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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 batons, direct foam rounds. its a l...

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 because of a quick response by staff on the yard. his assailants were sentence...

>> there is an alarm in that building right there, a-3. >> our cameras search for any signs that the trouble is spreading outside to the exercise yard. >> so this is an actual alarm because nobody is waving us off yet. something is going on inside the building. >> what might be happening? >> probably an assault on someone coming out of their cell. some type of cell fight or slashing. >> officers subdued six inmates involved in the fight. one of them was slashed with a homemade weapon. fortunatel...

There is a chance. >> reporter: in the exercise yard, we met an inmate whose art is inspired my his life. >> tell me your name. >> kevin moore, m-o-o-r-e. >> what were uconn vicked of. >> parole for sales of marijuana. >> the yard is an interesting place, you never know who you will walk into, what personality or who they r. i started looking around and find interesting looking faces. so i happened upon kevin moore, he started telling me-is a rap artist. >> i have a record deal working on me for...

These two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like repeatedly and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> the battery, they were stomping his head. you can see he was pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived because of quick response from staff on the yard. his assailants were sentenced to six months in folsoms administrative segregation unit. some of the most violent gang attacks have taken place here, at california state prison corcorans security housing unit or zhu...

Whats todays date? >> already losing track of time in his first week in jail, convicted wife batterer miguel 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, ive been here, you know, since wednesday. you come out here for two hours. i think its about two hours every day except saturday and sunday. so its -- its pretty cool, man. you know, ...

Like the i-beams up here. im going to check these. its just a beam. you walk under it every day. somebody is walking to the chow hall. a lot of guys know where it is. but they wont tell because they dont want to get killed, get hurt for ratting. 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 spr...

>> this is -- this is a crime against civilization. those bars on that window. coming up, what is considered the most dangerous place at san quentin, the exercise yard. ♪ oh-oh, oh, oh, la, la-la, la-la, la-la ♪ ♪ na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na some things just go together, like auto and home insurance. bundle them together at progressive, and you save big on both. ♪ oh, oh-oh, oh, oh hey, its me! [ whistles ] and theres my dog! [gasps] theres my steps! i should stop talking. perfectly paire...

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 yards pretty nice. eve...

Been here, theres been no fights, no trouble in here. >> just a few months away from finishing his nieces present, harrington already has his next project lined up. >> my brother has another daughter thats a year and a half. so will i have to make another dollhouse for her other daughter? maybe. if i do, yeah, ill do it. >> with a 99-year sentence hell have plenty of time to build more dollhouses. >> i can go to the parole board in 2019. will i get it? i dont know. but theres a chance. >> in the...