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>> i got done putting the camera down. my cameraman was walking around. and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. he was pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived becaus...

For giving up information, for giving up game. for explaining how it is in here. >> thats a ten-four. well keep that area clear until were complete. >> as in most prisons, the exercise yard can be the most dangerous place in the facility. >> right off the bat you can tell when something is going to go on. it gets quiet. guys are grouping up in different races. youve got blacks, whites, everybody. >> if violence does break out, yard gunner hosso is well equipped to respond. >> co gas. i have bato...

>> many of them have this warrior mentality. >> by getting that recognition, i get power. >> my job was to go in there and kill him and went in with the intention of killing him. with power i get every one i go to. >> youre surrounded by, you know, a thousand killers. and every one of them did a stranger. >> once i control the yards i control the drug situation. i control the inmates as well. >> we were actually killing people that didnt deserve to be killed. >> this is californias san quentin s...

>> if you are an active gang member or an active hispanic within the group, you are expected to be up at 6:00 in the morning when they go to the exercise yard together, they do exercises together in cadence. thats one of the rules. you have to. you dont have a choice. you have to participate. what they are told to do is expect to have a fight any time the cell doors open. with their weapons readily available. you notice when the cell doors open, whatever inmates inside that cell will walk to the...

Its not uncommon for emergency response team to be deployed once or twice a week. >> with new deputies coming from the academy and others heading out to patrol the street, training for the emergency response team is constant. >> we train several days a week probably on a routine basis. all three shifts around the clock. >> i wont make any announcement to that fact that, hey, were going to have a drill tonight. i believe you train the way you deploy. and that the -- i have an old saying is that w...

Castillo has been transported from a small cell in downtown mens central jail to a large dormitory with exercise yard at north facility. this is where he will spend the rest of his 180-day sentence. >> well, i have been here since wednesday. you come out here for two hours -- i think its about two hours every day except saturday and sunday. its pretty cool. you get to see the sun and the warm heat. you dont get to see any green, but the only green you see is the deputies suits. theyre a little s...

In the institution to conceal things or sometimes even hidden compartments. >> when inmates are released to the exercise yard, they never know if officer berrago was looking in their cell. when they return, there will be no doubt he was there. nothing is overlooked. >> tubes of toothpaste. try to see the integrity has not been broken. a lot of times theyll stick stuff down in and retrieve it later. you got these speed sticks, stuff like that. usually what well have to do is go all the way throug...

Loss of protection. on the exercise yard, there are no bars keeping rival gangs apart, only a desire to carve out their own place in the sun. >> this is the lower yard. and the inmates segregate themselves out here. and the reason being that the gangs want it that way. john gladson is a veteran officer at san quentin, with 19 years of experience observing yard politics. this has helped him to fine tune his senses for predicting trouble. >> sound is a big thing in prison. if you look out, this ya...

That. and so you cant let your guard down. >> warden diana butler knows the importance of communicating with inmates. shes only 1 of 11 female wardens in california, and with 20 years of service, she knows what to look for. >> one thing you develop when you work here is how to read the inmates. if you go on to an exercise yard, a lot of times they will have magazines inside of their jackets, and, of course, that is to stop any potential violence such as stab wounds or something. and if they appe...

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