extraordinary is the rifles didn't stop them. >> february 23rd, 2000. cress sent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the country's highest security correctional facilities. a supermax prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. a retired leiutenant from pelican bay 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, rain. >> within the 275-aker penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe, a prison within a prison. shoe inmates spend about 22 hours of every day in solitary confinement, locked up in an 8 x 10 windowless cement cell with