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His. >> as i was going through an old box it looked tattered and looked to be a piece of wood with a piece of plastic. working back in the stock room, we have a lot of broken pallets and they do tie the saran wrap on the pallet, sometimes on the bottom. but that particular day, it was more than it appeared. >> step in and step all the way to the back wall. >> valentine is also placed in confinement but believes he has a solid defense since he was with an officer when he found the shank. >> i don...

The rap, then none of the other trustees would get fired. >> officer may will next speak to the other suspect, gary valentine. >> what is your knowledge about the shank? >> the only thing i was doing straightening up the shelf and the officer was standing next to me when it was found. >> officer merrick was with you when you found it? >> absolutely. >> do you know mr. james dean? >> no, just i met him when i got on the pod. >> do you have any issues with him? >> absolutely not. >> did you see hi...

Left. were going to get fired, lose our positions." no, im not, nor did i use it ever. i would never jeopardize your trustee job or my release date to go home over a piece of wood that looks like a shank. >> but the officer disputes deans claims that he is only in the stockroom under staff supervision. >> there was several times back there during a meal you tried to pop back there for some reason, i dont know. you saw me sometimes you stopped in your tracks and would turn around and go away or m...

>> quit being a baby, man of. man up! >> dean is only two weeks from completing his sentence. but his release will be jeopardized if the jail determines hes responsible for the shank and choose to file new criminal charges. the decision will rest largely with the results of the disciplinary hearing. >> do you want to give your explanation on whats going on? >> can i read my statement? >> go ahead. >> let me start this off by saying that i am a kitchen trustee and my job is to clean up the whole ...

Robbery and four counts of felonious assault. he has pled not guilty to the new charges as well. >> after getting locked up so many times, you get sick and tired of being sick and tired, tired of going the same way. so i know what the bad life going to do. i know what the worst -- what the street life is going to get me. [ bleep ], its going to get me dead or in jail. let me see how this good life -- let me see what me trying to do it right going to do, give god a chance to work with me. comin...

Left. we dont want to get fired or lose our positions. i then said, no, im not, nor did i use it ever. i know the consequences for something like that. i would never jeopardize my trustee job or my release date to go home over a piece of wood that looks like a shank. >> but the officer disputes deans claims that he is only in the stockroom under staff supervision. >> there was several times back there during a meal you tried to pop back there for some reason, i dont know. you saw me sometimes yo...

Leave it alone. when we got back to the pod, a few people were telling people to man up to it if it was yours. explain what it was used for and be done with it. >> was that a particular person? >> yes, it was. >> can you tell me who that person was? >> they did their investigation, im pretty sure they got the guy. >> dean says he knows exactly why the other inmates blamed him for the shank. >> i had everybody screaming at me, go ahead and take the fall for it because youre about to go home in a ...

They got me housed in administrative segregation for stabbing an inmate around seven months ago. >> he just got into it with another inmate. he charged the inmate and stabbed him in the back about three times. >> hinkston was angry because the inmate had stolen his potato chips. >> i punched him. but i didnt feel that that inflicted enough injury upon him for the crime that he committed against me. so i had two long pencils. and i went and sharpened them. and i came back to the cell and i starte...

Administrative segregation for stabbing an inmate around seven months ago. >> he just got into it with another inmate. he charged the inmate and stabbed him in the back about three times. >> hinkston was angry because the inmate had stolen his potato chips. >> i punched him. but i didnt feel that that inflicted enough injury upon him for the crime that he committed against me. so i had two long pencils. and i went and sharpened them. and i came back to the cell and i started stabbing him. >> ano...

Makes it harder and heavier. its a better weapon. brass knuckles made out of tape and some sort of sheet metal they got from somewhere. could have been left over from a construction project, which is why you see metal detectors throughout the facility. we use the board for training especially when we get new recruits to come in, we show them, we say we give them things. we are giving them things they can use as a weapon against each other or against us. our job is to try to stay a step ahead of ...