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Thank yall. >> hes currently in pre-hearing detention which means hes got limited property. hes in an isolation cell that doesnt have all the amenities like he wants. kevin blanco wants this and wants it now. well, hes not going to get it now. >> ill give him the third and final direction. well extract him using whatever force is necessary. >> have you ever had to extract someone from the rec yard? >> i was kind of filming the guys coming up, and i remember panning over to see kevin, and he was ...

County jail most inmates live in traditional two-person cells. while theyre allowed to spend most of the day and early evening hours in the day room or rec areas with others, its still more confining than doing time in the minimum security mens unit, h2a also known as the hamptons. >> go back to your day room. >> there are no cells in the hamptons, but that added sense of freedom comes with higher expectations for good conduct. >> they know what the expectations are and to be honest, at any give...

>> armando hasnt been validated as a prison gang member yet, but hes on his way. back in level vi, happy is headed to the parole board. >> i just came back from rec and im fixing to go to the parole board. kind of nervous right now. you never know whats going to happen. you dont know if theyre going to deny you or -- or let me go. but i know that somebody up above is looking out for me because if it wasnt meant to be, i wouldnt be here now. worst-case scenario, my parole could be denied. and bes...

Did all of this [ bleep ] stuff. >> everything went according to the way it was supposed to. the inmate was removed from his cell, taken to the rec yard so all of his items could be removed from the cell, all of the hard items and drinking materials that he used to assault staff with. we went out to the rec yard and medical checked him out, and no injuries, and basically all that he was doing was theatrical, and we moved him back into the house, and he will be in there for a minimum of two hours...

Face down. >> gentlemen, just take him on out to the rec yard. >> shropshire is taken outside while his cell is cleared. >> watch his head there. dont resist now while we take these off. medical staff is always called in after a cell extraction to check the inmate for injuries. though they do not find any, shropshires complaints continue. >> loosen these things off my wrist, man. youre cutting off my circulation. >> nothing i can do. >> mr. shropshire, if you could comply, then we would not have...

>> still got the camera. >> put him in the cage. >> with the extraction a success, deputy warden jaramillo debriefs with his teams. >> we need to document it very clearly about the limited time frame between taking it from one extreme to the next. >> yeah. once the team was put together and we entered the rec pen, we approached the rec pen he was in. i gave him verbal directives to come out and he refused my directives. and advised him that we were going to introduce o.c. we attempted to hit him...

>> me and two other white dudes were on the rec pad. >> they had socks with batteries in them in one hand and they had the homemade shanks made up inside the other. >> and we came off the rec pad and tried to stab a lot of police. tried to stab four or five police on the range. >> they came behind the stairwell just swinging and swinging. we backed off. the other two officers that got out of range door, i didnt make it. they had me pinned at that time inside this corner. they were just beating m...

A pleasant place to be. >> when inmates erupt, no one is safe, including correctional staff. >> we had an inmate that was on his way to the rec yard and came behind an officer and used a derogatory statement toward him. i immediately told him that his recreation was being taken for that comment. he decided to lean forward as if he was going to brace himself and then just bit right into my left arm. this is my left arm the day that the bite occurred. he bit in so fast and so hard that i didnt eve...

>> blanco is taking -- basically hes taking his rec pen hostage and hes refusing to come out. you know, this happens. theyll take things hostage. theyll take their food for houston. theyll take a shower hostage. if it will get the attention they want they will take it hostage. we should be finished getting the rest of the inmates out of the yard. >> thats it. thats it. >> once we got them out of yard were going to come back in, bring my team in, and ill give him one last, third and final directi...

Tell. now im at a point in my life write not only dont fit in with society, i dont fit in with the scum either, if that makes any sense. im really hating life right now, and -- to me, life doesnt have any meaning at all. >> in exchange for the opportunity to get out of the shu, kenneth smith had to give up the gang, a decision he regrets and one that robert would never make. instead of looking for a way out, robert finds ways to thrive in his environment. >> this is the only place we get to come...