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Time passes slowly for inmates in the maximum security unit at new mexico state penitentiary. locked in a cell for 23 hours a day, boredom and frustration can often lead to anger and rage. >> i'm giving you a directive to step out. you have to be handcuffed. you understand? no response. >> when inmates act out and refuse to comply with officers' orders, they must be forcibly removed from their cells. for legal reasons, these extractions are always videotaped by prison staff. >> we can have something that can happen two, three times a week, sometimes even two a day, three a day, and then there'...

Because that person might be the one to stab you, you know, and get you raped or something. >> the penitentiary of new mexico in santa fe confines its most ruthless criminals on level six, the maximum security unit. these 288 inmates pose such a serious threat to staff and other inmates, that they are locked up in solitary cells for 23 hours a day. >> level six traditionally and today is the hardest place to work. i would say probably in the whole state of new mexico. >> deputy warden joni brown oversees the day-to-day operation of level six. >> there are 48 inmates on each side of the unit. t...

Building, and inmates were moved into newer facilities on the compound in 1998. it marked the beginning of a safer and more stable environment at the penitentiary. >> in comparison to the past experiences that this department has endured, there is a drastic change for the better. we have controlled the prison. the violence levels have been decreased immensely. the department is a lot safer for the staff and the inmates and everybody that is interacting with the department. next on "lockup." >> had that guy not been there to save him, i probably would have killed him. >> we'll take you into l...

Get you raped or something. >> the penitentiary of new mexico in santa fe confines its most ruthless criminals on level six, the maximum security unit. these 288 inmates pose such a serious threat to staff and other inmates, that they are locked up in solitary cells for 23 hours a day. >> level six traditionally and today is the hardest place to work. i would say probably in the whole state of new mexico. >> deputy warden joni brown oversees the day-to-day operation of level six. >> there are 48 inmates on each side of the unit. two officers dealing with them on a daily basis. >> inmates place...

Road. >> this vial form of assault isn't limited only to correctional staff. inmate cates works as a rock man prison slang for a janitor. in the maximum security unit at brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee. >> that is the punitive pod, i have to deal with individuals who been in a lot of trouble or some doing -- i'll have to deal with the ones off in their mind a little bit. so some days they might feel like when i let the flap down they want to throw doo doo on me or urine. they might want to throw it on them that day, so it's things we have to deal with. >> lockup crews stay co...