as you can see when you get that many people in as small a cell as it is, it makes kind of havoc about being able to operate in there. straighten him out. there you go. pull him out. straighten him down. that is the reason why we do more training. the more training you get to do, the better you get and the less injury you have on the inmate or the staff. during the course of our shoot at riverbend, the extraction team would assemble once again, but this time, it would be for real. the incident was triggered when officers conducted a routine cell search for weapons in the prison s maximum security unit. the inmates are primarily in here because of behavior, assaultive, and if they can get their hands on pieces of metal particularly, they will sharpen
within seconds, the still shackled officer is pulled to safety. a short time later, hill is also removed from the cell. though dazed by the effects of the pepper spray, hill is uninjured and the assault earned him two months in punitive segregation and an extension of his sentence. 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 terrell shropshire. by the next day, things had escalated. the riverbend cell extraction team has been called to remove all items out of unit 3201. 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 a unit manager discovered this today, he wanted all hard items removed from the cell. we have tried to gain compliance voluntarily by the inmate, he s refused, so a cell extraction team is called. when they are called, it is meaning that they are going to
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 terrell shropshire. by the next day, things had escalated. the riverbend cell extraction team has been called to remove all items out of unit 3201. 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 a unit manager discovered this today, he wanted all hard items removed from the cell. we have tried to gain compliance voluntarily by the inmate, he s refused, so a cell extraction team is called. when they are called, it is meaning that they are going to forcibly remove an uncooperative inmate from the cell.
this looks like a doctor s waiting room. got little magazines. 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 is contraband, and we are taking it. at riverbend, every electronic item had to be documented and approved by the prison officials. there was no record of the headphones, so they were confiscated by the search team. go ahead and bring him back. later he is led back to his cell. we followed him back to the 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 you take my headphones? there wasn t a number on them.