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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 this 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 distilling white lightning. a hand drawn illustration confiscated ...

Its a fact of prison life that the walls can keep the inmates in, but they cant always keep the drugs, alcohol and other contraband out. >> are there drugs in prison? what do you think? >> inmates manufacture two kinds of alcoholic beverages in prison -- white lightning and pruno. both made from fruit and sugar fermented in a plastic bag and strained through a pillow case. >> pruno can get you drunk and get you riled up. whereas you can drink half a cup of white lightning and if the c.o.s ask yo...

White lightning, $25 to $50. >> any suspicious artwork in the cells is brought to the sergeant in internal affairs, an expert in gang codes and symbols. >> a lot of the aztec stuff is predominantly done by the southern hispanics, mexican mafia. youll see if you look very close, theyll have the gang signs, mexican mafia normally has a black hand, a small black hand somewhere in the drawing. you have your main liners and they want to send a drawing back to they call it a brother. a validated mexic...

Make the alcohol base. then we take it from the bag and pour it into the pillow case and strain it and keep all of the mush out of it and put the liquid in the bag to be used for apples and two boxes of sugar and you will have three gallons of pruno, and you can sell it and each part is $10 for a tumbler. thats a 16-ounce tumbler. or you can sell it $15 apiece or you can just get drunk off it all you want. >> outlaw then told us about a much more potent concoction. >> the second version we do is...

Actually, if the c os asked to see your i.d. card, because you had that white lightning in your system you 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 inmates guide to distilling white lightning. confiscated in a cell search. >> i found it in his cell and it explains to one how to make clear alcohol. theyre actually mak...

C.o.s ask you a common question like can i see your i.d. card, because you have that white lightning in your system you immediately get violent, you know what i mean? takes six or seven to bring him down. >> sergeant alvarez heads up kern valleys investigative services unit, the task force responsible for fighting crime within the prison. whether it be inmate-on-inmate assaults, staff assaults, sexual assaults, homicides, suicides, the introduction of narcotics or contraband into the institution...

White lightning, $25 to $50. >> any suspicious artwork in the cells is brought to the sergeant in internal affairs, an expert in gang codes and symbols. >> a lot of the aztec stuff is predominantly done by the southern hispanics, mexican mafia. youll see if you look very close, theyll have the gang signs, mexican mafia normally has a black hand, a small black hand somewhere in the drawing. you have your main liners and they want to send a drawing back to they call it a brother. a validated mexic...

>> its a game to the dog. theyre trying to find their toy. thats how -- thats how theyre trained. after a while, they dont find anything, you get tired, you get bored. >> here, boy. >> thats why we try to hit the hot cells first. because after that, your success rate starts going down. >> good boy. hey. >> these searches often turn up some type of illegal substance. >> like a marijuana pen or joint, you got some of the marijuana here. the balloons packed with marijuana. a syringe here. the crack...

If they do something in front of the cops they will be locked up and sent to the hole and they will stay here until a later date. they will have to eventually have the deal with it, but for a short time, he is safe in here. >> johns in fact did get sentenced to time in the hole, but never confirmed whether it was on purpose or not. >> so, was it worth it? >> not really. >> but at the time, yeah, i didnt think about the consequences. i didnt think about falling down and getting burned and getting...

Hustle. >> while nicknames are common in prison, we have discovered something else is as well, but it is not as harmless. >> what is that? >> prison-made whiskey. >> they call it prune juice and it has prunes in it and waits until it ferments good. >> what does it smell like? >> it is a strong whiskey aroma. >> inmate-manufactured alcohol goes by many names prison julep, juneau, white lightning, whatever its called, our crews have seen it, heard about it, smelled it. it exists in every prison. >...