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>> attention, donnor cos! [ bleep ] >> that was our greeting. >> to battle overcrowding, officer cavagnolo's donner unit houses inmates meant to be segregated from the general population within feet of mainline inmates. >> we have in this unit, we have 2 1/2 tiers of administrative segregation, and the bottom half is a reception center. it makes it really difficult for us, because inmates on the bottom half of the unit, they have access through a lot of different parts of the institution, and then our challenge we have in administrative segregation is the inmates make fish lines and they'll ti...

>> attention, donnor cos! [ bleep ] >> that was our greeting. >> to battle overcrowding, officer cavagnolo's donner unit houses inmates meant to be segregated from the general population within feet of mainline inmates. >> we have in this unit, we have 2 1/2 tiers of administrative segregation, and the bottom half is a reception center. it makes it really difficult for us, because inmates on the bottom half of the unit, they have access through a lot of different parts of the institution, and then our challenge we have in administrative segregation is the inmates make fish lines and they'll ti...

Trying to pass -- drugs -- all kinds of things they'll pass on the fish lines. >> i could use another one. >> i know. >> you guys are getting too bold. >> my name is charles a. pelham. and i'm originally from tampa, florida. you may wonder why i came to the golden state of california. well, it's like they say, you come here on vacation, and you go home on probation. >> charles pelham is completing a short eight of month sentence for a parole violation. >> i'm not an aryan brother. i'm not a skinhead. i used to be a member of hari krishna back in the old days. the skulls let the rest of the inm...

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...

And you hold the can up here. 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...