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Family in each cell block. 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 abu ganim maintains he plays a larger role in ...

>> commander shen has a different take on who maintains order in the cell block. >> translator: we are the ones who maintain order, not the prisoners. even though they may say otherwise, theres a very clear organization. there are rules for behavior for order that are very clear, and the prisoners know them. coming up, inside rimonims religious wing. a former israeli soldier recounts his role in a military gang rape. >> translator: i held a cocked gun towards him. >> we discover the surprising...

I prefer not to say. >> commander shen has a different take on who maintains order in the cell block. >> translator: we are the ones who maintain order, not the prisoners. even though they may say otherwise, theres a very clear organization. there are rules for behavior for order that are very clear, and the prisoners know them. coming up, inside rimonims religious wing. a former israeli soldier recounts his role in a military gang rape. >> translator: i held a cocked gun towards him. >> we di...

Prison. >> right here its just a lot of ink that they use for tattooing. and thats a homemade tattoo gun. right here is a hypodermic needle. >> where did you niend? >> in a male inmates cell. you have to be crazy to work here. we come here voluntarily every day. >> the squad must respond like street detectives carrying all the tools necessary to process the crime scene. pelican bay has over 900 violent assaults per year and the squad respond to every one of them. msnbcs cameras were rolling as o...

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,...

Go ahead and strip down. >> both brothers will be strip searched before and after the visit. theyre allowed only brief physical contact. their conversation will be monitored by surveillance cameras. >> this is the only time ive seen him in the two years weve been down. ihink about my family a lot, but other than that stuff, i really dont think about none of that. makes it easier just to forget it. cope with it. >> make sure you give your i.d. to the officer. >> while bennie nervously waits for h...

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 live in a box. i live in a box. thats it. my life is in a box. we have nothing else to do. i had the joy of knowing that i ...

Population, thats what youre going to do. 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. >> george grahf faces the disciplinary board for flooding his cell block. >> you know what happens here. >> an unexpected development infuriates...

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...

>> 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 mad that 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 ...