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Correctional officers showed our cameras how they quell the violence with an arsenal of their own. one that includes nonlethal and lethal weaponry. >> first rounds we fire are wood blocks. hopefully it will make them stop. we really have to escalate with our nonlethal options. we use what we call a scat round, which is really irritating. those are louder. the smoke you see there, thats cn gas. its no fun. it messes up your sight. makes you, you know, makes your snot roll. and of course we have a...

And i believe that everybody should know the lord. if you dont know the lord, i encourage you to know the lord. >> id just gotten done putting the camera down. my cameraman was walking around. and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was...

Up, facedown. whole yard of kind of like 600 inmates were completely down on the ground. >> okay, get up. >> so officer mitchell, what just happened just now? >> basically, what we had, two guys, they wanted to horseplay, get a little bit heavy. if we allowed things like that to continue, whats going to happen is theyre going to start fighting, the possibility of other people getting involved. >> though the alarm call at corcoran ended peacefully, our cameras encountered a different situation at...

Other. >> this surveillance footage reveals a group of southern mexican gang members unleashing a vicious coordinated attack against a group of black inmates. the beginning of californias worst prison riot. >> i looked around and all over the yard there was fighting and stabbings going on. >> doug burrell and dozens of his fellow officers tried to subdue inmates with pepper spray and teargas, but every time it seemed the staff had the situation under control, another fight broke out. >> it looke...

. >> id just gotten done putting the camera down. my cameraman was walking around. and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. you can see hes pretty -- pretty messed up. >> the inmate wh...

Reveals a group of southern mexican gang members unleashing a vicious coordinated attack against a group of black inmates. the beginning of californias worst prison riot. >> i looked around and all over the yard there was fighting and stabbings going on. >> doug burrell and dozens of his fellow officers tried to subdue inmates with pepper spray and teargas, but every time it seemed the staff had the situation under control, another fight broke out. >> it looked like the movie "braveheart," the f...

Them stop. if we have to escalate to nonlethal options, use what we call scat round which is really irritating. its also a lot louder. the smoke you see there, thats cn gas. its no fun. it messes up your sight. we have a mini 14 here, a .223 round, we only use that as a last resort. the inmate has knocked another inmate unconscious and kicking him in the head or something. >> corcoran state prison no longer has to resort to such drastic measures to control violence in the shu yard. their solutio...

With "lockup," we film in some of the toughest prisons in america. every time we send a crew out to a maximum security prison, you never know what might happen with regards to violence. whether its a stabbing, whether its a fight in the yard, or even a riot. theres always a chance that violence may break out. >> we found that was the case when we visited californias legendary fulsom state prison. >> you can feel it. its like electricity in the air. its so thick you can actually breathe in the te...

>> pelican bays worst riot was fueled by the inmates impulse for violence. and many of those inmates ended up here. the security housing unit, or the shu. >> inmates that were placed into the shu housing unit were placed in here for the most part because of violence. that violence could be against other inmates or against officers. >> it was here in pelican bays most secure unit that we came across perhaps the prisons most dangerous inmate. >> my name is scanvinski hymes. i got the name from my ...

And then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. he was pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived because of a quick response by staff on the yard. his assailants were sentence...