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In drugs, having sex with the inmates, doing something, and that made me have more ambition to prove to them and myself that, you know, you can't base what you're thinking on my looks, and that's what's kept me going all these years is that i'm here to prove them wrong. >> as our cameras were rolling, we saw firsthand how unruly inmates continually challenge the staff. inmate toby gonzales, convicted of second degree murder and armed robbery, refuses to remove his hand from the food port. >> do you want to us do 22 or 23? >> this morning when he got his first meal, he refused it, stuck his han...

>> as far as cell extractions go, smith's was fairly routine. it was a different story at the spring creek correctional center in alaska. >> [ bleep ]. >> prisoner demonstrated aggressive agitated behavior by using abusive language and continually banging on his cell walls causing injury to his hands and wrists. >> when spring creek's extraction team was called to remove steven blevins from his cell, he was in a state of rage and had been pounding the walls with his bare fists for over an hour. >> [ bleep ]. come on. >> but when we first met blevins, he was in a much calmer state as he told us...

Legal reasons. >> extraction team officers always prepare for anything the inmate might have in store for them. >> we've been advised by the house staff that he has prepared feces and urine for us. >> because they disrespected me, all this, "cuff up, robertson!" see, they want to talk all this mess, in front of all these prisoners, and make me look like a little punk. and they say, you want to cuff up? and i say, no, i'm not going to cuff up. you disrespected me. we're going to do this. >> cuff up! >> with robertson still refusing orders, the extraction team disperses pepper spray into his cel...

>> straighten him out. there you go. pull him out. straighten him down. >> that is the reason why we do more training. the more training you get to do, the better you get and the less injury you have on the inmate or the staff. >> during the course of our shoot at riverbend, the extraction team would assemble once again, but this time, it would be for real. the incident was triggered when officers conducted a routine cell search for weapons in the prison's maximum security unit. >> the inmates are primarily in here because of behavior, assaultive, and if they can get their hands on pieces of m...

>> as our cameras were rolling, we saw firsthand how unruly inmates continually challenge the staff. inmate toby gonzales, convicted of second degree murder and armed robbery, refuses to remove his hand from the food port. >> do you want to us do 22 or 23? >> this morning when he got his first meal, he refused it, stuck his hand out the food port and he's had his hand out ever since. >> we have an extraction team being set up so that we could get him out, so we could search his cell to ensure that the safety of the staff that are working this unit is maintained. >> the corrections emergency re...