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In most prison systems sex offenders have to be kept in protective custody units for their own security. but in this prison, they are trying to program that allows sex offenders to live in a dormitory setting with other general population inmates. >> it is called cru which stands for community reintegration unit but commonly known as a sex offender unit. >> i'm 35 years old. i'm in prison for having molested a family member when she was between the ages of 8 and 12. and at first, you know, just between and you me. at the end it was pretty much, you know what? i don't care if you want to stop o...

Offenders have to be kept in protective custody units for their own security. but in this prison, they are trying to program that allows sex offenders to live in a dormitory setting with other general population inmates. >> it is called cru which stands for community reintegration unit but commonly known as a sex offender unit. >> i'm 35 years old. i'm in prison for having molested a family member when she was between the ages of 8 and 12. and at first, you know, just between and you me. at the end it was pretty much, you know what? i don't care if you want to stop or not. i need this. i don't...

Offenders have to be kept in protective custody units for their own security. but in this prison, they are trying to program that allows sex offenders to live in a dormitory setting with other general population inmates. >> it is called cru which stands for community reintegration unit but commonly known as a sex offender unit. >> i'm 35 years old. i'm in prison for having molested a family member when she was between the ages of 8 and 12. and at first, you know, just between and you me. at the end it was pretty much, you know what? i don't care if you want to stop or not. i need this. i don't...

It's prison and these guys are pros at doing this stuff to get it in. they want it and a lot of it comes through the visiting rooms, unfortunately, where they have contact with people from the outside who have access to that. >> i was working visiting which is a dormitory setting, contact visits. there was an inmate in there that tried to smuggle in some cocaine. he had it in two balloons. what he did is his visitor brought it in. he had to use the restroom. he went to the restroom. he pushed it up inside his rectum. as i was doing his search, i stripped him down. i had him bend at the waist a...

>> i really appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> i appreciate it. >> all right. >> although the maximum security units at the penitentiary of new mexico require his constant attention, warden stanley moya has also devoted more time to creating a new and more rehabilitative minimum security program. the goal is to prepare inmates for life on the outside. >> it is a dormitory setting, which is a much more controlled environment. you're dealing with a completely different caliber of inmate, an inmate that's much closer to his release date. they can see the light at the end of the tunnel. >> they'...