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The corridors of one of the nation's most historic penal institutions. constructed from sandstone, this castle-like prison was built in 1857. four years prior to the civil war. and the friction between staff and inmates seems every bit as old. >> you just hit me in the head. so [ bleep ] choke man [ bleep ] >> during our shoot at joliet, a disruptive new inmate had just been removed from his cell and was being taken to segregation. our cameras were there as captain kim morgan attempted to make the transfer. first a brief stop to process paperwork. >> shouldn't [ bleep ] don't hit me, man. he r...

>> it is a nickname my grandfather gave me as a baby. >> and i'm the littlest guy out there, and that is how i got those three. >> they call me outlaw. >> outlaw? >> yeah. >> self-explanatory? >> yes, it is self-explanatory. >> they call me dude like the coal miner's daughter and not the daughter part, dude. but doolittle on there. >> and the name hustle got me here, too. sometime it ain't good to hustle. >> while nicknames are common in prison, we have discovered something else is, as well, but it is not as harmless. >> what is that? >> prison-made whiskey. they call it julu. it's got prunes ...

>> it is a strong whiskey aroma. >> inmate-manufactured alcohol goes by many names, prison julep, pruno, white lightning, hooch. whatever it's called, our crews have seen it, heard about it, smelled it, and it exists in every prison we've filmed in. >> alcohol is used daily. daily inside of our correctional institutions are a very big problem, because it only takes a small amount of time to make the alcohol, and just about everyone does it. so it is a constant cat-and-mouse game. >> this is a bag of pruno that we discovered in an inmate cell a couple of days ago. a regular garbage bag and insi...

>> up next -- >> prison made whiskey, they call it prune juice. >> alcohol inside of the correctional institutions are a big problem. >> when inmates get drunk. >> when the white lightning hits you, you immediately get violent. games, our town had a "brilliant" idea. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen. tom chipped in 10,000 points. karen kicked in 20,000. and by pooling more thankyou points from folks all over town, we were able to watch team usa... [ cheering ] in true london fashion. [ male announc...

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