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[ speaking in foreign language ] >> this is a privilege and a blessing. >> 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 abou...

>> the video doesnt show an assault taking place. it shows that nobody entered or exited the cell other than the two and they didnt come out for breakfast, they didnt come out for lunch. >> woods was taken to the custody control unit, a high-security cell block where he will be locked into a single person cell 23 hours a day pending the results of the investigation. >> go ahead and strip down. socks and everything. everything. and put that on. >> they put us in a room. they dont give us no manua...

So it is preferable for them to put one family in each cellblock. they manage their own affairs and their people as needed. >> rimonim staff also sees a strategic advantage to keeping crime families together. >> translator: the moment that i have dominant prisoners in the cell block, i know, when needed, how to send them a message that they have to be straight and keep their people in line. and when there is a crisis, i use them as a mouthpiece to reach the rest of the population. >> but this pr...

>> at the limon correctional facility in colorado, we met inmates who have had more permanent transformations. aaron cooper, serving 10 years for assault and escape, didnt stretch his ear lobes until he got to prison. >> did it about four years ago when i was in ad seg. no reason, really. i just like the way it looked. it started with the tooth of a comb and started wrapping saran wrap around it and got it fatter and fatter. this was bigger than i wanted to go, but these were the only things tha...

In segregation they have been returned to unit two, a cell block already populated with several other 211 gang members. >> holloman and wright are two guys that i want to keep together. well, theyre known 211 members. you think if you have all of one group in one area it seems like, okay, theres too many of them in one group. but theyre actually much more manageable that way. theyre happier that way. which makes me happy. well, well, well. my favorite two. so heres what going to happen. ready? >...

Into the cell block from the second tier. >> they flooded the tier. thats awesome. >> they are loving it. they are just absolutely loving it. all right. what happened? >> i have no idea. >> whats it look like happened? >> 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 havin...

Confined to limons administrative segregation unit, inmate george grahf still found a way to make a statement when he flooded his cell and unleashed a deluge on to the rest of the cell block. and then refused to leave his cell, prompting a forced cell extraction. >> it makes a point. heres the thing. ill explain this real simply. is my actions, right, that day affected how many people? >> lots. >> okay. their actions only affected who? me, right? it might be petty. it might be stupid. you got to...

Planning to move him to unit one, a general population cell block. >> hes six time back. he knows how they treat sex offenders, you know. and we tried to explain to him how, you know, we have the large amount of sex offenders out here and we deal with the population pretty well. this morning i think we probably got through to him. >> lets move him down to one and let the process run its course and explain to him how it works, that if he does come up with issues, he needs to talk with piper, and ...

At. thats not going to happen to limon. youll go through just like every other inmate that comes in here does. if that means you go out in population, thats what youre going to go. if we verify custody issues and we move you, thats where you go. but youre going to do our process. were not going to do yours. >> im going to do everything in my power to make, you know, the system work for me, in my favor. >> entering -- >> in regards to going to the hole. >> coming up -- >> [ bleep ] happens. >> ge...

>> over the years, stone has grown less violent and more committed to his prison job, which today will take him to the fifth floor of "i" cell house. the intensive detention unit. the most dreaded cell block at isp. >> theres currently about 99 people, thats our maximum capacity, here on idu. and here -- this is what its like pretty much every day. youve got -- you walk out pretty much with a lot of headaches every day. this is like prison within prison. someone is going to try to gun you down. ...