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Or sometimes heat it up and the dope will come out of the letter they'll use it. but more than likely chop it up and sell it, piece by piece. his argument will be that he didn't know it was coming in. it's coming in off the street, he just has to say, i didn't know it was coming in. this is an actual address, turn it over to the squad and let it know it tested positive, it will be up to them. see what they want to do. >> acting on an inside tip about contraband continuing to come through the laundry facility on corcoran's b yard, sergeant lawton and the isu team launch a surprise search. >> th...

Which is a discipline. then you turn around and give us a 115 for the same incident. >> yard is a privilege. it can be revoked at any time. >> on the one hand, if you keep the general population inmates locked in their cells and they don't get out to exercise and to do the things that they would normally do, it builds up tension. >> whites did not go last week. >> thursday. >> they said all black. >> thursday. you guys went. ask around. >> on the other hand, if we let them out, we know that there's going to be more violence. >> it's like a dog, you lock a dog up in a cage. as soon as you open ...

The southern hispanics ambushed the black guerilla family. within seconds b yard becomes a war zone. >> there was a lot of confusion and a lot of chaos. the level of violence on this one yard at that one day, that one moment, was as large as i had ever seen in my life. >> nursing director jim anderson is at the shoe gate when he hears the explosion of a tear gas canister. >> i looked up and i saw the white smoke billowing out of b yard and then i heard the crack of a mini 14, which is like an assault rifle. >> dr. everett allen, the surgeon at pelican bay, watches the mayhem unfold just steps ...

Dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. >> because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community to commit these types of crimes. >> and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. it's sunday, and it's raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire prison is on edge dating back to a smaller racially charged riot six months earlier between two gangs, the southern hispanics and the black guerilla family. >> you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. as it went on, the tension g...

They're letting me know is going to happen in a couple of minutes and they are going to b yard. we have to make sure all of the other races are moved off the roadway or locked up in some manner. you would have this yard full of whites and southern mexicans and then trying to move these individuals here, which there is a race war. so, it would be too dangerous on our part as well. >> under pelican bay's state of emergency, much of the mainline facility was moved to administrative segregation, a jail within the prison. here, inmates are closely watched, their activities and movements severely re...