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Shes talking about why didnt you get an officer? hell, i cant get an officer. if i went and got an officer, where would i be now? id be the one lying in the hospital all cut up. its a bad deal all the way around. no such thing as defending yourself. coming up -- >> i didnt know he had a knife. >> the stabbing victim comes to general population. >> i stepped back like this and he went like this. >> josh harrison faces the consequences of having a shank in prison.

Surrogate father to harrison during the young inmates first four months at indiana state prison. >> im really mad at him now. theres no reason he should have had that knife. hes got two babies. i told him, it aint about this, man. youve got ten years to do. do that ten, go home, be a dad. its not about being in here being tough, having a reputation. >> on his way to pre-seg, a temporary lockdown for inmates awaiting disciplinary hearings, harrison reveals his reason for having the shank. >> the ...

Reaching for his cuffs. you see him restraining the offender. >> the offender is josh harrison. >> i disappointed a lot of people in my life. i let a lot of people down. this is my wife, my wife. thats my daughter, thats my son, the twins. my mom, shes going to flip out when she find out i was in here and i got caught with a knife. >> this is a shank that was turned in from possession of offender harrison. "e" dorm east. and as you can see here, thats a pretty lengthy piece of iron there. its go...

I told him i quit fighting. i lied to him. i dont want my son to end up like me. anyway, i never knew my father. he disappeared out of my life when i was 5 years old, but he died. i didnt get a chance to meet him. all i ever heard about him he hung out in bars, he was a fighter, he was really tough. i didnt think that thats what i wanted to be, but thats what i turned into, and i dont want him to subconsciously try to turn into me. i do not -- id rather see anything than my son going to prison, ...

>> i need an inspection team to 955. >> during our stay on rikers island, one weapon that wasnt found was used in a double stabbing involving two inmates. >> yesterday at approximately 1140 hours, we had a stabbing. >> inmate baez assaulted king who was sitting at one table. inmate birth braithwaite, who we believe was associating himself with the bloods. had his back sitting at another table. inmate baez removed the shank from his pocket, turned around, and stabbed inmate braithwaite in the bac...

Of the guards. its probably what this is about. i hope thats all its about. >> but in reality the matter is far more serious. schreibers attempts to manipulate the prison might have come with profound repercussions. >> i know you believe in your mind that youre getting out in august. thats probably not going to happen. youre looking at a whole bunch of time. theyre even talking about filing habitual on you, so you could be looking at the rest of your life in here. >> and you understand what that...

By speaking openly of his sex crimes. used racial slurs and made false accusations. he has verbally abused staff and masturbated in front of a female officer, all part of a campaign to be sent back to administrative segregation. but now schreiber has taken things to another level. officers have discovered a shank in his cell. we interviewed him the morning of his disciplinary hearing on the matter. he was still sleeping. >> i just found it. i didnt make it. i found it underneath the bed. i gave ...

Your child walking down the street or my kids playing in the park, i want him to be terrified at the thought of coming back to prison. hes not getting any worse treatment than the 13-year-old girl that he was bragging about, you know, sexually assaulting on the streets, basically probably ruined that girls life. >> she was only 13. >> you dont want to be a sex offender in prison. its hell. >> [ bleep ] that child molester. >> though inmates strive to stay out of ad seg, a place where the few fre...

>> a lot of these weapons were confiscated on the yards. >> in prison slang theyre known as shanks. they are the deadly weapons that inmates create from behind bars with an ingenuity that almost defies imagination. >> they get a disposable razor and put both blades, one on each side of the toothbrush. theyll come across their enemy, slice them across the neck, and because the two blades are so wide apart it just fillets the individual wide open. >> inmates will do almost anything to hide the wea...

>> he may be picking up some open up from something. >> pull the boxes down, check up high. bring them down, maybe have them hit it again. >> after hours of searching, sergeant lawton and isu team find their first piece of contraband in the form of an inmate manufactured shank. >> this appears to be an oven rack out of the kitchen, sharpened to a point. kind of a crude handle on it right now. >> one of these racks, its really concealed. close to the window. you know this, area here, its hand-to-...