." >> built in 1852 and home to california's death row, san quentin state prison was bursting at the seams due to overcrowding when we shot our extended stay series there. but san quentin had one program designed to discourage troubled teens from ever joining its ranks in the future. >> okay. gentlemen, this way. >> through the squires program, selected inmates shared their experiences with teenagers who had already had run-ins with the law. >> what we need you to understand, you are in san quentin this morning. you are in a place that no kid should ever want to be in. you should be out playing somewhere in the park. you are here because of something you did. >> what's your first name? >> angel. >> angel? >> yeah. >> how old are you? >> 13. >> i'm 16. >> jonathan, i'm 16, too. >> what you want to know, that this is your life, man. you have an opportunity to leave out of this place and never come back. >> let me introduce myself to you guys. my name's david. i'm about to be 25 years old in a few more months, but i have been in prison since i was 15-years-old for murder. >> david monro

we were shooting at san quentin in alpine section, and we were down on the ground floor.enly i felt something hit me on the top of my head. and i had the worst thought, oh, my god i had just been gassed. luckily it turned out to be a banana peel. >> when we visited the stateville correctional center in illinois, we encountered another bizarre practice involving human waste. >> feces, spreads it on everything. clean it off every day. every day he puts it right back on. >> this is unit "i," the segregation unit at stateville correctional center. basically this is where the bad people, being extra bad in the facility, come to be locked up. they urinate, bowel movement everywhere, i think they just kind of have gone crazy, prison life is probably getting to them. >> but we've never seen a more bizarre display of the gut churning activity than at california state prison corcoran. it happened during a routine shoot at the prison hospital. >> we were there for like ten minutes. did a couple interviews with a couple of doctors. initially it seemed like it was going to be mundane

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>> joseph de la cruz is a gang dropout, serving nine years for attempted murder at california's san quentin state prison. and when we first met him, authorities had just discovered that he had been assaulted inside his protective custody cell. >> this morning you did come out of your cell. we did a sweep to find out how many people stayed behind, and you were discovered with injuries. and here's the medical report. >> despite obvious injuries, de la cruz refused to give correctional staff any information about the attack. >> they're trying to find out what happened. i won't tell them what happened. >> any specific individuals you know are your enemies? >> no, sir. >> how about any prison weapons offenses? >> no, sir. >> do you belong to a gang? >> no, i don't. >> i mean outside of what you're being accused of, being a victim, are you involved in any other batteries in your history? >> no. >> due to this evidence, you're deemed a threat to the safety and security of the institution, to staff and inmates. >> escort! >> without good information about what prompted the attack and whether this a

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and the staff here call me birdman of san quentin. >> the first day i got here at san quentin.e flocked to me for some reason. and i don't know they probably think i am the birdman of alcatraz. maybe i'm mistaken because he had a shaved head too. >> miller was serving an eight but birds. i can't trust anybody else. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ ♪ >>> an inmate finds himself at the center of more than one battle. >> again, i didn't start it, but i finished it, as i always do. >> and he traces his problems back to the real-life nightmare that haunts his family. >> the story you see like in the michael meyers movie.

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. >> transferred to san quentin, the man who was arguably california's most violent inmate completed his sentence and was released in 2007. >> you have people locked up in this type of environment, what do you expect? >> back up! >> next, a lock up raw. >> they will come across their enemy and slice them across the neck. >> the the ingenious weapons they use to attack and the lengths officers will go to in combatting them. latte or au lait? cozy or cool? exactly the way you want it ... until boom, it's bedtime! your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. enter the sleep number bed. save $300 on the final close-out of the c3 queen mattress set. he's the softy. his sleep number setting is 35. you're the rock, at 60. and snoring? sleep number's even got an adjustment for that. only at a sleep number store, find the lowest prices of the season, with the c3 queen mattress set only $1199.98. plus 24 month special financing on all beds. know better sleep with sleep number. >> every day, correctional officers are searching for them. >> a lot of weapons were confiscated. they are know

but san quentin had one program designed to discourage troubled

the northern hispanics is our main gang here at san quentin. and it's because they're better organized. the white guys are over here on the parallel bars and on the picnic table. over in the corner you see where the asians are sitting. you can't just walk and sit on a table. i had to explain that. i almost got into a confrontation with that two or three times because, you know, i saw a table and i sat down, you know, it's not like that. you got to ask for permission to sit down there. >> even such a minor misstep can be taken as a sign of disrespect, and that can lead to widespread violence. though correctional staff is constantly on the lookout for weapons, it's well known that many on this yard are armed for battle. and none more so than the northern hispanics. >> they have a minister of defense. and his thing is he's to have ten weapons ready at any time down here on this yard. their weapons are all hid over there. and in the morning we'll come over and we'll search that area and try to find their weapons. but they're getting better and bett

movement and grass roots activist from the 70s and 80s that came together when he was on death row in san quentin. it took a 9-year struggle to successfully win his release and freedom. the defense committee was the first pan coalition for churches but also militant community groups. mr. chul sue leaves in 1981 after the grass roots campaign led by a social movement after being released from prison for being wrongly convicted of a gang murder. he brings asian americans like myself in an unprecedent pan asian coalition and the movement which i call it represents the pan asian movement in american history. chiu sui lee came to the u.s. in 64 with limited english ability and he was brought up by his aunt and uncle. chul sue lee was also part of a small korean community and attended many schools in san francisco. he was wrongfully convicted in 1973 of killing a chinese gang leader and he was very young at the time. i wanted to acknowledge activist yamenta. and i want to mention dr. ruth and kim from social equality and many others who worked on the campaign to free him. there will be a number of memo

inside san quentin, this video shows how isolated life can be behind bars.yard there is hope for what lies beyond the walls. in this class most of the men are saving life with possibility of parole. >> this is a program where guys can come hold conversations that resolve around race, gender, and class. this is unheard of. >> this is a nonprofit started by men frustrated people were leaving prison without understanding they needed to succeed >> it's peoples views of fair outcome or distribution of resources. >> they use cookies >> there is only 11 here. >> 11 for 14 inmates. >> is there idea how to be able to give these out? >> we raised our hand and spoke wex contributed to the class. >> it's just one of many used to use incarceration. >> there is 14 of us how many people like to be with us. and we never would have had to worry about it. >> every's voice being heard. >> i saya is one of the founders. >> i hope they'll be a part of society. >> many say the program has changed their lives. >> i've been looking for an opportunity to make living amends for the o

the new program that's making a difference at san quentin and who is behind it. >>> plus the new attraction crowds in the bay area and what you don't want to do while you're there. >>> and an expensive bath fixture that looks great until it was installed. 7 on your side's michael finney takes the case in half an hour on abc 7 news at 6:00. >>> the season of giving lasts a bit longer for three arizona restaurant workers. >> two days after christmas, a customer left them $11,000 in tips. >> it turns out the customer is no stranger to generosity. he has been leaving large cash tips for jesus since last year. >> these are the receipts posted on instagram by one of the workers. they are from december 27th when the man who wants to remain anonymous came in for drinks in phoenix. >> he left $1000 on one and a whopping $11,000 on the second. the actual bill came out to $431 before all that. >> i feel great when i leave 20%. >> they are happy with that, too. >>> thanks for joining us. >> for all of us here, we appreciate your time. see you in half an hour. >>> welcome to "world news tonight." icy pi

inside san quentin, this video shows how isolated life can be behind bars.yard there is hope for what lies beyond the walls. in this class most of the men are saving life with possibility of parole. >> this is a program where guys can come hold conversations that resolve around race, gender, and class. this is unheard of. >> this is a nonprofit started by men frustrated people were leaving prison without understanding they needed to succeed >> it's peoples views of fair outcome or distribution of resources. >> they use cookies >> there is only 11 here. >> 11 for 14 inmates. >> is there idea how to be able to give these out? >> we raised our hand and spoke wex contributed to the class. >> it's just one of many used to use incarceration. >> there is 14 of us how many people like to be with us. and we never would have had to worry about it. >> every's voice being heard. >> i saya is one of the founders. >> i hope they'll be a part of society. >> many say the program has changed their lives. >> i've been looking for an opportunity to make living amends for the o

is considering changes to a practice of with holding phone calls and visits from loved ones at san quentinrison. the court is criticizing the practice of not allowing calls or visits from families. the court says that policy punishes inmates and they discourage sick people from getting help. >>> debate in contra costa county after supervisors decided to give themselves a raise. ktvu's rob roth tells us union workers in the county are not happy at all. >> reporter: for months contra costa county public employee unions have been trying to stop them from collecting a 33% pay increase. >> we are barely coming out of the great recession and the most we got was 4%. they stepped to the front of line and gave themselves a 33% raise. >> reporter: union representatives delivered 39,000 signatures from voters today. that is more than the 25,000 needed to force them to reverse the pay raise or let voters decide. >> for them to not have the care or feelings about the workers and their well being. we are all struggling. >> this is one of the most unpleasant tasks we have had to face. >> reporter: last o

. >> reporter: inside san quentin. video shows just how isolated life can be behind bar paps cross the prison yard there is hope for what lies beyond the prison walls. in this class, inmates are learning to understand the social reasons for their incarcerations. most of these men are serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. >> this program is one of the only places to where guys of every different nationality and ethnicity, religion, can come together and hold conversations that revolve around race and gender and class. and within a prison, this is unheard of. >> is it equal, though. is it fair? >> this is alliance for change. a nonprofit started in 2008, for men at some quentin. they were frustrated that people were leaving prison without the resources or understanding they need to succeed on the outside. >> the views of what is a fair outcome or distribution of resources. >> reporter: to illustrate, they use cookies. >> there's only 11 here? >> reporter: 11 cookies for 14 inmates. >> does anybody have a

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few, though, made as lasting an impression on us at solon league of california's san quentin state prison. >> i'm a third timer. the youngster is a first timer. he got 12 years. i only got 13 days now. so i'm really preparing him to what is ahead of him. we keep our house clean. >> league gave both his cellmate and our producer a lesson on the finer points of laundry behind bars. >> i get my t-shirt, grab my bar of soap, dip it in the toilet. keep my toilet fresh and clean. scrub it out. like so. and once the toilet fills up, it's fresh water now. i can just rinse it. i fold my towels. put it here. right up under here is my clothesline. >> league went on to give us a cooking demonstration, using toilet paper like a stovetop burner. >> take this, set it on the edge of the toilet. because it's got to breathe. set it here, light it at the bottom. as you see, it's like a fire. you hold your can over it, and you cook. therefore your water gets hot. flush it down. grab a damp towel because you don't want it to be on your toilet. don't want to burn your toilet up. i get my bowl, crack my soup op

eldridge was taken back to san quentin and he was a parolee, so his parole was violated, so it's likehad four more years in apparently of his start. our lawyer represented him in a hearing and solano county, i believe, i'm not sure where -- anyway, to everyone's surprise the judge -- because the group in charge of parole had no evidence. all of the evidence came from our attorney. the city should be released because of his eloquence. he was out on his bail. $50,000 in june 1968. about two weeks before the murder of -- >> robert kennedy -- >> and los angeles. it was a very intense time. eldridge was very public about not going back to prison. he said it publicly and said it in speeches. he said, i'm not going to go back. he was supposed to turn himself in in november 1968, certain date, and he wasn't there. he did not turn himself in. what he exited, i found a minute years later, he went to montrÉal. he got on a boat and went to havana. he was disguised as a cuban soldier. while in havana, a group of other hijackers and different people there created a cluster of black panthers that di

. >> after 12 years in and out of prisons including san quentin crouse is pouring himself into a coffeey in antioch that he named big house beans. >> i'm not afraid like i was before to share my story because that's not my past doesn't define who i am today. >> when whiching his fresh roasted wholesale beans to restaurants and coffee shops crouse has openly discussed his dysif you thinkal childhooded that led to drugs and illegal gun possession. >> john krause is trying to pay it forward. he's hiring it other ex-offenders like juan valdez who had a hard time getting a job. >> you know, if it you look like you've been in prison it makes it definitely worse. >> you mean like a face tattoo? >> yeah. they call them job stoppers for a reason. >> some of the profits support rehab programs and job training for former inmates re-entering society. >> it makes it hard when you have to do a background check just to find a place to live. my heart is broken for the part of society that tends to get overlooked and kind of forgotten. >> crouse says it's been a long hard grind. but if he can make it wo