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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. >> i got my baby, i got more kids. i want to go to a program from here for nine months and pull my life together. >> georgina ...

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, known as cpsu. the best things in life are the real things. nature valley trail mix bars are made with real ingredients you can see. like who...

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, known as cpsu.

And what you do here is you can either put a tip on it right here, sharpen it down on the concrete to where youd have a piece that -- and its actually -- >> just a matter of minutes. and this wouldnt even be detected in the metal detector at all. >> no. >> somebody gets to the yard real quick, real quick, use it, throw, it flush it, youve gotten it over with. >> you can throw it into somebodys heart, pop a jugular vein, take an eyeball out. >> and then you clear the evidence. >> and then you cle...

The prison has restaffed its security towers, added a new one, and stepped up inspections for escape attempts. despite the restrictions now placed on his movements, moon still feels the attempt was worth it. >> aside from getting caught, i dont regret it one bit. id do it again tomorrow if i could. next on "lockup raw" -- >> these offenders are the worst of the worst. >> its aggressive, its dangerous, its violent, you know. >> in one prisons most notorious cell block, a gray-haired man provide...

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 about. >> cigarettes are expensive? >> $2 a cigarette, wow. >> ...

High-security cell block where hell be locked in a single-person cell 23 hours a day pending the final results of the investigation. >> go ahead and strip out. socks, everything. everything. go ahead and put that on. >> they put us in a room. they dont give us no manual to the teach us how to live in a box with another man. its really hard. really hard. especially if they have seizures, any time they hurt themselves, you get blamed for it. coming up, joshua bean faces new troubles following a ...

He has been given an 18-month term in the prisons intensive detention unit where he will be locked up 18 hour as day and will not be permitted to associate with other inmates. on his way to idu, hes allowed one last good-bye. >> where are you going? >> a year and a half. >> i love you. >> you too, bub. >> stay out of trouble, kid. >> this will be harrisons first time on idu. with good behavior, he might not serve the entire year and a half, but thats small consolation on this cell block, a place...

Up coming to an sny yard, where im surrounded by the same type of people that are actually convicted of the crime that i thought the guy i killed actually committed. >> on brians own cell block, there are several sex offenders like this inmate, whose identity corcoran asked us to conceal. >> i was a minister on the streets and had been for 45 years. my charges against me was for having a relationship with ladies under 17 years of age or 18 years of age, and so i have 15 to life sentence for that...

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 lie 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. [ yelling ] >> there is an alarm in that building right there. a3. staff responds. so, this is an actual alarm...