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>> its extremely sensitive and crucial that you think for yourself and do what you think is right and not what you think someone else wants to you do. that you know within yourself is wrong. >> while stanley and rankin face new challenges in their adult cell block, 12-year-old paul gingrich has similar issues even in a juvenile prison. >> the difficulty is keeping them safe. typically they are much larger and you like to pick or mess with the smaller kids. he is the easy target, even in al juven...

Rode up on you and punched you in your nose you aint going to do [ bleep ]? you cant sit there and say you wouldnt, mr. wright. and if you would youre lying. if this man came up and punched you in your nose and you seen blood, you are going to sit there and say, well, let me call the police. you just stand right there. hell, no. youre not going to do that. you are going to go to somebodys ass. if they punch you in the nose and you see your nose bleed. if you minding your business -- okay, and th...

Security unit. 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, he 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 are the worst of the worst. >> its aggressive, dangerous, violent, you know. >> in one prisons most notorious cell block, a gray haired man provides an ...

You dont talk to other people. >> you might stare at a person, he might consider that as a sign of disrespect. >> any inmate will tell you, thats the set of rules you follow first. >> on their first morning of shooting at utah state prison, the "lockup" crew entered the wasatch a cell block, home to some of the prisons most violent convicts. we met a group of inmates playing cards and talking about who really runs the prison. >> the guards dont run the section. its all run by your inmates. they ...

Pose. they let us follow at a safe distance. >> inside of the cell block, they give him one last chance to comply. >> okay. i am going to ask you one time to comply and if you dont, we will have to come in and get you. do you comply? >> im going to ask you one more time, and thats it. >> with shropshire still refusing orders, the extraction team moves in. >> on the bed. face down. dont resist. dont resist. >> i aint resisting. >> turn him over. face down. >> gentlemen, take him out to the rec ya...

>> are you getting used to this cell block, and it being -- >> well, these cells are larger than the ones we used to have over there. >> so you liking it better? >> its better. much better. >> it is better? >> yes. >> different. >> manuel ortiz, convicted of murdering his wife and her friend, has been on the row since 1996. >> if you dont exercise your mind or your body, you know, it starts to deteriorate. we try to use push-ups, you know, squats, things of that nature. because imagine 40 years ...

In my favor. in regards to going to the hole. >> coming up -- >> it happens. >> george grahf faces the disciplinary board for flooding his cell block. >> you know it happens here, you know. >> an unexpected development infuriates michael gill and more trouble for timothy schreiber. >> he had his hands down his pants making the masturbating motion. ortant are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil s...

>> 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 is schreiber, you know, the guy that flashes little kids at pools and sexually molests 13-year-old girls? thats a piece of [ bleep ]....

>> 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. >> this is their way of having a protest. >> the ring leader of the flooding 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 ...

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, just little plastic bottle caps. >> tell me what the legality is here. >> there wasnt w...