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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 of 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 and get like a thread-sized is fishline going. they'll usually anchor it with a piece of so or something that slides well down the tier. and...

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-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 inmates know they'd better back off, ...

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

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 cigarettes to full newspapers to any information that they're 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 ...

Toilet because it's got to breathe. i might sit it here, i might light it at the bottom. as you see, it's like a fire. you hold your can over it and you cook. 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 ...