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Peaceful environment for inmates, they continued to be disruptive and started forming gangs within the prison. >> the prison gangs really started after the prison riot. >> the people have divided themselves up because of that riot. no one wants to get caught alone in stuff like that, and there was a lot of hate still, a lot of anger, resentment, a lot of racism. >> major dean lopez started working in the prison in 1982 two years after the riot. >> we were being scrutinized left and right, and the facility itself promulgated an attitude, one of i really don't care. i'll kill you in a heartbeat,...

Presence with the dogs in the yard, a fight is ready to break out and the dogs in the yard, it may also deescalate the violence. >> while the dogs are used to respond to a threat, prison gangs are the biggest danger to security. >> what people don't realize is that almost everything that happens in a prison setting has some sort of gang involvement. whether it be extortions, intimidations, trafficking, narcotics. there's nothing that goes on that at least one gang member is not involved with, nothing. >> robbie marshall is in charge of monitoring the gang activity inside the prison. >> i belie...

Lasted for approximately 30 to 40 minutes in one of the largest riots that l.a. county jail has 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 tha...

You know, melees and stuff like that. like if you get somebody that's been an informant from your county or a child molester or something, somebody in your car, that's your county, you know, your local people, you know, that are here in prison, you've got to handle it, somebody's got to handle it, or the whole car is shunned. your whole car will be put on shine, you know, on lame status. >> because folsom's yard is the smallest prison yard in the state, no one is segregated. members of the various prison gangs who are known to be enemies are forced to walk amongst each other. >> if i could des...

Basis, make sure all the screwdrivers, anything that can be used as a tool is there, not altered. he has done a good job. probably worked for me for four months now. he's worked out pretty well. >> i believe that will cut now, sir. >> let's see it. >> while john smith might be one of the more trusted inmates at santa rosa, another portion of the population is always on staff's radar. security threat group coordinators knight and demerey gather intelligence on prison gangs. during a cell search of bobby sandier and alfredo roca moreno, they found gang-related material among sandier's possession...