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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...

>> the pent-up tension finally 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 ya...

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. >> 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 raci...

Housing unit known as the shu, a prison within a prison. shu 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 shu 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 or the prison to commit these types of crimes. >> and on that day, two alleged gangs go to war....

>> you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. and as it went on, the tension got more and more and more pronounced. >> the pent-up tension finally erupts. >> and 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 anders...