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You live in here. yeah. do you get to pick your roommate? technically no. okay. but the department understands that you have to. it s better if you are living with somebody that you want to live with because yeah, yeah. you have to be able to deal with another person s personality in this close space. there s this term called cell slug. cell slug. yeah. that s a person that stays in the cell all the time and never leaves the cell, and so the other celly never gets any real privacy. i hate to bring it up, but we ve got to talk about it. i think you know what i m going to say what, that? the toilet. yeah. how? i mean, when i go to the bathroom, i like some privacy. i like to have my time. i like to be alone. i don t want anybody talking to me. all right. the way most cellies negotiate that is if my celly needs to use the restroom, i m going to find something to do. okay. he normally leaves at 6:30 in the morning. and so, my regular system is hooked u ....
And while we ve got our charts out, let s look at another one. during that same time, the prison population has grown from around 300,000 in 1980 to over 1.6 million prisoners today. what s not good here? you go up those stairs, it s totally different. what s up those stairs? going to north block, going to our housing. i m glad you guys are telling me the truth. yes. okay, but when you go home, you google pinochle. [ laughter ] those guys mentioned the living conditions here, so i figured i d ask my new friend, juan haynes, managing editor at the san quentin news, to give me a tour of his cell. it won t take long. this is the cell that i m in. okay. you can go in there. thank you. thank you. one of the things about these cells is, like, as you can see, as big as you are, two people can t stand down here at the same time normally. yeah. like, if i want to get down, then my celly lays over there so i can get by. you have to choreograph how ....
so, it s kind of like when women live together, their cycles all sort of align? when you live with a guy, you have to make sure you re not on the same gastrointestinal cycle? yeah. and finding the right celly, that s one of the big things. that s one of the big things. if you both have a yeah. when you leave oh, man. and that s the cell slug. that s where the cell slug comes in. thank you. we can step out of here. starting to get a little claustrophobic. one thing that s become clear to me in my short time here is that every inmate is open to talking about the reason they re in san quentin, and not in a gossipy way or defensive way but in a taking responsibility way. how did you end up here? i was arrested in 1996 for a series of bank robberies in san diego. you don t seem like a bank robber. right. i robbed the bank before and the lady said, are you serious? how did you do it? what was your process? the fbi gave me the moniker ....
there was a birthday card sent into the facility through the mail. the birthday card was tampered with. there was actually four bags of heroin in between the two birthday cards. the birthday card had the e number of your roommate. so can you make a statement on what your involvement is with this or i have no involvement at all with that. at all. only involvement i can see me having is being his celly. are you aware of him doing this? i was not aware of anything like that. so you had no involvement with this at all? at all. you can step back out. i ll come see you in a few moments and let you know our decision. okay? yes. now the panel will hear from nick battaglia. there was a birthday card mailed in that had four bags of white powdery substance, possibly heroin. now is your chance to make a statement here. my name was on the card, so obviously i m a prime suspect. i m not saying i m not. i mean, i look i look guilty there, but if you look deeper ....
Hearings starting with battaglia s cellmate, who has requested anonymity. there was a birthday card sent into the facility through the mail. the birthday card was tampered with. there was actually four bags of heroin in between the two birthday cards. the birthday card had the e number of your roommate. so can you make a statement on what your involvement is with this or i have no involvement at all with that. at all. only involvement i can see me having is being his celly. are you aware of him doing this? i was not aware of anything like that. so you had no involvement with this at all? at all. you can step back out. i ll come see you in a few moments and let you know our decision. okay? yes. now the panel will hear from nick battaglia. there was a birthday card mailed in that had four bags of white powdery substance, possibly heroin. now is your chance to make a statement here. my name was on the card, so obviously i m a prime suspect. ....