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In the four months our producers spent inside corcoran we saw inmates committing offenses ranging from violence to drug smuggling. it's up to officer love and the isu team to try to prevent these violations. >> we call our wall of shame is two years of hard work with our investigative services unit, a lot of our drug arrests, visitors, parolee pickups, 95% are individuals bringing drugs into the institution. >> main things we usually get is marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin. >> stuff that these inmates will make money off it. narcotics is the number one thing. >> got a call from r & r, thi...

Search didn't turn up any drugs, these officer' quest to stop the influx of contraband into corcoran is never-ending. >> letter coming in to a gang member and caught this letter, if you look at it you can tell it's been wet at one time and then dried. you can really feel that it has something on it. so, i would test it with a nik test to see fit comes back as a presummive positive test for amphetamines. see how the paper turns brown right away? that's a positive test for amphetamines right there. if it would have gone through basically what they'll do is eat it like that with the dope on it or...

Corcoran holds more than 5,000 inmates with an average stay of just under 22 years. these inmates have plenty of time to get involved with violence. >> the smallest indiscretion could kick off straight war. >> hand to hand transactions of dope, weapons, whatever. >> there have been more than 350 stabbings since the prison opened its doors in 1988. >> i enjoy hurting people. >> they don't play games here.

Looking for signs of a similar threat in their own backyard. one particular cell search gives startling evidence confirming an attack on staff here at corcoran is a very real threat. >> this is an anonymous kite. kind of connects the dots with an attempted murder that just took place at tehachapi. it references that, almost as if they're related. now, we have to establish the authenticity of this kite because we don't know where it came from at this point. but basically it says that everyone has seen the news and the reason for the lockdowns. speaking of the tehachapi incident. speaking of the...

♪ >> hit that [ bleep ]. >> when it comes to staff threats, we take them seriously and do everything we can to collect all the information we can. definitely in light of recent events at other institutions -- we always take staff threats seriously. and we're going to act on them. >> 17 news at 5:00. >> two inmates stabbed three tehachapi prison guards in what's being described as a violent attack. following the attack, all state facilities went into immediate lockdown. authorities saying it won't be lifted until they're sure this incident was an isolated one. >> ever since the incident at te...