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>> hey, i need that dude up there strip searched. >> the special response teams at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, have a broad range of responsibilities. they respond to crisis situations. >> go, go, go! >> conduct cell inspections for weapons and drugs. >> once they're strip searched they're going into the rec yard. >> and escort high-profile inmates to court, to name a few. but sometimes these elite law enforcement officers find themselves taking on very different duties. >> gentlemen, get up. >> one minute it can be exciting and one minute it can be you're looking through gar...

Special response team that will attempt to retrieve the key. but to prevent the inmate from swallowing it, they must catch him by surprise. >> let's go to the water well. what the water well is, it's basically a plumber's access. you know, the toilets are mounted against the wall, the sink's mounted against the wall. we don't necessarily go in the cell to fix these. we go into the backwater well. the back walkway, it's full of plumbing. since we have the water well built, they decided, let's put windows. we go on a security walk, the inmates see us, they know that we're there. we can go in the...

Give me a couple minutes to get back here. >> sergeant nicholas heads the special response team that will attempt to retrieve the key. but to prevent the inmate from swallowing it, they must catch him by surprise. >> let's go to the water well. what the water well is, it's basically a plumber's access. you know, the toilets are mounted against the wall, the sink's mounted against the wall. we don't necessarily go in the cell to fix these. we go into the backwater well. the back walkway, it's full of plumbing. since we have the water well built, they decided, let's put windows. we go on a secur...

>> what do you got there? >> ma'am, that's a cuff key. that's a homemade cuff key made out of metal. that's a homemade cuff key. this right here can get somebody killed. this is why we do our shakedowns and do them at random. if they knew we were coming we would have never found this. it would have been gone. they would have flushed it. this right here is very serious. >> the key has been discovered in the cell of inmates lionel bowden and fostoe duran, but it was in bowden's deodorant container. >> if we can't find this, no telling what would have happened. we don't know as of now what he was...

A disciplinary report. >> i've had possession of a weapon dr, possession of a handcuff key. you know several disrespects. a couple fighting drs. during my seven years since i been incarcerated i felt about four of them confined. >> bowden was already in the prison's close management system when he was caught with the cuff key. >> stand right here. >> 0052. >> now he must face the institutional classification team or ict who could they change his status from close management level two to level one, the highest security level in the entire prison. >> you're currently in class management 2. your ...