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>> 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. >> this is one of the most

>> 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...

The first time it was for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. >> my wife and i hadnt been getting along for quite a while. i wanted her to go to the bedroom to -- to have some sex, and i hadnt had any sex for seven months. and so it was kind of the straw that broke the camels back when she told me to get out because i was drinking. and i loaded my 9 millimeter glock and went back in to the living room. and i said im not going to lay a hand on you, but im going to get your attention. i aimed...

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 about it and got it fatter and fatter. this was bigger than i wanted to go, but these were the only things that were round enough that when the officers could take them, i could put more back in,...

Thats what i did for a hustle. guys that were having problems that were owed money and couldnt get it, theyd come to me and say, will you collect this for us? id say, yeah, but i get half. id go up there and split their wig and say, you got a week to get the money, or the next time im not going to be nice. >> 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 dre...

>> 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 having a protest. >> the ringleader is george g...

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 understand, we liv...

I got a job. ill make more money than anyone in here when i get out, you know? this aint my life. >> good. i hope i never see you again. >> im going to move up here. is there a lot of work? are they hiring at dennys? >> no, no, theres no work. no housing. nothing. theres nothing out here. >> but later, the levity gave way to an ominous warning when gill talked about the one inmate on his cell block who could cause him to prolong his stay in prison. >> his name i believe is schrever or schreiber....

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. >> george grahf faces the disciplinary board for flooding his cell block. >> you know what happens here. >> an unexpected development ç infuriates michael gill. and more trouble for timothy schreiber. >> as i was walking by for count, he had his hands down his

Weapons. >> keep your eyes open. keep your ears open. do your normal cell searches, handle your business and be safe. >> a large team of correctional officers will search every square inch of their cells. first, all the inmates are removed. first for weapons, then taken out to the yard. >> 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 thi...