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Due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. for some inmates at san an tony's bexar county jail, one day can roll into the next with very little change. but today in one of the low security dormitory units, the monotony will be broken. the special emergency response team, floods in the door and orders all inmates to their bunks. >> all inmates facing the back wall. hand behind your back. bunks 41 to 40. get up and go out to the brickyard. single file. >> we search for contraband. drugs. weapons. anything that has been altered from its original form. anything that, they're not...

Rec yard. the search team will hold them there while other officers conduct a thorough search for contraband. first a drug detection dog is brought tune sniff out narcotics. >> inmates are very crafty. there are thousands of places where narcotics can be hidden within the units. the canine has found drugs in peanut butter, hidden in mattresses. the incompetent mates are here 24 hours a day. they have plenty of time and opportunity to think of where to hide stuff. >> this time, the dog doesn't discover any drugs among the inmates' possessions. but she does find a pack of imitation narcotics put...

He'll wander around, he won't go with his own group. you know, he's just looking. and usually what will happen is one of the gangsters will go over and snatch him up and bring him over and run the game down to him, tell him, hey, this is what you've got to do, this is where you've got to be, you can only hang out with your own people, we don't want to see you talking to people of other races. and that happens real quick. real quick. >> at san quentin state prison, we learned that not only do gangs force most of the prison population into racial segregation, they even draw boundaries on the rec...

And i certainly understand that. on the other hand, the fact that i do live here and i have fallen on these circumstances allows me to speak to things in a way that others cannot. >> i need to know when i get out on main street god will be out there with me. >> amen. >> i need to know. >> that's right. >> amen. that he'll be with me on the rec yard. >> amen. >> i need to know that he'll be with me when that cell comes closing in on me. i need to know that god is in there with me. >> the men tell me that they come here because they have found hope. the church continues to grow because it does o...

17 years. from dealing with him when he first came to the facility. at this point in time he is one of our extreme management problems. >> this is me when i was 20 years old. i don't have my photo album now because i'm being punished for being defiant. i'm being treated like this for fighting. fist fighting. >> who are you fighting? >> bullies. troublemakers. predators. dudes that go and pick on everybody else. i don't go say, hey, i'm looking for somebody to get in a fight with. this guy looks like a good candidate. >> but he doesn't play well with others. and so he's -- stays here. >> i've b...