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And being thats my home bay, like i been knowing him for a long time and me and him been through a lot and i wasnt just going to let it just ride, you know what im saying? i let my anger kind of get the best of me, too, and popped my door and ran out there with the shank. >> inmate gonzalez apparently was able to defeat the locking device, open the cell door and he ran out of the cell and was holding a seven-inch piece of metal. >> it was made out of the top blade of a squeegee. >> unfortunately...

They have nothing better to do, so thats the way they make their noise. you know, everybody thinks that this job that we have is such a gravy job and such an easy job. i challenge anybody to come in here and work this job for a week and see if were overpaid. >> going to start flooding! start. >> later in the day, the disturbance escalates when one of the inmates starts flooding the unit. >> the guy in 12 cell started flooding his cell. i asked him why. he said just for no reason. hes notorious f...

Know what im saying? i let my anger kind of get the best of me, too, and popped my door and ran out there with the shank. >> inmate gonzalez apparently was able to defeat the locking device, open the cell door and he ran out of the cell and was holding a seven-inch piece of metal. >> it was made out of the top blade of a squeegee. >> unfortunately for gonzalez, by the time he figured out how to pop the lock on his door, hidalgo, guerrero and the sert team had already left the unit. >> he came ru...

>> with gonzalez already outnumbered four to one, members of the sert team escorting hidalgo and guerrero are called back to assist. >> go, go, go. >> im not stupid, you know, they laid it down real quick, threw the shank away from me. i just chilled out real quick. >> he threw the knife on the ground, not at the officer. it was very clearly, you know, gently thrown to the ground and then he laid down on the floor and we secured him. >> luckily nobody was hurt in the process. what does scare us ...

This job that we have is such a gravy job and such an easy job. i challenge anybody to come in here and work this job for a week and see if were overpaid. >> going to start flooding! start. >> later in the day, the disturbance escalates when one of the inmates starts flooding the unit. >> the guy in 12 cell started flooding his cell. i asked him why. he said just for no reason. hes notorious for doing stuff like that. >> the inmate is well known to staff, jeremy gonzalez. besides facing charges ...

Know what im saying? i let my anger kind of get the best of me, too, and popped my door and ran out there with the shank. >> inmate gonzalez apparently was able to defeat the locking device, open the cell door and he ran out of the cell and was holding a seven-inch piece of metal. >> it was made out of the top blade of a squeegee. >> unfortunately for gonzalez, by the time he figured out how to pop the lock on his door, hidalgo, guerrero and the sert team had already left the unit. >> he came ru...

>> hidalgos friend jeremy gonzalez is in the intensive supervision unit after he burst out of his cell with a seven-inch shank and then flooded his housing unit. his murder trial has been postponed, and in the meantime, hes limited his contact with family because its just too hard to deal with. >> i tried to use the phone. it breaks my hid. pushed me into water. i aint going to be there for a while, you know? >> despite his efforts to avoid thinking about family, a reminder has just arrived by w...

Wabash inmates ever experience is their time on the outdoor recreation yards. >> for the record, we won that game. >> while rec is a time to enjoy some fresh air and exercise, it is also one of the times inmates are most likely to exchange contraband, including shanks. >> tell us whats going on out here. >> well, right now theyre patting down the convicts that are going back in from recreation, to check and make sure they dont have any weapons. i guess theres been a tip that there was going to b...

Knives out of nearly any object he found on prison grounds. >> if it was big enough to put in your hand with a little left over, it was big enough to be sharpened into a weapon. usually i would just keep it on me because its no good if its hidden somewhere. if somebody comes on to you and [ bleep ], you aint got it on you, you cant tell him, hold on, let me go get my knife. thankfully, ive never had to use one. usually if somebody sees one, its enough to keep them at bay. so you dont usually hav...

Inmate for almost a year after having been caught with a shank. >> yep. look. it fits in here perfect. the dimensions are just right, because it fell over a little bit, but it fit in there. and it turned. bowden, you want to explain this? why you got a homemade cuff key in your property? >> theres nothing to explain. you found it in my property, you know. >> okay. >> i cant explain it. >> why did you make it? >> in case i need it. >> need it for what? >> i dont know, l.t. some things might requi...