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Captain cruz summons the emergency response team. >> so we are going to get them out. the first one, because we identified him in numerous cell extractions. he will fight us. he will try to get out of his cell. >> determined to make a stand, slagle mounts a defense with the few meager items he has in his cell. he has jammed his door with a hardened papier-mache-like mixture with wet newspapers and toothpaste. but with the extraction team on its way, the conflict is about to come to a head.

[ bleep ]. >> hes on the floor. >> slagle fights off the extraction team for a full minute before they take him to the floor and attempt to cuff him. >> [ bleep ]. >> it takes another four minutes of struggling before slagle is finally subdued. hes placed on a gurney so that the team can move him into a holding cell. following a strip search, a defeated slagle will be left in the holding cell until

Stretch him out. get his legs. >> i try to go through as much as if this was the real thing. the more training you get to do, the better you get, the less injury you have. >> almost immediately after this training exercise ended, the cell extraction team was called out an a real emergency. an inmate in unit three assaulted two officers. >> an inmate had a squirt bottle they use on the rec yard, had it filled with a substance and when i was carrying trays back downstairs is when he squeezed the w...

>> okay, no. >> it takes a toll on everybody. were down here dealing with this guy every day when we could be doing our job doing other things. we have opportunities to relinquish the razor. if he doesnt do it and then we will set up an extraction team and go in there. >> luckily for everyone involved, blanco gives up the razor. >> hear me out though. >> listen. im listening. >> [ bleep ] its over [ bleep ] i am getting [ bleep ] >> i understand that, kevin. he claims its all over and done with....

Captain. >> i will give you one more opportunity to comply with the staff instructions. i want you to take the coverings down. >> the extraction team prepares to disperse pepper spray into the cell using a cannon like device that will also ram the

Orders, they must be forcibly removed from their cells. for legal reasons, these extractions are always videotaped by prison staff. >> we can have something that can happen two, three times a week, sometimes even two a day, three a day, and then theres other times we can go months without anything going on. >> step back to the door. step back to be handcuffed. >> these cell extractions are dangerous for the officers involved. >> this is the third and final directive. >> as soon as you go to rest...

We saw firsthand how unruly inmates continually challenge the staff. inmate toby gonzales, convicted of second-degree murder and armed robbery, refuses to remove his hand from the food port. >> do you want to us do 22 or 23? >> this morning when he got his first meal, he refused it, stuck his hand out the food port and hes had his hand out ever since. >> we have an extraction team being set up so that we could get him out, so we could search his cell to ensure that the safety of the staff that a...

Its going to burn. >> oh, really? now you tell me. >> as far as cell extractions go, smiths was fairly routine. it was a different story at the spring creek correctional center in alaska. >> [ bleep ]. >> prisoner demonstrated aggressive agitated behavior by using abusive language and continually banging on his cell walls causing injury to his hands and wrists. >> when spring creeks extraction team was called to remove steven blevins from his cell, he was in a state of rage and had been pounding...

>> oh, really? now you tell me. >> as far as cell extractions go, smiths was fairly routine. it was a different story at the spring creek correctional center in alaska. >> [ bleep ]. >> prisoner demonstrated aggressive, agitated behavior by using abusive language and continually banging on his cell walls, causing injury to his hands and wrists. >> when spring creeks extraction team was called to remove steven blevins from his cell, he was in a state of rage and had been pounding the walls with h...

It. straighten him out, there you go. straighten him out now, pull him down. thats the reason why we do some more training. the more training you get to do, the better you get. the less injury you have on the inmate or the staff. >> during the course of our shoot at riverbends, the extraction team would assemble once again. but this time it would be for real. the incident was triggered when officers conducted a routine cell search for weapons in the prisons maximum security unit. >> these inmate...