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Downstairs so a doll can come up and come around on top. the shingles are individual. this is real brick. 900 individual bricks. yeah, its a lot of work. its a lot of fun, you know. >> with hobby shop security consisting of little more than surveillance cameras, time spent here is a privilege accorded to only the most trusted inmates. >> you know, there is no officer in here. officers do walk through here at times. they look through the windows. but while this hobby shop has been here, theres be...

>> the windows here, they all work up and down. all the doors open and close. all the lights work, the doors open. all the yellow-colored wood is the natural color of the wood. this door up here, this pulls downstairs so a doll can come up and come around on top. the shingles are individual. this is real brick. 900 individual bricks. yeah, its a lot of work. its a lot of fun, you know. officers do walk through here at times. the windows, they look flew the windows but while this hobby shop has b...

. >> id just gotten 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. you can see hes pretty -- pretty messed up. >> the inmate wh...

>> 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...

Angry because im in prison. im angry because i aint with my family. im angry because of the way they treat you, the things they do to you. it aint never a happy day in prison. >> at the time of our visit wilson had just completed an anger management program, that deputy warden tony patterson arranged for him to take in his cell. >> he needs to grow up. immaturity. you know. but hes working on it. >> i got kids, man. everybody going to change one day. >> for wilson, change is essential. most of h...

Corcoran, the housing unit or shoe. we visited the shoes now vacant exercise yard, the scene of the prisons most brutal violence. >> i can see why fights went on. it was like a cage. there was nowhere for you to go and if you wanted to take them out, that was the place to do it. its literally like the extreme ultimate fighting you would see. >> they showed cameras how they quell the violence with an arsenal of their. >> hopefully they will make them

>> for a photographer, san quentin was a really interesting place to shoot because its the old-style tiers and the big exercise yard and theres a lot of corners and shadows and things to attract your lens. so it was just as a photographer, it was really an interesting place to shoot. it can be a very dangerous place because its got incredibly dangerous or infamous history as a dangerous place. >> on our first day of shooting here, we got a stark introduction to the constant security threats pose...

Rat. you follow what im saying? 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...

You follow what im saying? 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 resp...

>> if youre an active gang member or an active hispanic wind the group, youre 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 theyre 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 cell do...