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An eye on them. >> you have to fill every seat. you can't tell somebody you ain't sitting there. if you won't sit at a table, then you have to throw your tray away. you can't eat it. you can't take nothing off of your tray, and you have to leave the chow hall, which makes you hate it a little more. now you're hungry and you're pissed off. >> such anger reached a boiling point the very next day, when an inmate assaulted a dining hall officer. >> what you got, cap? >> basically, [ bleep ] was standing back in the corner by the serving line and they told him to go find a seat. he never said a wor...

Inmate assaulted a dining hall officer. >> what you got, cap? >> basically, [ bleep ] standing back in the corner by the serving line and they told him to go find a seat. he never said a word to anybody. just took a few steps forward and threw his tray at officer norris pretty much like a baseball pitch. >> do you think it was a planned assault? >> it didn't appear to be. it looked like it was pretty much spontaneous. from reports i've gotten from staff and everything, it didn't appear that there was anything provoking the inmate. it was just pretty much an unprovoked attack. >> while the dini...

Now you're hungry and you're pissed off. >> such anger reached a boiling point the very next day when an inmate assaulted a dining hall officer. >> what you got, cap? >> basically, [ bleep ] standing back in the corner by the serving line and they told him to go find a seat. he never said a word to anybody. just took a few steps forward and threw his tray at officer norris pretty much like a baseball pitch. >> do you think it was a planned assault? >> it didn't appear to be. it looked like it was pretty much spontaneous. from reports i've gotten from staff and everything, it didn't appear that...

Back in the corner by the serving line and they told him to go find a seat. he never said a word to anybody. just took a few steps forward and threw his tray at officer norris pretty much like a baseball pitch. >> do you think it was a planned assault? >> it didn't appear to be. it looked like it was pretty much spontaneous. from reports i've gotten from staff and everything, it didn't appear that there was anything provoking the inmate. it was just pretty much an unprovoked attack. >> while the dining hall seating restrictions might anger some inmates, they've proven especially challenging fo...

Gangs. so the department adopted a policy to have assigned seating to where the staff controlled the flow of the offender population in the dining hall. >> as the inmates come in, we're going to have them sit two rows at a time. once they fill up the two rows we're going to step back and give them an additional two rows to sit down. i think it's a little easier, because we can keep them all in front of us. before they would be behind us, coming in and out, back and forth. and it's just easier for us to keep an eye on them. >> you have to fill every seat. you can't tell somebody you ain't sitti...