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South facility is an outside jail for low to medium security inmates. north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists and drug offenders. >> we find that the linear jail doesn't really work for us anymore. and what we have here is more of a podular design with the staff stations in the middle and then the inmates around the outside. >> a single facility comprised of five jails housi...

Up and snap it. when you get out there and things get real tight and people are throwing things at you, you know, that's the last thing you think about. you think about snapping it, don't. because if it breaks on you, all you've got is a big club. and that's not going to do you guys or your team or anybody else any good. next, "lockup" takes you inside 900 max, nccf's 24-hour lockdown jail.

Angels, no government would be necessary." well, i'm sure that no one here would suggest that men were angels, and that's why there is government. to write the laws we live by and correctional facilities like this one for the people who break them. >> for ten years, this facility had no major incidents. [ sirens ] then on april 24th, 2000, violence erupted. >> everybody down! on the ground! go! >> it was 1:00 in the afternoon when a racially-based riot broke out between 50 to 60 black and hispanic inmates. the surveillance video from this incident is still being withheld by prison officials fo...

Ever seen. the fighting finally ended when the sheriff's emergency response teams were brought in. using verbal commands, stingball grenades, and pepper spray, sheriff deputies were able to prevent the inmates from killing each other, except for one inmate whose injuries left him in a coma, most of the men involved in the riots suffered minor injuries. >> jail is completely different than what it was 30 years ago. for one thing, we have much more violence-prone inmates in our system. in the past that was never a problem. we did not have the major riots and the disturbances. >> 30-year veteran ...

North facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail. east facility, or old max, is the oldest jail in los angeles. and lastly, the crown jewel of the l.a. county jail system is the north county correctional facility, or nccf, which houses murderers, rapists, and drug offenders. >> we find that the linear style jail really doesn't work for us anymore, and what we have here is we have more of a podular design with the staff stations in the middle and then the inmates around the outside. >> a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmates, nccf was designed in 1983. nccf first...