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Officers struggled to contain the chaos. >> i had a 180-degree vision of the yard, and it was a war zone. >> terror in a california vision as gang members unleash a blood-thirsty attack. >> the thing that was so extraordinary is the rifles didnt stop them. >> february 23, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the countrys highest security correctional facilities, a super max prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent crim...

Pentagon correspondent barbara starr who broke this story earlier today. >> reporter: empty out guantanamo as much as they possibly can. why hasnt it happened? some of the detainees are in legal limbo, not enough evidence to take them to a trial but you cant release them. some, the president would like to put in federal prison in the united states, potentially a super max. congress, deeply opposed to that. now the strategy is to empty it out by transferring as many as they can under the current ...

Federal super max. >> why is that? >> because there are 15 staff members for every prisoner at guantanamo. there are 2,200 people who work at guantanamo. and so it is a very -- its cost over $5 billion since we set up guantanamop. this is money. the more important question, what are you going to do with these people? others, besides me, will have to -- >> theres not a good answer to that. no country -- >> if there was we would have it. >> one of the things youve heard on the talk shows lately ab...

Theres a lot of bottled up negative energy in prison, and as the lockup crews have found out many times, you never know when things can explode. >> i have a bad impulse problem. >> the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officers face yesterday. >> and it is chaos. they throw us in here like an animal in a cage. the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, austere environment, steel doors behind which inmates ...

Is broken up with moments of sheer terror. theres a lot of bottled up negative energy in prison, and as the lockup crews have found out many times, you never know when things can explode. >> i have a bad impulse problem. >> the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officers face yesterday. >> and it is chaos. they throw us in here like an animal in a cage. the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, austere env...

Didnt stop them. >> february 23rd, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the countrys highest correctional security facilities, a super max prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. teda boyle is a retired lieutenant from pelican bay. she was a watch commander on the day of the riot. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, strong-armed robbery, rape. >> wit...

Negative energy in prison and as our lock up crews found out many times you never when things can explode. >> the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officers face yesterday. >> the day we arrived the colorado state penitentiary a super max prison, we found a sterile steel environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day. but despite his surroundings, inmate shawn shields was in high

>> february 23rd, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the countrys highest correctional security facilities, a super max prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. teda boyle is a retired lieutenant from pelican bay. she was a watch commander on the day of the riot. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, strong-armed robbery, rape. >> within the 275-acre ...

$900,000, whereas in a super max prison t would cost the u.s. government $60,000 to $70,000. this is just sort of an example that when it comes to national security, counterterrorism, the military, and defense operations, theres a different standard with republican budget hawks. >> money suddenly is no object. its fascinating. although, one thing thats been puzzling is part of the perception michael is talking about is this kind of belief that terrorists are somehow so dangerous that if we put t...

Economic cost? im always a numbers guy. >> you are. >> $900,000 per inmate. thats the cost. >> compared to $60,000 to $70,000 for a super max. >> and $3,00,000 across the boa. if youre a republican and you want to cut costs, spend here. >> here were spending $1 million per prisoner. >> i could talk about the moral costs and the diplomatic costs. we have a reporter at huff post ryan riley who spent time down there and told me what he had seen, the chilling, almost underworldly nature of observers...