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The feeding of inmates always poses one of the greatest risks for violence at san quentin. san quentin's lack of modernization places inmates within striking distance of officers and other inmates. among the 6,000 inmates at san quentin, more than 3,000 general population inmates eat their meals in the dining hall. only a handful of officers oversee the process. >> on most nights there will be two officers in the dining hall. there will be anywhere from like 200 to 400 inmates in the dining hall. and there's no guns in any dining hall. and all we have is our pepper spray and baton and our comm...

There's nothing nuclear about it, but the force is so great, that's what people say. let me explain how this happened. what they're doing here is harnessing the same principle that makes a cole mine explode when there's too much dust in there. i'm going to bring up a bomb. when this thing drops into a space, what it does is it sprays out a very fine particulate of metal. very fine metal dust that can cover a large area. as that spreads out and all the air spreads in between it, the whole thing becomes explosive, when a second blast goes off, it all ignites and puts out a tremendous shock wave....

The feeding of inmates always poses one of the greatest risks for violence at san quentin. san quentin's lack of modernization places inmates within striking distance of officers and other inmates. among the 6,000 inmates at san quentin, more than 3,000 general population inmates eat their meals in the dining hall. only a handful of officers oversee the process. >> on most nights there will be two officers in the dining hall. there will be anywhere from like 200 to 400 inmates in the dining hall. and there's no guns in any dining hall. and all we have is our pepper spray and baton and our comm...

The feeding of inmates always poses one of the greatest risks for violence at san quentin. san quentin's lack of modernization places inmates within striking distance of officers and other inmates. among the 6,000 inmates at san quentin, more than 3,000 general population inmates eat their meals in the dining hall. only a handful of officers oversee the process. >> on most nights there will be two officers in the dining hall. there will be anywhere from like 200 to 400 inmates in the dining hall. and there's no guns in any dining hall. and all we have is our pepper spray and baton and our comm...

It sprays pepper spray. controls any kind of disturbance we may have during feeding, after feeding, during escort, inmates coming in and out of the dining hall. >> on this day, prison intelligence has warned officers that a gang-related attack might occur at dinner. >> tonight, we're expecting some type of problems. possibly. so we have some extra coverage tonight to provide security. >> a member of a gang is in risk of reprimand for not fulfilling a direct order. >> they asked them to participate in their gang. if they refuse, they are disciplined. and the discipline being slashed. >> it does...