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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150725:05:46:00

it s just there to be felt. you can tell it and many people smiling, laughing. everybody is circulating. you know what i mean? you can honestly tell, people whispering and talking. this is how it goes. and those are the first things the signs. you come to learn in the penitentiary. inmates must be even more aware of their environment than an officer. for them, it s all about survival of the fittest. using your vibes and looking at the motions and the actions to people from a distance. something is not right. something is not right. so, we ve got to watch this here. the northern hispanics are our main gang here at san quentin. it s because they re better organized. if you look at the yard, it looks like the blacks control more of the yard. but the blacks are all fragmented into different gang groups. when the northerners, no matter what gang they re in on the street, when they get here, they re one group, and they all stick together. then the border brothers run

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150725:05:59:00

and by the time they let me go i know that you will all be gone because i m doing time free us. free us. free us. it s clear that san quentin, california s oldest prison, is decrepit and in serious need of an overhaul. after years of debate, state officials say they are planning a nearly quarter of a billion renovation of the death row facility. the plan has numerous critics who argue the expensive renovation is only a temporary solution and that the new facility would be at capacity within a year of opening. but with an appeals process that averages 20 years and about 30 inmates added yearly to a death row that was originally built for 68, overcrowding continues to be a serious problem. currently, there are nearly 700 people waiting for execution. that s our report.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150725:05:33:00

san quentin is a deteriorated penitentiary whose obsolete design is putting officers at risk and causing enormous inefficiency. but for the thousands of inmates incarcerated there, san quentin is home. it s where long days are spent in a small cell, where survival is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical one. there s a nine by six cell. now i can put my hand from here to here. and i can t even stretch my arms all the way up. you might say this is what criminals deserve, after all, this is prison. but for cellmates, russell johnson and christopher reid, for instance, it s hard time. it s certain ways you conduct yourself in here, too, you know what i m saying? let s say for instance someone wanted somebody wanted to talk to him, you know what i m saying, we got i ve got to sit down. you know what i m saying? or i might have to come up

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150725:05:38:00

but it impressed her the wrong way and she got rid of me. i m the bird man of san quentin. mike miller is at san quentin for commercial burglary. he s got roughly eight months left to serve. i think the birds is a good way of releasing a lot of tension and anger. before i got arrested, my girlfriend used to chase the birds away. she didn t want me around them. and so, now i m in here, i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically, that s about the only friends i ve got are birds. you know, i can t trust anybody else. this is the mental health unit at san quentin s infirmary. the inmates who are housed here generally don t have the survival skills needed in prison. susan downs, a prison psychiatrist for more than four years, comes here every day to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150725:05:11:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150725:05:11:00
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