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During a routine cell search at the riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee, a pair of contraband headphones was removed from the cell of inmate tirrell shropshire. >> you talk to them like a man, they don't want to hear that. >> by the next day, things had escalated. >> the riverbend cell extraction team has been activated for the purpose of removing all hard items from inmate shropshire, 34-93-25. out of unit 3201. >> why? >> he was assaultive toward stf last night. the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officer's face yesterday and also a coke bottle full of water thrown an...

>> even something as seemingly harmless as a set of headphones can be considered contraband. >> is there a number on it? >> no. no number on it. that's contraband. we're taking it. >> at riverbend, every electronic item had to be documented and approved by the prison officials. there was no record of his headphones so they were confiscated by the search team. >> go ahead and bring him back to me. >> later, shropshire's led back to his cell. >> we followed him back to his cell, really having no idea how he would react. cell searches are fairly common. so we weren't expecting anything in particu...

>> within seconds, the still-shackled officer is pulled to safety. >> get the door. >> a short time later, hill is also removed from his cell. though dazed by the effects of the pepper spray, hill is uninjured. his assault on the officer earned him two months in punitive segregation and an extension of his sentence. [ yelling ] >> riverbend's emergency response team regularly trains for crises where a cell extraction is called for. our crew was there to cover one session.

>> as you can see, when you get that many people in as small a cell as it is, it makes kind of havoc about being able to operate in there. straighten him out. there you go. straighten him out. move him out now. straighten him out. that's the reason we do more training. the more training you get to do, the better you get. the less injury you have on the inmate or the staff. >> during the course of our shoot at riverbend, the extraction team would assemble once again. but this time it would be for real. the incident was triggered when officers conducted a routine cell search for weapons in the p...

Doctor's waiting room. he's got little magazines on the thing. >> yeah. >> even something as seemingly harmless as a set of headphones can be considered contraband. >> is there a number on it? >> no. no number on it. that's contraband. >> at riverbend, every electronic item had to be documented and approved by the prison officials. there was no record of his headphones so they were confiscated by the search team. >> go ahead and bring him back to me. >> later, shropshire's led back to his cell. >> we followed him back to his cell, really having no idea how he would react. cell searches are fai...