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Together even when were apart. [ male announcer ] in stuffing mashed potatoes, gravy and more, swanson makes holiday dishes delicious. on the first day of production at californias kern valley state prison our producers set out to shoot a simple story of how inmates in segregation deal with the monotony of being locked in their cells 23 hour as day. they pass reading materials and other items to each other through a process called fishing. >> go ahead. take off. >> though fishing is against pr...

Out because i was going to rec, i was supposed to go to rec. he said he wasnt going to talk me out. i started kicking the door. he started talking [ bleep ]. i started talking [ bleep ] back to him. >> what did he say? >> i dont know because i was talking over him. i just know that he was a bitch. thats what i told him, that he was a bitch [ bleep ]. >> with his recent setbacks, roca moreno faces six more months before leaving close management and having his visits restored. john smith has also ...

>> what? >> what for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. theyre trying to say i had -- >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though shes allowed to have the individual items she was caught with, she was written up for how they were assembled, or at least partially assembled. >> im pleading not guilty because they have no evidence. when they found it, it was not intact, okay? >> what was you going to do with it? >> everything that t...

>> hit me pretty hard for a while but, you know, you kind of get over it a little bit. its been pretty rough. i really miss him. she did, too. >> after being locked up two years, adam will now be free of prison rules. lucky for him, his grandparents have never wavered in their support. for 24 months, they visited every two weeks. >> hope it does some good for him up here, you know. it got to where we couldnt do nothing with him. weve had him ever since he was 8 months old. >> its been difficult,...

>> he hit me severely in the back of the head. in these handcuffs he twisted my ankle. >> -- the inmate continues his tirade against him. captain morgan completes the paperwork and then escorted him toward segregation. a 23-hour-a-day lockup unit for inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was taking him to north segregation to lock him up in our seg unit. >> when the inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation would soon get much more intense. >> thats when he tried to pull ...

They pass reading materials and other items to each other through a process called fishing. >> go ahead. take off. >> though fishing is against prison rules, inmate, tracy washington, was willing to demonstrate how to make a fishing line. >> you get the string made out of the waistband of our boxer. we take the string apart and then we put a little piece of plastic as a weight and we slide it across the floor like this. they might come in here and take my line now that they know ive got it. but ...

At corcoran how things turn out. >> the politics of race creates rigid demands, which control the smallest details of inmates lives. >> for the most part youre separated and broken off. you pretty much can walk around, but there are certain areas where you can just hang and sit. the same way it is on the street. we have neighborhoods and things like that. its a territorial thing. so we try to keep it like that and give each other respect so we can give ourselves distance so we wont cross paths i...

When i leave, hell hit me again. dont touch me, man. [ bleep ]. >> as captain morgan processes the paperwork -- >> he hit me severely in the back of the head. in these handcuffs he twisted my ankle. >> -- the inmate continues his tirade against him. >> my mama, man. >> captain morgan completes the paperwork and then escorted him toward segregation. a 23-hour-a-day lockup unit for inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was taking him to north segregation to lock him up in our seg unit. >> [ bleep...

Its prison infractions against prison rules, not crimes against society. >> and its not even that, a lot of the times. a lot of inmates that have indeterminant terms in california have not actually committed rules violations. theyre deemed to be gang affiliates. and when you look at the evidence of what is considered, you know, evidence of gang affiliation, it can be quite arbitrary. ive seen possession of academic books about the black panthers used as evidence, "the art of war," journal writin...

On any given day at the limon correctional facility, inmates are caught violating prison rules. >> bring your two officers over, please, to unit two. >> most of these violations never disrupt the daily routine. but today, one has not only rocked the prison, it sent shockwaves through the states entire department of corrections. >> yesterday morning, the segregation staff did a strip search on the segregation corridor and found a large quantity of heroin and cocaine that the inmate was apparently...