facility also houses richard ramirez, better known as the night stalker and richard alan davis, polly klaas's killer. the prison is more than 150 years old. its walls are crumbling and the institution has become outdated, contributing to an overwhelming increase in both the number and severity of brutal assaults by inmates. during the next hour, you will witness life inside san quentin, including a look inside california's vicious death row. san quentin opened in 1852, and today seems physically trapped in the century in which it was conceived. old and decrepit, san quentin is riddles with shadowy al kobes and blind spots. there are nor electrified lethal fences. the towers around the perimeter must still be staffed where incredibly, there are fewer surveillance cameras than a single convenience store. and worse yet, a lack of modernization has put officers in constant risk of inmate attack. >> every day i walk through those gates, the thought crosses my mind is today going to be the last? >> the grounds are a sprawling 432 rakers located on the shores of beautiful san francisco bay. >> custo

california's most heinous criminals such as the 1980s night stalker, richard ramirez, the man who killed polly klaas, richard allen davis, whose crime led to california's three strikes law, and scott peterson, who was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife. >> the bottom line is, we don't allow filming in condemned row simply because it's department policy. >> though denied access to condemned row, our producers found an inmate who lived there for nearly 20 years. >> when i arrived on death row, it was in the winter of '91. i remember because it was real cold, there was icicles on the ground. >> my conviction for the death penalty was the double felony. the murder and then the robbery. but, you know, the you move a person from one spot to another, in a certain many feet, it's kidnap. so they claimed it was kidnap, and threw another felony on there. during that time, i was young. i was wild. i was angry. the jury verdict was it wasn't something i didn't expect. so, you know, at that time, and point, i wanted the death penalty, to be honest with you. because i wanted to come up here and you know, ha

facility also houses richard ramirez, better known as the night stalker and richard alan davis, polly klaas's old. its walls are crumbling and the institution has become outdated, contributing to an overwhelming increase in both the number and severity of brutal assaults by inmates. during the next hour, you will witness life inside san quentin, including a look inside california's vicious death row.

klaas speaks from firsthand experience. in 1993, his 12-year-old daughter was kidnapped from her own bedroom during a sleepover. >> my daughter polly was kidnapped by a vicious, brutal, long-time criminal was thought to have run away for a long period of time. it offers a very easy justification for law enforcement not to get involved in these cases. when you look at the number of cases you can kind of understand that it would really overwhelm them. >> despite launching a two-month search to find his daughter, klaas experienced the same frustrations about law enforcement's reaction to the abduction. >> they developed a profile of polly's case and suggested she had run away with her boyfriend to avoid having to move. not only were they convinced of this but they browbeat the two girls that were with polly for a couple of weeks until they were able to be convinced otherwise. >> for three years bruce johnson has struggled daily with the trauma of dealing with the police department he says failed his family. >> it's across the street now. there's a guy beating up a man on the grass. >> this is the 911 tape from the witness on the night