during a routine cell search at the riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee, a pair of contraband headphones was removed from the cell of inmate tirrell shropshire. you talk to them like a man, they don t want to hear that. by the next day, things had escalated. the riverbend cell extraction team has been activated for the purpose of removing all hard items from inmate shropshire, 34-93-25. out of unit 3201. why? he was assaultive toward stf last night. the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officer s face yesterday and also a coke bottle full of water thrown and hit an officer in the back of the head. when the unit manager discovered this today, he wanted all hard items removed from his cell. we have tried to gain compliance voluntarily by the inmate. he s refused, so a cell extraction team is needed. when a cell extraction team
even something as seemingly harmless as a set of headphones can be considered contraband. is there a number on it? no. no number on it. that s contraband. we re taking it. at riverbend, every electronic item had to be documented and approved by the prison officials. there was no record of his headphones so they were confiscated by the search team. go ahead and bring him back to me. later, shropshire s led back to his cell. we followed him back to his cell, really having no idea how he would react. cell searches are fairly common. so we weren t expecting anything in particular. as it turned out, the headphones were really a big deal. inmates have so little when they re in prison, that the slightest thing becomes a precious possession. why did they take my headphones? there wasn t a number on them. a short time later, shropshire appeals to another c.o. for the return of his head phones.
thing. yeah. even something as seemingly harmless as a set of headphones can be considered contraband. is there a number on it? no. no number on it. that s contraband. at riverbend, every electronic item had to be documented and approved by the prison officials. there was no record of his headphones so they were confiscated by the search team. go ahead and bring him back to me. later, shropshire s led back to his cell. we followed him back to his cell, really having no idea how he would react. cell searches are fairly common. so we weren t expecting anything in particular. as it turned out, the headphones were really a big deal. inmates have so little when they re in prison, that the slightest thing becomes a precious possession. why did they take my headphones? there wasn t a number on them. a short time later,
within seconds, the still-shackled officer is pulled to safety. get the door. a short time later, hill is also removed from his cell. though dazed by the effects of the pepper spray, hill is uninjured. his assault on the officer earned him two months in punitive segregation and an extension of his sentence. [ yelling ] riverbend s emergency response team regularly trains for crises where a cell extraction is called for. our crew was there to cover one session.
during a routine cell search at the riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee, a pair of contraband headphones was removed from the cell of inmate tirrell shropshire. you talk to them like a man, they don t want to hear that. by the next day, things had escalated. the riverbend cell extraction team has been activated for the purpose of removing all hard items from inmate shropshire, 34-93-25. out of unit 3201. why? he was assaultive toward staff last night. the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officer s face yesterday and also a coke bottle full of water thrown and hit an officer in the back of the head. when the unit manager discovered this today, he wanted all hard items removed from his cell. we have tried to gain compliance voluntarily by the inmate. he s refused, so a cell extraction team is needed.