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>> 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 tehach...

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. >> what we call our wall of shame is two years of hard work with our investigative services unit. it deals with a lot of our drug arrests, visitors, parolee pickups, 95% of these are just individuals bringing in drugs into the institution. >> main things we usually get is marijuana, the methamphetamine and heroin. >> stuff that these inmates will make money off of. narcotics is the number ...

These officers' quest to stop inflow of contraband into corcoran is never ending. >> going through the mail and i caught this letter. if you look at it, you can tell it was wet at one time and dried. you can feel that it has something on it. so what i'm going to do is i will test it with a nic test to see if it comes back positive for amphetamines. see how the paper turns brown right away, it's a positive test for amphetamines. if it had gone through, basically what they'll do is they eat it like that or heat it up and the dope comes out. they take it off there and use

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 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 the areas they could hide in, we'll b...

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. >> what we call our wall of shame is two years of hard work with our investigative services unit. it deals with a lot of our drug arrests, visitors, parolee pickups, 95% of these are just individuals bringing in drugs into the institution. >> main things we usually get is marijuana, the methamphetamine and heroin. >> stuff that these inmates will make money off of. narcotics is the number ...