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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 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 w...

These are newly assigned inmates. first time here at nccf. >> in the inmate processing area, the inmates are searched again for drugs and weapons. >> what they are doing is, we have them squat and cough. if they did secrete anything in their rectal area, by cough, it helps bring it down, it dislodges it. >> when the inmate are searched, they are assigned to a building depending on the security level. if they are high security or also known as k-10 status, they are housed in 900 max. >> everything. drugs and murder. everything. you name it. >> all inmates in 900 max are housed in separate cells...

>> 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 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 ...

Joyriding in a car. and turn a misdemeanor crime into a death penalty case. seven out of ten times, 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 life, there are two things you got to know. you don'...

Misdemeanor crime into a death penalty case because seven out of ten times they carjack, they kill the person they steal the car from. now, you've got to tell me, there is not something wrong with that? and 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's 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're going to be a gangster in this life, there's two things you've got to know -- you d...