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Down. when his target walks by, the inmate would light those two fuses. basically what you have is a double-barreled shotgun. >> what's particularly scary is once an inmate finishes making his weapon, he finds a clever place to hide it for quick access. >> it's an old joint. you can hide stuff anywhere, like the i-beams up here. i'm going to check these. it's just a beam. you walk under it every day. somebody is walking to the chow ow where it is. but they won't tell because they don't want to get killed, get hurt for ratting. i guess you can't reach up there, can you? i'll get them. >> you ha...

On the exercise yard, there are no bars keeping rival gangs apart, only a desire to carve out their own place in the sun. >> this is the lower yard. and the inmates segregate themselves out here. and the reason being that the gangs want it that way. john gladson is a veteran officer at san quentin, with 19 years of experience observing yard politics. this has helped him to fine tune his senses for predicting trouble. >> sound is a big thing in prison. if you look out, this yard's pretty nice.

We visited the shu's now vacant exercise yard, which has been the scene of some of the prison's most brutal violence. ♪ >> i can see why fights went on in that exercise yard. because it was literally like a cage. there was no where for you to go. and if you really wanted to take someone out, that was the place to do it. it's literally -- like the most extreme ultimate fighting thing you would see. >> correctional officers show our cameras how they quell the violence with an arsenal of their own. one that includes nonlethal and lethal weaponry. >> get down! get down! >> the first rounds we fi...

Segregation, or the hole, a disciplinary unit where inmates are locked down 23 hours a day. what landed him here? he viciously beat up a rival cellmate. >> what provoked it? you know what i mean, i don't want to talk about that. because i could be considered a rat. you follow what i'm saying? for giving up information, for 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 ...

>> i have a bad anger problem, you know what i'm saying? i'm angry because i ain't with my family. i'm angry because of the way they treat you, the things they do to you. it ain't never a happy day in prison. >> at the time of our visit wilson had just completed an anger management program, that deputy warden patterson arranged for him to take in his cell. >> he needs to grow up. immaturity. he's working on it. >> i got kids, man. everybody going to change one day. >> for wilson, change is essential. since most of his sentence for assaulting the officer was timed to overlap with his original s...