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With a state-of-the-art facility. >> this is where most of the murders from the riot took place, was this cell block right here. >> this was the site of a 1980 riot. they slaughtered 33 of their own. reminders are everywhere. >> an inmate got chopped up with an ax. what you see here on the floor is indentures and ligature marks where the ax went through the body and carved into the floor. >> one other remnant of the riot is just as grisly but has also been the source of an unexplainable phenomen...

>> in one prisons most notorious cell block, a gray haired man provides an alternative to violence. >> im a pretty harmless guy. its been a pretty friendly kind of relationship. but she loved i. i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] shes right behind me isnt she? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. its hard to turn off and go ba...

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

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> martinez, victor. >> thank you. >> bryan modglin told us hes trying to be a new man, but living on the sensitive need yard with child molesters is a strange twist of fate not lost on him. >> i committed the crime because i was under the impression that the man i killed was molesting my 8-year-old cousin. and then come to find out, by me testifying in court, it put me in the same situation, and the inmate population looked upon me the same as the guy i killed. so a ...

>> while these hobbies simply kill time for some inmates, for joe aske, its a source of income. >> yeah, i make roses. for mothers day and all that 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 ...

>> get on the floor! >> sure enough, the alarm sounds. prison wide, inmates sit down according to protocol. officers catch a man attempting to conceal his homemade slashing weapon. fortunately, a violent act was avoided this time. >> all right. its okay. >> in this cell block its the officer who is at risk during meal time. inmates housed here are considered too violent to be permitted to leave their cells. so its the officers who must deliver the food cell by cell.

>> on fridays, theres a service 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,...

Suicide. inmates who may be suicidal are placed under 24-hour direct supervision. >> 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 whe...

You know, the guy that flashes little kids at pools and sexually molests 13-year-old girls? thats a piece of [ bleep ]. >> schreiber came to limon two days ago and hes obviously scared to be at this facility. because of his offense. so hes acted out in an effort to get locked up. >> if schreiber could have his way, he would remain locked up in administrative segregation, but prison officials are planning to move him to unit one, a general population cell block. >> hes six time back. he knows how...

>> im not even going to say nothing with that door open. >> as staff start to clean up the cell block, we would soon learn that the flooding had to do with another unwelcome presence in ad seg, our crew. >> theyre imagine -- these interviews going on. so this is their way of having a protest. >> the ringleader is george grahf, who is serving three years for motor vehicle theft. >> i believe theyre upset that you guys are interviewing sex offenders and they dont want that to be a representation o...