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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. >> 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 ...

>> corcoran staff interviews each inmate individually in an attempt to facilitate his needs. >> how old are you? >> 22. >> you're 22. where were you born at? >> philippines. >> philippines. you got life, huh? >> yeah. >> okay. you take medication? >> no. >> can you cell up with any other race? >> i bunked up with asian. >> asian only? you're eligible to bunk up with any race now. >> why's that? >> you've got no history of fighting blacks, hispanics, whites, you have none. you're eligible to be celled up with another race because you've got no history of anything. you understand that? >> right....

In the four months we spent inside corcoran, our producers saw violence erupt many times, though never between inmates and officers. as we neared the end of our stay, no one foresaw that the greatest threat to corcoran staff might come from an event in the california prison more than 100 miles away. >> three guards and two inmates were taken to area hospitals this afternoon after a stabbing in the maximum security area. two inmates used homemade weapons to stab two sergeants and a correctional officer around 1:00 this afternoon. >> it's significant enough that we locked down statewide the whol...

Actively involved. err on the side of caution, we'll determine what their program is going to be. we'll place them back in this facility or if we're going to retain them. it was very successful. we got what we wanted at this point. we'll see what kind of paperwork they have, what kind of documents they have we might be interested in. >> these inmates will be held in administrative segregation until isu's investigation has been completed. although the incident at teha chap e forced corcoran to alter its routine, survival depends on knowing the rules and knowing your place. >> everything comes d...

♪ call me bin laden i'm a terrorist threat ♪ ♪ so my guns is quick to blow just like eliott 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 state facilities went into immediate lockdown. authorities saying it...