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Only purpose of me staying there was that that prison doesn't have an sny yard. once they changed the inmate to this prison, i came. as soon as i got to the reception doors i told them all that was a lie so i can come back to the main line. i want to get visits from my family so i lied. that's the bottom line. you know what i'm saying? i'm a blood. i'm an active gang banger. i got a lot of people that are scared of me. >> as we walked with him we were all kind of looking at each other, i think each of us thinking we'll see how fast this goes. >> if i stay other here before the day is out i can...

I can tell that the inmates have restitched it back up to try to evade detection, any type of detection. >> sorry. we'll just go ahead and finish it and see what we've got. and actually it's not anything they -- it's like they can't have, you know. i don't know why they have it in their mattress. >> sometimes, unfortunately, we come up empty-handed, and it doesn't look like there's anything in here now. >> emotionally, i feel distraught because, you know, i mean, i don't live like that. now i have to go back in there and clean it up. this destruction right here is infringing on my rights. >> t...

Also, we have what we call always under the gun. and if you can see upstairs, we have a correctional officer who's always has weapons up there. ready at all times in case an emergency arises. >> we do little puzzles, play cards, homemade chessboard. try to stay occupied. if you sit around and think, then you dwell on a million and one regrets. >> three times a week inmates get one hour of exercise in a row of wire cages. >> it's like being in a dog pound. teeny little dog run cage. it's better than nothing. getting sunlight. like a lizard, it takes a minute to get going. >> not all inmates are...

>> what we have here is an article of clothing. see the zipper, and this is obviously contraband. it's a single-edge razor blade. >> in prison it's easy to make enemies. if an inmate planted an item like this on mcgarey, he could forget parole. instead he'd be looking at time in the hole. this is the risk he takes every day just to keep his job. >> i'm an industrial electrician. that's what i'm primarily trained as. checking each part. sometimes you have to find the one that goes bad. >> mcgarey makes 60 cents an hour or $60 a month. it's a fraction of what he could make on the outside. but ev...

Over and tore a hand-drawn picture of his wife off the wall. >> they're always constantly on the monitors when they go to the yard. they have cameras out there. also, we have what we call always under the gun. and if you can see upstairs, we have a correctional officer who's always has weapons up there. ready at all times in case an emergency arises. >> we do little puzzles, play cards, homemade chessboard. try to stay occupied. if you sit around and think, then you dwell on a million and one regrets. >> three times a week inmates get one hour of exercise in a row of wire cages. >> it's like b...