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>> do you think you belong here? >> i dont know. no. >> what are you guys playing? >> spades. >> do i look down on anyone here? i try not to judge anyone. i dont want to be judged myself. what if i was being judged? >> have you had a chance to give her any advice since shes new? >> you have to ask. >> while monahan is considered the new girl on the cell block, brenda brewer says shes had well over 100 stays here. while her presence often brings smiles to others, she says her life has a dark and ...

Rule 38 violations are just one more thing to take in stride. >> whether male or female, when you come in, they always going to try to see how far they can push your button. theyll gun you down. i mean, theyre not going to get me so out of whack where i would have to go take prozac or something. i dont play that. if i catch them, im going to write em up. i just dont play that. next on "lockup: raw." >> these offenders are the worst of the worst. >> its aggressive, dangerous, its violent. you k...

These surprise raids are usually successful in finding weapons. but present a unique challenge for "lockup" crews. >> it is action. its real action. the only thing that you have to be careful of, you dont want to piss off the cell block. kind of run the risk of alienating the very guys youre trying to extract stories and cooperation from. so, we always hope that if there is going to be a raid, that its towards the end of our tour at the prison. >> but tv crew concerns are the last thing on the m...

An eyeball out. >> then clear the evidence. >> then you clear the evidence. and your work station is clean. >> there was a slashing over badger section, involved hispanics. the hispanics are now on lockdown. actually theyve got the entire badger section on lockdown. >> our crew was at san quentin just hours after an inmate was slashed across the face with a shank. the attacker was identified and put in administrative segregation for questioning. but now the entire cell block is about to be searc...

Is called, it means theyre getting ready to forcibly remove an uncooperative inmate from his cell. when you see them all suited up in riot gear and face masks, you get a sense of how serious they take these procedures and the threat that they pose. they let us follow at a safe distance. >> inside the cell block, an officer gives shropshire one last chance to comply. >> okay, ill ask how one time to comply. if you dont well have to come in and get your hard items, if you dont comply. >> [ bleep ]...

Special flower to say i love and miss you. made from 14 little squares of prison toilet tissue. finding new and different ways to make you laugh or smile makes running out of toilet paper almost seem worthwhile. and people, they actually put them in the letter, send it home. but i make -- i should make two bucks off this tonight so i can smoke a cigarette later. thats what its all about. >> cigarettes are expensive, huh? >> $2 a cigarette, wow. >> in our three months inside san quentin, our prod...

Made from 14 little squares of prison toilet tissue. finding new and different ways to make you laugh or smile makes running out of toilet paper almost seem worthwhile. and people, they actually put them in the letter, send it home. but i make -- i should make two bucks off this tonight so i can smoke a cigarette later. thats what its all about. >> cigarettes are expensive, huh? >> $2 a cigarette, wow. >> in our three months inside san quentin, our production crew barely found a quiet moment. th...

Up coming to an sny yard, where im surrounded by the same type of people that are actually convicted of the crime that i thought the guy i killed actually committed. >> on brians own cell block, there are several sex offenders like this inmate, whose identity corcoran asked us to conceal. >> i was a minister on the streets and had been for 45 years. my charges against me was for having a relationship with ladies under 17 years of age or 18 years of age, and so i have 15 to life sentence for that...

Up coming to an sny yard, where im surrounded by the same type of people that are actually convicted of the crime that i thought the guy i killed actually committed. >> on brians own cell block, there are several sex offenders like this inmate, whose identity corcoran asked us to conceal. >> i was a minister on the streets and had been for 45 years. my charges against me was for having a relationship with ladies under 17 years of age or 18 years of age, and so i have 15 to life sentence for that...

>> one of the inmates came down from the dormitory areas. and he had on his belt, tied to his side, the human head of a black man. this individual proceeded to take this head and gripped this head by his hair and he went over to that young guard that was crying, and he ordered that guard to kiss that head. and the inmates recorded in cellblock four never had a prayer. cell block four was the pc, protective custody unit. >> the rapists, you know, the child molesters, the snitches. >> i was told t...