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I guess you cant reach up there, can you? ill get them. >> you had to point that out, didnt you, partner? >> i cant help it. i call them like i see them. >> by 10:00 a.m., search teams had confiscated several homemade weapons, including sharpened bed springs and blades. the search was a success. and as a result, several prisoners will be prosecuted. coming up, inmates and the politics of staying alive on the exercise yard. but first, a provocative and personal look at how inmates remain sane...

Because i think it could -- >> i feel just fine. >> because you get all these thoughts rushing in your head. >> its like this -- its like this. the guy next door could be on a medication. and then theyll keep me around him for three months. and then ill get out of prison. and ill be him. little do i know hes a psycho killer. and im not. next thing you know, im running around with psycho killer. and they think i need medication. i dont need medication. >> under law in california state prisons, a ...

When an inmate arrives at san quentin, he quickly learns that he needs to find a gang or a group with whom he can affiliate himself. even if he is not a gang banger on the outside, not belonging means going it alone. and, more importantly, a serious 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 gang...

Heavy. if we allowed things lineback that to continue, whats going to happen is theyre going to start fighting. the possibility of other people getting involved. . >> though it ended peacefully, our cameras encountered a different situation in californias pelican bay prison. >> having a routine yard release. >> our producer was conducting an interview while a second camera was shooting routine footage on the yard below. then suddenly -- >> there in that building. >> our camera is searching for a...

Some of the most violent gang attacks have taken place here at california state prison corcorans security housing unit, or shu. we visited the shus now vacant exercise yard, which has been the scene of some of the prisons most brutal violence. ♪ >> i can see why fights went on in that exercise yard.

Merely protecting. >> well have much more on that story and first headlines to get to this morning. >> insurgent launched a predawn attack on two nato bases in afghanistans khost province. 18 insurgents were killed. one of the bases attacked was camp chapman. >> new information overnight. correctional officers in san francisco had to open fire after 200 inmates started rioting in the folsom state prison. 7 inmates were hurt. the rioting erupted in the main exercise yard. no word on what sparked ...

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