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Pose. they let us follow at a safe distance. >> inside the cell block, they give him one last chance to comply. >> okay. im only going to ask you one time to comply, and if you dont, we will have to come in and get you. do you comply? >> soon as i get my [ bleep ] back. >> im asking you one more time and thats it. >> with shropshire still refusing orders, the extraction team moves in. >> on the bed. face down. dont resist. dont resist. >> i aint resisting. dont resist. >> i aint resisting. >> tu...

Stuff. these guys -- i sell them. this is made out of toilet paper, right? see this? it says -- the poem, heres a 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 ab...

Is leading early polls. my god, it is two years to the general election, two years to iowa and new hampshire, so many things can happen. the clintons know that better than anybody else, look at their 40-year history in politics. >> should be fascinating. now we found out about the super pacs buying ads that would support her, but that doesnt necessarily mean anything. larry, great to see you. >> thanks, megyn, great to see you. we have uncovered new details in a lawsuit by the feds against a m...

All right. >> when the cell block is clear of all inmates, the search begins. >> by looking inside the cells, by how much content they have in the cell, we can kind of tell who is probably running drugs because theyre running drugs on the yard, they have a lot of what we call canteened store goods, canned goods, tuna, chicken, soups, they have a lot of stuff in their cell. in the drug trade thats how theyre paid. so we have a cell that has a lot of that kind of stuff in it well mark it, well tag...

You know, i dont know, we may be crazy to work here, im not sure. we come here voluntarily every day. >> since the 2000 riot, the level of violence at pelican bay has dropped considerably, but numerous assaults still occur. when they do, the squad must respond like street detectives, carrying all the tools necessary to process the crime scene. when we last visited the prison, our cameras were rolling as one of these assaults occurred inside a cell block. >> theres an alarm in that building right...

>> in the first year that i was here, we had six suicides. which was one after another, quite stunning and quite disconcerting. and when i looked at it, i found there were things we could do to improve our performance in suicide prevention. so weve implemented a variety of procedures in that regard, and they have paid off. the number of suicides has been substantially reduced. >> female inmates who are pregnant when they are arrested are placed in the prenatal cell block at rikers. >> i got aids...

>> in the first year that i was here, we had six suicides. which was one after another, quite stunning and quite disconcerting. and when i looked at it, i found there were things we could do to improve our performance in suicide prevention. so weve implemented a variety of procedures in that regard, and they have paid off. the number of suicides has been substantially reduced. >> female inmates who are pregnant when they are arrested are placed in the prenatal cell block at rikers. >> i got aids...

For muslim inmates in a makeshift mosque. >> the devil is the thing that keeps you and i from being obedient to god. >> we try to encourage them to empower themselves and empower their lives by making a change, so that when they leave here, that they have acclimated in the right mindset back into society. dont get caught up into trying to build a castle in prison. thats not what prison is about. if you build your house in prison, you aint going nowhere. up next, we revisit rikers jail within a...

>> the devil is the thing that keeps you and i from being obedient to god. >> we try to encourage them to empower themselves and empower their lives by making a change, so that when they leave here, that they have acclimated in the right mindset back into society. dont get caught up into trying to build a castle in prison. thats not what prison is about. if you build your house in prison, you aint going nowhere. up next, we revisit rikers jail within a jail. the most dangerous cell block, know...

>> tired of the overcrowding and abuse inside the prison, inmates reached their boiling point on february 2nd, 1980. what ensued was one of the deadliest prison riots in u.s. history. inmate carlos cervantes saw it all happen. >> it was like a bomb exploding, it just went off and the whole prison system was taken over, the whole facility. >> for 36 hours, the riot raged out of control. finally, when national guardsmen entered the facility, they found the interior in ruins. 8 officers and over 10...