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They pass reading materials and other items to each other through a process called fishing. >> go ahead. take off. >> though fishing is against prison rules, inmate, tracy washington, was willing to demonstrate how to make a fishing line. >> you get the string made out of the waistband of our boxer. we take the string apart and then we put a little piece of plastic as a weight and we slide it across the floor like this. they might come in here and take my line now that they know i've got it. but i'll make another one. >> shoot it out. >> but our producer was about to find out that there was a ...

At corcoran how things turn out. >> the politics of race creates rigid demands, which control the smallest details of inmates' lives. >> for the most part you're separated and broken off. you pretty much can walk around, but there are certain areas where you can just hang and sit. the same way it is on the street. we have neighborhoods and things like that. it's a territorial thing. so we try to keep it like that and give each other respect so we can give ourselves distance so we won't cross paths in the wrong fashion. >> the rules are merciless. and ignoring race politics can lead to catastro...

When i leave, he'll hit me again. don't touch me, man. [ bleep ]. >> as captain morgan processes the paperwork -- >> he hit me severely in the back of the head. in these handcuffs he twisted my ankle. >> -- the inmate continues his tirade against him. >> my mama, man. >> captain morgan completes the paperwork and then escorted him toward segregation. a 23-hour-a-day lockup unit for inmates who violate prison rules. >> i was taking him to north segregation to lock him up in our seg unit. >> [ bleep ], man. >> when the inmate turns on him, morgan tightens his grip. but the situation would soon g...

It's prison infractions against prison rules, not crimes against society. >> and it's not even that, a lot of the times. a lot of inmates that have indeterminant terms in california have not actually committed rules violations. they're deemed to be gang affiliates. and when you look at the evidence of what is considered, you know, evidence of gang affiliation, it can be quite arbitrary. i've seen possession of academic books about the black panthers used as evidence, "the art of war," journal writings about african-american history that is called afro-centric ideology, is considered to be indi...

On any given day at the limon correctional facility, inmates are caught violating prison rules. >> bring your two officers over, please, to unit two. >> most of these violations never disrupt the daily routine. but today, one has not only rocked the prison, it sent shockwaves through the state's entire department of corrections. >> yesterday morning, the segregation staff did a strip search on the segregation corridor and found a large quantity of heroin and cocaine that the inmate was apparently smuggling to a distribution point to be distributed to the inmate population. >> what we did is we...