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Woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. and each job created by the energy industry supports two others in the community. altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. these are jobs that natural gas is helping make happen, all while reducing americas emissions. energy lives here. on corcorans a yard, after weeks of waiting, inmates clarence and terry receive approval to be cellies. >> you have to have a good cellie. youre ...

And make a snief. the sewing needing is made out of stainless steel. it will cut this metal that they use. over a period of time you can shave a knife out of your toilet as long as the cops dont find it in your toilet. theres many things you can do to make the weapon. its not that hard. in high desert we have amounts that you got the haircut. they pull us out the sail and take us out to get haircuts. when they search us for yard, they didnt find anything. we went out to yard and found the knife ...

>> so far we found nine in an hour span, hour and a half span. were about two-thirds done with this yard. >> this here looks like its made out of aluminum, probably something from a kitchen, aluminum cart, probably aluminum cart. looks like it comes from the fence, some kind of tie-down. these older ones like this one is definitely aluminum from a food cart. the handles are usually made out of cloth, like this one right here, thats made out of a sheet wrapped with tape. some of these inmates her...

>> got to have some kind of hustle while youre in here. i braid hair, so, like this here, i just charge a dollar. when were in jail we still want to try to look as presentable as possible. >> you know what i mean, we only get friday, sunday, holidays. a lot of times you dont know when theyre coming. in case you might want to take a picture, you know, you look your best. appreciate it, junior. >> guard recall. guard recall. >> the kite found on b yard brought the officers no closer to the locatio...

Than 40 weapons on this yard from different racial groups, which is an indication that there is problems that are brewing. were just kind of out here showing force, maybe get some intel to why and whats going on, why so many weapons. >> while we were talking with some northern hispanic inmates over here, patting them down, i noticed the one in the middle was financial ettinger his tongue around, moving his lips. so, i asked him to open his mouth, flashlight on, i could see sell feign underneath ...

Than on the yard. >> waiting for transfers. generally all our whites hang out over here and our asians are on this side. you have a lot of southern hispanics on the other side playing ball with the whites. toward the tower, you have a lot of northerner hispanic inmates and a lot of black hispanic inmates hang out over there. thats where they workout over there. this is sort of the west side of the yard. just on the other side of the yard, the east side of the yard where the dip bars and everythi...

Rape. >> within the 275-acre penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe. a prison within a prison. shoe inmates spend about 22 hours of every day in solitary confinement. locked up in an 8 x 10 windowless cement cell with little human contact. inside the shoe are about 1,000 level-four prisoners, what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens dont want or cant handle. dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. >> because of their gang leadership, th...

Basically what theyll do is eat it like that with the dope on it or sometimes heat it up and the dope will come out of the letter and they will use it. but more than likely chop it up and sell it, piece by piece. his argument will be that he didnt know it was coming in. its coming in off the street, he just has to say didnt know it was coming in. this is an actual address, turn it over to the squad and let it -- them know that it tested positive. it will actually be up to them. see what they wan...

Erupts. >> just like that, somebody gives somebody a cue, and its people chasing other people with knives. >> a full-scale attack. the southern hispanics ambushed the black guerilla family. within seconds b yard becomes a war zone. >> there was a lot of confusion and a lot of chaos. the level of violence on this one yard at that one day, that one moment, was as large as i had ever seen in my life. >> nursing director jim anderson is at the shoe gate when he hears the explosion of a tear gas cani...

Inside the shoe are about 1,000 level-four prisoners, what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens dont want or cant handle. dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. >> because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community to commit these types of crimes. >> and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. its sunday, and its raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire p...