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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 response team, or c.e.r.t., prepar...

Removed from their cells. for legal reasons, these extractions are always videotaped by prison staff. >> we can have something that can happen two, three times a week, sometimes even two a day, three a day, and then there's other times we can go months without anything going on. >> step back to the door. step back to be handcuffed. >> these cell extractions are dangerous for the officers involved. >> this is the third and final directive. >> as soon as you go to restrain them, they might have a shank, try to pull it out. stab one of the officers that are actually on the extraction team. so eve...

Time passes slowly for inmates in the maximum security unit at new mexico state penitentiary. locked in a cell for 23 hours a day, boredom and frustration can often lead to anger and rage. >> i'm giving you a directive to step out. you have to be handcuffed. you understand? no response. >> when inmates act out and refuse to comply with officers' orders, they must be forcibly removed from their cells. for legal reasons, these extractions are always videotaped by prison staff. >> we can have something that can happen two, three times a week, sometimes even two a day, three a day, and then there'...

Staff instructions. i want you to take the coverings down. turn around. >> do what you got to do. i am telling you now. this is your last option. >> the extraction team prepares to disperse pepper spray into the cell using a cannon like mattress away from the door. after a final warning, the team takes action. the inmate, the team sprays a second round of gas and meanwhile, camera operator, mike elwell begins to feel the

Video. at that time, if the inmate doesn't comply we are going to go and use the gas masks. i want everything ready to go in no more than five minutes. everything ready to go in five minutes. >> knowing they might be exposed to human waste, correctional staff suit up in plastic cover but they encounter a few snags. >> they don't make them big enough. >> you have to slide in one of them. >> one might throw feces at you. suits up, the hospital staff continues to negotiate with the >> meanwhile, the extraction team readies a five-point restraint table to which they becomes combative. practice int...