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Or death, then we utilize the dogs to protect them. weve never actually had to reluis the 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 ...

>> san quentin employs a multilevel screening process before inmates are allowed into protective custody in order to ensure that the sny population remains safe. this ex-gang member is currently in ad seg for threatening a cellmate, but he wants to be returned to sny. >> there was a battery that was in 2005, the current charge, though, is of threatening another inmate. >> he doesnt want to be housed with inmates who have sex-related offenses, whether it be against women or children or such. even...

Again today. >> san quentin employs a multilevel screening process before inmates are allowed into protective custody in order to ensure that the sny population remains safe. this ex-gang member is currently in ad seg for threatening a cellmate, but he wants to be returned to sny. >> there was a battery that was in 2005, the current charge, though, is of threatening another inmate. >> he doesnt want to be housed with inmates who have sex-related offenses, whether it be against women or children ...

Not in a prison setting. i dont think he realizes how much peril he put himself in. >> holloman, wright, and laudone, himself, were immediately locked up in administrative segregation. after questioning holloman, gang intelligence coordinator lieutenant jim fox now moves on to the alleged assailant, jason wright. >> you probably know why youre here, huh? >> i dont, actually. >> you dont have any idea? why were you locked up? >> why was i locked up? >> why did you miss super bowl? >> i dont know....

It still surprises me at times hearing some of these inmates accounts of their extreme violent behavior. im often curious as to why or how they became this way. but i also think its a part of the human condition. and i think its important that people understand that. part of it, i think, is created at birth, but also a big part of it is how one survives in prison. more often than not, a lot of these stories of violence have occurred in the prison setting. in order to survive in such a violent wo...

Five years, not good at all. a lot of these guys are not mentally stable, and they need some type of psychiatric treatment instead of this hole time. you know what im saying? >> you want to play some chess, man? >> hes trying to communicate with another inmate to play chess with him. and theyll do it verbally through the vent system. >> all right, hold on. >> we play by calling out the numbers, like 12 to 28, 52 to 36. he has to have the same type of board, set up 1 through 64. >> 12, 28, man. >...

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 on that at least one gang member is not involved with, nothing. >> robbie marshall is in charge of monitoring the gang activity inside the prison. >> i believe we have about 455 confirmed or suspected security threat group members out of 2,000, a...

You see what im saying? and its easier for them to ten-four for them, and you can give them two or three cigarettes or a pack of coffee. and some of them know what youre doing. and they dont care. and thats why i tell you, some police is down with the inmates and some police that is against inmates. so -- >> some are against gays. >> some of them really dont like gays. >> in a prison setting, those things we have to discourage. and one reason we have to discourage is people have been here for a ...

Yeah, theres one right there. nine times out of ten, they just give me what i want, i dont have to play them. >> because there are penalties for having sex in prison, inmates will sometimes cover for other inmates to allow them a private moment. >> like i say, chelsea, ten-four for me and my girlfriend while we go in here. because shes going to fall down and have a seizure. >> thats another inmate ten-fouring for another inmate while they have sex with their lover. some of us been together here ...

Bit better than a particular inmate in the prison setting. >> did you have a problem going back out to that particular housing unit? refusing a celly? >> like i said, i was out there, never got in any trouble while i was out there. me personally, its like if i dont know anything about you, im just trying to do my time and go home. i didnt mess with them. i never downtalked to them. i never picked on them. i just went over there and let everybody know that they might be. but this individual start...