegations and countersues to collect the insurance. the matter is not resolved. while the court of public opinion devours the story, garza's video racks up millions of views. >> oh, [ bleep ]. oh, [ bleep ]. oh, [ bleep ]. >>> a dashboard camera captures a dramatic attack. a man on the hood of a vehicle attempting to break the windshield using a baseball bat. [ shriek ] august 30th, 2011. taiwan. about an hour outside taipei. a woman and her daughter are driving down a narrow street when they encounter a car going in the opposite direction. there's no room to pull over, so the woman starts backing up slowly. then two men appearing angry start banging on the green toyota

that violence could be against other inmates or against officers. >> it was here in pelican bay's most secure unit that we came across perhaps the prison's most dangerous inmate. >> my name is scanvinski hymes. i got the name from my mother. she wanted me to have the name no other black man in america would have. >> hymes was originally sent to prison for possessing a weapon in a youth facility. at the time our cameras profiled him in 2000, he had been locked up for more than 12 years, almost half his life. >> everything is the same. nothing really changes too much. i mean, wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, go to the yard. when i get bored, i got -- i got to get into stuff, you know? >> the stuff hymes most frequently gets into is provoking officers to extract him from his cell. each inmate is assigned a security risk classification score based on his disciplinary record. [ bleep ] the average score ranges between 19 and 27 points. >> i probably have the highest classification score in this prison system, i'm over 2,000 points now. i have caught over 30, almost 40 felonies in pris

teda boyle is a retired lieutenant from pelican bay.ander on the day of the riot. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, strong-armed robbery, rape. >> within the 275-acre penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe. a prison within a prison. shoe inmates spend about 22 hours of every day in solitary confinement. locked up in an 8 x 10 windowless cement cell with little human contact. inside the shoe are about 1,000 level-four prisoners, what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don't want or can't handle. dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. >> because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community or prison to commit these types of crimes. >> and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. it's sunday, and it's raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire prison is on edge dating back to a smaller racially charged riot six months earl

be sending a flam buoyant homosexual, is pelican bay. >> adolph green was on the pelican bay yard when our producer noticed him and asked for an impromptu interview. >> i'm a flamboyant homosexual. and we call each other girls. you understand. some of the dudes call you girl, call me girl this and that. then you have those that smile in your face and laugh at you behind your back. you walk around the track, somebody say look at that punk, that [ bleep ], a bunch of disrespect day in and day out. >> green told us that those who are open about their sexuality face retribution from inmates. >> you have people that are undercover. you have people that are hiding in the closet. that are doing each other. but the minute they see somebody that is flam buoyant that's out they don't understand then they have something against that. and they go through their fever day, every day, a bunch of people telling you what you can, and can't do, who you can live with and can't live with, it's wrong. half of all the ones who are telling you not to do it are doing it in the closet. >> in this environmentme

i think that's what pelican bay is about. only the strongest are the ones that are going to make it, you know. >> while leon refuses to disavow loyalty to his gang, the prison sees a slow but steady flow of inmates who do, through a process called debriefing. they not only break the code, they smash it to bits. >> it's basically when existing gang members want to get out of a gang inside prison. and in order to do that, there's a whole debriefing process they have to go through. and it basically entails the inmate coming in and confessing everything he's done with the gang and sometimes even, you know, throwing some people under the bus and confessing against other people. so it's really a deadly thing for someone to do inside a prison. >> when inmates debrief, they must write a lengthy account of their criminal history, both in and out of prison. the review process can take months. but if accepted, the inmates will be allowed to live in the safety of a protective custody unit and be granted many more privileges than they wou

. >> at pelican bay, we saw the definitive guide to distilling white lightning, a hand drawn illustration confiscated in a cell search. >> i found that in an inmate's cell. it explained to the people on the tier how to manufacture one, you know, pure alcohol. but they're actually making 150 proof. it's ever clear. 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 in prison will cut it with, say, something like kool-aid or something because it's too strong. then you have other guys that 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 doesn't do anything but give them tuberculosis and other diseases because it is nothing but rotten food that it's made from. >> since drunken inmates can lead to big trouble, correctional officers are constantly on the lookout. >> they're out there searching. they'll fi

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it depends on the crime you commit and the -- >> i have two contracts from pelican bay. and the people that i put away there, every single one of them were white. all the death penalty cases i handled every single one of them were white. you can't make statements like that. it's reckless. we've accomplished a tremendous amount in our country with opportunity. could we do better? sure. there's always room for improvement. by and large, we have the best laws in this country. when you hear someone like condoleezza rice comes up and makes a statement like that, that's empowering to people. >> this was a commencement speech as well, but it seems like the attorney general is doing this to stoke racial tensions in the mid term elections so that he can gin up some democratic votes. >> they don't want to move the ball forward. the left wants to keep it where blacks frankly vote democratic and they want to keep it that way. look at our african-american conservatives. they are all for moving the ball forward. look at condi rice. mia love, suzannea martinez. the conservatives want t

. >> when we first met ivory taylor at california's pelican bay state prison, he had to be flanked bytwo officers for his interview in a secure housing unit, or the shu. >> hi, guys. okay. you got it. look at our man right here. you got this rambo camera. who do you work for? >> msnbc. >> nbc? >> msnbc. >> tell us who you are. what's your name? >> they call me double life because i've got two life sentences, a life without the possibility of parole. and 25 to life. and they call me godzilla because i've got more points than anybody else in the prison system. i fight everybody. i'll fight anybody who will fight with me. and i've been in the hole 19 years straight. >> taylor spent all those years in the shu because of a list of violent infractions rivaling any inmate we've ever profiled on "lockup." >> i've had my nose broke, hip broke, shoulder broke and foot broke, all in confrontations with the police, distractions, yard distractions, hospital distractions, shower distractions. anyplace you can get in a fight, i've gotten in a fight. >> when our crew later visited taylor's cell, he f

they tried to come up when i was in pelican bay, wanted me to go back to the main line.head up, man. >> officers. >> ready. >> once back in the privacy of his own cell, angel begins his daily workout. >> i was standing on the toilet. it's easy to do like this. if you don't work out, you going to go crazy in here, you know what i mean? it's like -- >> how many hours a day do you work out? >> maybe two hours. i start with 1,000 push-ups, right? after i do that, i come and do these. >> fights inside the prison can initiate a lockdown at any time, revoking yard privileges for all inmates, making the in-cell workout their only option. >> they call it burpees workout. we do different kind of stuff. we do burpees. we do abdominals. we do arms. we're in lockdown right now. tomorrow we got yard. we only get yard two times a week. that's our routine every day. we get bored. and we don't know what to do, so we work -- so working out is wasting the mind out, you know what i mean? my english is not too perfect. so after that, we birdbath and everything, we wait for chow. it's just wa

but we have a pretty good following and the chino and pelican bay, even on the gp yards, there are gay gangsters that are not on the sny yard. we're just a group of people that are gay and pretty much stand for our own. you know? that's our car is gay and then pretty much we're -- that's our car. >> while clements says the gbg is not a violent gang, some members can't leave their violent lifestyles in the past. >> i usually go by the nickname demon. i'm a gay boy gangster. >> they call us gbgs. you have to be able to fight to get in the gay boy gangsters. most gay boy gangsters are previous gang members that dropped out or kicked out because of their sexual orientation. on the mainline i ran as a skin head. i just tried to be that guy, the tough guy. someone needed to get beat up i raised my hand. anybody that tries to forcefully take property, rape or in any way hurt a homosexual that can't defend themselves, that's where we step in. we come in and tell them, check this out. this in your one and only warning. leave our people alone. do not put hands on our people. do not try to hurt t

. >> designed to look and function like pelican bay, a maximum security prison in california, the shu is composed of windowless, concrete cells measuring 7 by 12 feet. of the 288 inmates housed here, 179 have been diagnosed by psychiatric staff as mentally ill. >> i heard the horror stories of this place back when it first opened up. >> sergeant dan haskins is a veteran of the secure housing unit. >> out of sight, out of mind. the outside world, out of sight, out of mind. they don't -- probably don't want to know what goes on in here. >> the population of the shu lives on 23-hour lockdown. leaving their cells only for showers and solitary recreation. >> some people will tell you that segregation unit is not the place for people with mental illness because we didn't design that particular unit for treatment. particularly for mental health treatment. we just didn't anticipate us having the numbers we have and going the way it's gone. >> although acute cases are referred to the psychiatric unit at a neighboring correctional institution, the staff in the shu deal with a variety of mental

our producers first met him seven years ago inside pelican bay, california's toughest maximum securitye officer, if you are the governor, if you are the president, if you do something to me, it's on. >> he's bucking right now, he's struggling. >> hymes is a career inmate with 19 of his 37 years spent behind bars. >> turn around. turn around. >> nope. you all use that force on me. >> officers in several california prisons have gotten plenty of opportunities to document his bad behavior on videotape. while most inmates try to deal with prison life the best they can, hymes has fought the system all the way. >> ha, ha, ha. going to be like starting a whole new life. i can go anywhere. i can get a passport. i can do anything, you know, if i want to. i'm not under supervision of law enforcement at all times like i have been. so basically i can do anything i want to. >> although hymes has reached the end of his sentence, the stakes are higher than ever. >> hymes has two strikes against him right now, and i think he is aware that if he commits another crime and is prosecuted for that, it could

this island was the nesting ground for the brown pelicans. it's lush and green. it was vibrant and full of life and full of wildlife. so last month joinurnal irists decided to republican down there. >> as the crew disembarked on cat island there was a pamable collective gasp. >> it looks like the arizona desert. >> it lookslike the result of fire here but unfortunately, there wasn't a fire. it was just a oil spill degradation. >> so here's the comparison. you know the old saying, a picture tells a thousand words. this is cat island in 2010. this is cat island in 2014. does that look like it's been affected by anything? the color of it? this to that. and these trees to this little nesting stuff here. and by the way, where the hell are the birds? the birds figure it out but we can't. if this is bpees idea of recovery and this is the oil industry's answer to their mistakes, then this country is in deep trouble if we are allow this to continue on. this is what concerns the people of louisiana. wildlife and seafood in the gulf are in really bad shape. these pictures w

i've been in the hot desert, pelican bay, every one of them, major riots with guys getting their headsbut here, nothing happens. because they want to keep you on lockdown for nothing. >> what's wrong with change? >> another inmate faces the icc after fighting with a cellmate. >> they put crazy people in your cell, and crazy things happen. he was having problems with somebody else, so they moved him in my cell. this guy is having problems, why is he moving this guy in my cell? i don't need no problems. i had an operation on my testicles, because one of them swelled up as big as a softball. so when they let me out of the hospital, i came back to the cell, and there was this guy and he jumped on me and kicked me on my testicles after i had my operation, and hit me in the head with a cup. so i grabbed him and held him and choked him and made him quit. >> what really happened, nobody really knows, because we were in the cell, and an altercation occurred. he wound up getting hurt worse than i did. so it looked like i'm guilty. >> michael callans is brought before the institutional classifica

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and you had eggshells from birds, pelicans that couldn't get hard, we eliminated the d.d.t. we got sensible about that. we have to get sensible about what we are going to do about ocean acidfication. don young, our colleague from alaska, and i are working on a bill on a substantive bill for the policy of ocean acidfication, but that policy can't be implemented unless the department carries it out, which the amendment that the gentlewoman has introduced will allow it to do. i don't know how to put this in clearer terms, but if our water we were trying to drink was getting so bad it was killing people, we would -- we did something about it in congress, we passed a national clean water act. you can't do bad things to water that we use for beneficial purposes. when air was getting so bad that people were getting harmed by air, congress enacted the national air pollution act. and said you got to clean up clean air act, we have to clean up the air. it certainly was a big impact in california with all the smog in southern california. we tackled it. we invested money in it. we inves

to understand the situation let's do some history of why he is an aka pelican formed by eight islands situated in the middle of the pacific ocean they were probably populated by immigrants from far away lines they created a socially and politically advanced society. laid out why and so are polynesians they come from a land they call which is the homeland and many believe that to be to haiti or the market. and perhaps were here as early as one hundred b.c. . perhaps a little bit later on to a voyage and continued for many centuries and by about the twelfth or thirteenth century winds were living here pretty much on their own and developing much more stress. fights aside. and that led to the development of different island kingdoms here amongst the chains you had i our regular kingdom a quite a kingdom. of mali of hawaii island you and me its founding team kamehameha the great unified the society as of the archipelago. this oil began to yield food for the inhabitants of hawaii however the hawaiian kingdom would not be alone for long. by the same sea from where the original inhabitants o

solitary confinement my son has not seen or felt natural sunlight while he is housed there in the pelican bay security housing unit they do not have windows in there so it's three cement walls with a metal door with dime size holes and even if they stand up to their door and close one eye and look out the hole there all they see is a cement slab across from them when they're taken out to their yard because per state law they're supposed to have yard time and their yard is another cell it's it's a cement floor with you know twenty feet brick walls and the sky is partially covered in plexiglass so when when did you last when you know the turn of the doors and when did you last see him and what is this doing to him psychologically. i last saw him a few weeks ago i do try to get up there at least every six weeks and i could see that his skin color is changing i could see that it seems really hard for him to make eye contact his eyes he seems to to look down a lot because when does he ever get the opportunity to lick somebody. i just want to quickly ask you you're from a california family you