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Cuff key, theyre now in search of another key. a missing key. -- it is we hope either an officer inadvertently took them home and hasnt realized it yet, but apparently all the phone calls have been made and everyone claims they dont have the keys. so what were going to do is tear this level apart. i want you two, youre going to check the clinic. you two, start tearing this core apart, give her a hand. were going to literally tear this whole level apart, cell by cell. >> the missing key is to the...

>> okay, they do. we will be monkeying around in your water wells. if you call the briefing room and i dont answer right away, 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 ag...

>> hey, i need that dude up there strip searched. >> the special response team 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 they find themselves taking on very different duties. >> gentlemen, get up. >> one minute it ca...

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 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 just go to the back water well, full of plumbing. since we have...

A disciplinary report. >> i have possession of a weapon, possession of a handcuff key. several disrespects. a couple fighting drs. since incarcerated, i still combine four of them to fines. >> caught with the cuff key, already when he was in this unit. now he must face the institutional classification team, or ict. could they change his status from close management level two to level one? the highest security level in the entire prison. >> youre currently in class management 2. classification of...

>> man, 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. it they knew we 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 foktoe duran, but in bowdens deodorant container. >> if we cant find this, no telling what w...

Be able to grip it. >> yeah, but the dimensions right, though. >> yeah. somebody told me. make them at one point in time. >> the cuff key -- >> $25. >> all right. look. this somewhat we need do. go with him and get the balanced property packed up. were going to ship him over and place in heightened security single cell over there. get him out, his stuff packed up and get him out of here. >> sometimes the risk has to be taking. if i make it and get caught, i get the consequences and have to accep...

>> -- who they incorrectly suspected of having a homemade cuff key, they are now in search of another key, a missing key. >> we hope either an officer inadvertently took them home and hasnt realized it yet, but apparently all the phone calls have been made and everyone claims they dont have the key. so what were going to do is tear this level apart. i want you two, youre going to check the clinic. you two, start tearing this core apart, give her a hand. were going to literally tear this whole le...

Way through the darkened water well to cell six in order to check on the inmate suspected of having the homemade cuff key. >> this is cell six right here but hes got his window blocked so i dont know what hes doing inside. >> with his first surveillance attempt foiled, nicholas turns to more conventional means to confirm the inmate is asleep. >> whens your next security walk? >> nicholas asks one of the jails detention officers to walk by the inmates cell. >> dont do anything out of the ordinary...

Them to put their junk, when theyre not. theyre for us. >> sergeant nicholas makes his way through the darkened water well to cell six in order to check on the inmate suspected of having the homemade cuff key. >> this is cell six right here but hes got his window blocked so i dont know what hes doing inside. >> with his first surveillance attempt foiled, nicholas turns to more conventional means to confirm the inmate is asleep. >> whens your next security walk? >> nicholas asks one of the jails ...