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He was put in a holding cell and put on potty watch, where a day later, the balloons came out. they were found. >> if caught smuggling drugs, a visitor could end up doing time in a prison, much like the one theyre visiting. many smugglers are actually victims acting out of fear in response to threats from prison gangs. >> they will prey on a weak individual and force that individual to have their visitor bring in drugs because theyre not suspected. but theyre told that your visitor is going to b...

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 cover anything that affects institutional security. gang activity, in-prison drug trafficking, responding to disturbances, crime scene investigations. prison gangs tend to ...

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Only goes so far >> i maintain a visual on him at all times. we inventory the box on a daily basis, make sure all the screwdrivers, anything that can be used as a tool is there, not altered. he has done a good job probably worked for me for four months now hes worked out pretty well. >> i believe that will cut now, sir. >> lets see it. >> while john smith might be one of the more trusted inmates at santa rosa, another portion of the population is always on staffs radar. security threat group coo...

His time and going home, robert has assaulted more than a dozen inmates, lengthening his 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...

If we keep them all locked down. so it gives the cops a chance to see how the other inmates are interacting with each other. it gives the cops a chance to interact with the other inmates. 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 reso...

Through being in the mainline to avoid having to go through anything like this. i get there and i go through it anyway. >> do you understand what happened today? >> yeah. >> okay. whats happening? >> you guys are validating me for something. you guys are saying i done but i didnt do nothing. you guys are saying i have been destructive. what have i been out there that has made me destructive? why am i being validated for it if i havent done anything wrong? >> an investigation, obviously you under...

Go ahead and handle what theyre asked to do or what theyre told to do. >> 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...

>> for a level one yard, were hard on these guys. this is where we have all the 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 gr...

Do they have a history of conducting gang-related activity. strong-arming in the units. group assaults, things of that kind of nature. in conjunction with their tattoos and that history, we can establish whether or not the guy is a gang member. >> raymond diaz is up front about his gang-related tattoos. >> the stuff i got on me, a lot of it is gang related. they call them like stamps, you know. everything was done behind bars with a staple. we dont use fancy needles and all that. the main part o...