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The only thing i haven't been convicted of in prison is murder and drugs. >> hymes' favorite form of mayhem, inciting cell extractions. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> hold it. >> come on, you [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. i can to this 24/7.
Removed from their cells. for legal reasons, these extractions are always videotaped by prison staff. >> we can have something that can happen two, three times a week, sometimes even two a day, three a day, and then there's other times where we'll go months without anything going on. >> step back to the door. step back to be handcuffed. >> these cell extractions are dangerous for the officers involved. >> this is the third and final directive. >> as soon as you go to restrain them, they might have a shank, try to pull it out, stab one of the officers that are actually on the extraction team. s...
Everywhere you go, handcuffed, handcuffed to go in the shower. you have no human contact with nobody at all. >> but roy slagle has had more contact than most inmates here. it's just been all the wrong kind. at the time of our shoot, he held a dubious record. he had had more cell extractions than any other inmate at the prison. cell extractions occur when inmates violate rules. and refuse orders to cuff up and vacate their cells. it's then up to a specially trained emergency response team to forcibly remove them. and in slagle's case, the extractions are always intense.
Identified him in numerous cell extractions. he will fight us. he will try to get out of his cell. >> determined to make a stand, slagle mounts a defense with the few meager items he has in his cell. he has jammed his door with a hardened papier-mache-like mixture with wet newspapers and toothpaste. but with the extraction team on its way, the conflict is about to come to a head. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> he's on the floor.
He made a big impression. at the time, roy was serving a 12-year sentence for robbery and had a notorious reputation for forcing the prison to perform cell extractions on him because of his frequent refusals to obey orders. nine years later, during our shoot at the lyman correctional facility in eastern colorado, we met an inmate named ray slagle who wasted no time reminding us of our sibling. >> come here, look at this. this is my twin brother right here. you already did a clip on him on msnbc. he was wild as hell. but by then, roy was anything but wild. and, in fact, had recently been releas...