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>> shank. >> yeah. >> it was a little piece of plastic about three or four inches long, sharpened at one end, with no handle, no nothing. what are you going to do with it? >> we have to shake down your house and make sure you dont have anything in there. >> as a rule, you shake down whatever cell you go live in. on a major shakedown, they find something in my cell, they write me up, so now im stuck here another five years. >> what was found? >> allegedly a shank. >> a piece about this big. i lau...

>> i heard a bit of a shuffle from my right-hand side. i felt a punch. what i thought was a punch to the chest. >> i stabbed him in the chest. and the first thing out of his mouth was, "why?" thats the first thing out of anybodys mouth whenever theyre faced with their consequences. why? why did you do this? or why did you do that? well, if you stop back and think about the actions you took to bring you to this point, you wouldnt have to ask why. >> i was walking back to the table and they said, ...

Have anything in there. >> as a rule, you shake down whatever cell you go live in. on a major shakedown, they find something in my cell, they write me up, so now im stuck here another five years. >> what was found? >> allegedly a shank. >> a piece about this big. i laugh at that. you know what i mean? what am i going to do? piss someone off with that? if someone was coming at me like that, i laugh at them. yeah, if it goes in im going to feel it. but its nothing that can damage you. it is nothin...

>> first thing is wherever im going, im going to take a shower. grab my razor, take a shower. >> here we go. >> for a minute there, we were absolutely peachless, now we are all peachy again. a real peach with lots of fuzz. look at that. >> because alejandro had numerous violent outbursts in and out of prison, he spends most of his time in the lockdown units of pnm. most recently, hes been put on disciplinary segregation for possession of dangerous contraband. >> which one was that? >> shank. >> ...

>> what was it? >> angle iron. >> i had been working here for about six months. conrad complained like he always did. i went to give him the phone. the officer opened the door, came out with a shank. lucky i have a hard head and it bounced off my head and just cut me in the back. sent me to the hospital. came back to work this day. im going to see about -- i just come do my job. thats all. im not -- i dont want to act like them, you know? >> he says he doesnt take it personal. >> would you take ...

After receiving an inside tip that inmates may have weapons in the level six facility, officers begin searching the units. >> so basically what im doing here is im looking inside the heater vent here. theres a space between the heater and the wall. thats a real common area for them to hide contraband. they tie a piece of wire or string and theyll fish it behind the crease here and theyll feed it through the vent. found a shank in there yesterday. it was a pretty nice one. it was about -- just ab...

The most challenging part of interviewing alejandro steele was when i started asking him about his most visible crime. >> that crime occurred while steele was serving his original sentence and got him an additional 23 years. it was an assault that he carried out literally in front of a jury of his peers. >> i saw basically the whites of his eyes and i saw him coming at me. i didnt see his hands, but he moved relatively quickly on me and i feel -- i feel a punch in my chest. >> in 2001, steele wa...

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 world, most of these people feel they have to be violent. >> in 1992, robert glenn was sentenced to three years for auto theft. when we m...

All of a sudden the officer is 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 length...

Big, violent person that they marked me to be, or i could talk to him face up, and i came in one day from work. the dude was waiting outside. and i kind of seen he was antsy and everything. had something in his pocket. >> so you had the shank in your pocket? >> i had tied -- i had a shoestring holding my pants up, and it was tied to the shoestring, hanging by my right side. >> smith was convicted of killing harrisons cousin, but claims it was someone else. >> yes, i do have an idea of who did it...