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Few days earlier, right before he shaved his head. >> i work out pretty much seven days a week. every once in a while, i take a day off. just part of my program. every morning, i come out here and do this. i feel like im doing something productive, start off the day right. >> while boshears and evans have seemingly beat their habit and gained their health in prison, they told us this might all be temporary. >> im going to try to get out and do the right thing, but i really cant say that. im goin...

La, la, la. yeah, baby, thats right. >> never sleep. >> never sleep. >> boshears landed in prison after a robbery to support his meth habit earned him 18 years. >> i went through the whole progression from cocaine to heroin and on up and just been a speed freak for years now. >> yeah, my whole life has been dope. >> dope, dope, dope. >> i was a crackhead. i know crack is disgusting. >> he was a crackhead. i was a heroin addict. >> i was a crackhead for two years of my life. my wife left me and t...

These officers quest to stop the inflow of contraband into corcoran is never-ending. >> letter coming in to a gang member and caught this letter, if you look at it you can tell its been wet at one time and then dried. you can really feel that it has something on it. so, i would test it with a nik test to see fit comes back as a presumptive positive test for amphetamines. see how the paper turns brown right away? thats a positive test for amphetamines right there. if it would have gone through ba...

♪ ♪ corcoran holds more than 5,000 inmates with an average stay of just under 22 years. these inmates have plenty of time to get involved with violence. >> the smallest indiscretion could kick off straight war. >> hand to hand transactions of dope, weapons, whatever. >> there have been more than 350 stabbings since the prison opened its doors in 1988. >> i enjoy hurting people. >> they dont play games here. >> bottom line, its easy to get into corcoran. >> armed robberies, whatever i have ...

Because theres no -- >> despite his generally upbeat outlook, william has a surprisingly bleak prediction of life ahead. >> im going to stay here until it is time to go home and they open the door and say good-bye. of course, im going to leave out of here with maybe enough money to live off of for a week. im not going to be able to support myself so eventually will lead me back to selling dope and if im selling dope im going to indulge in dope i sell. one thing leads to the other and im back in ...

Hand to hand transactions of dope, weapons, whatever. if you had it in your coat pocket just walking by, could look like a pen. obviously these guys dont want to poke themselves, either. >> well do an investigation. we can dust it for prints and see if we can come up with a good print, try to determine who is bringing weapons in here and who is pushing them out. >> looks like another piece of metal, maybe some sharpened metal stock. these lips, thats where theyre putting them. >> we need to chec...

Syndicate and the mexican mafia. we monitor their mail, activity when they come out of cells. whatever they do, were watching them. we get a lot of information from the building cops. we cant stress that enough. they help us out a lot, with a lot of kites they find, letters, weapons, dope, everything. >> i say its never ending. every day we find something new. this letter just came on my desk this morning. we may find kites later on today. we have a lot of work to do as you can see our desk here...

Does it cause brain cells to grow? >> it causes brain cells to die. thats why its called dope. its a gateway drug. >> cocaine, pills. >> across the board. youre talking about unfortunately the destruction of the fabric of a country. if we get that dependent on this, were going to end up? a lot of trouble. these kids dont realize theyre co compulsive. they have a disease. they are desperate for anxiety relief. theyre not getting it. theres a whole effect of emf on the brain. the electronic device...

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At least nicotine raises iq and so does wine. but this is the one drug that just destroys motivation, concentration, memory and its a worse choice. we have other things, electrical devices, hormones that intate marijuana. this generation of 20-year-olds whose brains are incompletely developed, they are kids. >> she doesnt want to hear -- >> damaged for life. >> why are you so hostile to this? this is a fundamental question because these are a lot of young people and young 18, 22, thats young rel...