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Than on the yard. >> waiting for transfers. generally all our whites hang out over here and our asians are on this side. you have a lot of southern hispanics on the other side playing ball with the whites. toward the tower, you have a lot of northerner hispanic inmates and a lot of black hispanic inmates hang out over there. that's where they workout over there. this is sort of the west side of the yard. just on the other side of the yard, the east side of the yard where the dip bars and everything is at is where our southerners and whites workout. in front of the buildings is where your black...

Rape. >> within the 275-acre 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 little human contact. inside the shoe are about 1,000 level-four prisoners, what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don't want or can't handle. 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. ...

Basically what they'll do is eat it like that with the dope on it or sometimes heat it up and the dope will come out of the letter and they will 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 didn't know it was coming in. this is an actual address, turn it over to the squad and let it -- them know that it tested positive. it will actually be up to them. see what they want to do with it. >> acting on an inside tip about contraband continuing to come through the laun...

Erupts. >> just like that, somebody gives somebody a cue, and it's people chasing other people with knives. >> a full-scale attack. 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 o...

Inside the shoe are about 1,000 level-four prisoners, what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don't want or can't handle. 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 g...