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Be against women or children or such. even though hes kind of in the same boats because now hes also requesting protective custody, yes, be safeguarded from the rest of the general population. realistically whether he is a gang dropout or has sex crimes, as far as the general population goes, it doesnt really matter. but he still wants to have that mentality that he is a little bit better than a particular inmate in the prison setting. >> did you have a problem going back out to that particular ...

>> in a prison setting, those things we have to discourage. and one reason we have to discourage is people have been here for a long time. and sometimes some of the boundaries get clouded between the women. >> some of the people in here havent been with women and are curious and try it. i do it because i love women. >> a female offender has a lot of needs and part of that is to feel that someone cares about them. >> i love animals and jennifer takes pictures of little dogs and stuff and brings t...

Offenders. any chance of serious bodily injury or death and we utilize the dogs to protect them. weve never had to release the dog in our facility. but sometimes the mere presence with the dogs in the yard, a fight gets ready to break out and a dog is in the yard and theys are, they have 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 ...

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...

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...

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 though hes kind of in the same boats because now hes ...

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. >> i think most inmates dont want to go to segregation. its not a pleasant place to live. you get a limited amount of material in your cell. whet...

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. >> i think most inmates dont want to go to segregation. it...

Release 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 be extortions, intimidations, trafficking, narcotics. theres nothing that goes...

When people say certain words in prison -- punk, bitch, lame, things like that -- its an automatic fight word. its hard to explain to somebody not in the prison system. most of you say, like, i dont care, one day, im walking away, no matter what happens. but its not that easy all the time. i wish it was. >> i had to do what i had to do. sometimes it goes like that. >> both inmates involved in the fight are brought in front of the icc to discuss the incident. >> this was not necessarily a real si...