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The feeding of inmates always poses one of the greatest risks for violence at san quentin. san quentins lack of modernization places inmates within striking distance of officers and other inmates. among the 6,000 inmates at san quentin, more than 3,000 general population inmates eat their meals in the dining hall. only a handful of officers oversee the process. >> on most nights there will be two officers in the dining hall. there will be anywhere from like 200 to 400 inmates in the dining hall....

The feeding of inmates always poses one of the greatest risks for violence at san quentin. san quentins lack of modernization places inmates within striking distance of officers and other inmates. among the 6,000 inmates at san quentin, more than 3,000 general population inmates eat their meals in the dining hall. only a handful of officers oversee the process. >> on most nights there will be two officers in the dining hall. there will be anywhere from like 200 to 400 inmates in the dining hall....

>> you guys are getting too bold. >> my name is charles a. pelham. and im originally from tampa, florida. you may wonder why i came to the golden state of california. well, its like they say, you come here on vacation, and you go home on probation. >> charles pelham is completing a short eight month sentence for a parole violation. >> im not an aryan brother. im not a skinhead. i used to be a member of hari krishna back in the old days. the skulls let the rest of the inmates know theyd better ba...

Any information that theyre trying to pass -- drugs -- all kinds of things theyll pass on the fish lines. >> i could use another one. >> i know. >> you guys are getting too bold. >> my name is charles a. pelham. and im originally from tampa, florida. you may wonder why i came to the golden state of california. well, its like they say, you come here on vacation, and you go home on probation. >> charles pelham is completing a short eight of month sentence for a parole violation. >> im not an aryan...

The feeding of inmates always poses one of the greatest risks for violence at san quentin. san quentins lack of modernization places inmates within striking distance of officers and other inmates. among the 6,000 inmates at san quentin, more than 3,000 general population inmates eat their meals in the dining hall. only a handful of officers oversee the process. >> on most nights there will be two officers in the dining hall. there will be anywhere from like 200 to 400 inmates in the dining hall....

Slides well down the tier. and theyll send everything from cigarettes to full newspapers to any information that theyre trying to pass -- drugs -- all kinds of things theyll pass on the fish lines. >> i could use another one. >> i know. >> you guys are getting too bold. >> my name is charles a. pelham. and im originally from tampa, florida. you may wonder why i came to the golden state of california. well, its like they say, you come here on vacation, and you go home on probation. >> charles pel...

>> the feeding of inmates also poses one of the greatest risks for violence at san quentin. san quentins lack of modernization places inmates within striking distance of officers and other inmates. among the 6,000 inmates at san quentin, more than 3,000 general population inmates eat their meals in the dining hall. only a handful of officers oversee the process. >> on most nights there will be two officers in the dining hall. there will be anywhere from like 200 to 400 inmates in the dining hall...

Kinds of things theyll pass on the fish lines. >> i could use another one. >> i know. >> you guys are getting too bold. >> my name is charles a. pelham. and im originally from tampa, florida. you may wonder why i came to the golden state of california. well, its like they say, you come here on vacation, and you go home on probation. >> charles pelham is completing a short eight-month sentence for a parole violation. >> im not an aryan brother. im not a skinhead. i used to be a member of hari kri...

Inmates know theyd better back off because im not an easy mark. i dont hate anybody. im too old for that nonsense. i had this put on my face when i was a youngster. i wanted to make a political statement. i also wanted to impress my girlfriend. but it impressed her the wrong way and she got rid of me. >> im the bird man of san quentin. >> mike miller is at san quentin for commercial burglary. hes got roughly eight months left to serve. >> i think the birds is a good way of releasing a lot of ten...

>> i could use another one. >> i know. >> you guys are getting too bold. >> my name is charles a. pelham. and im originally from tampa, florida. you may wonder why i came to the golden state of california. well, its like they say, you come here on vacation, and you go home on probation. >> charles pelham is completing a short eight of month sentence for a parole violation. >> im not an aryan brother. im not a skinhead. i used to be a member of hari krishna back in the old days. the skulls let th...