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Facility has brought about a drama that has nothing to do with sports. sex offender david laudone has told authorities he was forced to hide inmate-made alcohol or hooch, and has been a victim of assault and extortion. he has fingered one of the prison's most prominent gang members, tommy holloman, of ordering the crimes and inmate jason wright of carrying them out. correctional staff have methods of protecting those in danger. by identifying his inmates in front of other inmates, laudone has made that hard to do. >> that's not how you handle things. you don't walk into the sergeant's office a...

Hooch, and has been a victim of assault and extortion. he has fingered one of the prison's most prominent gang members, tommy holloman, of ordering the crimes and inmate jason wright of carrying them out. correctional staff have methods of protecting those in danger. by identifying his inmates in front of other inmates, laudone has made that hard to do. >> that's not how you handle things. you don't walk into the sergeant's office and point at other inmates and say them are the bad guys there. go arrest them. that's not how you handle things. not in a prison setting. i don't think he realizes ...

15 minutes four days a week. they're on timers. we push the button, we start up, and it clicks when it goes off. but as soon as the phones shut off the voices tend to get a little loud. guys start to wander from row to row, and we've got to keep an eye on that. we don't want them passing things from other inmates. they can go upstairs with any type of contraband, drugs, any shanks or anything of that nature. >> more than half of the inmates in l.a. county jail don't get visitors. next on "lockup" -- one of the most dangerous assignments in l.a. county jail. gang intelligence.

By identifying his enemies in front of other inmates, laudone has made that hard to do. >> that's not how you handle things. you don't walk into the sergeant's office and point at other inmates and say them are the bad guys there. go arrest them. that's not how you handle things. not in a prison setting. i don't think he realizes how much peril he put himself in. >> holloman, wright, and laudone, himself, were immediately locked up in administrative segregation. after questioning holloman, gang intelligence coordinator lieutenant jim fox now moves on to the alleged assailant, jason wright. >> ...

Briceno's case, he is such a high-level threat, we take these precautions just to protect ourselves. >> with briceno safely restrained deputies descend on his cell searching for contraband, like weapons or drugs and, equally as important, gang intelligence. >> sometimes they will hide kites in between paperwork. if it is legal mail or legal paperwork they think we can't search it. we can search it. but we can't read it. >> does that happen a lot to you? >> what, this? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> how come? >> just procedure, their jobs, you know. >> within minutes, the deputies make a hit and discover...