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They self-segregate. we do not tell them where to go. the shower closest to the left is all whites. the middle shower will be only your blacks. the far right shower is your hispanics and others. the tables along the day room right here are broken up into races. >> this is the others. the table for others. >> others, others. >> we're not gang members. >> other than black, other than white. >> this guy's an american indian right here, a native american. >> we're all from different counties and different cities. but this brings us all together as one. >> it's a show of unity. everybody eats. we d...

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 an...

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 ...

So i was sent back to the county jail to have a new trial. i lost the trial again and they hung on the death penalty. so they decided after about several months not to refile the death penalty. so they sent me back to san quentin. it feel good to get off death row, but it hasn't sunk in yet. you know, it will in time but it hasn't yet. they removed me from death row and put me in the reception center. the reception center is the most disgusting place in san quentin. i don't know how i ended up over there, but they removed my a1a status. which is -- that mean i was programmed and i receive all ...

Before, i was working in donner section. >> when we first met c.o. cavagnolo, he dealt with high level inmates in level one 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 dor...