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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...

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

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 work for us anymore. what we have here is more of a podular design, with the staff in the middle and the inmates around the outside. >> a single facility comprised of five jails housing 3,800 inmates, nccf was designed in 1983. nccf fir...

>> one of this nation's founding father said, "if men were 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 t...

A gun in someone's face to go joyriding in a car. and turn a misdemeanor crime into a death penalty case. because seven out of ten times they carjack, they kill the person they steal the car from. you got to tell me, there is not something wrong with that. somewhere in that confusion, these kids don't know how to act like proper gangsters anymore. when my dad was a small-time mafioso back east, he used to say there are two kinds of gangsters. there are thugs and there are gangsters. thugs come and go. gangsters are about making money and respect. and if you are going to be a gangster in this l...