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Section. when we first met c.o. cavagnolo, he dealt with high level inmates in desegregation. now he works in a dorm setting. i have 200 inmates and it s only me. it s like going totally other side of the spectrum. everything down here is observation, just watching, listening, getting the feel for the dorm and if you re always watching, you can tell when something s starting to go bad, hopefully stop it before it gets bad, but things happen down here all the time. you have a lot of drugs down here. partner found two hypodermic needles in this dorm about three days ago. so you got the drugs, you got the inmate-manufactured alcohol, you got the gangs, you got the weapons. so it can be real dangerous at times. i got to do three searches a day. so we just pick them randomly. this guy i haven t did yet since i been down here so it s his lucky day. ....
Either. respect, right? what s your name. marco. what do they say in the hood? marco throw down. don t mess with marco, right? that s what they tell you. that s what they told me because they knew i was willing to fight for nothing. on site, let s go. you think you can whip me, then let s whip. this is why i tell you this. that fighting, eventually it got tiring. because i was literally fighting every day, every single day of my life i was fighting. the homies already knew, romeo, he throw down. i thought let me start carrying this knife. let me start carrying this pistol. and it took one day and all of about three or four seconds for me to pull my pistol out on somebody that could have easily just fought, whooped them and been done with it, and i pulled a gun on this man and shot him six times in his chest because he liked the color blue. you re 15, right? ....
And for white people it s what it is, ami, american indians. that s pretty much about it, ain t it? there s three different types of mexicans. sureños, norteños and pices. and we can sit with serenos and we can sit with pices. don t ask me why. but we can t play with the black folks. i would get beat up. you d get in a fight over it. that s just the way it is. there s more racism here than there is in, you know, in civilization for sure. if you don t come in prejudiced, you might leave prejudiced. anything we take for granted on the outside is worth money. books go for a premium in here. food is worth money. soups are 20 cents apiece in prison money. inmates will use virtually anything for bartering. many items not issued by the prison can be purchased in the canteen. ....
So i was never out to make it over there. i figured they would take care of it. you know but i guess apparently they didn t. it looks like it s going to be a ride home. it s $20,000 bail. they re misdemeanors. you re not going to get any more prison time for them. but we are making some pickup arrangements for you. so sonoma county s going to drive down and pick you up the next couple of days. we never tell you exactly when it s going to happen. do you have any questions? no, i guess that s plain as day. you know what i m saying? all right. we didn t know. we thought you were out the door, too. you know how things pop up at the last minute. yeah. okay. all right, mr. nasholm, take care. matthew will leave san quentin, but instead of going home, he s headed straight to county jail. we re finished with him for now. if he violates his parole, if he commits another felony, we might see him again. next on lockup: extended stay, no bars, no locks, no ....
down here, the dangers are pretty good. i m left-handed. it s an open environment. there s right now, i have six staff members. [ bleep ]. yeah, you re doing a good job of it too, huh? breaking all my rights. another day on the job. almost all the individuals down here are parole violators, they ve been out on parole, couldn t hack it. got picked up for something, they sent them back in here. they generally do six months, under a year, something of that nature. they go mainline to another institution and do the rest of their time or they re released back out on parole. prison system s severely overcrowded. beds are at a premium. this is the rc overflow. we house 384 individuals. the gym being it s an open dorm. we have tvs, considered pretty much the luxury suites of the ....