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Correctional officers are the police force for that small city. >> a specialized group of officers is responsible for monitoring gang activity. this is the investigative services unit or isu. >> ive been spending a lot of time challenging isu to get out and take the lead. be the spear tip out there to challenge gangsters and tell them, you cant do that on our yard. >> were tasked to anything that affects gang activity. in-prison truck trafficking, responding to services, crime scene investigatio...

Former gang members like inmate spiller is used to identify and track high-ranking gang leaders inside the prison. it has also proved invaluable to law enforcement. >> theyve actually solved homicides on the streets that they had no suspects on through the debrief process. >> but debriefing is not enough to destroy the vice grip of prison gangs at corcoran. >> its just one tool to break some of these gang members up from the gang because for every one inmate that debriefs, you have ten in line w...

Release a dog in our facility but just sometimes the mere presence with the dogs in the yard, a fight is ready to break out and the dogs in the yard, it may also deescalate the violence. >> while the dogs are used to respond to a threat, prison gangs are the biggest danger to security. >> what people dont realize is that almost everything that happens in a prison setting has some sort of gang involvement. whether it be extortions, intimidations, trafficking, narcotics. theres nothing that goes o...

Of a young peruvian prison. he is the suspect in the missing persons case of natalee holloway. now back to lockup. doing time at corcoran state prison can be like living in a war zone. the main culprits for most of corcorans crime and violence are the powerful prison gangs that prey on each other and the weak. their booming drug business not only pervades every facility at corcoran, it extends far beyond the prison walls into the outside world. lieutenant terry norton knows that being locked u...

We have to keep in mind, this is a small city. the inmates are the population of the small city, and correctional officers are the police force for that small city. >> a specialized group of officers is responsible for monitoring gang activity. this is the investigative services unit or isu. >> ive been spending a lot of time challenging isu to get out and take the lead. be the spear tip out there to challenge gangsters and tell them, you cant do that on our yard. >> were tasked to anything that...

Original sentence. >> because of all of them assaults, my points again rose to a level four inmate. and the classification committee decided to give me a indeterminant cshu term, and put me up with a aryan brotherhood member, and that began my life as a prison gang. >> the aryan brotherhood used robert to carry out their dirty work. >> prison gangs involved everything from stabbings, killings, drugs, weapons, whatever needed to be done. i did it. >> we warn you. the details of his violent acts i...

>> my job was to go in there and kill him. and i went in there with the intention of killing him, but i stabbed him several times and the damn knife bent. we used a knee brace. we have to be real resourceful in the shu, what we can use for weapons. we used an aluminum knee brace. this was a big guy, so i went after this guy and i hit a bone and the knife had bent on the third time. so he got lucky. >> like other inmates who find themselves growing old in the shu, farmer eventually quit his gang....

Workers for corcoran. our northern inmate population seems pretty active, were trying to combat that right now. these are really hard to find. >> theres codes of conduct, its like respect yourself and others. treat everyone equally. have a positive attitude, be well mannered. the last code of conduct is no fraternizing with the canine or enemy, which is us. >> these are handed over to the igi. its up to this elite group of officers to monitor gang activity on all the yards in corcoran. >> we fol...

It isnt like that all the time. its just how you conduct yourself among the inmates and how the inmates perceive your actions. but at any given time, at any given moment, something could go wrong. all it takes is just something to let it off and it becomes a forest fire. >> though the staff believes theyve resolved the current situation with the southern hispanics, the politics for race-based prison gangs will always be cause for tension between inmates and officers. >> in prison its not against...

>> something like this is going to help us validate those inmates we take them off the active gp facilities, put them over in the shu where theres a more controlled setting for them. which protects staff and inmates. >> these are the heavy duty inmates that we want to get off the yard, because theyre heavily involved in that criminal activity. >> in addition to the prison gangs, the officers in corcoran also have street gangs to deal with, the most violent and unpredictable of all, the bulldogs....