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2,500 acres. south facility is an outdoor dormitory jail for low-to-medium security inmates. north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists, and drug offenders. >> we find that the linear style jail really doesnt work for us anymore, and what we have here is we have more of a podular...

>> one of this nations founding fathers said, "if men were angels, no government would be necessary." well, im sure that no one here would suggest that men were angels. and thats why theres government, to write the laws we live by. and correctional facilities, like this one, for the people who break them. >> for ten years this facility had no major incidents. then, on april 24th, 2000, violence erupted. >> everybody get out! >> it was 1:00 in the afternoon when a racially based riot broke out be...

These are newly assigned inmates, first time here at nccf. >> in the inmate processing area the prisoners are searched again for any drugs and weapons. >> basically, what theyre doing is -- >> one, two, three. >> we have them squat and cough. and if they did secrete anything in their rectal area by coughing, it helps bring it down to dislodge it. >> once the inmates are searched, they are given new clothes and assigned to a building depending on their security level. if theyre high security or a...

First entered jail. in that short time hes been housed in three different facilities. now at north facility, inmate johns has come to realize hes tired of coming to jail. >> ive got a record. its embarrassing. i come to jail, they tell me, oh, youve been here 17 times, you know. yeah. ive spent like the past two years of my life in county jail. im just tired of it. >> having just heard that his 30-day sentence has been reduced to 15, inmate johns is nervous about his release, knowing that he has...

Lasted for approximately 30 to 40 minutes in one of the largest riots that l.a. county jail has ever seen. the fighting finally ended when the sheriffs emergency response teams were brought in. using verbal commands, stingball grenades, and pepper spray, sheriff deputies were able to prevent the inmates from killing each other, except for one inmate whose injuries left him in a coma, most of the men involved in the riots suffered minor injuries. >> jail is completely different than what it was 3...

Carjacking. these kids will go out, stick a gun in someones face to go joyriding in a car and turn a misdemeanor crime into a death penalty case because seven out of ten times they carjack, they kill the person they steal the car from. now, youve got to tell me, there is not something wrong with that? and somewhere in that confusion these kids dont know how to act like proper gangsters anymore. when my dad was a small-time mafioso back east, he used to say theres two kinds of gangsters -- there ...

East facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists, and drug offenders. >> we find that the linear style jail really doesnt work for us anymore, and what we have here is we have more of a podular design with the staff stations in the middle and then the inmates around the outside. >> a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmat...

World. it houses more than 20,000 inmates in eight different facilities, all waiting for trials, transfers, or release. lets go inside l.a. county jails supermax facility that holds the citys most violent inmates. well show you how the jail detectives solve crimes committed behind bars and how violent inmates are learning to rehabilitate themselves. but first we travel 40 miles north of downtown los angeles as we continue our look behind the walls of l.a. county jail. nestled in the high desert ...

Misdemeanor crime into a death penalty case because seven out of ten times they carjack, they kill the person they steal the car from. now, youve got to tell me, there is not something wrong with that? and somewhere in that confusion these kids dont know how to act like proper gangsters anymore. when my dad was a small-time mafioso back east, he used to say theres two kinds of gangsters -- there are thugs, and there are gangsters. thugs come and go. gangsters are about making money and respect. ...

The playground. so im looking forward for that. >> we last saw inmate daniel johns seven days ago, when he first entered jail. in that short time hes been housed in three different facilities. now at north facility, inmate johns has come to realize hes tired of coming to jail. >> ive got a record. its embarrassing. i come to jail, they tell me, oh, youve been here 17 times, you know. yeah. ive spent like the past two years of my life in county jail. im just tired of it. >> having just heard that...