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Giving up game. for explaining how it is in here. >> that's a ten-four. we'll keep that area clear until we're complete. >> as in most prisons, the exercise yard can be the most dangerous place in the facility. >> right off the bat you can tell when something is going to go on. it gets quiet. guys are grouping up in different races. you've got blacks, whites, everybody. >> if violence does break out, yard gunner hosso is well equipped to respond. >> co gas. i have batons, direct foam rounds. it's a less lethal weapon. this is a deadly weapon. this is a lethal weapon. this is a mini-14. it's ex...

And then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. he was pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived because of a quick response by staff on the yard. his assailants were sentenced to six months in fulsom's administration segregation unit. some of the most violent gang attacks h...

>> there is an alarm in that building right there, a-3. >> our cameras search for any signs that the trouble is spreading outside to the exercise yard. >> so this is an actual alarm because nobody is waving us off yet. something is going on inside the building. >> what might be happening? >> probably an assault on someone coming out of their cell. some type of cell fight or slashing. >> officers subdued six inmates involved in the fight. one of them was slashed with a homemade weapon. fortunately, this incident was nothing like the deadly events of february 3, 2000. >> the day they had the big...

There is a chance. >> reporter: in the exercise yard, we met an inmate whose art is inspired my his life. >> tell me your name. >> kevin moore, m-o-o-r-e. >> what were uconn vicked of. >> parole for sales of marijuana. >> the yard is an interesting place, you never know who you will walk into, what personality or who they r. i started looking around and find interesting looking faces. so i happened upon kevin moore, he started telling me-is a rap artist. >> i have a record deal working on me for def record, my akaa sasssoon, if you are a rap fan, listen to it. >> when you talk to inmates, are ...

These two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like repeatedly and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> the battery, they were stomping his head. you can see he was pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived because of quick response from staff on the yard. his assailants were sentenced to six months in folsom's administrative segregation unit. some of the most violent gang attacks have taken place here, at california state prison corcoran's security housing unit or zhu. we visited the shu's now vacant exercise yard which has been the scene of some of the prison's m...