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System. >> we run the prison. we have the towers. we have the fences. and we keep control of the inmates. >> to crack down on contraband and violence, usp instituted a policy of controlled movement. no two cell blocks are ever in the same common areas at the same time. >> things are changing. this place now, its that new mentality would get tough on crimes. its kind of working, man, because they aint messing around no more, man. they want to build more prisons. they want to keep us down. and the...

>> we run the prison. we have the towers. we have the fences. and we keep control of the inmates. >> to crack down on contraband and violence, usp instituted a policy of controlled movement. no two cell blocks are ever in the same common areas at the same time. >> things are changing over there. this place now, its that new mentality with get tough on crime. its kind of working, man, because, you know, they dont mess around no more, man. they want to build more prisons. they want to keep us down...

Prisons throughout california. >> here at san quentin i work for a unit called the investigative services unit. the inmates call us the goon squad. >> the specially trained officers assigned to these units are constantly working to intercept gang communications and to disrupt plans for drug smuggling and other illicit activities. another one of their functions is to validate an inmates gang affiliation. >> you need three identifiers to validate a gang member. tattoos, known association with anot...

The man runs this joint now. what i mean by the man is the system. >> we run the prison. we have the towers. we have the fences. and we keep control of the inmates. >> to crack down on contraband and violence, usp instituted a policy of controlled movement. no two cell blocks are ever in the same common areas at the same time. >> things are changing. this place now, its that new mentality would get tough on crimes. its kind of working, man, because they aint messing around no more, man. they wan...

>> we run the prison. we have the towers. we have the fences. and we keep control of the inmates. >> to crack down on contraband and violence, usp instituted a policy of controlled movement. no two cell blocks are ever in the same common areas at the same time. >> things are changing. this place now, its that new mentality would get tough on crimes. its kind of working, man, because the name isnt around no more, man. they want to build more prisons. they want to keep us down. and theyre doing it...

Their lives almost every day. >> they look for vulnerable spots. they look for times when you do let your guard down. >> this is death row. in fact, this is californias only male death row where the method of execution is lethal injection. this is where youll find such vicious killers as richard ramirez, the so-called night stalker, and richard allen davis, the killer of polly klaas. today, the condemned population has grown to a staggering 581, well beyond san quentins ability to handle them. t...

Rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. its a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. its made up of ten separate jails, most of them barracks. but some regular cell blocks, as well. strauss-kahn has...

an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. its a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. its made up of ten separate jails, most of them b...

Conditions are appalling. built more 3600, it now houses nearly 10,000. >> in peru, officially, we assume that the criminals had a second chance, and they have to be rehabilitated, but the reality unfortunately is not normally like that, because we dont have enough funds. we dont have enough money and budget. >> reporter: with mass overcrowding, the 21 cell blocks can easily explode into civil war. in 1986, in just one day, 124 prisoners died. with only 100 guards to police 10,000 violent crimin...

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