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Avoid the situation. i did everything i could. when people say certain words in prison, punk, bitch, lame, things like that, it's an automatic fight word. it's hard to explain to somebody not in the prison system because most people are like, i don't care, one day i'm walking away no matter what happens. but it's not that easy all the time. i wish it was. >> i had to do what i had to do. sometimes it goes like that. >> both inmates involved in the fight are brought in front of the icc to discuss the incident. >> this was not necessarily a real simple case of a fight in prison. essentially it w...

Ensure that the sny population remains safe. this ex-gang member is currently in ad seg for threatening a cellmate, but he wants to be returned to sny. >> there was a battery that was in 2005, the current charge, though, is of threatening another inmate. >> he doesn't want to be housed with inmates who have sex-related offenses, whether it be against women or children or such. even though he's kind of in the same boats because now he's also requesting protective custody, he has to be safeguarded from the rest of the general population. realistically, whether he is a gang dropout or has sex cri...

Terrorist? i can't forget this. >> reporter: the family travels to support him. it was shocking to see their son and brother a respected, international journalist behind bars. >> it is for us a very stressful and traumatic experience still. just now super high security prison setting is something that we are just so unused to, and it's so alien to us to see heavily armored and manned tanks around the streets. >> reporter: the trial lasted four months. it appeared no hard evidence linked the journalists to their alleged crimes. however, a day of wishful vindication turned to horror after a judg...

It still surprises me at times hearing some of these inmates' accounts of their extreme violent behavior. i'm often curious as to why or how they became this way. but i also think it's a part of the human condition. and i think it's important that people understand that. part of it, i think, is created at birth, but also a big part of it is how one survives in prison. more often than not, a lot of these stories of violence have occurred in the prison setting. in order to survive in such a violent world, most of these people feel they have to be violent. >> in 1992, robert glenn was sentenced t...

>> this subsequent classification hearing, we are going to talk about your housing again today. >> san quentin employs a multilevel screening process before inmates are allowed into protective custody in order to ensure that the sny population remains safe. this ex-gang member is currently in ad seg for threatening a cellmate, but he wants to be returned to sny. >> there was a battery that was in 2005, the current charge, though, is of threatening another inmate. >> he doesn't want to be housed with inmates who have sex-related offenses, whether it be against women or children or such. even th...