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Grundy while a second camera was shooting routine footage on the yard below. then suddenly -- >> 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, thi...

Down one floor to the ground. then they crawled under a 10-foot-high razor wire fence, and then they were off. and as you mentioned, the manhunt is on. no clue on how they got that hacksaw, but they're certainly not the first prisoners to saw their way to freedom. in 1977 serial killer ted bundy sawing through a metal plate and escaping through the ceiling of his cell in colorado. he had gone on a diet in order to be able to squeeze through the opening, and once he was out, he went on to kill three people. then three years later ten prisoners squeezing through a 7x14 inch hole after sawing awa...

Convicted wife batterer miguel castillo has been transported from a small cell in downtown men's central jail to a large dormitory with exercise yard at north facility. this is where he will spend the rest of his 180-day sentence. >> well, i've been here, you know, since wednesday. you come out here for two hours. i think it's about two hours every day except saturday and sunday. so it's -- it's pretty cool, man. you know, you get to see the sun and the warm heat, you know. you don't get to see any green, but -- the only green you see is the deputy's suits. they're a little stricter. you know,...

And, more importantly, a serious loss of protection. 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. everybody is out and about, talking and laughing ...

Prisoners will be prosecuted. coming up, inmates and the politics of staying alive on the exercise yard. but first, a provocative and personal look at how inmates remain sane in the six by nine foot world of a prison cell. they share how they cook, wash clothes, and even fish. i'm more of an absentee plant parent.