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The high power floor. high power is a section for high security inmates only. it's a jail within a jail. deputies assigned to this floor are hand-picked due to their expertise in dealing with the worst inmates. >> everybody in this section is classified as a k-10, which is no inmate contact with other inmates. all their movement is done, their waist chain, their exercise is all isolated, very limited contact with other inmates. due to their highly assaultive behavior. >> sheriff deputy dan shannon has supervised high power for the last three years. >> we had several stabbings, and you know, yo...

Which is why gang members take extreme measures to hide them. >> what we have here is the first one looks like a wire shank. basically, they've recovered that off a vent. these two are both shoe shanks. there's a metal support in different types of shoes, basically all shoes. they take them out and file them to a point also to one end and use them as a -- either a stabbing device or what have you. >> unfortunately for the inmates, the osj unit can't prevent all acts of violence inside the jail. sometimes they get there too late. >> and we've had similar situations where we found the inmate aft...