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Trip, whereas, white lightning can cause you to drink a half a cup of white lightning and it will actually, if the cos were to come to ask you a common question like something like can i see your i.d. card, because you have the white lightning in your system, you will the white lightning in your system, you will immediately get violent. a lot of times they do that and they have to take the dudes to the ground because they are on white lightning and takes six or seven cos to bring them down. >> a...

>> how does this taste? >> white lightning tastes exactly like whiskey without any cut. some guys in prison will cut it, with say kool-aid or something because it is too strong. then you have other guys, they just down it. just raw. and a lot of these dudes that make this stuff, they dont realize that the bacteria in the stuff theyre drinking will give them tuberculosis and other diseases. because it is nothing but rotten food that it is made from. >> since drunken inmates can lead to big troubl...

I didnt think about falling down and pepper sprayed and burned still. i didnt think about getting staples. i didnt think about none of that. up next -- >> prison-made whiskey, they call it juice. its got prunes in it. >> alcohol inside our correctional institutions are a very big problem. >> when inmates get drunk. >> when you have that white lightning in your system, you immediately get violent. las known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for its smog. but there are a lot of people that...

They can be torn apart and they make a nice little bag. then you need heat. you have a light fixture in there and lamps give off heat. fruit, sugar, water, container, and heat. three to five days, and you have drinkable pruno. >> like a vintner selecting a certain grape variety for their wine, inmates can choose from a wide array of ingredients to brew their hooch. >> kool-aid. apples. oranges. >> corn. corn cobs. >> ketchup, tomato paste. >> pineapple. >> grapefruits. >> prunes. >> peaches. >> ...

>> what does it smell like? smell it. tell us. >> its got a strong whiskey aroma. >> inmate-manufactured alcohol goes by many names, prison julep, pruno, hooch, white lightning. whatever its called, our crews have seen it, heard about it, smelled it. it exists in every prison we filmed in. >> alcohol is used daily. alcohol inside our correctional institutions are a very big problem because it only takes a small amount of time to make the alcohol, and just about everyone does it. so its a constan...

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>> like a marijuana penner joint. you have got some of the marijuana here. the balloons packed with marijuana. the syringe here. the crack pipes so they can smoke crack. >> a common item found during cell searches is pruno, a fermented alcohol made from shredded apples and kool-aid. >> i would say serve up to five or ten people, all depending. some of the inmates actually even sell the pruno, by the cup. whether selling it for five bucks a cup or ten, or if its white lightning, 25 to 50. >> any ...

>> how does this taste? >> white lightning tastes exactly like whiskey without any cut. some guys in prison will cut it with, say, something like kool-aid or something because its too strong. then you have other guys that just down it just raw. and a lot of these dudes that make this stuff, they dont realize that the bacteria in the stuff theyre drinking doesnt do anything but give them tuberculosis and other diseases because it is nothing but rotten food that its made from. >> since drunken inm...

I didnt think about none of that. up next -- >> prison-made whiskey, they call it juice. its got prunes in it. >> alcohol inside of the correctional institutions are a big problem. >> when inmates get drunk. >> when you have that white lightning in your system, you immediately get violent. were here at nashvilles renowned jimmy kellys steakhouse, where tonight weve switched their steaks with walmarts choice premium steak.

Trip, whereas, white lightning can cause you to drink a half a cup of white lightning and it will actually, if the cos were to come to ask you a common question like something like can i see your i.d. card, because you have the white lightning in your system, you will immediately get violent. a lot of times they do that and they have to take the dudes to the ground because they are on white lightning and takes six or seven cos to bring them down. >> at pelican bay, we saw the definitive guide to...