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Right here's a fish line, so if he's using this to -- they use this as a weight and they'll send this off the tier to the lower tiers, most likely, where they're allowed to have razor blades, stuff like that, and the inmate will attach a razor blade to this and they'll fish it in. as you can see, they've got a lot of line right here. they'll go all the way up the tier. they'll go up, they'll go down, they'll go side to side, and this is how they pass contraband right here, so, we'll definitely take this. they know exactly how some of us do our jobs, so if they're going to sit there and they're...

If you're hitting nine cells a day really good, you're going to cut down the contraband, especially when we find razor blades. that's a weapon now. it can be in the form of a full shaving razor. it's administrative segregation. we know it came from downstairs, you fished it up here. it could easily be broken down. that's a weapon. right here's a fish line, so if he's using this to -- they use this as a weight and they'll send this off the tier to the lower tiers, most likely, where they're allowed to have razor blades, stuff like that, and the inmate will attach a razor blade to this and they'...

It could easily be broken down. that's a weapon. right here's a fish line, so if he's using this to -- they use this as a weight and they'll send this off the tier to the lower tiers, most likely, where they're allowed to have razor blades, stuff like that, and the inmate will attach a razor blade to this and they'll fish it in. as you can see, they've got a lot of line right here. they'll go all the way up the tier. they'll go up, they'll go down, they'll go side to side, and this is how they pass contraband right here, so, we'll definitely take this. they know exactly how some of us do our j...

And it heats the can, therefore your water gets hot. >> at san quentin, using fish lines is the customary way for locked up inmates to share food, tobacco, information, anything. >> fish lines are throughout the institution. i mean, that's a common practice for the inmates. it's their way of getting something from this cell to that cell. they rip up bed sheets. sometimes they'll get real fine ones by taking their clothes apart, getting a thread-sized fish line going. they usually anchor it be a piece of soap or something that slides well down the tier. and they'll send everything from cigarett...

Well-lighted area. then from there, i'll conduct my uncloaked body search there and then come back up and do my cell search. that's all we did right there. no way to flush contraband down there. if i get them in cuffs, i got them. right now we're going to conduct a cell search, see what we find. you get low, i'll get the top. we have to conduct three cell searches per day. and before it was three per tier, now they want three per officer. so, you've got three officers, that's nine searches per day, and we have to do it to control the contraband. if you're hitting nine cells a day really good, ...