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This mission today. it's good to see everybody coming together, working toward a common goal, several institutions, okaloosa, walton, century, the ig's canine. what we're doing this morning, mass search. our goal is to identify, locate and remove items of contraband, making santa rosa a safer place for the inmates and the staff. >> today's search will cover two housing units and involve officers from santa rosa, three other state prisons, and the state's inspector general's canine unit. the dogs are trained detect the scents of both drugs and cell phones. >> we've got six different search team...

Inside the two facilities that make up the sacramento county jail system, 4,000 men and women sleep on steel bunks with thin mattresses. for many of them, that's an improvement compared to the living conditions on the outside. they were, at one time or the other, among the approximately 2,500 sacramento area homeless. >> i pretty much surrender myself here. i wasn't really arrested. i was saved. i was homeless when i got arrested. >> i started living in an abandoned building. i had a couple of blankets and there was a chair up there. i'd fall asleep sitting up in the chair all the time. my fee...

Reserved for inmates considered to be gang leaders. among them are cellmates and cousins quentin carthen and isaiah thomas. >> [ bleep ] 21-4, blood. >> [ bleep ]. >> 21-4, blood. >> [ bleep ] lying. >> they cope with the close confines of their maximum security cell by keeping it clean and following daily rituals. >> we in a outhouse with bunks in it. some bunk beds in a bathroom. if we don't clean up the dust is going to pile up, dirt going to go everywhere. it's grimy up in here. we try to keep it clean so it smell clean, so the floor clean. we going to work out, sit around. rolling up the ...

>> jimmy always around. jimmy. >> jimmy, jimmy. >> you know, me and jimmy have some interactions the last few weeks. some of it has been good. some of it has been bad. but they put me on a new med. i told them if i feel and jimmy feels that it's making me slow in any shape or form, i'm going to get off the medication because i don't like to be down. i like to be up. >> corey's decision to go off his medication not only affects him but his new cell mate, jonathan elliott, who must cope with both corey and jimmy. >> did you brush your teeth today? >> no. >> that's crazy [ bleep ]. >> toothbrush ...

>> some inmates carve out knives out of metal from the lower parts of the bunks or other metal in the cell. >> before being released into the yard, inmates are strip-searched multiple times. so how do they smuggle out weapons? >> the only effective place to hide those are in one's anal cavity. that's a dangerous thing to do with a sharp instrument. >> once out in the yard, they're able to transfer the weapons from their hiding place and conceal them under their bulky prison-issue raincoats. >> some are large, shockingly large. >> gunners fire rifles and tear gas in an attempt to halt the fight...