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On the ground! hold him on the ground. on the ground! >> in corcoran, survival is the number one priority for inmates and officers alike. >> you have to live with it. this is what i want to do. so, i'm here. >> whether it's inmates adhering to racial politics. >> i will probably set off a race riot, if i sat right here. >> or officers keeping themselves and the population safe. >> this is what we're looking for. we're always looking for weapons. any time we look for weapons from a cell, that means one less weapon out there on the yard. one less weapon that could be used against staff. >> when ...

You know, you're no longer considered -- you no longer become human. you become a color. >> in the four months we spent inside corcoran, our producers learned that for most inmates the safest place is with their own race. >> would you not hang out with an asian guy? >> yeah, i hang out with the asian guys. if they needed them. if there's people getting too rough. then there's going to be a conflict being cellies. you have to either kill your cellie or he'll kill you. it's not worth it. >> what i might do is my personal feelings, but what my people or who i hang with might have a problem with i...

Spark this is full-scale investigation by 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 in the prison laundry on his job site. >> since corcoran's laundry facilities often act as a contraband distribution center for the inmate population this may be one of isu's best chances to catch the drugs before they spread to the rest of the prison. >> because of the big area and areas they could hide in we'll bring in two narcotics dogs here and do a mass search of certain areas and hopefully come ...

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...

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 sometimes heat it up and doel do...