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>> bowden who is serving a 21-year sense for armed robbery says this isnt the first time hes received a dr during his time in prison. a disciplinary report. >> ive had possession of a weapon dr, possession of a handcuff key. you know several disrespects. a couple fighting drs. during my seven years since i been incarcerated i felt about four of them confined. >> bowden was already in the prisons close management system when he was caught with the cuff key. >> stand right here. >> 0052. >> now he...

Security. okay? >> roger. >> later, bowden explained he made the key from a battery. >> you take the outside casing. you have to roll it so youll be able to grip it. thats the point of rolling it for. >> how did you get the dimensions right, though? >> yeah. somebody taught me. >> truthfully i used to make them and sell them at one point in time. >> the cuff key -- >> $25. >> all right. look. this somewhat we need do. go with him and get the balance of his property packed up. were going to ship ...

Get down! >> hey, i need that dude up there strip searched. >> the special response teams at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, have a broad range of responsibilities. they respond to crisis situations. >> go, go, go! >> conduct cell inspections for weapons and drugs. >> once theyre strip searched theyre going into the rec yard. >> and escort high-profile inmates to court, to name a few. but sometimes these elite law enforcement officers find themselves taking on very different duties...

Give me a couple minutes to get back here. >> sergeant nicholas heads the special response team that will attempt to retrieve the key. but to prevent the inmate from swallowing it, they must catch him by surprise. >> lets go to the water well. what the water well is, its basically a plumbers access. you know, the toilets are mounted against the wall, the sinks mounted against the wall. we dont necessarily go in the cell to fix these. we go into the backwater well. the back walkway, its full of p...

The maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, have a broad range of responsibilities. they respond to crisis situations. >> go, go, go! >> conduct cell inspections for weapons and drugs. >> once theyre strip searched theyre going into the rec yard. >> and escort high-profile inmates to court, to name a few. but sometimes these elite law enforcement officers find themselves taking on very different duties. >> gentlemen, get up. >> one minute it can be exciting and one minute it can be youre looki...

>> hey, i need that dude up there strip searched. >> the special response teams at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, have a broad range of responsibilities. they respond to crisis situations. >> go, go, go! >> conduct cell inspections for weapons and drugs. >> once theyre strip searched theyre going into the rec yard. >> and escort high-profile inmates to court, to name a few. but sometimes these elite law enforcement officers find themselves taking on very different duties. >> gentl...

Special response team that will attempt to retrieve the key. but to prevent the inmate from swallowing it, they must catch him by surprise. >> lets go to the water well. what the water well is, its basically a plumbers access. you know, the toilets are mounted against the wall, the sinks mounted against the wall. we dont necessarily go in the cell to fix these. we go into the backwater well. the back walkway, its full of plumbing. since we have the water well built, they decided, lets put window...

Give me a couple minutes to get back here. >> sergeant nicholas heads the special response team that will attempt to retrieve the key. but to prevent the inmate from swallowing it, they must catch him by surprise. >> lets go to the water well. what the water well is, its basically a plumbers access. you know, the toilets are mounted against the wall, the sinks mounted against the wall. we dont necessarily go in the cell to fix these. we go into the backwater well. the back walkway, its full of p...

>> what do you got there? >> maam, thats a cuff key. thats a homemade cuff key made out of metal. thats a homemade cuff key. this right here can get somebody killed. this is why we do our shakedowns and do them at random. if they knew we were coming we would have never found this. it would have been gone. they would have flushed it. this right here is very serious. >> the key has been discovered in the cell of inmates lionel bowden and fostoe duran, but it was in bowdens deodorant container. >> ...

A disciplinary report. >> ive had possession of a weapon dr, possession of a handcuff key. you know several disrespects. a couple fighting drs. during my seven years since i been incarcerated i felt about four of them confined. >> bowden was already in the prisons close management system when he was caught with the cuff key. >> stand right here. >> 0052. >> now he must face the institutional classification team or ict who could they change his status from close management level two to level one,...