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Had 22 shanks hidden in their light fixture. >> brandon siverly would craft knives out of nearly any object he found on prison grounds. >> if it was big enough to put in your hand with a little left over, it was big enough to be sharpened into a weapon. usually i would just keep it on me because it's no good if it's hidden somewhere. if somebody comes on to you and [ bleep ], you ain't got it on you, you can't tell him, hold on, let me go get my knife. thankfully, i've never had to use one. usually if somebody sees one, it's enough to keep them at bay. so you don't usually have to use it. i wa...

In a tiny town called granite. bobbi and randy lived on prison grounds, just outside the wall. what was life like in granite? >> it slowed down for me and my family a little bit. but it was -- it was good. >> if there wasn't much happening in granite, inside the prison it was the opposite. there was a new warden determined to shake things up. his name, jack cowley. >> i didn't set behind my desk a lot. i was out in the yard with the guys. i let inmates call me jack. >> and one inmate that got cowley's attention, randolph dial. >> he was an unforgettable character. intelligent, manipulative, a ...

Eager to teach her the art of making ceramics. >> he started in the garage. i told him i would prefer it out front. >> why did you not want to learn it in the garage? >> i wasn't comfortable. >> with him? >> yes. it's never good to be one on one with an inmate. it never is. >> nevertheless, she once drove dial into town by herself to meet shopkeepers. a trip she says was okayed by warden cowley. did it strike you as odd that you were given permission to take a convicted murderer off the prison grounds? >> yes, yes. >> not long after that, one hot august morning, bobbi parker's life turned upsi...

You took the stand for the prosecution. >> uh-huh. >> why? >> because i -- because i thought she's guilty. >> bobbi's attorney, garvin isaacs, put on an impassioned defense. >> i took this case because bobbi parker's an innocent woman who's wrongfully accused of a crime she didn't commit. >> isaacs told jurors the state's case was built on faulty speculation, outright fabrication, and the suspicious testimony of convicted felons. for instance, that inmate who claimed he'd seen bobbi drive dial off the prison grounds, the defense showed he changed his story multiple times. and the inmate who cl...

Because conjugal visits are sometimes used as opportunities to smuggle contraband into corcoran, officers must do a thorough search of everything the family brings in. >> put all of the containers in clear plastic so it's visible. we look through it, especially if they've been opened, make sure there is nothing secreted inside. >> almost time to go. i almost feel like an inmate myself being here. you can't come outside after dark. and then when we do come outside we're still enclosed within more gates on the prison grounds, so that's kind of weird. at least i do get to leave. it's appreciated,...