murderer charles manson and robert kennedy's assassin, sirhan sirhan, are among the most notorious inmates. in 1996, allegations against staff brought the prison to its knees. officers were accuse old of arranging gladiator-style fights between inmates that often had to be stopped with lethal force. >> officers betting on these fights who is going to win who is going to kill who who is going to beat who bad? >> all of the indicted officers were subsequently acquitted. george galaza was warden at the time and had to take the daunting task of getting corcoran back on its feet. >> when i got here in 1996, corcoran frankly was under an intensive media barrage. the impact that that had on the staff here, it was tremendous. you cannot maintain a prison like this well if your staff morale is poor. so the first part of it was getting the staff morale up. the next thing that we focused on was the issue of violence. >> you might have are to fight. >> in a prison situation like this, violence is a real thing. >> might have to kill. might have to stab. >> the inmates generate violence among themselves

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the hostages demanded the release of palestinian prisoners in israel and sirhan sirhan. responding to a question during the crisis, president nixon stated, quote: as far as the united states has a government giving in to blackmail demands, we cannot do so, and we will not do so, end quote. shortly after the statement went public, the terrorists murdered the two diplomats, plus a belgian colleague, and a few days later a directive was issued using the president's language. therefore, an unscripted response to a specific question in a specific circumstance became general policy. it was used often in subsequent iterations over the year as not giving in to blackmail demands became no concessions which then was exanded to include no negotiations -- expanded to include no negotiations. this was widely interpreted as a ban on all discussions. this approach became a mantra for the u.s. government repeated this numerous situations from the twa airliner hijacking in 1985 to secretary of state donald please sa rice stating in -- condoleezza rice state anything 2004 that, quote, the