the fact we were lifers, we were probably going to have to stab people. first thing that got into my head was we better get some knives. living on the street, you learn one thing. you survive by any means necessary. you do whatever it takes to get out of a situation like that. so if that means i have to become an accomplice, so be it. i m not going to die. you know, i m just too young. it became it came from there. and they said i was to go on a mission. my mission was to stab a man who came from another yard who was supposedly no good because they wouldn t have jump off in a riot after they got attacked. the woods in the riot were no good because they wouldn t attack the blacks after they got attacked. i stabbed this man three times and i got away with it. i walked off into the middle of the yard before the buzzer went off on the yard before everybody to get off. i had blood all over my hands. i was trying to get it off, so i licked the blood off my hands to get away with the crime.
so far we found nine in an hour and a half span and we re about two-thirds done with this yard. this looks like it s aluminum, probably something made out of the kitchen, probably an aluminum part. and a spike, from a fence or some kind of tie down. and this is aluminum from a food cart right here. the handles are usually made out of cloth, like this one here. that s made out of a sheet wrapped with tape. some of these inmates here, part of the code is to always have something on them to protect themselves, whether it s on them themselves or the yard. whatever area you re in as far as your race or gang affiliation, you have something there to protect yourself with. these officers may have prevented another attack by successfully recovering the hidden weapons. they weren t the first and won t be the last made.
very structured and they have positions and the whole biz. you know? they have positions. good find? yep. with the weapons still hidden somewhere on the yard, these kites may be the officers key to their discovery. out in the yard. that way and that way. bring it out. here we go. another fine day, gents. yes, sir. keep moving, keep moving. here we go, come on out. clear! corcoran inmates self-segregate to protect themselves. no place is this more evident than on the yard.
or staff, they re sent to the security housing unit or shu, which is essentially a prison within a prison. inmates like jeremy spend the majority of their time in an 8 x 12 cell. the first words i ever heard from another inmate was welcome to hell. it was a zoo for men. our producers were granted an interview with jeremy towner under strict supervision of the officers because of his violent history. ten days was the orientation top stay in the cell, i guess, and then after the ten days were up, we were allowed to go to the yard and we met other inmates who told us there was a structure to live in. whites live with white, hang out with the whites on the yard. you don t deal with any other race.
his last. jeremy is currently held in the security housing unit for yet another violent attack. there was a man off a level three for beating up a child molester. the story was the child molester was going to get stabbed the next day and he let the child molester off easy by beating him up. so i was sent to stab him. so we went out to the outside concrete yard, and i had a six-inch knife brought out there through the security and all that. we knew how to get past the cop security, and i stabbed him multiple times, and he died within five minutes. that s why i m here in the shu, so for murder. how are you getting the knives around? it s easy.