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♪ give me the burner real quick might as well take off his neck ♪ ♪ call me bin laden i'm a terrorist threat ♪ ♪ so my guns is quick to blow just like eliot ness ♪ >> 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...

Secure the perimeter. >> an inmate's non-lethal overdose at his job in the laundry facility sparks this full-scale investigation by sergeant lawton and the isu team. >> today we're conducting a search of the pia warehouse laundry. searching for any kind of contraband. last month we had an inmate overdose back here in the prison industry's laundry on the job site. >> since corcoran's laundry facilities often act as a contraband distribution center for the inmate population, this may be one of the isu's best chances to catch the drugs before they spread to the rest of the prison. >> because of t...

Extended stay. inmates have been dreaming up new ways to smuggle in contraband since corcoran opened up its prison in 1998. >> it's contraband. >> or weapons. >> when we get it in, it's like this. >> stainless steel. >> came off one of our foot cards. >> it's always a race against time for officers to find the contraband before it's too late. during the months our crew spent inside corcoran, we witnessed our fair share of searches. today on a yard, the maximum security facility we caught up

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 go ahead and kick off a straight war. >> they do hand-in-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. >> bottom line, it's easy to get into corcoran. >> armed robbery, whatever i have to do to support my drug habit. >> i do methamphetamine. i'm addicted. i've been doing ...

It was very successful. we got what we wanted at this point. we'll see what kind of paperwork they have, documents they have that we might be interested in. >> these inmates will be held in administrative segregation until isu's investigation has been completed. although the incident at tehachapi forced corcoran to alter its day-to-day routine, the arrival of new inmates never ceases. and for these new inmates, survival depends on knowing the place. >> everything comes down to how you conduct yourself. and the overall code of how you conduct yourself is pathetic. but it's by race. you know, yo...